Have we already lost our freedom to view what we want on the net? David Neiger investigates censorware and Australias Internet policies. Recent amendments to the Australian Broadcasting Act ma

The free world is in a flurry at the moment.

In the United States, the American Library Association has passed a resolution condemning the use of filter software in libraries, claiming it is unconstitutional, anti-freedom of speech and tantamoun

We've traversed the acronym laden landscape of VoIP for you, and present you with the PC Authority guide to VoIP: what it is, what kinds of services you can find, what savings you can expect to make and how it is that you can go about setting up VoIP for yourself at home.

Once you've tasted the freedom of surfing the Internet on your smartphones, it's hard to go back. Fortunately, a number of mobile phone providers offer great deals on smartphones with included data. We've assessed their ease of use, features and handset design.

If you were to believe the marketing hype, and ignore the disclaimers, you would believe that filtering technology was far more advanced than it really is. You would expect that blocking lists would b

The Unwired Garden of the Future at Sydney Olympic Park was an unprecedented Display Garden at Sydney’s ABC Gardening Australia Festival in August 2005. Designed by Andrew Davies (Landscape Design Director of Dig Design Ideas Gardens) and PC Authority magazine, it was built to represent any outdoor space (balcony/courtyard or a section of a backyard) where the user can leave the confines of the indoors and go outside to use the computer. 

Given the general complacency by the public and the fact that no one wants to be labelled as encouraging distribution of pornography or corrupting children, it is unlikely that the government will rev

Selecting presents for the geek or gadgeteer in your life? We take the hassle out of gift buying, so you can put your feet up and relax.

This year's CeBIT was a mecca for demonstration and discussion of technology. Here are some of the highlights.

Windows XP users may find themselves lost when it comes to Vista. PC Authority looks at the most useful configuration settings between them.

What are the trends, hurdles and super-happy-fun times ahead for digital media? Read on to see what people like C Chris O'Hanlon, Steve Mack and TNC (Time for New Connections) think...

What are the trends, hurdles and super-happy-fun times ahead for digital media? Read on to see what people like C Chris O'Hanlon, Steve Mack and TNC (Time for New Connections) think...

Traditionally firewalls were the bastion of large, publicly accessible networks to keep hackers out. But in a world connected by the Internet, every machine hooked up to it becomes publicly accessible, and so it's vital that every machine is equipped to protect itself, and the network it may serve, from attack.

It would be misleading to imply that FPS games are the only game in town when talking about player numbers. While the total number of gamers who could be classed as online role-playing gamers first an

More sophisticated offerings, such as Yahoo Chess, offer a multitude of different rooms where players can test themselves against other human opponents from around the globe and compete for the braggi

With a new Ghostbusters game coming in 2009 and released by original '80s kings Atari, we pay homage to those games that honour the '80s best. Have the '80s become better with age or are just kidding ourselves?

A new year, a new operating system and still, the danger of data loss to viruses is as great as ever.

Tim Dean wrestles with the ethics of Internet censorship overseas.

11-03-03 Internet censorship. What's the deal? Plus: bonus dumb links!!! Your reward for scrolling past...