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Your wireless network is more powerful than you imagine. Use this guide to fully understand and utilise it.

Microsoft has started from scratch with Vista’s networking features — but are they any better than those found in XP? We log-in and find out.

Microsoft has four key 'visions' for Pocket PC 2003 (PPC 2003): make it easier for manufacturers to innovate, improve the 'wireless experience', bring easy instant messaging to the PDA, and expand the 'media experience'.

The biggest problem with modern robotics is not the mechanisms, its the intelligence behind the mechanisms. Matching the human sense of balance is a major challenge, for example. Enter cy

The D-Link DWL-7000AP is a wireless access point that is friendly towards all 802.11 devices. It's a dual-band/tri-mode wireless device - this means the 7000AP supports all three 'g', 'b' and 'a' standards. If you have one of these, you don't need to worry about what other 802.11 devices you will be using - chances are they'll talk.

Seven companies team up to create next-generation mobile OS.

New content delivery system options available.

Next-gen digital comms standard to carry video, audio and data.

Sounds like sc-fi, but wireless power is real and it's getting tantalisingly closer.

PDA shipments in the first quarter of 2005 have declined by 26 percent, according to analyst IDC.

Forty per cent growth in emerging regions, predicts Gartner.

On the client side theres been a war raging between the Symbian alliance, comprising Psion, Nokia and Motorola among others, and Microsoft. Overall, this will probably turn out to be less important th

While PDAs began their life as the same kind of techno-curiosities that mobile phones once were, their popularity is now rocketing. In researching this Labs it struck us that nothing cou

Although the future for polymer electronics looks bright, theres inevitably a cloud on the horizon. Its to do with size. While there would be some definite advantages in making computer chips out of p

Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that emanates from the bowels of music industry boardrooms, technologies and devices that enhance the portability of music continue to grow in popularity. The concern is not over the proliferations of the gadgets themselves, it's about the files that are loaded onto them, which have flooded peer-to-peer networks, cardboard boxes under flea market counters and the hard drives of computer users across the world.

Bill Gates claims the future of computing lies with the PC, but Davey Winder says future devices must combine form with functionality. TThere can be little doubt that the PC has come a lo

PC Authority journalist Matt Cockett discusses the future of wireless technology Much of the buzz at this years technology expos has come from the latest had-held and mobile communication

Whether archiving or backing up your data, there is a removable storage option for you. We test a range of devices to find the best for your needs. Data is increasingly becoming the corne