In the workstation graphics market, the name 3Dlabs carries considerable weight, and its Wildcat III series of OpenGL cards continues to be dominating in the high-end workspace. However, in the mid-range sector, NVIDIAs Quadro2 and Quadro4, and ATIs FireGL 8800 have made serious inroads. The new Wildcat VP870 looks set to redress the balance, thanks to a brand-new GPU that takes programmability to a new level.

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Time to push security up the IT agenda.

Climb the steps all the way to Windows guru status with our invaluable selection of tips and shortcuts for XP and Vista.

What will you be buying, using and drooling over this year? Tim Dean looks at the astounding products and technologies due to hit in the next 12 months.

Part 12: Just because you've bought a hulking great plasma or LCD panel doesn't mean you need to stare at it all day. Here's two options for hiding your TV

Creative finally delivers a portable media player that trumps them all.

We've got the official list of the new Panasonic line-up for 2009. It's a mixed bag of low energy LCD and plasma, some spiffy wireless units and a very pretty ultra thin model that will knock your TV-loving socks off

PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

VideoLogic is a name few people would now instantly associate with graphics accelerators. In fact, its parent company, Imagination Technologies, was present at the birth of the PC 3D accelerator field in June 1996 with its PowerVR card.

An HD screen, Blu-ray drive, TV tuner and competitive price result in an excellent-value entertainment laptop.

The future, they say, is based on the Internet and mobile computing.

The KYRO II chipset differs significantly from the other solutions on the market. It uses a technology known as tile-based rendering to achieve peak performance, rather then the brute force solutions employed by competing chips.

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Another cracking Panasonic flatscreen, which impresses with both its integrated TV tuners and external sources

When it comes to desktop replacements, the Dell Inspiron 5000 is a case study in portable power.

It seems like LCD will take all the TV glory from plasma in 2009 with features like LED backlighting and 240Hz right? Here’s why you shouldn’t write-off plasma, the big daddy of home theatre.