Del. state trooper goes after burglary suspect, recovers colleague's watch stolen 2 years agoSeptember 8th, 2009 Del. trooper nabs man wearing colleague's watchWILMINGTON, Del. — Delaware State Police said a thief has been caught red-handed — and that hand happened to be wearing a watch stolen from a trooper nearly two years ago.
Laptop stolen from ex RAW officer's carMay 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unidentified robbers engaged a former Indian intelligence officer in a conversation to divert his attention and lifted a laptop from his car parked in an upscale south Delhi market, police said Thursday. S.S. Bhutalia, a retired Colonel of India's external intelligence wing RAW, told police that he had gone to South Extension market with his wife for shopping Wednesday evening when the incident took place.
Army National Guard tells 131,000 soldiers to look out for identity theft after laptop stolenAugust 6th, 2009 Soldiers warned about ID theft after laptop stolenMADISON, Wis. — The Army National Guard is warning 131,000 soldiers to take steps to protect themselves from identity theft after a laptop containing their personal information was stolen.
Vintage rifles can't fight new face of urban terror: top Indian copsJanuary 19th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Vintage World War I era firearms like the .303 rifles are no match to the new face of terror - heavily armed with sophisticated weapons and gadgets, said top Indian police officials here advocating the need for replacing them with sophisticated weapons like the Israeli Uzi and the German MP5 submachine guns. 'We are still using the .303 rifles which are accurate and good in the field, but not in a combat situation while fighting terrorism in cities.
VIA Ties Up with Microsoft to Create Global Mobility BazaarOctober 29th, 2008 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 80GB HDD, 1GB of RAM - this is perhaps the most common and well sold laptop configuration ever. VIA Technologies Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, has announced a Global Mobility Bazaar (GMB) an innovative industry infrastructure program aimed at driving the rapid global adoption of affordable mobile computing devices.
Laptop kills Canadian womanApril 17th, 2009 VANCOUVER - In a freak incident, a young Canadian woman was killed by her laptop during an accident in the Indian-dominated city of Surrey near here, investigation reports said Thursday. According to police, investigation has established that 25-year-old Heather Storey was killed when she was hit by her laptop while driving to work last month.
Police: Reality star accused in ex-model's slaying left suicide note professing love, angerOctober 5th, 2009 Police: Reality star left suicide note on laptopBUENA PARK, Calif. — A reality show contestant charged in the gruesome slaying of his ex-model wife left a suicide note on his laptop that says he considered her the love of his life but thought she was cheating on him, a police spokesman said Monday.
China to provide security gadgets to Pakistan, says MalikJune 16th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - China has promised to provide security gadgets worth 280 million dollars to Pakistan to support country's law-enforcement agencies, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said
The Daily Times quoted Malik, as saying that the Chinese government had made the commitment to provide the gadgets during his recent visit to that country. Addressing a posthumous award-distribution ceremony to the policemen, he said the gadgets included vehicle scanners, mobile scanners and other equipment.
Chinese factory worker kills himself over missing iPhone prototype; Apple offers condolencesJuly 22nd, 2009 Chinese worker commits suicide over missing iPhoneGUANGZHOU, China — An employee at a factory that makes iPhones in China killed himself after a prototype went missing, and Apple Inc. responded Wednesday by saying its suppliers are required to treat workers with dignity and respect.
New Bluetooth alarm won't let you lose your mobile againSeptember 13th, 2009 LONDON - A firm in Edinburgh has designed a Bluetooth-based alarm that can tell absent-minded technology geeks when they have left their mobile phone or laptop behind. The device called 'Nio', a result of years of research, is soon to hit the shops.
Market Predicts Thin and Light Category Notebooks will Take Over NetbooksMay 28th, 2009 The Netbook sales is about 20% among all notebook sales in Europe whereas it is about 16% globally. According to Christina Morales, Intel's European Sales Chief, Netbook sales are almost a quarter of the total sales in Britain and Italy.
Wayward pilots were focused on laptop screens not cockpit displays, raising new safety worriesOctober 27th, 2009 more images
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New safety worry: Laptops, devices in the cockpit
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators declined to seize and review the laptop computers that distracted two Northwest Airlines pilots so much that they didn't notice it was time to land their plane, and instead flew 150 miles past their destination. The pilots of Northwest flight 188 told the National Transportation Safety Board that they were so engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptops — a cockpit violation of airline policy that could cost them their licenses — that they lost track of time and place for more than an hour, until a flight attendant on an intercom got their attention.
Top 5 Gadgets to kill time in a FlightApril 15th, 2009 The charm of first experience loses its fragrance over time as it becomes a regular activity. This is also true for the flight experiences.
MSI GT729 and MSI EX723 : A pair of Laptops to take Gaming and Multimedia Experience to a New LevelMay 29th, 2009 With the likes of Dell, HP, Toshiba, Sony, Asus introducing laptops every week or so, why should MSI stay behind? They have come out with a decent pair of laptops GT729 and EX723. If you want a fully loaded laptop for gaming, GT729 can be an ideal one and EX723 is made for optimum multimedia experience.
Reasoning behind hide and seek to revolutionise video gaming, police workSeptember 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - What do hide-and-seek, police searches and video games have in common? More than you would think, say two University of Alberta (U-A) researchers. Experimental psychologist Marcia Spetch and computer scientist Vadim Bulitko at U-A are using their research to understand the reasoning and decision-making process involved in hide-and-seek objects.