Get your licensing shop in order before you build you new server.

Everyone likes standards, but standards mean compromises. Tim Dean looks at whether they're worth the trade off.

Your wireless network is more powerful than you imagine. Use this guide to fully understand and utilise it.

Atrac audio format and Connect Music Services given the elbow.

Gaming firm moves away from proprietary technology.

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Leigh Dyer lets rip on digital TV, video conversion tools, aspect ratios and video formats.

PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

Nathan Taylor explores the world of wireless technology, from WANs, LANs and PANs - what we've got and what's to come.

Stacks of potential, but current hardware is underwhelming and the client software a mess.

Whisper quiet, well built and well designed, but a lack of power and expandability will keep enthusiasts away.

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

Founded in 1990, Be originally marketed its BeOS operating system on its proprietary hardware platform the BeBox. The BeBox went the way of the dinosaurs, however, and the company officially ceased to

Novell will make available a public beta of its Open Enterprise Server (OES) beta within days.

There was a time when semi-professional video editors and home-video enthusiasts had little choice but Adobe Premiere. Back then, video capture and output depended on proprietary hardware, which often only worked with its bundled software.

Possibly the most interesting feature of the Xbox is its similarity to a PC in terms of its hardware specification. Unlike other games consoles, like the Sony PlayStation2 and Nintendo GameCube, which

For the last few years Creative has played catchup to the likes of iRiver, Rio and Apple.

The buzzword in Excel 2003 is XML, best illustrated by the new mapping feature. This lets you map cells, columns and ranges to data held in XML data sources, so you can create Excel workbooks showing data from Web Services or other back-end data stores. The XML data is validated on input into Excel against a custom XML Schema under your control. Excel can also save your work in a native XML workbook format, which keeps any formatting but avoids the proprietary XLS file format. You may also, however, save data as a pure XML data file, leaving any formatting in the template. This XML data file can be put through BizTalk or imported into a back-end database.

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Fantastic news for system builders and overclockers: ESA, the Enthusiast System Architecture is a new open standard to allow sensors inside computer systems to report back to the user from power supplies, fans & water coolers.