If theres one word guaranteed to make stockbrokers and share investors panic, it is Greenspan. As head of the US central bank, Dr Alan Greenspan controls Americas official interest rates. But why shou

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A true pro camera that slots in nicely between the flagship Canons

Chip giant Intel has announced that it would introduce a model numbering scheme across its consumer CPU range.

It gets the second-most important aspect of its performance – wireless music – spot on. The most important aspect is a little less successful

This month, the PC Authority Labs team looks at a colourful range of printers suitable for the small-medium office market.

The advantages of an LCD display over a conventional CRT are well known - dramatic savings in terms of space, reduced energy consumption, less radiation and heat generation, easier alignment of geomet

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Over 60 new tracks plus more to download means our love affair with Guitar Hero continues. It’s only rock ‘n’ roll but we like it – a lot

A pint-sized camera that packs a punch, with consistently good performance in all conditions

I'm currently in the market for a new car. My 1977 Datsun 260Z, the current much-loved but abusive incumbent, has quite simply gone on the fritz one too many times (or ten too many if you listen to my friends and family). By the repair bill from the last few years, you'd be forgiven for thinking I owned a Collins class submarine.

The two main concerns an end user has with their hard disk, capacity and reliability, continue to improve with advances in technology. Every six months or so, there is an increase in the areal density

Whether you're after something small, portable and cheap - such as the Creative Zen Mozaic - or something more fully featured, we've got the latest and greatest in portable music on test. The benchmark they all try to meet is the iPod Classic, which at $300 for 80GB of storage and 45 hours of audio battery life is still the clear leader.

It sets out to create photo-realistic 3D models from 2D photos and illustrations, with the barest of tool sets and minimum user input.

The name LiveMotion comes from its ability to bring compositions to life as animations; these are then output as QuickTime movies..

The work of McCulloch and Pitts was critically important in changing our conception of the brain. They made it possible to think of the brain as a network of interacting cells that could be analysed l

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Even if the flexible, paper-thin screen is the undisputed killer app of display technology, it will never get out of the lab if its tied to present-day battery technology. Batteries have, its true, im