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.

Testing anti-virus software is a tricky endeavour at the best of times, due to the inherent nasty nature of the test subject. For this anti-virus roundup, we asked independent anti-virus testing lab, AV-Test.org (www.av-test.org) to conduct the testing for us in their controlled environments. AV-Test.org has access to thousands of viruses, and is a respected anti-virus testing lab.

Traditionally firewalls were the bastion of large, publicly accessible networks to keep hackers out. But in a world connected by the Internet, every machine hooked up to it becomes publicly accessible, and so it's vital that every machine is equipped to protect itself, and the network it may serve, from attack.

Microsoft has settled its trademark infringement suits against Lindows.com with a US$20 million payment to the Linux company, which agreed to change it name to Linspire.

More sophisticated offerings, such as Yahoo Chess, offer a multitude of different rooms where players can test themselves against other human opponents from around the globe and compete for the braggi

Will a beefed-up firewall, User Account Control and disk encryption make Vista a safer choice than XP?

Online fraud is at an all-time high, and consumers are increasingly wary of entering information online.

The High Court of Australia has ruled that Australian consumers and overseas travellers can buy cheaper computer games and hardware offshore and modify them locally.

Napster began life in 1999 when collaborators Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker released a program that combined a search engine, a chat program and a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program onto the Inte

Up against some very tough competition, Seagate's Barracuda 7200.7 managed to take out the coveted Labs winner award this month with its fantastic attributes.

The original founders of Skype have filed a lawsuit against the VoIP giant and its owner eBay, claiming copyright infringement.

Claims include infringement of four DVD patents.

For centuries, would-be heroes have pitted their skills against the Crypt of the Ancients. Now controlled by the seemingly ageless arch-mage Alaric, the crypt is believed to have been built some five

Designed to sit between the low-end Inspiron and high-end XPS families, it comes in 15in and 17in flavours and its target audience could be pretty much anyone: few laptops are as customisable as this.

Using a Canon lens and sharing a chunky, rectangular design, the 5-megapixel QV-5700 bears more than a passing resemblance to the PowerShot G5. The G5 has a 4x optical zoom against Casio’s 3x, though, and several other features, such as time-lapse shooting, are missing.

We reviewed the Neovo S-15V in our September 2001 issue (page 86) and were so impressed, its been sitting on our A-List ever since. With the precedent set, we were keen to see how the feature-packed M-15V compared against the latest models.

Before widespread use of the Internet, computer viruses were not a common occurrence. Viruses could only be transferred via floppy disk, which meant that it was quite easy to guard against them

Today you must decide between life and liberty or defeat and domination. The Eastern Coalition has launched a surprise attack against the Western Alliance fleet, massacring hundreds of dedicated servi