Personal Computer World articles from February 2006

Personal Computer World archives from February 2006

Editorial - Customer service must be a priority for etailers. High-street shops fight back as online stores go out of their way not to help, says Rob Jones.(Editorial)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Rob Jones, rob_jones@vnu.co.uk. The high street is suffering, according to reports, and an obvious reason for this is the increase in online shopping. But I fear there could be a backlash against the march to the web unless we start...

MS offers Office 'standard'.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Clive Akass. Software dominated IT news over the past month as Microsoft geared up for the biggest shake-up in its products for a decade. The major shock came when it submitted its new Office 12 document formats to the European...

Get all the news from CES as it happens.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Rob Jones. PCW will be reporting from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January, and you can keep up to date every day with the latest news and product releases online at www.pcw.co.uk. We are also launching a...

Xbox sells below cost price.
February 1, 2006... Microsoft is selling its new premium Xbox 360 games console at around a third less than the price of its components - and that is not counting the cost of assembly, testing, distribution and marketing, according to research firm Isupply. ...

T-Mobile earns on pictures.(Sidekick 11)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... A while back we reported that the US company Danger was designing a handheld for sale at less than $100 that could act as a PDA, smartphone and games machine. Now T-Mobile has launched a version called Sidekick 11, costing a maximum [pounds...

Tablets get truly mobile.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Clive Akass. The popularity of Blackberry-style email-on-the-move services has focused the attention of product designers on how to input text into a handheld. Numeric keypads are just about up to SMS messages but not for lengthy...

7in bender.
February 1, 2006... Samsung says it has made its biggest-yet flexible liquid-crystal display, a 640 x 480 (VGA) screen measuring 7in designed for handheld devices, notebooks and wearable electronic designs.

RIP geeks.
February 1, 2006... The specialist worker who excels in IT but lacks other business talents is about to become extinct, analyst firm Gartner predicted. It expects that online services and mobile phones will rob IT geeks of their status as problem solvers inside...

Smiles worse.
February 1, 2006... A bid to introduce a biometric passport in Germany hit problems because too many Germans were smiling. But it was no joke. People had to be warned to use a neutral expression and look straight at the camera.

BBC trials P2P catch-up TV.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Clive Akass. A BBC trial is using peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing to allow catch-up viewing of TV programmes shown in the past week. The service, which uses a P2P platform called Kontiki, raises many questions about the future of...

Realtime streaming on the way.
February 1, 2006... The BBC plans to offer realtime TV streaming on the web, like that already available for radio shows, in about a year. Again, for copyright and other legal reasons, the service is likely to be restricted to British IP addresses. It has...

300GB holo discs 'on sale in 2006'.(Tapestry)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Ken Young. A holographic disc holding 300GB will go on sale in 2006 according to its American developer. Lucent spin-off, Inphase Technologies, said drives using the technology, called Tapestry, will be able to read and write data...

Bright Sparc.
February 1, 2006... Sun's Ultrasparc T1 processor has eight cores, each capable of processing four threads, yet uses only 70w of power running all 32 threads, the company said. This is less than half the power drawn by Intel server chips with one or two cores. Sun...

Be a DJ.(Hercules DJ Control MP3 )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... A new product from Hercules is aimed at PC users with a stack of mp3 tracks who entertain fantasies about being a DJ. The [pounds sterling]79.99 DJ Control MP3 consists of mixer software with a control box and two jog-wheels that are said to...

Dot promise.(Asus America Inc. sells Ex-VAT liquid crystal displays in UK)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Asus is selling LCD monitors in Britain for the first time, offering buyers a replacement if their display shows a single bright dot (a common defect) within a year of purchase. It is also providing a three-year collect-and-return warranty....

Sony opens door to viruses.
February 1, 2006... Sony faced a legal and public-relations disaster over an anti-piracy module on music CDs. In effect, this sets up a hiding place for rogue code on any PC on which the CDs are played. The Extended Copy Protection (XCP) module, distributed on...

How hackers can fiddle the count.
February 1, 2006... XCP works by intercepting calls to the Registry, which holds configuration information, and ensuring that nothing can see references to the module itself or files it wishes to hide. The idea, so far as Sony was concerned, was to keep a...

Apple downloads outsell high street.
February 1, 2006... The Sony rootkit row (see story above) came as Apple's Itunes was reported for the first time to be outselling CD sales at chains such as Tower Records and Borders. Apple claims to have sold 600 million songs to 10 million subscribers....

Hard-Fi 'jukebox'.(CD player )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... This CD player called a Hard-Fi doubles as an mp3 jukebox and allows you to upload tracks to a mobile player without the aid of a computer. It converts CD tracks into mp3 files as you listen to them and stores them on internal memory. The...

Web data threat.
February 1, 2006... Proposed European anti-terror laws granting access to web-traffic records should be extended to all criminal offences to help trace illegal file sharers, the film and music industries have urged. An open letter to the European Parliament...

Blue move.
February 1, 2006... PC builder Evesham has teamed up with navigation specialist Destinator to offer a [pounds sterling]299.99 Bluemedia GPS in-car system (pictured) that has a speed camera alert and mp3 player (see review page 54). - www.bluemediagps.com.

Label burners.
February 1, 2006... HP has launched two new DVD burners supporting all the usual dual-layer DVD formats plus DVD-Ram. The dvd840 drives come in internal and external versions and support Lightscribe, which allows you to use the same machine to burn a label on the...

Radio aid.
February 1, 2006... Magix Webradio Deluxe enables simultaneous recording of multiple radio programmes, timeshifting, and automatic burning onto CD or DVD. It costs [pounds sterling]19.99. - www.magix.co.uk.

Dell flirts with buoyant AMD.
February 1, 2006... Dell is to drop its Intel-only policy and is preparing to offer AMD-based machines in a bid to boost sales figures in the face of growing competition, according to Far East reports. The market-leading PC seller was one of several companies...

Flash moves by two-bit chip giant.
February 1, 2006... Intel has launched a new memory chip using its Strataflash technology, which uses multiple voltage levels to store two bits per cell, doubling the data density compared with standard Flash. The 90nanometre M18, which is the fifth Stratoflash...

8GB Flash for takeaway systems.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Transcend is offering high-speed Compact Flash cards and USB drives with a capacity of 8GB, both costing a recommended E709 ([pounds sterling]476). Transcend said they both use single-level NAND silicon which is faster than multi-level. ...

Intel power-saving hits your PC's performance.
February 1, 2006... Power saving on AMD desktop processors is more effective than on equivalent Intels, which also take a performance hit if Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology (EIST) is switched on, according to tests performed by PCW's Gordon Laing. EIST...

Thin drives.
February 1, 2006... Iomega says its new Micro Mini hard drives are a good alternative to solid-state USB drives. The 4,200rpm drives weigh just 50g and come in 4GB, 6GB and 8GB capacities, costing respectively [pounds sterling]87, [pounds sterling]100 and [pounds...

Slotted disk.(Media Buddy)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... This portable hard drive, called a Media Buddy, has a multi-slot card reader with an LCD screen allowing you to transfer files from other devices. It comes in 30GB or 80GB versions, targeted at people who want to store digicam pictures on the...

Talking photos.
February 1, 2006... Talking stills look like coming onto the market 80 years after talking movies. An Italian company, Zanetti Studio, has developed a photo-printer called Speekysmart that puts onto a photograph a magnetic strip that can capture a few seconds of...

Tiny advance.
February 1, 2006... US researchers have created a single-molecule switch that could become central to next-generation nano-computers. The switch responds in 'predictable and stable ways' to an applied electric field. But the researchers have not yet figured out...

Turn your phone into a video gateway.(Westell UK)
February 1, 2006... Network specialist Westell has turned the home telephone into a media gateway with a product that can act as a hands-free Dect base station for standard and web voice calls, a broadband modem and router, an Internet terminal, a personal...

MS learns to love Linux.
February 1, 2006... Much of the new functionality in Office 12, especially that aimed at improving information flow and collaboration, depends on a range of server applications. A new product announced at the IT Forum, Microsoft Dynamics GP version 9...

Will Office 12 split up users?
February 1, 2006... Microsoft claims to be well prepared for the fact that companies and users will have to cope with two sets of document formats when next-generation Office 12 is released late in 2006. Formats have remained fairly stable for the past five years...

Key customers get a first look at the new suite.
February 1, 2006... Microsoft has released the first beta version of Office 12, which will introduce the biggest changes to the world's most-used applications for a decade. The 'technical' beta will be available only to certain big customers, but a general release...

32bit servers consigned to history.
February 1, 2006... Microsoft is to phase out 32bit versions of its Windows server operating system, the company has revealed. The first release of Longhorn, the server version of next-generation Windows Vista, will support both 32bit and 64bit hardware. But...

Super charge.(Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Also announced at the IT Forum was a second beta of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, designed for groups of PCs acting as a single supercomputer - an application for which Linux has been very successful. Jeff Price, senior director of...

Exchange challenges Blackberry email.
February 1, 2006... Companies are lining up to cash in on the success of Blackberry-style email-on-the-move services. Microsoft Exchange 12, which is due for release in early 2006, will provide native support for pushing email to mobiles, allowing companies to...

Open season on conspiracy theories. The new Office formats are not a plot to retain world domination, says Microsoft. But it is beginning to look rattled by growing calls for an open cross-platform standard.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Clive Akass. There is no conspiracy, said Jeff Raikes, vice-president of Microsoft's business division and joint chief company mouthpiece, at its IT Forum in Barcelona. 'You pressmen like conspiracies because it gives you something...

The Adviser. PCW gives advice on your rights.
February 1, 2006... Creator blues Following your favourable review, I bought a copy of Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 8. After installation it immediately blue-screened my Windows XP Professional PC. Fortunately I managed to recover by reverting to the...

Streaming ahead of the game. Microsoft's Xbox 360 has been keenly awaited by enthusiasts; but, as Gordon Laing explains, they are not necessarily gamers.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Gordon Laing, gordonl@pcw.co.uk. By the time you read this, the Xbox 360 will be in the shops and a dedicated band of enthusiasts will either be delighted or dejected. I'm not talking about the gamers, though: I'm referring to the...

Forget technology - it's money that talks. Hotels and various other venues seem determined to prevent any mobile communication that doesn't make them profits, warns Barry Fox.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Barry Fox, barryf@pcw.co.uk. It's well nigh impossible now to buy a laptop without a built-in modem, RJ11 phone socket, Wifi card and RJ45 Ethernet port. In the US, motel signs proudly advertise 'Internet Access'. We've come a...

When a PC becomes un-PC. We take for granted the fascination with new technology, but Guy Kewney is reminded that, like all crazes, it may pass.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Guy Kewney, guykewney@gmail.com. It was my pet theory (I hate to give up pet theories) that mp3 players have to be big. We're talking disk size here. My theory is that they have to be at least three times the capacity required to...

Review - Hardware - Caught in the crossfire.(ATI Crossfire)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Over the past few issues we've been talking about ATI's Crossfire technology (the rival to Nvidia's SLI) and we can at last bring you a review of a fully fledged two-card Crossfire PC, courtesy of Mesh. Can it match up to SLI? Has ATI left it...

Review - Hardware - Mesh Xtreme Fire. ATI's dual-graphics system is finally available - find out how it compares to Nvidia's SLI.(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. Finally, after more than a few delays, we have our hands on a fully working Crossfire PC in the form of Mesh's Xtreme Fire. Crossfire is a dual-graphics system from ATI set to compete with Nvidia's already...

Review - Hardware - Evesham Blaze X850. It supports ATI's dual-graphics technology, but does that justify its price?
February 1, 2006... Byline: Luke Peters. If you like the sound of ATI's Crossfire technology but want to do things one step at a time, you could opt for a Crossfire-ready system such as this effort from Evesham. We've burrowed into the inner-workings of...

Review - Hardware - Vadim Fusion CS. A dream machine that only a lucky few will be able to make reality.(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Simon Crisp. A new name to us, Vadim Computers shows a commendable attention to detail when it comes to building a system. From an enthusiast's point of view, Vadim is a dream come true since every component, from the case right...

Review - Peripherals - Fujifilm Finepix S9500 Zoom. SLR-style camera with a 9megapixel sensor.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Paul Monckton. The Finepix S9500 Zoom looks and feels like a digital SLR, but has many features of a high-end digital compact camera. With sales of digital SLRs increasing, it might seem odd for Fujifilm to release a camera such as...

Review - Peripherals - Canon DC20. A versatile device that can record, edit and burn to DVD.(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Paul Monckton. Canon's DC20 makes capturing and editing video easy, with or without a PC. By recording directly to 8cm DVDs, your footage can be played back immediately in a domestic DVD player or computer. It also doubles as a...

Review - Peripherals - Sanyo Xacti E6. Stylish compact camera, but it struggles with image noise.(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Luke Peters. The specifications of the Xacti E6 make a good first impression. It has a 6megapixel CCD, which can be bumped up to 10megapixels with a bit of interpolation, 3x optical zoom, 3in LCD viewfinder and a chassis no bigger,...

Review - Peripherals - Epson Stylus Photo R340. Preview, print and burn quality photos without a PC.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. New to Epson's extensive Stylus Photo range is the R340. It is a six-ink model comprising black, cyan, magenta and yellow, along with light cyan and light magenta cartridges for more realistic photo prints. A...

Review - Peripherals - LG Flatron L1732P. Fast 4ms response time makes this an ideal choice for gamers.(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Paul Monckton. Feature-packed and with a super-fast response time, LG's Flatron L1732P is a versatile 17in monitor with high image quality and top gaming performance. As a direct replacement for the Flatron L1713P, the new model...

Review - Peripherals - Acer AT2001. Well-priced, but lacks both widescreen and Freeview.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Paul Monckton. Acer's AT2001 is a slimline, wall-mountable television that makes a good space-saving replacement for a traditional CRT-based TV. At first glance you could be forgiven for mistaking it for a good-looking 20in LCD...

Review - Peripherals - Humax PVR-9200T. If you don't want to be tied to a Sky+ subscription, this Freeview recorder might be the answer.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. If you're attracted to the functionality of Sky+ but don't fancy signing up for a subscription, there are plenty of other PVR (personal video recorder) options. Humax has just launched the PVR-9200T - a twin...

Review - Peripherals - Conceptronic Grab 'n' Go TV Media Player. A simple alternative to wireless media streamers.(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Rob Jones. The Grab 'n' Go TV Media Player is aimed at those who want digital images, music and video on their TV, but don't necessarily have, or perhaps don't want to use, a wireless network. It uses standard 3.5in hard drives...

Review - Peripherals - Packard Bell Audiostar. Small and light, but it has fiddly controls and a high price.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. The Audiostar is yet another portable audio player to hit the market. Housing 1GB of flash memory, it will hold roughly 320 tracks in mp3 and wma formats, including protected wma files. However, it's not compatible...

Review - Peripherals - Evesham Bluemedia BM6380. Affordable GPS navigation complete with speed camera alerts.(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. Using Destinator ND software and Navteq's maps, the Bluemedia BM6380 from Evesham joins the throng of low-cost satellite navigation devices. The unit can be operated using the array of buttons, the stylus, the remote...

Review - Peripherals - Epson EMP-TW520. Quality projector with the all-important 'HD ready' tag.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Cliff Joseph. The cost of projectors has fallen dramatically in the past couple of years and you can now get a reasonable home or business model for well under [pounds sterling]1,000. These low-cost projectors do have some...

Review - Peripherals - Think Outside Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard. Wireless Qwerty typing on a PDA - with a few annoyances.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Rob Jones. The Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard is a brushed aluminium foldaway keyboard that works with a number of different PDAs, as well as home-theatre PCs, tablet PCs and notebooks. Once opened out it is 25cm long, about the...

Review - Peripherals - NEC ND-4550.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. Price: [pounds sterling]35 Contact: www.nec.co.uk Overall: ***** Dual-layer DVD writing speeds are continuing to escalate, but finding the media required to cope with these speeds isn't easy. The ND-4550...

Review - Peripherals - Orange SPV M5000.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Wilson. Price From: [pounds sterling]199 Contact: www.orange.co.uk Overall: **** Hot on the heels of the T-Mobile MDA Pro (PCW January 2006) is the SPV M5000 from Orange. If you're thinking it looks similar to the...

Review - Peripherals - Philips Digital Photo Display.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. Price: [pounds sterling]170 Contact: www.2techvisuals.co.uk Overall: *** Digital photo frames seem an obvious idea but, despite being around for some time, they've never really taken off. Since you're...

Review - Peripherals - Supportplus Q-Be.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Rory Reid. Price: 1GB [pounds sterling]110, 512MB [pounds sterling]85 Contact: www.pcworld.co.uk Overall: **** The Q-Be is purportedly the smallest mp3 player in the world at 24mm in all directions. One side is devoted...

Review - Peripherals - Hawking Technologies HBB1. Minimise gaming lag and VoIP interference.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. The majority of UK broadband users are still stuck at a relatively slow upstream of 256Kbits/sec. Although this doesn't matter when downloading music and video, outbound services such as VoIP and online gaming have to...

Review - Peripherals - Mobotix M10M-Basic. A weatherproof, high-quality surveillance webcam with multiple uses.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Kelvyn Taylor. Few IP cameras offer the quality and capabilities of the M10M-Basic, even though it's the cheapest in the Mobotix range. It's housed in a weatherproof fibreglass-reinforced plastic chassis that's dustproof and...

Review - Components - Akasa All-in-one.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Price: [pounds sterling]34.96 Contact: www.cclonline.com Overall: *** If you are fed up with reaching behind your PC to connect your speakers, USB keys, camera and the like, the Akasa All-in-one could be the answer. Fitting...

Review - Components - Asus A8N-VM CSM.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Price: [pounds sterling]67.74 Contact: www.vadim.co.uk Overall: **** The Micro ATX format A8N-VM motherboard is the latest to use Nvidia's Geforce 6150 Northbridge, which in the case of this model is twinned with the Nforce 430...

Review - Components - Asus DRW-1608P2S.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Price: [pounds sterling]34.50 Contact: www.overclock.co.uk Overall: **** The DRW-1608P2S optical drive features fast burn times for dual-layer DVD as well as DVD-Ram. It can burn both flavours of dual-layer discs at eight-speed....

Review - Components - Inno3D Geforce 7800 GTX.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Price: [pounds sterling]330.10 Contact: www.pcnextday.co.uk Overall: **** Inno3D's version of Nvidia's Geforce 7800 GTX is ideal if you don't want a large games bundle you will probably never use. Aside from the Inno3D logo on...

Review - Components - Samsung Spinpoint P120S SP2504C.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Price: [pounds sterling]80.11 Contact: www.overclock.co.uk Overall: **** There are two Spinpoint P120 Serial ATA (Sata) hard drive models, the SP2004C, a 200GB disk, and the 250GB SP2504C. They come with Sata2 interfaces and are...

Review - Components - Sapphire Radeon X800GTO2.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Price: [pounds sterling]158.57 Contact: www.overclockers.co.uk Overall: ***** The limited edition Sapphire Radeon X800GTO2 is worth searching out if you like overclocking your graphics card. Despite the X800 in the name, the...

Review - Components - Seasonic S12.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Price: [pounds sterling]103.34 Contact: www.overclock.co.uk Overall: *** Unlike most of its competitors, The 600w model in Seasonic's S12 range of power supplies doesn't come with any fancy lights or coloured panels. Finished in...

Review - Components - Zalman FS-C77 Fatal1ty.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Price: [pounds sterling]41.07 Contact: www.overclock.co.uk Overall: *** Professional gamer Johnathan Wendel (aka Fatal1ty) continues to lend his moniker to a range of PC products, the latest being the FS-C77 CPU cooler. ...

Review - Components - ECS PF22 Extreme. Feature-packed, well-priced board with Crossfire support.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Simon Crisp. ECS is no stranger to innovative motherboards. The PF88 Extreme hybrid board, with its ability to run both AMD and Intel processors, springs to mind (see PCW August 2005). The company's latest design, the PF22...

Review - Components - Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX 512. More memory, enhanced cooling and top-notch performance.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. While ATI is struggling to get its flagship X1800 XT off the ground (see preview at www.pcw.co.uk/2143241), Nvidia has announced the brand new Geforce 7800 GTX 512. Using the same G70 chip that was the driving...

Review - Software - Microsoft Works Suite 2006. This latest version raises the bar for sub-[pounds sterling]100 office suites.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Tim Nott. Although we're waiting with baited breath for the next version of Microsoft's Office suite, which is due out towards the end of 2006, the latest edition of Works Suite has just arrived. Before looking at the package...

Review - Software - Vodafone Mobile TV. Watching Sky channels on your 3G phone sounds great, but find out if the reality lives up to the hype.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. Vodafone has teamed up with Sky to bring live TV direct to your 3G mobile. Although the line-up includes familiar-sounding channels, such as Sky One and MTV, programme schedules differ to those on standard Sky...

Review - Software - Rawshooter Premium 2006. If you want to take full control of your digital photos, look no further.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Rob Jones. Rawshooter is a little-known program for editing and converting digital photos shot using the raw file format. The latest version is a more complete editing package than before with many new additions, but you are still...

Review - Software - Translution Pro. Converse with foreign contacts in a variety of languages.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Anna Lagerkvist. There are various free translators on the web, but they tend to offer a very basic approach to translation. Since linguistics is about much more than logical grammar patterns, this can cause problems. ...

Review - Software - Auralog Tell Me More. A thoroughly enjoyable way to learn a new language.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Will Stapley. If you've ever thought of learning a new language but have been put off by high tuition fees or bad experiences with self-teach methods, Auralog's latest Tell me More series could be just what you're after. ...

Review - Games - First Encounter Assault Recon. An edge-of-your-seat FPS with horror elements.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Rory Reid. First Encounter Assault Recon (F.E.A.R) is one of the year's most anticipated first-person shooters (FPS). It puts you in the shoes of the newest member of F.E.A.R, an elite team of soldiers trained to handle unusual...

Review - Games - Call of Duty 2. The king of WWII shooters returns for another tour of duty.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Rory Reid. The original Call of Duty (COD) proved successful because of its terrific level design, atmospheric soundtrack and one of the best multiplayer modes in any first-person shooter - so it's fair to say its successor, Call...

Review - Games - Peter Jackson's King Kong. Experience the famous adventure through the eyes of Jack Driscoll and the giant ape himself.(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Rory Reid. Peter Jackson's King Kong is the obligatory tie-in to the forthcoming Universal Studios movie. Most of the game, based in the 1930s, follows the exploits of Jack Driscoll, who travels to the mysterious and previously...

Review - Desktop replacement notebooks group test - The battle of the Titans. Need a laptop with some serious horsepower? Look no further as Luke Peters reviews eight desktop replacement models.(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2006... Desktop PCs have historically been far quicker than high-end notebooks, but those days are over. The fastest laptops now rival their desktop counterparts for speed in all areas and can handle any application thrown at them. With this in mind,...