From budget laptops to ultra-tiny netbooks, ultraportables and high performance, we explain the tricks to finding out the ultimate laptop at the right price.

You’ve been asking us for more info about what Intel’s new CPU will mean for those upgrading in the next 12 months. Here’s what you need to know.

We rolled up our sleeves, put on our boots, and trawled the halls of IT's massive trade expo in Sydney looking for tasty tech delights.

Stewart Mitchell delivers his verdict on the features rumoured to be ready for Windows 7, including the new kernel, multi-touch, and virtual drives.

Replay our blog from the show floor at Steve Ballmer's address at "Liberation Day" in Sydney.

We explain port forwarding and triggering, firewalls and traffic filtering, the DMZ and other broadband bits you should know.

And Steve Jobs will not be delivering his famed speech at this coming Macworld in January. Say it isn't so, Steve.

News that Microsoft won't budge on the June 30 cut-off for Windows XP sales isn't all bad - system builders might still be offering the old-faithful till 2009.

We've been lucky to have hands-on review time with two of the most hotly-anticipated compacts cameras we've seen for some time. See our photos and first impressions of the Powershot SX200 IS and Lumix DMC-TZ7 (also known as ZS3)

Apple fans don’t seem so smug, with neither Snow Leopard or an iPhone nano to be seen at today’s Macworld keynote. But maybe that’s the point. Apple doesn’t need another new killer device when they’ve the iPhone and Mac OS platform to lean on.

If you're wondering if a netbook is the perfect laptop for you, ask yourself this: will you want to work or play on your new laptop for hours at a time whilst viewing a screen 10 inches in size?

Sick of sub-10Mbps broadband speeds? You could try moving to Korea, where they get 100Mbps, or you could move house to Queensland's Fernbrooke estate.

You've heard of iTunes, now Nokia's Comes with Music is about to unleash a potential download frenzy in Australia with details arriving on Feb 25.

Software upgrade will allow push email, new games, Word and Powerpoint and more.

Everyone will be able to download a beta of Windows 7 by the end of the week (US time), as Microsoft moves into its next phase of replacing the OS that shall not be named.

370 telephone exchanges to be upgraded within the next week in giant rollout.

Around 5,000 homes in Tasmania will be the first to experience 100Mbps Internet via the National Broadband Network - which government backers are likening to the electricity revolution.

The 240Hz TV isn’t the only thing coming to home cinema in 2009. Onboard Internet looks set to be the next big trend in flat screens with Toshiba and Samsung jumping onboard.

All the space you need, with no caps on storage or bandwidth sounds pretty good - just watch out for the fine print.

The next Google phone will be Kogan's Agora and it's looking to be much more understated, but perhaps sensible, design than the flashier T-Mobile G1.