More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

More digital Swiss Army knife software, including utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

Samsung's Q1 was originally touted as an iPod killer and a UMPC style tablet perfect for travelling business users - but it never worked and it never took off. Why? We may have the answer.

Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..

Windows 7 might just be the best operating system ever designed with touchscreens in mind. Have Microsoft finally delivered the Windows 7 killer app?

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals

Linux bosses have hinted that there will be a new netbook based on the Linux Moblin OS announced this week at the Intel Developer Forum

The traditional pub quiz faces many threats. Now joining the music-round-destroying Shazam app, Wikipedia has launched an official iPhone app.

Redmond takes second shot at iPod killer with pre-orders and pricing revealed for the new Zune HD media player..

A GeForce CPU in your music player? It seems that Nvidia's Tegra chip give Microsoft's Zune - and around 50 other devices - some interesting gaming potential.

Google's Chrome browser is set to allow you to sync your bookmarks with your Google Account. Could data syncing be Google Chrome OS's killer feature?

Are you still confused about what sort of camera to purchase? We take a look at some of the differences between stand-alone video cameras and dual-use compacts that promise to do everything. Are video cameras still even necessary? We've got some answers.

A Toyota executive says lithium battery costs are hurting electric car development and names fuel cells as the way of the future, dismissing electric plug-in models entirely. Are Fuel cells really the way?

As Microsoft hops onto the motion-controlled gaming bandwagon, we break down the 5 things you need to know about Xbox 360's Project Natal

This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing

Terminator Salvation is much better than the last film in the series, but ultimately fails to connect with its audience. The effects and visuals are great, but the human characters pale in comparison to the lethal robots.

A wag on the forums recently opined that PC Authority finds fault with every product it tests. There certainly truth in that accusation, but I don't think it's a bad thing.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Ludicrously big batteries will arrive this year for laptops, says MSI, at the launch of its Wind U100+ netbook and ultra-thin X340 laptop.

With the Eee PC Seashell coming next week, Asus is lining up yet another netbook to make that decision even harder