The growth of share ownership and specialist media supporting it has produced a population that knows enough - or at least feels it knows enough - to invest in shares directly without brokers advice.<

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If you have a small business (three employees or less) and you really want to limit what you spend on software and implementation, and you havent bought software yet, look at Quickbooks first. It is t

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One of the longest running battles in the computer industry has been between open systems and closed proprietary ones. The term closed refers to systems where the standards are set by the manufacturer

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While most of the WAP applications to date have been serious services, UK games developer Eidos is working on its first WAP game. The company, which is best known as the publisher of the hugely succes

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If you want something done properly, do it yourself. Gareth Ogden and Valens Quinn don their overalls to make a DIY dream machine. Here at PC Authority were constantly testing the

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Barry Collins takes a nostalgic look at the biggest mistakes in the recent history of the computing industry.