Glass, metal and LEDs abound in the shiny new Macbook range, including new "Brick" units carved from a single block of aluminium. But Jobs also described Blu-Ray in less than flattering terms.

The new race for the White House

Machines approach Turing Test threshold.

Dell gains another open source partner.

Quarter of a century of "I'm on the train.".

Goodbye “Aspirational” Vista, hello again to numbered Windows versions. Microsoft announces that Windows 7 will be called... Windows 7.

New TomTom GPS models claim to predict your trip with 'eerie' accuracy - filling us with a mixture of wonder and fear.

The female of the species is more deadly than the male

Machines approach Turing Test threshold.

OpenOffice.org has unveiled the third iteration of its open source productivity suite. The software is available as a free download for PC users and as a native Mac OS X application for the first time..

Buying a mid-range Dell notebook now means a choice between Dell's Inspiron, Studio and XPS notebooks. We examine the value.

Pile of cash shrinking

Spiffy KDE 4.1, plus LXDE for netbooks

If you're a Nokia or iPhone user, maybe the Storm's "clickable" touchscreen might finally be the thing that converts you to Blackberry.

Sony unveils an interesting promotion that involves QR code scanning in QR-equipped mobile phones, to win the ultimate Bond experience worth $15,000.

See the latest PC gear and meet industry leaders at Atomic Live 2008, including the first chance to play Far Cry 2 in Australia.

Finally, it’s here – the James Bond of hard drives. The Seagate BlackArmour drive is protected by a brute strength AES security algorithm based on the highest Rijndael cipher keys available (256bit) that 'apparantly' can’t be cracked, ever.

Console capers

With a little help from Albert Einstein

Japanese electronics firm Sanyo has announced a new type of blue laser diode, which it said could double the capacity of existing Blu-ray discs to 100GB..