The attraction is immediate when you cradle the contoured shell in your hand. Everything is rounded - no hard edges, the control buttons are sparse and round and the LCD is elliptical.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

For the last few years Creative has played catchup to the likes of iRiver, Rio and Apple.

Nick Ross ponders a future where 'Apple' doesn't mean 'music'.

It is perhaps understandable that mobile phones should be the real leaders in the techno fashion stakes; after all there are close to one billion of them in circulation and the number is growing daily

"Scary amount of x86 capacity" signals future escalation in chip price war.

Poker software called Polaris will play a rematch against human players during the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

The holy grail of cheap mobile voice calling is here, oh, except for that pesky thing called data fees. Let's hope carriers can make this work.

SGI Altix Ice up and running in just two days.

Arizona plant to produce 45nm chips.

Computer scientists use Google Labs widget in object recognition software.

What job involves acid baths, robots and space suits? Read about the fascinating world of computer chip fabrication, with PC Authority’s exclusive imagery and insights.

Nick Ross funtests Apple's latest icon of cool.

Few people were expecting an iPod like this to arrive so soon after the iPod Shuffle.

Samsungs multi-use camera comes with everything youd expect and then some. Twenty-first century style headphones, a transparent carry case, USB connector cable, tilt/swivel stand and our review camera came with a 16Mb (RCA brand) Compact Flash memory card.

An often irreverent look at some of the past week's other news.