Microsoft's ever-evolving rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) continues as the company releases the update to XP Home Edition users who have enabled Automatic Updates. XP Professional Edition users will have to wait until next week to get the long-awaited update through Automatic Updates.

Smartphone software developer continues market dominance.

As the iPod continues to be enhanced, and storage capacity increased, we had a look at the latest from Apple.

Live’s standing as a general-purpose music-production environment continues to grow.

We test AMD’s first quad-core processor for both speed and power efficiency

No plans to defect to Blu-ray.

Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson left way behind.

The USA is responsible for 15 per cent of all junk mail, says a Sophos report.

Confusion still abounds over the long anticipated and much beleaguered launch of Microsoft XP SP2.

The processor struggle continues between AMD and Intel as the war rages on for the top ranking of the market share table. Interestingly enough, of the four machines this month under the $2,500 price tag, Scorpion Technology's Z-Box was the only unit to feature an AMD Althon XP processor. Also interesting was the marginal gains achieved by Intel given their obvious clock speed advantages over this unit.

Graphics card manufacturers’ obsession with multi-GPU boards continues this month. The Asus HD 3850 X2 brings to market the novel formula of two ATi Radeon 3850 GPUs on one card.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

In the workstation graphics market, the name 3Dlabs carries considerable weight, and its Wildcat III series of OpenGL cards continues to be dominating in the high-end workspace. However, in the mid-range sector, NVIDIAs Quadro2 and Quadro4, and ATIs FireGL 8800 have made serious inroads. The new Wildcat VP870 looks set to redress the balance, thanks to a brand-new GPU that takes programmability to a new level.

The Portege 3110CT is one of the latest in Toshiba's line of notebooks and continues the tradition of portability established with the first in its line.

Plenty of features and strong security complemented by a clean interface.

Why do GNOME and KDE compete for the Linux desktop?

HDMI and DisplayPort to displace Digital Visual Interface in 2008.