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...spotted Bill looking chic in Cabot Science Library with this laptop bag—more staid than your average man purse—which he acquired a year ago to hold his Dell computer. He describes his bag as functional, but says he usually sports a backpack. “The bag makes me look serious,” says Little, “but I assure...
Vista is safer. The Network and Sharing Center allows you to view other computers on your home network, including maybe your neighbor's laptop that has been piggybacking on your wi-fi router. Backing up files to a DVD or an external hard drive is easier. PC-industry analyst Rob Enderle says a "big chunk of viruses" won't work on the new OS. Unlike Windows XP, Vista almost always asks the user for permission to install new software, so it catches many more sinister programs before they strike. Says Enderle: "Vista is much more like the Mac OS, Linux...
...better also use it as your iPod, your family photo album and your personal journal. If you are interested in Skype - most popular among expatriates who want to keep in touch with the home soil without going broke - but don?t like sitting in front of your laptop, there are some other Skype phones soon to hit the market...
First tip: MDT Advisors was giving away golf balls, a free goody that perhaps appealed only to a certain set. The bigger (and perhaps more universal) prize? Laptop bags, doled out by QVT Financial LP. With all that booty, it was easy to pass up dartboards and packs of cards that littered a few other tables...
...delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the world's poorest children. The co-founder of M.I.T.'s Media Lab and former Wired columnist took a leave from academia last year to build a computer - a laptop so cheap that developing countries could buy them by the millions to help their kids leapfrog into the 21st century. It's an ambitious project, but the charismatic Negroponte has a persuasive pitch and a knack for fund raising. With the support of the U.N., his so-called $100 laptop quickly...