Once you've tasted the freedom of surfing the Internet on your smartphones, it's hard to go back. Fortunately, a number of mobile phone providers offer great deals on smartphones with included data. We've assessed their ease of use, features and handset design.

But the Internet is not just providing stockbrokers with a new shopfront, companies with outlets for investor relations, discussion groups to decide what to buy and global exchange alliances. <

With our rapidly approaching second birthday we are still moving on at a tremendous pace, we were recently shortlisted as one of three finalists for "Magazine of the Year". Who would be so bold as to

The sheer scope of the .NET and HailStorm initiatives is exactly what you'd expect from Microsoft.When it gets pushed into a corner it comes out fighting, and its competitors really need to be sure o

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

The next Call of Duty game isn’t yet another World War two re-hash. It’s a stunning collection of battles in contemporary settings. Read our report from hands-on time with the single player game.

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, has a vision for newer, smarter web. Tim Dean looks at how the future of the web might work.

Read the latest news direct from the show floor at Computex - Nick Ross reports from the heart of Tapei, Taiwan.

Are we being watched? Tim Dean thinks privacy advocacy groups have blown the issue out of proportion.

Theres no doubt the march of technological advance inside the machine certainly impacts upon its external visual aspects. So-called legacy-free PCs are starting to appear in numbers now, and their str

Is it worlds colliding or simply the inevitable? David Hellaby investigates the merging of fashion and computing. Something associated with mice, bugs, crashes and screen dumps is

CeBIT Australia 2007 is the biggest, most impressive show in years. PC Authority brings you a ringside seat from the IT industry's event of the moment.

Microsoft’s radical redesign promises ‘better results, faster’. Be fully prepared for this world-leading productivity software.

The latest initiative to revolutionise your digital media has arrived - this time from AMD

The Unwired Garden of the Future at Sydney Olympic Park was an unprecedented Display Garden at Sydney’s ABC Gardening Australia Festival in August 2005. Designed by Andrew Davies (Landscape Design Director of Dig Design Ideas Gardens) and PC Authority magazine, it was built to represent any outdoor space (balcony/courtyard or a section of a backyard) where the user can leave the confines of the indoors and go outside to use the computer. 

Despite the profusion of point-and-click web-design software, there’s still no excuse for not knowing HTML. Will Head walks you through the basics

Useful new features and a total interface overhaul make this the best Office ever.

Peer-to-peer networking is one of the Great Internet Treasures. David Kidd looks at the future of file sharing, and how to get the most out of it.

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.

Want to kick your website up a notch? Jacinta Thomler gives you 10 ways to make your site stand out.