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Great design and comprehensive features make it a truly great Media Center PC. Only the price lets it down.

Want to skip the Christmas crowds, or nab a once in a lifetime bargain? Online shopping could be the answer. Tim Dean looks at the glory and the pitfalls.

The other alternative camp of AI research that sprang up in the 1980s decided that the whole idea of high level abstract intelligence and complex models of the world was a bad idea - or at least too a

Earlier today I pondered the possibility of an Intel Atom-based smartphone. It looks like I wasn’t far off - Intel has just shown video of an Atom based cordless home phone.

They say that behind every great man there’s a great woman, although these days it could just as well be the other way around..

Hitachi pioneered the idea of consumer cameras capable of recording video direct to DVD. The early models were large and relatively expensive but high quality. It has taken a while for the idea to take off but it is certainly gaining momentum with a number of competitors now coming into the market. Hitachi has responded by progressively making its cameras more compact and adding extra features such as a SD memory card for storing still images or compressed video clips.

The future of Internet access is now. The idea of connecting cables to a computer to enable a connection will soon seem as archaic as manually cranking the engine of an automobile. Ed Dawson samples a cross-section of bleeding-edge wireless broadband services and cuts through the hype.

Anyone who has heard of the idea of noise-cancelling headphones would agree the idea sounds terrific.

One would think that, with ever cheaper, faster and more reliable SSD drives, the idea of a small "Turbo Memory" or "Flash Cache", would be passe by now. Not so.

As futuristic technology concepts go, 3D screens have been right up there with the teleporter as an aspirational idea that could change the way we see the world, yet the idea still resides in the realm of the science fiction.

We take a look back at the tech products that were so overdone by marketing hype, that by the time they were released, most failed to meet expectations.

The Internet is booming again, but this time it’s very different. PC Authority brings you up to speed with the global Web 2.0 phenomenon.

Every expert has a toolkit. Tim Dean takes you through the 10 tools any Windows expert cannot live without. So, to give you a head start, here are PC Authority's top 10 tools for the ultimate Windows user.

Zara Baxter explains why installing Windows XP on the EeePC is a very, very bad idea.

Both AMD and Nvidia are now shipping chipsets with hybrid graphics. So what is it, and is it a good idea for games? See what our tests revealed.

Provided it generates $1bn return on investment.