Panasonic Plans New Toughbook PCs (PC World)

Panasonic Plans New Toughbook PCs (PC World)
PC World - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) is refreshing its Toughbook rugged laptop PC line and aiming for a big jump in international sales of the computers over the next three years.

Book-Size Windows Vista Laptop Computer: Fujitsu Lifebook U810
The Fujitsu Lifebook U810 is one of the first mini notebook computers powered by Windows Vista that can be used as a tablet PC as well.

Toshiba bundles laptops with high-definition options (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Toshiba on Monday pushed high-definition technology into new laptops, expanding entertainment options for budget users.

Transcend announces 2.5" 32 GB SSD
Transcend is rolling out its second 2.5” solid state disk (SSD) drive, aiming to replace standard had disk drives in notebook computers.

Starbucks To Give Away 50 Million iTunes Songs (TechWeb)
TechWeb - The offer is good for users of Apple's iPhone, its new iPod Touch, or any wireless-capable laptop loaded with the Apple's iTunes software.

And the Nobel Prize for physics goes to...the iPod
...with technologies that allow the manufacture of increasingly smaller hard drives for things like notebook computers and—that's right—iPods.