Despite the recent recalls of millions of notebook battery packs, lithium-ion battery technology appears to be here to stay when it comes to powering portable PCs, experts say. Given that many tens of millions of battery packs shipped during the two-year time period covered by the recalls, most PC makers such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard insist that the technology is safe.

A laptop computer loaded with personal information on 2,400 residents of the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base has been lost, authorities said Friday. The computer was reported missing Tuesday by Lincoln B.P. Management Inc., which helps manage base housing. The company and Camp Pendleton are investigating. As of Friday, investigators had not found evidence that the data had been accessed, the base said in a statement.

We continue our series of interviews with Lotus Business Partners. This week, I had the opportunity to interview Scott Good, President of Teamwork Solutions. In this in-depth interview, Scott helps us understand workflow applications, gives us some deep background on the history of Notes, and looks forward to the upcoming Hannover release.

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The memoir of fallen Hewlett-Packard leader Carly Fiorina, once America’s most powerful woman chief executive, paints an unsparing picture of the internal power struggles and gender politics that prefigured America’s most public corporate boardroom scandal. "Tough Choices," due to go on sale next week, is Fiorina’s long-awaited return to the public arena after she went silent in February 2005 following her sudden firing as chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, the computer and printer maker.

The "stupid users" attitude among tech professionals still exists, but it’s a lot less funny. In today’s business environment, the sneering and condescending approach is increasingly intolerable, and where it has not happened already, it will soon be met with a slew of ill-effects, from outsourcing to bad end-products and compromised careers. eWEEK spoke to three IT professionals about why expectations of IT professionals are changing and what will happen if the stereotypes don’t change with it.

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As Baseline marks their five-year anniversary, there’s the temptation to look back and marvel at how far we have come since 2001. But as exciting as the last five years have been, it’s pretty clear that the next five are going to be driven by continuing waves of innovation that will fundamentally alter every aspect of computing as we know it today. With that in mind, let’s identify five key emerging technologies that could lead to a doubling of productivity within the next five years.

Adobe Systems’ Acrobat is a mainstay within corporations, and that’s not about to change with Acrobat 8 Professional. eWEEK Labs’ tests of the beta release show that the application makes it easier than ever for users to create, share and secure documents.

Didn’t want you to forget the big Friday night event. We’re all addicted to the incredible remake of Battlestar Galactica and all the fun’s back tonight, Friday, October 6. Be sure to tune in. It appears to be a two-hour run, so be sure to update your PVRs accordingly. And that ends our critical public service announcement.

Former Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn was named in a criminal complaint filed by the California attorney general Wednesday, but chief executive Mark Hurd dodged legal action for now. Dunn, along with Kevin Hunsaker, HP’s former chief ethics officer and senior counsel, were named in a felony complaint filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer.