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Japanese electronics maker NEC recalled 15,000 laptop computers on Monday over concerns they could catch fire.

The recall affects NEC's Valuestar lineup of notebook computers sold only in Japan. Two of the laptops caught fire due to a defective part near the power supply, the company said in a statement.

No one was hurt during the malfunctions and NEC will repair the defective parts free of charge, company spokesman Kazuhito Oto said. The Valuestar H and Valuestar G Type H computers were made between November 2003 and June 2004, the company said.

The power problem was unrelated to the computer's battery, Oto said.

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Laptop Review: IBM/Lenovo 3000 N100

For long, the name IBM has been associated with quality, service and reliability. So when Lenovo bought out the PC division from IBM, certainly many eyebrows were raised if this would impact their QSR (Quality-Service-Reliability) metrics. I did not think up till this point that it would change, but I am quite sadly mistaken.

With my experience over the past two weeks working on Lenovo laptops and working with their representatives, right from call center people to high profile men in leading positions like the VP of Web Marketing, it has been nothing short of pain, with general sense of I-dont-really-know-what-you-are-talking-about attitude displayed by all and sundry. Given that Lenovo now also markets Thinkpads, one wonders how long will it be before Thinkpads reach the trash-bin too.

Virtualization - the next step in enterprise security

Leo Cohen, vice president and fellow, Symantec, and Steve Grobman, strategic planning director and principal engineer, Intel Corp. Jan 2 2007 20:14 The complexity, frequency, and malicious intent of security attacks from many sources are increasing in today's enterprise. Likewise, IT administrators are seeing a marked increase in published vulnerabilities in the operating systems (OS) and applications. Successful attacks cost significant time and money to remediate.

Currently, the average period between the announcement of vulnerability and the introduction of an exploit for that vulnerability is about six days, and that time may continue to decrease. The threat landscape has reached a point at which exploits can arrive on almost the same day a vulnerability is uncovered - "zero-day" attacks.