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Article | 14/05/2013 In Pictures: Windows Blue - a sneak peek

An update to Windows 8 is in the works, codenamed Windows Blue.

Article | 9/05/2013 APC Messiest Office competition winners announced

From the look of the entries that we received for our Messiest Office competition, it seems many of us still have a deep desire to hoard every little ...

Article | 2/05/2013 Intel lifts the veil on Haswell graphics

Intel is clearly tired of Nvidia and AMD kicking sand in its face when it comes to graphics performance. The company has had a talented GPU engineerin...

Article | 2/05/2013 Intel's Haswell gets massive graphics performance boost

Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already re...

Article | 29/04/2013 Intel starts countdown clock for next-gen Haswell chips

In just a few weeks, Intel's one-chip-fits all family of core processors will finally meet Microsoft's one-design-fits all operating system, Windows 8...

Article | 25/04/2013 Windows Blue won't solve all Microsoft's problems, analysts say

"Windows 8 sucks because Windows 8 apps suck", said analyst Michael Cherry, not mincing words. "And there's nothing in all these rumors of Windows Blu...

Article | 12/04/2013 Get rid of old tech gear this April

If you have an emotional attachment to your tech gear, then that's fine. But if you have tech gear that you want to throw out, be environmentally resp...

Article | 11/04/2013 Product snapshot: ASUS Transformer AiO PC blends Windows 8 and Android

ASUS has released a triple threat of a machine that should do well to confuse lots of non-technical people (and even many techies). Its Transformer Al...

Article | 14/03/2013 Foxtel announces Play -- no-contract streaming TV and movies for your phone, tablet, PC or TV

Foxtel has announced a new service that brings its cable TV channels and catch-up video to smartphones, tablets, PCs, Macs and games consoles. It will...

Article | 8/03/2013 Product snapshot: Sony VAIO Tap 20 all-in-one tablet PC

If we had to pick two kinds of computers that have become incredibly popular in the last few years, we’d choose all-in-one PCs and tablets. All-in-one...

Article | 9/01/2013 Intel says more PC innovation is on the way

Intel expects to see more innovation in PC design in the next year than there has been since the mid-1990s.

Article | 6/12/2012 Apple to invest $US100m next year in US Mac production

Apple will manufacture one of its Mac lines exclusively in the U.S. by the end of 2013, CEO Tim Cook told NBC and BusinessWeek in interviews made publ...

Article | 4/12/2012 Dick's new management slashing prices for one day only

Australian electronics retailer Dick Smith is holding a pre-Christmas, one day only sale on Wednesday 5 December, in what the company describes as an ...

Article | 22/10/2012 Mujjo gets touchy over new smartphone gloves

Dutch accessories manufacturer Mujjo has released a new and improved range of touchscreen gloves.

Article | 9/10/2012 10 reasons why the desktop PC will live forever

Steve Jobs piqued consumer curiosity when he unveiled the iPad and declared "the post-PC era has begun." And now with the imminent release of Windows ...

Article | 6/10/2012 Three Linux distros get key updates, plus one fades away

With so many Linux distributions out there, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all the updates that come out over the course of an average week or mo...

Article | 11/09/2012 IDF 2012: Intel outlines a future of ubiquitous computing

For the media day at Intel's Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel researchers and scientists put away the transistor tech talk briefly and formed a...

Article | 8/09/2012 Raspberry Pi resurrects UK computer industry with new jobs

The Raspberry Pi computer is designed in the UK and now it will be made here as well in a deal that will make the tiny board the first all-British per...

Article | 31/08/2012 Microsoft will allow downgrades from Windows 8 to Windows 7, Vista

Microsoft will allow users of Windows 8 Pro to downgrade their new PCs to Windows 7 or even Vista, according to the operating system's licensing agree...

Article | 28/08/2012 Australian basketball league employs Perform Media to stream all games of the 2012-13 season online

The Australian National Basketball League has become the first major sporting organisation to offer an online streaming subscription to all its games ...