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YouTube IT video of the week: Lenovo’s 27-inch table PC!

Michael Tidmarsh — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:40:42 +0000

Each year at CES, companies roll out new high-tech gadgets so users can glimpse the future of technology. At this year’s show, Lenovo outdid itself with its ’27-inch’ IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC! Yes, you heard me correctly: 27-inch PC! TechnologyGuide had some hands-on time with Lenovo’s Godzilla-sized PC.

Disclaimer: All videos presented in the “YouTube IT Video of the Week” series are subjectively selected by ITKnowledgeExchange.com community managers and staff for entertainment purposes only. They are not sponsored or influenced by outside sources.

The sneaky vulnerability that beat Coca-Cola’s HDD encryption and leaked the secret recipe

Michael Morisy — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:37:24 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about how Lenovo, talking up its new Full-Drive Encryption (FDE) tools, bragged that the technology was used to secure Coca-Cola’s famously guarded secret recipe. Well, that security measure (if accurate) was recently trumped by a 125-year-old vulnerability and an unlikely Black Hat: Ira Glass and NPR’s This American Life, which stumbled upon a 1979 stock photo which, the program’s reporters believe, was actually a photo of the original handwritten recipe.

It’s not the first time the alleged recipe has been released (Wikipedia currently lists a host of candidates), but the release highlights a theme I heard again and again this morning from the wonkier side of RSA: Technology is an incredibly small part of any true security solution. Adi Shamir, the “S” in RSA, made a point of saying that even the bleeding edge in security, and particularly cryptography, can do very little to nothing to stop WikiLeaks-style attacks or even Stuxnet attacks.

The end result is this: Enterprises (and governments) must constantly evaluate the total security scenario and always consider their assets compromised, just like the the NSA does, while evaluating ways to minimize harm.

Michael Morisy is the editorial director for ITKnowledgeExchange. He can be followed on Twitter or you can reach him at Michael@ITKnowledgeExchange.com.

Not all warranties are created equal: Just ask Fujitsu

Michael Morisy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:58:55 +0000

After evaluating various tablet brands Judith Claire Robison, director of IT at Saint John’s Catholic Prep in Frederick, MD, finally settled on Fujitsu. After all, Fujitsu’s hardware has garnered strong reviews and, while Judith was evaluating the device, the company was willing to cover shipping to and from the school.

But after actually getting the tablets, one developed a defective keyboard. No problem: Judith had invested in the extended warranty. The only problem was that Fujitsu wasn’t as generous with their extended warranty as they are with review devices:

As Judith recounts:

When we purchased Fujitsu tablets for our teachers about 16 months ago, we purchased an extended warranty for them. When I contacted Fujitsu about a malfunctioning keyboard this week I discovered that we are responsible for the cost of shipping the defective machine back to them. It’s in the fine print available on their website. I’ve had to have machines from other companies in the past, and the shipping was covered by the maker. Is this a new policy for all or most makers, or just Fujitsu’s idea of service?

Others had been similarly burned on shipping charges by Gateway, while several users singled out Lenovo for superior customer care — including picking up the shipping tab for any warranty-covered problems.

Any other fine print fiascos you’ve seen or experienced first hand? Leave the details in the comments so others know what to look out for, or e-mail me at Michael@ITKnowledgeExchange.com.