Just two weeks after expanding its relationship with Best Buy, Lenovo Group said it will try to win even more U.S. small business customers by selling its notebook PCs at Circuit City’s retail shops.

In both deals, customers will be able to buy Lenovo’s ThinkPad T60 widescreen and Lenovo N100 notebook PCs. Circuit City will also sell extra variations of those models in its stores, and the C200 notebook over its Web site and the phone.

Motion Computing and Intel are looking to carve out a spot in the health care market with a new tablet PC.

The tablet PC maker announced that it has teamed with Intel to produce a new mobile computer, dubbed the C5 MCA (mobile clinical assistant), that will be targeted strictly at health care professionals, such as doctors, nurses and other hospital workers.

In addition to its Intel-based architecture and tablet design, the C5 will include a number of features specifically geared toward the health care market.

Inside, the C5 uses Intel’s Centrino mobile technology platform with a Core Solo U1400 processor, which runs at 1.2GHz and offers 2MB of L2 cache memory and a 533MHz front side bus. The tablet also offers an Intel 945GM chip set with an Extreme Graphics controller, which allows the image to rotate with the screen, a 10.4-inch LCD display, 512MB of DDR2 (double data rate) memory and a hard disk drive with a maximum memory of 60GB.

An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years in prison for insulting Islam and the president.

Abdel Kareem Soliman’s trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt.

He had used his web log to criticize the country’s top Islamic institution, al-Azhar university and President Hosni Mubarak, whom he called a dictator.

The mountains of data apparently taken from $15 billion retailer TJX were taken a lot earlier than had previously been announced, with the intrusions starting in 2005 and some of the impacted transactions dating back to 2003, TJX said in a statement issued Feb. 21.

As TJX works its way through various investigations from a group of state attorneys general, congressional inquiries and several class-action lawsuits, details about the timing of the initial data breach (and any subsequent data breaches), how long it had gone on before it was detected and how long consumer information was stored will prove critical.

Kids in middle school send one another a steady stream of instant messages through the day. But there’s a problem.

"Kids will say things to each other in their messages that are too embarrassing to say in person," says 14-year-old Jett Lucas, "Then when they actually meet up, they are too shy to bring up what they said in the message. It makes things tense."

Jett’s complaint seems to be part of a larger pattern plaguing the world of virtual communications, a problem recognized since the earliest days of the Internet: flaming, or sending a message that is taken as offensive, embarrassing or downright rude.

The hallmark of the flame is precisely what Jett lamented: thoughts expressed while sitting alone at the keyboard would be put more diplomatically–or go unmentioned–face to face.

Ryan Patrick Halligan was bullied for months online. Classmates sent the 13-year-old boy instant messages calling him gay. He was threatened, taunted and insulted incessantly by so-called cyberbullies. In 2003, Ryan killed himself.

States from Oregon to Rhode Island are considering crackdowns to curb or outlaw the behavior in which kids taunt or insult peers on social Web sites like MySpace or via instant messages. Still, there is some disagreement over how effective crackdowns will be and how to do it.

One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to a woman for the first time in the award’s 40-year history.

Frances E. Allen, 75, was honored for her work at IBM on techniques for optimizing the performance of compilers, the programs that translate one computer language into another. This process is required to turn programming code into the binary zeros and ones actually read by a computer’s colossal array of minuscule switches.

Snort, the open-source intrusion-detection software, is vulnerable to hackers, its developers said this week. Sourcefire, the company behind Snort, said that hackers could potentially execute malicious code on a system running Snort and gain access to confidential data. The vulnerability was reported to Sourcefire by Internet Security Systems, the security arm of IBM.

This is the third of four articles Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard has written on Lotusphere 2007 and all the new Lotus announcements. In the first article, "The buzz is back at Lotusphere 2007", he talked about the event itself, and provided some of the broad strokes of what was announced. In the second article, "An in-depth look at the Notes 8 announcements", he took an in-depth look at the Notes 8 announcements. In this article, it’s time to dive deeply into the Domino 8 announcements and in the last article, he’ll go further in-depth on each of the key announcements and provide you with more perspective and analysis.

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