Can 'crimes' committed online, such as theft or murder, get you in trouble with the police? Davey Winder investigates.

We've searched every corner of the web for the most useful (and useless) sites you've never seen. Download free movies and music, find the cheapest shopping sites, get a degree, make money, walk on Mars and much more.

The Internet is booming again, but this time it’s very different. PC Authority brings you up to speed with the global Web 2.0 phenomenon.

In Java, you write in the Java language and you deploy into the JVM. Compare this to a traditional Microsoft way of programming.You could program in C or C++, or you could code in VB. Or if you were w

As futuristic technology concepts go, 3D screens have been right up there with the teleporter as an aspirational idea that could change the way we see the world, yet the idea still resides in the realm of the science fiction.

What will you be buying, using and drooling over this year? Tim Dean looks at the astounding products and technologies due to hit in the next 12 months.

A Massive Multiplayer Online game, but with cars and bars instead of orcs and dwarfs.

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

Want to break free from a Microsoft world? Leigh Dyer looks at the alternatives.

From webcasting to the DMCA to net neutrality - a list of top ten IT priorities for the new president.

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PC Authority speaks to Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian king of security software about cutting-edge programming, cyber criminals, pinball, and life in Moscow.

To many peoples surprise, Microsoft liked Java too: it invested heavily in the technology and the capabilities of the platform, writing both development tools and the JIT run-time for the Windows plat

What distinguishes the Java way from the new Microsoft way? In the second of three parts, Jon Honeyball introduces the HailStorm services. There's a saying:'When God made time, he made a

Having realized that the world is a big, hairy place full of difficult problems, researchers pursuing the knowledge representation question made a strategic retreat into simplified, virtual worlds, mo

We tour several of the leading tech research labs in the US to discover which 10 research projects could soon change the world

Immerse yourself in a medieval world. A world where Garkham, Grand Master of the Black Magicians, has sworn to take possession of the Book of Hexplorer. From this moment, the whole world

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, has a vision for newer, smarter web. Tim Dean looks at how the future of the web might work.

The big picture goes back to Windows 2.x days, which may be surprising, as this takes us to before the beginnings of the World Wide Web. But theres an underlying theme here, which is application devel

Enough theorizing about the nature of intelligence - where has the rubber met the road, historically, so to speak? And what have we been taught by our various forays into building intelligent little b