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Netbooks haven’t hit full laptop sales as hard as some people have claimed, according to Intel’s European’s sales chief.Christian Morales claims netbook sales were about 16% of all laptop sales globally, and a little higher in western Europe. In Britain and Italy they may account for as much as a quarter of all notebook sales, he says.Cannibalisation currently stands at about 20%, according to Morales, which means that 20% of netbooks sold would otherwise have been sales of full notebooks.Intel has for now cornered the fast-growing market for netbooks with its Atom processors. Many fear that that fast market growth may be at the expense of higher-priced laptops.We have seen some cannibalisation of Celeron by Atom, Morales told analysts in London. But he claims Intel’s profit margins for Atom are higher than those for the much older Celeron processors.Stacy Smith, finance chief of the world’s biggest chipmaker, says laptops will be Intel’s main growth driver for years to come, propelled by a continuing trend toward mobility.Morales also claims that inventories, which had been built up by electronics makers and retailers who had underestimated the impact of the recession, were now in balance with demand. From an inventory standpoint, we think it is really optimised for current levels of business, he says. Supply-chain confidence is much higher.

Speaking at TechEd Europe in Amsterdam, Microsoft’s vice president for Windows Web Services, Antoine Leblond, reiterated Microsoft’s philosophy that touch will become the dominant interface over the next couple of years.“Next year, tablets will outsell desktop PCs,” said Leblond. “Touch is coming to PCs and that’s going to change the way UIs are designed very dramatically, just like the mouse did.”Touch is coming to PCs and that’s going to change the way UIs are designed very dramatically, just like the mouse didTouch is coming to PCs and that’s going to change the way UIs are designed very dramatically, just like the mouse didSpeaking a week after Microsoft revealed its own-brand Surface tablet, Leblond was naturally keen to emphasise the benefits of the touchscreen Metro interface, he also stressed that Microsoft wasn’t turning its back on laptop and desktop users. “It [Metro] works equally well on a desktop or a tablet,” he insisted, with colleagues demonstrating a variety of keyboard shortcuts to navigate the Metro Start menu.However, the demonstration faltered when Leblond’s colleague attempted to demonstrate touchpad gestures such as double-fingered scrolling, with the demo laptop repeatedly refusing to recognise the gesture controls.

Leblond was also at pains to stress Windows 8’s business credentials, emphasising the ability to switch between the Metro style apps and traditional x86 software. “You don’t have to choose between a small, thin and light tablet and the apps you rely on,” he said. “You don’t have to choose between the device you want and the device you’re allowed to use at work.”The section of Leblond’s keynote speech that drew the biggest response from the hundreds of developers in the audience was also a business-related feature: Windows To Go.He demonstrated how employees could run a locked-down installation of Windows 8 on a Windows 7 PC, simply by plugging in a USB drive, allowing companies to give employees access to corporate applications without the security risks of running it on their own hardware.Out of nowhere, music starts playing from your laptop, sending you flipping through a dozen browser tabs to silence it.That’s the scenario Chrome is hoping to avoid by showing an alert directly on browser tabs when sound starts playing.

Google first announced the plans back in February, and has now finally brought them to the beta version of Chrome.Chrome will show an alert icon on the tab from where the sound is coming, and will also notify when a page has activated your webcam or is being cast to your TV – that latter feature is now available via Google’s Chromecast.Google has also moved its Safe Browsing system from the preview version into the browser’s beta. The security tool automatically blocks malware, displaying a warning when it happens. If you see this message in the download tray at the bottom of your screen, you can click ‘Dismiss’ knowing that Chrome is working to keep you safe, said software engineer Yuri Wiitala on the Chrome blog.Google didn’t say when the features would arrive in the mainstream version of Chrome, but it should be soon.The Metro version of Chrome in Windows 8 has also been updated. We’ve made it possible to manage multiple Chrome windows and quickly get to your favourite Chrome Apps with an integrated app launcher, Wiitala added. If you use a Chromebook, the change may look familiar — with a common interface we’ll be able to bring great experiences to both even more quickly.

The company will begin offering the Samsung drives to business customers, as part of a series of premium security measures for corporate laptops. Laptop tracking and recovery, remote data wiping and accidental damage servicing are among the other services included in the company’s ProSupport scheme.Dell claims its SSD encryption is superior to the BitLocker software built into Windows Vista. It has an encryption engine on the drive, so it’s not taking any resource from the CPU, Lionel Bohar, head of notebooks at Dell EMEA, told PC Pro. It’s completely transparent to the end user.Bohar says the drives will launch by the beginning of the summer, although he wouldn’t reveal how much extra businesses will have to pay for the encryption. It will be a premium compared to [regular] SSD drives, he said.Dell’s announcement conveniently coincides with Dell-commissioned research from the Ponemon Institute, which claims that 42 million gigabytes of potentially sensitive data is lost on business laptops across the world every year.The research claims that 57% of UK companies have found evidence of inappropriate interactions with other employees on laptops, and that hotels were the venue where Brits are most likely to leave a business laptop.

Netbooks haven’t hit full laptop sales as hard as some people have claimed, according to Intel’s European’s sales chief.Christian Morales claims netbook sales were about 16% of all laptop sales globally, and a little higher in western Europe. In Britain and Italy they may account for as much as a quarter of all notebook sales, he says.Cannibalisation currently stands at about 20%, according to Morales, which means that 20% of netbooks sold would otherwise have been sales of full notebooks.Intel has for now cornered the fast-growing market for netbooks with its Atom processors. Many fear that that fast market growth may be at the expense of higher-priced laptops.We have seen some cannibalisation of Celeron by Atom, Morales told analysts in London. But he claims Intel’s profit margins for Atom are higher than those for the much older Celeron processors.Stacy Smith, finance chief of the world’s biggest chipmaker, says laptops will be Intel’s main growth driver for years to come, propelled by a continuing trend toward mobility. Morales also claims that inventories, which had been built up by electronics makers and retailers who had underestimated the impact of the recession, were now in balance with demand. From an inventory standpoint, we think it is really optimised for current levels of business, he says. Supply-chain confidence is much higher.

Acer has launched the next-generation C7 Chromebook with a faster processor and improved battery life.The new laptop will hit the UK in early November, and will cost marginally more than its predecessor at £200 including VAT. Acer said the new Chromebook will be available to buy from Currys and PC World.Acer’s also one of the first manufacturers to pack in Intel’s fourth-generation Haswell processors, after the chip maker and Google touted faster, next-generation Chromebooks last month. However, Acer’s kept costs down by plumping for one of the cheaper, slower options, the 1.4GHz Intel Celeron processor.Another key improvement is battery life – where the previous model ran for around four or five hours, promised life on the new C7 is up to 8.5 hours.Physically, the new C7 Chromebook weighs the same as its predecessor at 1.3kg, but is slimmer at 19mm thick.Hardware-wise, Acer has kept the display the same at 11.6in and a resolution 1,366 x 768 – though it’s now matte to make it easier to use outdoors. Acer’s dropped the original C7 Chromebook’s 320GB HDD in favour of a 16GB SSD with 4GB of RAM, plus the standard 100GB of Google Drive storage for two years.

Acer’s dropped one of the three USB 2 ports featured on the previous model, leaving you with one USB 3 and one USB 2 port. There’s also slots for HDMI output and support for an SD card of up to 32GB.The device supports Wi-Fi, but there’s no word on whether Acer might launch 3G and 4G models, as per HP’s new Chromebook 11.The risk: Network-connected pacemakers have been found to be at risk. Infamous security researcher Barnaby Jack – who sadly died before he could demo his findings at the Black Hat conference – documented methods whereby he could remotely send an 830-volt shock to a certain pacemaker model from a distance of up to 50 feet away, enough to kill the user.The reality: Any attacker would have to not only know the victim was a user of that particular model, but also get within 50 feet to launch the attack, so isn’t the most convenient method of murder for would-be assassins.A vulnerability, however remote that it may be exploited, remains a risk. The US Center for Internet Security has launched an initiative to increase the security of connected medical devices and is working with device manufacturers in order to develop security guidelines.

The risk: Earlier this year, security experts Trustwave SpiderLabs uncovered a vulnerability that enabled an attacker to exploit the Bluetooth connectivity (with a hardcoded pairing PIN for the Android control app) of a Japanese smart toilet and so remotely raise or lower the lid and activate the bidet.The reality: Apart from being inconvenient, it’s hard to take this particular risk seriously in any way, shape or form – not least as you would need to be so close to the said toilet for the Bluetooth connectivity to have any impact that it would hardly be an exercise in stealth. Hardly surprising, then, that the company making the toilet hasn’t been quick to flush out a redesign.The risk: Trustwave SpiderLabs also put some home automation gateways to the test, smart hub devices which provide smart remote management of such things as house lights, door locks and security cameras.With a single gateway controlling multiple devices, it needs to be secure and researchers found one unit which could be accessed by simply using a secondary UPNP interface to the gateway web controls (in essence, a secure shell connection requiring no username or password) by hacking the local Wi-Fi network of the user.

The reality: This one is a little more serious, as hackers could use this one, if not to break into someone’s home and steal stuff, then certainly to harass a target. With remote access to the hub the attacker gets full control of security cameras and door locks, and in the case of the unit Trustwave tested ‘remote’ doesn’t mean in range of the Wi-Fi connection but rather anywhere via a secondary vulnerability in the cloud system also employed by the manufacturer.The risk: Smart TV is here already, but just how smart is it? You can probably guess the answer is not very smart at all, but rather most likely a cobbled together mixture of hardware, Linux and the internet.Sets from the biggest of manufacturers have been shown to be wanting when it comes to security. Take Samsung, which fell foul to a couple of security researchers who managed to pull of JavaScript injection hacks into the browser of one Smart TV and operate the front-facing camera for live video of the front room without the knowledge of the user. The privacy implications are, well, obvious.The reality: The more features your TV has, the more opportunity there is for someone to find a flaw amongst them and exploit this. As soon as you start connecting a device like a TV, which in reality is just a computer with a monitor and a camera, to the internet then you are asking for trouble unless it is protected by the same kind of security measures as your other computers in the home.

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