Australia's PC market is still going gangbusters, recording second-quarter growth of 14.4 percent and sequential growth of 8.6 percent in latest Gartner statistics.

Latest statistics from Gartner suggest that big-name vendors in Australia sold 24 percent more PCs last year than in the previous year and 7.8 percent more PCs this quarter.

Printer sales in Australia fell 12 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003 to 390,000 units, and are expected to fall another 13 percent for the full year 2004, IDC said.

Testing anti-virus software is a tricky endeavour at the best of times, due to the inherent nasty nature of the test subject. For this anti-virus roundup, we asked independent anti-virus testing lab, AV-Test.org (www.av-test.org) to conduct the testing for us in their controlled environments. AV-Test.org has access to thousands of viruses, and is a respected anti-virus testing lab.

There are two areas to look at when testing laser printers: speed and print quality. We used a range of different documents to test the different aspects of each and weighted the results to give the Quality and Speed scores. More detail on each test is also provided online at www.pcauthority.com.au.

Your photos, music and data are just a virus or hard disk failure away from oblivion. Build a triple-layer defence using PC Authority's practical guide.

I see therefore I can. Studies reveal that 7 percent of people learn best orally, 38 percent aurally and 55 percent visually, making the latest in maranGraphic's 'Read Less-Learn More' titles a good bet. Teach Yourself Visually offers almost 300 pages of pictorial guidance on how to use a variety of multimedia applications on Windows XP.

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

The personal digital assistant (PDA) industry has experienced its strongest recorded first quarter with 3.4 million shipments worldwide according to analyst, Gartner.

We provide the commentary on a bruising eight-round battle between Vista and Tiger.

Pornographic spam has increased by almost 350 percent since June, according to statistics released by a content security firm.

IT spending by Australia's telecommunications sector grew to $1.949 billion dollars in 2003, accounting for 20 percent of the corporate IT spend locally, latest IDC research has suggested.

High definition video is the next big thing for Australia. We explain the essential technologies for your TV or living room PC, and what to expect from our broadcasters.

Median SMB broadband pricing fell 17.22 percent and residential broadband pricing 0.79 percent after Telstra fired a February salvo starting a $29.95 price war, a recent study has claimed.

Are you kicking around an old clunky PC that looks like a relic from the Stone Age? Google Zeitgeist (www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html) tells us that while Windows XP accounted for 46 percent of the OSs used to search Google during February 2004, 24 percent were still using Windows 98 and Windows 95, indicating there are still a lot of late-1990s PCs kicking around. Even if you’re running something from the 1GHz days, it’s probably time to think about an upgrade. But it can easily get to the point where you’re upgrading just about every component. In that case, you should seriously consider looking at the excellent bargains available in new PCs today.

When evaluating multi-function devices there are four determining factors for ascertaining who has really got the goods. These are speed, quality, features and price.