Laptop users may soon get longer battery life from their machines, with ZPower set to plug in its new silver-zinc batteries, which it claims last significantly longer than traditional lithium-ion batteries. The batteries will be available in consumer and business laptops from major PC makers starting...

HP has taken the wrapping of its Eee-rival, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC. The Mini-Note costs a little more but is also more powerful than the Eee PC , with the £300 entry level model boasting an 8.9in WXGA display, 1GHz Via processor, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, 512MB RAM and a 4GB solid...

Intel plans to release an anti-theft technology for laptops during the fourth quarter of this year, but the company isn't offering many details yet. Called Intel Anti-Theft Technology, the new capability will be added to Intel's Active Management Technology, which is part of Centrino vPro and...