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A few weeks ago we asked for your eBay stories, and we’ve received a lot of responses about bad sellers, demanding buyers and more.

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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.

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One of the practical devices for large back up jobs are external hard drive drives, which not only offer competitive capacities, but are easily portable and perfect for offsite storage. Maxtor's OneTouch II is pitched squarely at this type of application and, as the name suggests, makes it easier with a single button for back up.

Stuart Andrews shows you how to set up and maintain the perfect backup routine.

David Moss tackles misbehaving com ports and resolves a windows share issue.

Online services are growing smarter by the day – but can they replace desktop applications? We spend a week working online to find out.

With online services easier to use and cheaper than ever, there’s now no excuse not to back up your files, says Stuart Andrews.

No matter how much we tell ourselves that we are rational, scientific human beings a Friday 13th still sends a tremor up some spines.

How did a vibrant palace of bargains and trust turn into a standoff between buyers and sellers? Part one of our major feature.

Last week, we looked at the geeks who created iconic technologies. This week, we examine the executives who pushed those technologies into becoming the basis of some of the largest businesses in the world.

The HST (Hubble Space Telescope) was first conceived back in the 1940s, designed and built during the 1970s and 1980s, and finally launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery on 25 April