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the latest news about hardware, software and games - 12/05/2008
candybar style smartphone with 8GB of storage - 12/05/2008
Sony Ericsson is probably best known for its Walkman and Cybershot branded handsets, but the company also turns its hand to smartphones. There have been several smartphones over the years, all running the UIQ operating system. ...
comprehensive Internet protection suite - 12/05/2008
AVG Internet Security 8.0 is the latest version of the complete home security package from the company that made a name for itself by offering powerful, free antivirus software to the masses. It's a pretty comprehensive ...
nostalgic point 'n' click adventure - 12/05/2008
Animated adventure games used to be the height of cool, thanks to LucasArts in particular, with great storylines like The Dig and more than a dash of humour in games like Full Throttle and the still ...
impressive satellite navigation and more - 09/05/2008
With established brands like TomTom, Mio and Garmin churning out featured-packed navigators with wanton abandon, it's a little surprising to see a company that's relatively inexperienced in this sector trying to get involved. HP certainly isn't ...
co-operative third-person shooter - 09/05/2008
It must be said that an army of two is rather on the small side, although history has recorded some more compact forces than this. Such as Bjork, who claimed she was an army all on ...
solid video editing but not enough to threaten Adobe just yet - 08/05/2008
Come version fourteen, you have to suspect that there's not too much else you can add to a program to fundamentally alter the way it works, and the way you interface with it. That proves to ...
power-saving P35 motherboard - 07/05/2008
Right, were you paying attention at the back? Did you spot the 'E' in the product name for Gigabyte's latest P35 motherboard? No? Well, it's easy to miss at first glance, but as far as Gigabyte ...
powerful multimedia authoring software - 07/05/2008
Digital Workshop's Opus series has for many years incorporated a range of interactive tools to embellish applications and databases of all shapes and complexities. Each upgrade has been carefully developed in response to user enquiries (for ...
digital projector with DVD drive - 06/05/2008
There's a convenient alternative to LCD or plasma widescreens, which gives you a much bigger screen for less money. Home cinema digital projectors are far from the dim, fuzzy picture-makers of a few years back and ...
factory-overclocked HD3870 - 06/05/2008
Just like the old adage of waiting ages for a bus and then three coming along at once, you wait six months for a true mid-range graphics card and then a whole host of them suddenly ...
online Web site design and hosting - 06/05/2008
There are three ways of getting yourself a website: you can pay somebody to do the design and expect to spend between £50 and £200 per page; you can design it yourself, using a professional website ...
outstanding in-ear headphones - 05/05/2008
Sennheiser has built a deserved reputation for designing high-performing ‘phones at reasonable prices, and if you're not willing to spend hundreds of pounds on high-end models from companies like Shure, they should be your first port ...
2GB wrist-mounted media player - 05/05/2008
If you're going to carry a media player, how best to keep your pocket from being picked? Strap it to your wrist, of course, which is exactly what you do with the Video Watch. This device ...
wireless media streaming system - 02/05/2008
The acquisition of SlimDevices by Logitech back in 2006 certainly seems to have been a successful one, allowing the consumer to benefit from the former's prowess in the wireless audio streaming market and the latter's ability ...
shot in the arm for the mid-range market - 02/05/2008
The last round of high-end graphics card launches saw plenty of cards at the top end, but nothing to speak of in the highly lucrative mainstream market. True, both ATI and Nvidia attempted to redress the ...
well-priced motherboard for HTPCs - 01/05/2008
If you are looking to build an HTPC or media center PC, there are many Micro-ATX motherboards to choose from. But one that may have escaped your eye is the I-N73HD from Abit; which would be ...
personal mono laser printer - 01/05/2008
Personal laser printers have enjoyed something of a renaissance in the last year or so, as their prices have continued to fall and many people have added a second printer to the inkjet all-in-one they may ...
no-frills efficient mono laser printer - 29/04/2008
As long as there is a need to print plain and simple documents, there will always be a demand for plain and simple mono printers, especially those that can get through the load with the minimum ...
WiFi Internet radio - 29/04/2008
IQ test: what are the next letters in the sequence AM, FM, DAB? It would appear that the answer is WIFI, assuming the sequence is for methods of receiving radio. Actually, WiFi is only part of ...
Humans versus machines, but not in the Terminator sense - 08/11/2007
In my previous editorial I compared my daughter's early behaviour to that of a simple computer program. A few people got in touch and called me a nerd. Can't think why. What quickly became apparent, though, ...
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