October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

If you were watching Monday Night Football tonight, you saw that even the NFL has jumped onto the mission of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Players were sporting the well-known pink ribbon on helmets, coaches had them on their lapels, and there were even pink spats on a few guys. Because of recent awareness efforts, breast cancer has one of the top survivor rates of all cancers. It only makes sense that for this month that we highlight Mobile Edge, one of our laptop bag brands who has supported the Komen Foundation with 10 percent of the retail sales price of each Komen laptop bag sold going to the Foundation.

Since the inception of their ‘Caring Case Collection’ Program in 2004, Mobile Edge has donated more than $250,000 to the Komen Foundation and its local affiliates. Who says that you can't look stylish while supporting a good cause? The Komen milano laptop tote looks very lush in a faux croc (pictured) and looks more like a handbag than a laptop bag. If having an all pink laptop bag is not your style, you can try a choice like the Komen geneva laptop tote, which is black with pink accents. It has an equal number of interior pockets as the milano, but also offers an exterior pocket, which makes reaching for last minute items handy.

Faster Checkin For Travel with "Checkpoint Friendly" Laptop Bags

Summer travel is here, and for those of us who can take advantage of some of the great "recession buster" deals, there is no better time to travel. Rates are down and a last minute trip to Hawaii is not out of the question. In the event that you are bringing your laptop, it is good to know that with the right checkpoint friendly laptop bag , you can breeze through security even faster.

TSA (the Travel Security Administration) has some relatively simple guidelines. Your laptop needs to lay flat on the X-ray belt. No zippers or metal objects can be underneath or on top of the laptop section, and there can be no pockets in the laptop section. There can be nothing else in the laptop section other than the laptop. The whole idea is that the TSA rep needs to be able to easily see your laptop as it goes through the X-ray.

If you really want to keep it simple for yourself, just choose a laptop sleeve or bag that is already identified as checkpoint friendly. Mobile Edge has created its "Scan Fast" series of laptop bags, that includes a checkpoint friendly backpack and several briefcases that fold open and allow you to keep the laptop inside. Then you can choose to select a sleeve that will go in any bag, keeping your laptop safe but also making security fast.

If you are looking for more details, check out TSA's web site