It started with that big bomb scare in London. Heathrow airport was requiring passengers to check everything except a small ziplock baggie. Travelers caught off guard were forced to slip laptops and cameras in amongst their clothing and hope for the best. As it happened, we were out on the road at that same time, [...]
A friend asked recently how I check email while I travel. When she is home, she downloads emails to her desktop computer. When she travels, she takes a laptop computer and downloads new email files to her laptop. When she returns to her office at the end of the trip, she has trouble keeping her email files [...]
Connected to Intenet with mobile phone at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris
My new Motorola RZR (v3) mobile phone has many features I like. By far my favorite is the ability to connect to the Internet when traveling. It comes in particularly handy at airports that don’t offer free Internet access. I have successfully connected to [...]
Access to the Internet has become a top priority for vacationers
Photo: Intel
Santa Clara, California – Laptops join swimsuits and sunblock at the top of this summer’s packing list for vacationers, according to the “Intel Unwired Travel” survey(1) released recently by Intel Corporation, the well known computer chip maker.
The survey of U.S. adult computer users commissioned [...]
When selecting office computers for daily use, there is a dilemma between cost and functionality. Non-portable desktops and towers are much less expensive than most laptops. Data capacity on laptop disk systems comes at a pretty price and with today’s data hungry applications, especially audio and video, it can be difficult to configure a laptop [...]
