Frankfurt - Dell's latest laptop is designed to take a beating and can reportedly survive a drop off a table, even when the display is operating.
The Latitude E6400 XFR is billed as a fully ruggedized notebook, designed to withstand drops of up to 120 centimetres when shut down and falls of up to 90 centimetres while running.
Other features include a Core-2-Duo processor, a scratch-resistant cover and the ability to withstand extreme temperatures. The laptop sells for 3,290 euros (4,265 dollars). ---
New software provides missing sync between Mac and BlackBerry
Bonn - Hackers have started trying to hit people where they live by distributing e-mails with fake news of local atrocities in the hope of getting people to open a link and expose their computer to danger. One trick is to send out an e-mail with a subject line reading, "At least 18 killed in your city," according to the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
Washington - If you are looking at a web page with a list of useful links, you can have Internet Explorer give you a printout of just those links. Simply open the File menu, and click Print. From the Print dialogue box, select the Options tab, and then click the check box labelled "Print table of links." You'll get a handy printout of all the links on the page. --------
Bonn - Internet users are advised to download the latest version of the Flash player to protect their computer from hacker attacks. The software is available free of charge at 
Washington - Need a copy of the receipt for an order you placed online? Usually you get a printable copy from the vendor, but if not, you can save a record for yourself. Just open the File menu on your web browser, click Save As, and put a copy of the file into a folder on your hard drive. Save it as HTML so that when you open it up again, it will look largely the same as it did when you were online.
