Things that make you go aaaargh, including Vista, Bluetooth and other things that may or may not make you mad

Despite the fact that Australia is practically the sunshine capital of the world, solar-power for your portable gadgets has been ... mostly absent. But that's about to change when PowerTraveller launches its range of products next week.

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No matter how much we tell ourselves that we are rational, scientific human beings a Friday 13th still sends a tremor up some spines.

ATI today is announcing its new Stream transcoding paradigm, and unlike some others, it makes quite a bit of sense. Stream now parses workloads between the CPU and the GPU, and does things much more intelligently.

Stuart Turton spends the third day of his one week odyssey with Linux, fighting Fedora monitor hassles, wishing for Ubuntu at work and discovers that forums can be a Linux user's new best friend.

Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative 'safety' of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over.

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

Open source malware now accounts for as much as 10% of the overall malware marketplace as criminals cotton onto the many benefits of adaptable code.

Looking for a way to one-up those Blackberry co-workers who are always pulling out their Storms and Bolds during meetings? Two words: military spec.

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Mozilla has published a wiki entry in which it offers a number of proposed new Firefox features for community discussion..

Nvidia reckons Open CL and Direct X are key to operating system acceleration on the GPU and claims GPGPU (general-purpose graphics processing units) will allow for serious speed-ups of Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Snow Leopard.

Garmin and Asus offer up more features for their forthcoming nuvifone, due to be unveiled in Barcelona at MWC

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