A network is not a one-size-fits-all upgrade. Here’s an introduction to finding the best network to suit your needs.

The Razer Mamba mouse is the first wireless rodent that is done right. It may look like an ordinary mouse with a docking cradle, but it isn't.

Bring PC-based intelligence and automation to your home with this complete guide. It's cheap and easy to now have the 'Jetsons' house.

Picture this scenario: your daughter is in her bedroom using the old laptop computer to do some schoolwork, you are busy finishing a presentation for work on the desktop computer thats connected to the colour printer and your partner has just arrived home from the gym. Suddenly everyone is in the main computer room.

Even at a glance, the Linksys WRV54G looks to be more than just an 802.11g/b wireless access point. It acts as an Ethernet switch connecting up to four wired devices, making this a good bridging choice between wired and unwired networks. It's also a router capable of hooking up to a DSL modem, which is useful for basic connection sharing.

The HomePlug networking standard has been around in the States and other countries for a few years, and has proven a popular alternative to running CAT 5 cabling in your walls or for the (then) expensive cost of setting up a wireless network. HomePlug is wired networking for sure, but it uses an existing infrastructure in your office or domicile: your copper electricity power 'network' that feeds your TV, hair-dryer, fridge and any other electrical appliance the juice it needs to run. In short, HomePlug uses your house's electrical wiring.

As neural controllers grow in popularity, so will hackers attempts to create malicious code to potentially corrupt, control and infiltrate our brains. So, what are the experts doing about it?

Hackers have apparently found a way to decipher the PIN code data from millions of ATM cards without the need for external skimming devices at the ATM

We doubt any DJ's will start using them any time soon, but commuters probably will.

Will Wright, creator of The Sims and Spore, has revealed his plans for his new company Stupid Fun Club. Expect real-life robots and gaming to go hand-in-hand

You can now host a wireless network anywhere you can receive a Telstra NextG signal. Great idea, now about those data plans . . .

Microsoft has started from scratch with Vista’s networking features — but are they any better than those found in XP? We log-in and find out.

Intel’s chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger has pointed to key areas that will enable the penetration and technological advancement of wireless technology in the next few years.

The future of Internet access is now. The idea of connecting cables to a computer to enable a connection will soon seem as archaic as manually cranking the engine of an automobile. Ed Dawson samples a cross-section of bleeding-edge wireless broadband services and cuts through the hype.

From watching iView on your mobile to live Australian TV while overseas, to Freeview, Foxtel IQ2 and TiVo, Stuart Andrews and Zara Baxter perfect the menu for takeaway TV.

How will you be computing in the next 12 months? PC Authority brings you 2005's big technology stories - before they happen.

For those of us who don't really have a lot of money to spare there's always one payoff that you can look forward to each year and that's tax time. Which means there is the perennial question of what

Why be anything less than perfectly comfortable when using your computer?

There is little to distinguish this from the EXP322, with the exception of a wired remote for basic track controls and the ability to play games on the LCD screen similar to black and white LCD mobile phone gaming. This model also buffers up to 420 seconds at 128Kb/s, providing a more exotic anti-skip protection than the 100 seconds of the EXP322.