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Asustek computer, the No.2 PC maker in Taiwan, said Tuesday that a global shortage of batteries for computers could affect up to 40 percent of its second-quarter shipments.

Dell's Client Migration Solution helps customers with 2,500 or more computers plan, deploy, and manage the migration to windows Vista.

Computerworld editors share stories of their first PCs, including some classics and some real clunkers. Then we turn the tables and ask readers to share their early-PC tales.

Dell has signed up Infiniti Retail, a subsidiary of India's Tata Group, to sell its laptops and desktop computers. Starting in April, Infiniti will offer these products through its Croma consumer electronics and durables stores in India.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Dell Inc , the world's No. 2 maker of personal computers, said on Tuesday it had tied up with Indian retailer Infinity Retail to sell its laptops and desktops through the Croma chain of stores from April.

Featuring 64 MB Nand Flash and 32 MB SDRAM, Model SBC2410-III has flexible design with CPU board mounted on an expansion board, which extends functions of CPU controller with various peripherals. Dimensions are 135 x 169 mm (expansion board) and 58 x 36 mm (CPU board), working temperature range is -20 to 70°C, and it operates from +12 V supply. Supported peripherals include USB host/device, serial port, Ethernet, LCD, audio, RTC, LEDs, and Jtag interfaces.This story is related to the following:Computer hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Single Board Computers

Amy Bennett writes 'This past weekend we discussed an increasing level of attacks online, targeting Tibetan-based NGOs. Now the BBC is reporting that the Save Darfur Coalition has called in the FBI on what appears to be a similar matter. Allyn Brooks-LaSure, a spokesman with the group, doesn't know who is behind the attacks, but he said the IP addresses of the computers that had hacked his organization were from China. Save Darfur has been trying to get China, one of Sudan's largest trading partners, to pressure Sudan's government into stopping the mass killings in Darfur's ongoing civil war. 'Someone in Beijing is trying to send us a message,' Brooks-LaSure said. Probably the same message they're sending by continuing to shut down video sites covering the Tibetan unrest.' of this story at Slashdot.

Don't open that Word file attached to your e-mail; it might contain malware. And don't click on that e-mail or Web site links from strangers. Heck, don't even open Word e-mail attachments from trusted sources unless you're expecting them. Attackers are embedding malware in Word documents that causes a buffer overflow in their victims' computers, letting them take over the computers.

As computers chip continue to decrease in fabrication size, manufacturers such as AMD and Intel are researching new ways to overcome physical barriers. Die size, performance, operating frequency and heat are all major obstacles in the semiconductor industry. Sun Microsystems announced that in partnership with Luxtera, Kotura and Stanford University, it is working on an ambitions project to move data transmissions from electrical signals over copper wires to pulses of light using lasers.

Panasonic beefed up its line of Toughbook 19 notebook computers on Tuesday, releasing models that incorporate Intel's Core 2 Duo processors and more memory than previous incarnations. Panasonic's Toughbook 19 now comes with Intel's Core 2 Duo U7500 processor running at 1.06 GHz and 2 MB of L2 ca...