| Hot Shots: Tech That Keeps You on the Move
Even in the dog days of summer there's always some new tech tool to help a small business run more efficiently. Here's a quick look at a few of the latest products that can help keep you rolling along. Fresh Batteries for Old Laptops
Unleash your laptop you know, the older model that hasn't been further than three feet from a wall socket since its battery went to lithium ion heaven back in 2003. Even a thorough search on eBay failed to find a replacement for it. FreshBattery.com wants to get you mobile again, and so it recently launched its Legacy Power line of batteries designed for more than 1,500 models of aging laptops including those from HP, Compaq, IBM/Lenovo, Apple, Toshiba, Sony and Dell. Most batteries start to lose their full charge capability at about two years.
Dell XPS M1330 Orders Cancelled...Including Mine
A little over a week ago, I did something for the first time: I ordered a Dell laptop. I've recommended Dell laptops to others in the past, but Dell has never put out a laptop that really caught my attention and held up to the scrutiny of what I look for in a laptop.That all changed with the introduction of the XPS M1330 a couple of weeks ago. This laptop looks simply awesome. Great design, cutting-edge hardware, solid battery life, and it's still thin and light.My primary goal for this laptop was to have something that could process RAW files properly, and also do a bit of video.I'm mostly using Adobe Lightroom (which is great, for the most part) and on my 1.2 Ghz Fujitsu P7010D it takes about 10-15 seconds to render the RAW file, and even if I know it's a bad photo and I want to delete it, I can't until the rendering is done.It's just too slow and too painful.
Man gets 20 years for sexual assault
A Killona man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbing and sexually assaulting a Luling woman in her home last year, according to District Attorney Harry Morel Jr.'s office. Dwon Storks, 27, formerly of 206 Adams St., was accused of sexually assaulting the woman in her Lakewood Avenue apartment in November. The victim told police Storks asked her for directions to Slidell as she was entering her home, then kidnapped and assaulted her before stealing her laptop computer. Storks, who was arrested Nov. 30, pleaded guilty to armed robbery and sexual battery charges and was given the sentence without benefit of suspension, probation or parole. "We were able to successfully prosecute this case largely due to the diligent efforts of Detective Brad Walsh," Morel said in a news release.
Toshiba Recalls More Sony Batteries
Toshiba is recalling 5,100 laptop batteries sold around the world after three instances of the batteries catching fire, two in Japan and one in Australia. Affected batteries were manufactured by Sony in December 2005 for Toshiba's Dynabook, Dynabook Satellite, Satellite and Tecra lines. The computer maker said the batteries in question were not part of last year's massive recall of Sony batteries, which affected over 10 million units shipped by Dell, Lenovo, Apple and Sony itself. The problems are caused by metal particles falling into a battery during production, causing it to short circuit. Toshiba previously recalled 340,000 batteries, and the latest recall follows one from Gateway last month. .
News Brief: Overheating Cell Phone Batteries Highlight Continued Need for Battery Manufacturing Vigilance, says ...
The continuing issue of overheating lithium ion batteries underscores the need for the electronics industry to conduct rigorous testing to protect businesses and consumers, especially in view of changing demands from consumers for increasingly smaller portable devices, says Info-Tech Research Group. A year after the world's largest laptop computer battery recalls by multiple manufacturers took place due to overheating batteries, and a laptop computer battery recall by Toshiba this month, Nokia has recalled up to 46 million mobile cell phone batteries in what would constitute the largest consumer electronics recall ever. .
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