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Writing for Computerworld, Ryan Faas has been a skeptic of the 17-inch MacBook Pro, a notebook computer that seemingly hardly qualifies as a portable computer. After a week, his previous assumptions paled in light of the excellent speed and stunning LED backlit screen.

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Graphics chip vendor Nvidia will reportedly introduce a line of processors designed for small, handheld computers at the Computex exhibition in Taipei next week.

The Transportation Security Administration is close to a new policy that will allow notebook computers to remain inside some special types of cases as they go through airport X-ray machines. New cases are being developed by Targus and Skooba. The policy could go into into effect in a few months, according to TSA chief Kip Hawley

Smartphones, like computers, are vulnerable to hackers. So far the threat has been low, but as users start to use their smartphones more and more as mobile computers the risk will increase, according to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Corporations are thinking more and more about the possible problems

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Supporting OTF error detection and correction, Route Accelerator is suited for forwarding and routing in metro- and carrier-class switch and router applications. It is based on algorithmic search architecture that has automated table management and power efficiency optimization, enabling large forwarding tables required for advanced network applications. Unit addresses IPv4/IPv6 unicast and multicast forwarding, flow-based routing, L2/L3 VPNs, and MPLS applications.This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and Peripherals