If a laptop or computer were stolen, the long-entrusted encryption may not protect important data against hackers. A blast of cold air will do the trick of breaking through a computer’s encrypted hard drive. Research by Princeton University scientists shows that personal banking data, company trade secrets and national security documents may not be safe any more as long as hackers have physical access to the computers. This brings to mind that computers and laptops sent for repair may also face the risk of having private and vital information stolen. If Hong Kong’s Edison Chen had encrypted his computer’s hard drive, his sex controversy with several famous actresses and singers would probably have been exposed anyway in the hands of a semi-skilled hacker.

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The South Korea’s largest company and exporter, Samsung has announced the launch of its new 3D Ready PDP - PAVV Cannes 450, which dubbed as the first commercial 3D-ready Plasma TV boasting 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, thanks to the Cell Light Control, 2008 Daylight technology and DNIe+ (Digital Natural Image engine+) chipset.

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New desktop and notebook or laptop computer system from HP and Compaq typically has a special HP recovery partition that allows users to restore PC to original default factory condition when Windows BSOD, fails, corrupts or unable to boot. If you delete or remove this special HP recovery partition away by using Disk Manager or third party disk management tool such as Partition Magic and Acronis Disk Director Suite, the following error message will appear on every system startup.

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Sony has announced the launch of its new nav-u personal navigation devices - NV-U73T (4.3″) and (4.8″) NV-U83T, offering (TTS) Text-To-Speech voice commands, an intuitive color display and real-time traffic reports, allowing users to travel with confidence.

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All OEM computers, desktop or notebook PCs from Dell, HP, Lenovo, IBM, Acer, ASUS, Sony, Fujitsu, Toshiba and many more probably comes with special EISA partition either in FAT or NTFS file system that contains system recovery utility to rollback to factory settings and/or diagnostic tools. The special partition, normally hidden, can have a size of from few gigabytes to 10 GB or more. In some OEM system, such as those from IBM/Lenovo, is impossible to delete from within Windows.

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HP desktop, notebook or laptop computer normally comes with a special recovery partition which caves out on a portion of local hard disk. The hidden partition, which size can comes to about 5 to 10 GB in size, usually used to store recovery information and diagnostic tools. For HP system, the special Recovery Partition, normally on D drive, is used for PC System Recovery, an easy-to-use suite of three utilities that restores individual driver and programs or restores the hard drive on the PC to original default factory condition.

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Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 features a Recovery Console which provides a mean for administrators or Windows user to perform a limited range of tasks using a command line interface, especially to recover of Windows system that does not boot into desktop in graphic user interface (GUI).

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The South-Korean consumer electronics giant has designed a new LCD monitor featuring elegant design and Digital Fine Contrast technology, along with an impressive 10,000:1 contrast ratio, seems perfect for folks who prefer to watch movies on their computer.

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