High-capacity desktop drives have never been so affordable. Darien Graham-Smith puts 23 to the test to find the best

Hitachi’s ingeniously hinged screwdriver is your flexible friend when it comes to awkward screws and looks remarkably like a Halo 3 gun

The ubiquitous micro-hard drive has found its way into a PDA. palmOne yesterday announced the LifeDrive, a PDA with basic features, a large 320x480 colour screen and a 4GB Hitachi hard drive.

Feature-complete release candidate of virtualisation software released.

Battery capacity has proven to be a serious barrier to true mobile computing. Tim Dean looks at how the technology is evolving.

Microsoft has four key 'visions' for Pocket PC 2003 (PPC 2003): make it easier for manufacturers to innovate, improve the 'wireless experience', bring easy instant messaging to the PDA, and expand the 'media experience'.

The fundamental design of the hard drive remains unchanged since the 1960s, but smaller = better in the new age.

Burn straight onto a disc or choose the hybrid HDD model.

How much capacity and how many drives do you need? We look at a selection of storage options

Sony has developed a user identification technology that scans veins in the finger to allow access to mobile devices and personal computers.

30 major consumer electronics firms under the spotlight.

They're not obsolete yet. Capacity isn't the only saving grace for hard drives, with Hitachi spinning out 7,200 rpm devices.

Offering 40GB of storage, the Iomega drive is very small for its capacity, measuring a mere 8.89 x 7.37 x 1.27cm. It weighs just over 99 grams, which means it's unnoticeable in your pocket. The internal drive is a 40GB Hitachi TravelStar C4K40 -- a new form-factor hard drive, measuring a mere 1.8 inches across (a normal notebook hard drive is 2.5in, a desktop drive 3.5) -- and only about 7mm thick.

We test and rate 9 of the best portable presentation devices around.

Dan Chiappini delves into multimedia jargon in our monthly tech term glossary.

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

It's a sign of the times when Compaq's Aero 8000 runs Windows CE in a box bigger than a Sharp PC-A250 (reviewed issue 23, p86) running Windows 98. So what's the big idea? Windows CE uses no moving parts, while software in ROM means immediate start-up times, high reliability, and long battery life all highly desirable qualities in a portable.

Blu-ray and HD DVD players will come out fighting this year. We reveal which format is best placed to be DVD’s successor.