Every student is required to own a laptop, and the school offers students discounted IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) notebooks, preloaded with appropriate software.

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Now we'd like to say we felt the performance improvements over single-core netbooks almost instantaneously, but that's not the case thanks to an abundant amount of software preloaded up on the 5103.

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The Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA, the agency that sanctions commercial technology for Pentagon use, is set to rule in the next two weeks that Samsung's Galaxy line of smartphones, preloaded with Samsung's Knox security software, conforms with the Pentagon's so-called Security Technology Implementation Guide, according to a Defense Department spokesman.

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The software will be available for users to download on April 12 and will come preloaded on a new phone from HTC Corp.

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