Less than a year after unveiling the Chrome web browser, Google has stepped up its battle against Microsoft with the announcement of the Google Chrome Operating System..

Google has announced several of the hardware partners it is collaborating with on the development of its Chrome-based operating system..

With netbooks a big favourite with laptop buyers over the last 12 months, we count down the five OSes that could be the friendliest for mini laptops

The number two Phillips head screwdriver is a powerful beast. I remember, as a wee lad, watching my father encounter a problem and reach straight for the little green handled wonder, with its chrome steel shank.

To step back to a more personal level, consider the trend in artificial pets discussed earlier. Doubtless these plastic and chrome beasties are going to get more and more interesting from an AI perspe

Price: $ 29.95 / $ 19.00 The SuperStylus is a replacement for the standard stylus that comes with many PDAs. Available in gold (shown) and black chrome colours, it is made of solid metal

So far, so uninteresting: now we can do something slightly more exciting by giving our objects some surface textures that will show up when rendering. Before we do that, make sure the sphere is the cu

Superb build quality, battery life and usability – quite simply the best netbook around

A one-of-a-kind laptop computer has been stolen from a bicycle shop in Kings Cross, according to a NSW police report.

AcerCM Smart Panel FP581

Atec is a new face on the Australian LCD scene but a big name in Korea, and this is the first display weve looked at from this manufacturer.

The Sony DSC-P3 is a neat and very compact device with dimensions unheard of a year ago when we did our last digital camera roundup (Digital Darkroom, May 2001, p 42) especially for a 2.8 megapixel camera.

Sony is no doubt a technological behemoth, an innovative market leader in everything electrical, and fun. For Sony, digital photography is no exception, the DSC-S70 being the 3.3 megapixel entrant in the highly successful Cyber-shot range.

If there is one camera that truly possessed a funky design, then the Ricoh RDC-7 is it. The camera is flat, in much the same vein as the late seventies style cameras, or what you might expect in a funky seventies Cold War spy flick.

The Mozilla Foundation has released a new version of Firefox, codenamed Namoroka, downloadable online now.

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