Darrell Proctor is a publishing industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience writing about business, technology and sports. He spent more than a decade at the St. Petersburg Times and later the Rocky Mountain News, where he authored the Mile High Tech blog and was noted for his reviews of consumer electronics and technology. Questions for Darrell? Drop him a line at techexaminer@gmail.com.

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Laptop device spawns Quakecatcher Network

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August 6, 9:56 AM

by Darrell Proctor, Business Examiner

Being able to detect when an earthquake
will strike could increase warning times.

The recent Southern California earthquake put a spotlight on a piece of technology designed to protect laptop computers.

The accelerometer is the small device in laptops designed to detect movement. It senses when a machine has been dropped or knocked off a desk or dropped. Then, before impact, it pulls the heads on the hard drive clear of the platters where data is stored - helping prevent damage.

A group from Stanford University and the University of California-Riverside now use the technology to detect earthquakes as part of their Quakecatcher Network.

You can learn more about the accelerometer project here.

For more info: The U.S. Geological Survey provides plenty of information about earthquakes.

Topics: laptops , Earthquakes

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Back to school means deals on computers

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August 5, 2:03 PM

The ads have been coming, via the mail, the daily paper - and all over my desktop and laptop.Students are headed back to school, and that means plenty of deals are available on computers.Yahoo Shopping has a great list of machines, leading off with an... Read More
Topics: laptops , Computers , Deals

Intel's updated vPro adds IT upgrades

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July 18, 9:01 AM

Corporate IT departments were waiting for Intel to release its Centrino 2 platform for notebooks, and it happened this week.The updates and upgrades are detailed in this eWeek.com article.Here's a key passage: "With the notion that laptops need... Read More
Topics: Intel , Centrino 2 , laptops