Microsoft unveils table-top 'Milan' computer

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News: Microsoft unveils table-top 'Milan' computer
News: More details emerge on Toshiba's AMD-based laptops
News: Symantec mobile security client delayed
News: Palm to launch new mobile device
News: Extremely small firewall to repel malware
News: GoDaddy picks up domains of struggling competitor
News: Engineer discovers new security technology
Go Figure: IT admins read private e-mail
ITWhirled: Finger length predicts SAT performance


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Microsoft unveils table-top 'Milan' computer
Microsoft Corp. has chosen what it sees as the next-generation in PC form factors -- a computer the size and shape of a coffee table with a flat, touchscreen display -- as the third major product it has designed and is branding for the consumer electronics market.


More details emerge on Toshiba's AMD-based laptops
A little more detail is known about the new laptops from Toshiba Corp. that will use processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.


Symantec mobile security client delayed
Symantec Corp. has delayed the release of its first security suite for Windows Mobile devices.


Palm to launch new mobile device
Palm Inc. plans to announce a new type of mobile device on Wednesday, as it continues its product-line transition from simple personal digital assistants (PDAs) to more advanced smartphones.


Extremely small firewall to repel malware
Israeli startup Yoggie Security Systems has announced the is allegedly the world's smallest hardware firewall, fitting a suite of firewall applications on a tiny USB stick device.


GoDaddy picks up domains of struggling competitor
Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com Inc. will take over more than 850,000 domain names from RegisterFly, a company involved in a dispute regarding its rights to register names.


Engineer discovers new security technology
A U.S. engineer has devised a seemingly foolproof and cheap way to encrypt messages using the natural noise caused by electrons flowing along a wire.

GO FIGURE

1 in 3
The share of IT administrators who routinely read your personal email, peek at your HR files and rifle through other confidential documents, according to a survey by Cyber-Ark Software.
SOURCE: IDG News Service


ITWHIRLED

Finger length predicts SAT performance
Forget those expensive SAT prep course: the key to your scores on that life-defining standardized test lie in your fingers -- or, really, what your fingers say about the amount of testosterone and estrogen you were exposed to in utero. Kids whose ring fingers are longer than their index fingers tend to do better on the math test than the verbal test, and vice versa.