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Article | 30/07/2008 Save your data with one of these top backup programs

Saving files on your hard drive is the easy part; choosing how to back up those files can be more difficult.

Article | 30/07/2008 Ex-inmates apply open source to rehabilitation

Ric Moore and Dennis Gaddy met in prison, and started to discuss how Open Source software and methods could help other inmates to avoid further mistak...

Article | 29/07/2008 11 ways to save money by using e-business

Maybe you've heard: We're in an economic downturn. For that reason, most of us are tightening our belts and looking for deals. So to help you keep mor...

Article | 24/07/2008 Toshiba's next-gen notebooks

Yesterday Toshiba unveiled its new line-up of consumer and business notebooks, with an ultramobile prototype stealing the show.

Article | 24/07/2008 Transforming the data center from hell

Some CIOs and data center managers have found themselves having to wring performance out of monstrously deficient facilities. Ultimately, these three ...

Article | 23/07/2008 Buyer beware: ADSL filters

If you've just upgraded from ADSL to ADSL2+ broadband, you may want to check your line filters. Chances are that you're not getting the speed you shou...

Article | 22/07/2008 Splitting the Atom: inside the Eee PC 901

We all know that the Eee PC 901 is better than its predecessor, but what makes it tick? We peeled the top layer off our test unit to take a look insid...

Article | 22/07/2008 All iPhoned-out? Here are some alternatives

It's been two weeks since the launch of the already iconic Apple iPhone 3G in Australia and the hype machine is still in overdrive. Although plenty of...

Article | 21/07/2008 You can be Batman, too

Batman: The Dark Knight, the most highly anticipated of the series yet, hit cinemas on Thursday.

Article | 18/07/2008 Have You Fixed Your Company's DNS Servers?

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky announced last week that a major bug affected DNS software, which translates human-usable domain names like "pcworld....

Article | 18/07/2008 Anthropology's technology-driven renaissance

Anthropology is an age-old, at times complex discipline, and like many others, it suffers from its fair share of in-fighting and disagreement. It's al...

Article | 18/07/2008 In pictures: BlackBerry Bold

Research in Motion has unleashed its latest smartphone for the business-minded with the BlackBerry Bold. The Bold represents the first product of the ...

Article | 17/07/2008 Online office apps get real

Web-based office suites are coming into their own at last. For quite a while, Web-based suites -- which offered word processing, spreadsheets, presen...

Article | 17/07/2008 Hunt for the elusive rootkit 'Rustock.C' revealed

Rootkits are software code designed to hide from detection. So Kaspersky Lab's hunt for the elusive Rustock.C rootkit, rumored to exist for almost two...

Article | 15/07/2008 11 cool new apps for the iPhone

With the release of the iPhone 2.0 software on Friday and the opening of the App Store -- where hundreds of third-party applications are now available...

Article | 11/07/2008 The iPhone 3G: first impressions

Fresh from the Vodafone launch this morning, we had a quick look at the new iPhone 3G and its features. Here are our first impressions of the phone an...

Article | 14/07/2008 Solid-state disk will go mainstream in 3, 2, 1...

Solid-state disk, once considered a niche technology for ruggedized, industrial and military applications, is on its way to the mainstream. This is pa...

Article | 9/07/2008 How to mashup without a screwup

Given the short history of mashups in the enterprise, IT departments likely don't entirely understand the technology's role in the business. Organizat...

Article | 9/07/2008 Secrets of Mac trackpad, from iBook to MacBook Air

The laptop trackpad has come a long way since Apple Inc. pioneered it 14 years ago on the PowerBook 500 series as a replacement for the trackball foun...

Article | 8/07/2008 The six commandments of social networking at work

It can be easy to disregard social networking's professional potential if you're only going on what you see on television. Between endlessly replayed ...