Drives you can afford to lose: The runaway leading cause of slips listed in the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse's sobering chronology of data breaches is the lost or stolen laptop. New mobile drives from Hitachi and Seagate -- quipped with hardware-based, full-disk encryption -- aim to keep laptop data under wraps, unless you're Paris Hilton and your password is Tinkerbell. Check out the results of Mario Apicella's Drives you can afford to lose: The runaway leading cause of slips listed in the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse’s sobering chronology of data breaches is the lost or stolen laptop. New mobile drives from Hitachi and Seagate — quipped with hardware-based, full-disk encryption — aim to keep laptop data under wraps, unless you’re Paris Hilton and your password is Tinkerbell. Check out the results of Mario Apicella’s test drive in today’s review. Gadgets gone green: Bamboo monitors, keyboards, and laptops are good-looking and eco-friendly. Interestingly, they are not made of wood. Find the answer to this conundrum, and a neat survey of other green gadgetry (including a manual cell phone charger, a solar panel jacket, and AA batteries you can recharge by plugging directly into a USB slot) in Ted Samson’s “Green gadget guide for geeks”.What’s wrong with Web 2.0? In a nutshell, the problem is that too many Web businesses don’t “understand the huge difference between a site and an application,” notes Tom Yager in yesterday’s Ahead of the Curve, “Never send an HTML hacker to do a developer’s job”. Technology Industry