Personal Computer World articles from October 2005

Personal Computer World archives from October 2005

Editorial - What's in store now Time's up; Kelvyn Taylor considers the implications after the collapse of one of the IT industry's biggest brands.(Granville Technology Group Ltd. restructures)(Editorial)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Kevin Taylor, kelvyn_taylor@vnu.co.uk. The recent high-profile demise of the Granville Technology Group and the associated Time and Tiny brands is something that is going to take a long time to unravel, if recent Internet reports...

Microsoft unveils Vista.(development of Microsoft Windows Vista)
October 1, 2005... Microsoft has released new beta code of the operating system it expects to run on PCs for the next decade - and revealed that it will be called Windows Vista. It is set for release late next year in 32bit and 64bit versions, although the...

End of a dream as Time collapses.(facility closures by Granville Technology Group Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The collapse of Britain's biggest home-grown PC company last month shows how hard it is for even relatively large companies to compete with giants such as Dell that survive by taking small profit margins on huge turnovers. Less than three...

New chips for AMD.
October 1, 2005... AMD has launched two new processors aimed at the value and mainstream market. The 2GHz Athlon 64 X2 3800+ offers dual-core operation without the price penalty of the X2 4800. For test results on the new chips, see http://labs.pcw.co.uk.

Sudoku code.
October 1, 2005... Software developers are cashing in on the Sudoku craze. One package is reviewed on page 65, another, Sudoku Ace, is available at www.altrixsoft.com and Sudoku Master costs [pounds sterling]14.99 from www.electric-software.co.uk.

EU investigators raid Intel.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., case)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... European investigators raided offices of Intel and some of its customers in the wake of an AMD lawsuit accusing the chipmaker of anti-competitive practices. But a leading analyst accused AMD of using the suit to wage a media war against...

Microsoft ruling delayed.(an appeal against European Union on antitrust law)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... A decision on Microsoft's appeal against an EU anti-trust ruling is likely to be delayed by a year after the removal of a judge who wrote an article calling some law clerks 'ayatollahs of free enterprise' for the influence they exert over...

Lumix takes a new aspect.
October 1, 2005... Panasonic says its new 8.4megapixel Lumix DMC-LX1 is the first digital camera with a 16:9 aspect ratio. It packs a 4x optical zoom (equivalent to 28mm to 112mm on a 35mm film camera) and can also shoot in a conventional 4:3 format. The...

Russian spammer pays ultimate price.(investigation report for murder of Vardan Kushmir)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Net abusers have been having a hard time of it recently. Not least Vardan Kushmir, one of Russia's best-known spammers, who was found beaten to death at his Moscow apartment. Kushnir had bombarded just about every email box in the country...

Sunny outlook for solar pack.
October 1, 2005... It looks like an ordinary backpack but it is another heartening sign that solar energy may finally be going mainstream. The H2 series packs are designed for Ipod users and has a control pad on one shoulder strap and a microphone on the other,...

Piracy check circumvented.(defects of Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Hackers took less than a week to circumvent a new Windows check on the legitimacy of software of users downloading security updates. The Windows Genuine Advantage 1 check that went live last month could be disabled simply by pasting a...

Technology - Colour arrives on flexible screens.(Fujitsu Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... We've seen pictures of flexible screens like this for a couple of years but they have yet to translate into viable products. This one from Fujitsu is colour, though, and is bistable - that is the pixels flip between one of two positions and...

Technology - Net power to get cheaper.(D-Link Systems Inc)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) products that simplify the installation of devices like surveillance cameras and wireless access points are beginning to fall in price, though they are still targeted at corporate markets. D-Link has launched a...

Technology - BT's dual answer to Skype.(British Telecommunications PLC)
October 1, 2005... A phone to be launched next month epitomises the cataclysmic changes and baffling economics that characterise telephony today. The Motorola V560 can act as a standard quad-band GSM phone using the Vodafone network away from home and as a...

Technology - Wifi Fusion phone 'next year';.(British Telecommunications PLC)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... This is the V560 phone with the Bluetooth/Wifi hub that is being offered as part of the BT Fusion service. BT chose Bluetooth for the local wireless link because it is much more battery friendly. Wifi VoIP phones are already available for...

Technology - Boingo offers hotspot VoIP.(voice over Internet protocol, Boingo Wireless)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Hotspot provider Boingo is offering Skype users, who are said to number 45 million across the globe, discounted Wifi access at its 18,000 sites worldwide. Charges in the US during the pilot phase are [pounds sterling]4.50 per month or [pounds...

Technology - Gizmo enables VoIP on Dect phone.(voice over Internet protocol)(product details of UK Corporate Telecom Limited)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... A Manchester company is selling a gizmo that lets you use a standard Dect hands free phone to make a Skype or Messenger call. The [pounds sterling]16.49 ex VAT device links the Dect base station to your audio card and uses the USB port for...

Cameras - Videocams get hard disks.(JVC Americas Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Shrinking high-capacity hard disks have begun to transform video cameras in the way that they have already changed portable music players. JVC has announced four hard disk-based camcorders that can store between five to seven hours of DVD...

Cameras - Reflex reaction.(Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Fujifilm claims its Finepix S9500 combines the advantages of a single-lens-reflex (SLR) camera with those of a digital compact. We have yet to see an automatic focusing system that matches the ease, speed and precision of an SLR manual control,...

Retro - Death of OS that rivalled Windows.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Microsoft Corp.)
October 1, 2005... The final curtain has been called on one of the most famous and costly spats in computing history, with the announcement by IBM that it will stop support for its OS/2 operating system on 23 December next year. The move came shortly after...

Products - Bluetooth stereo revolution.(Advanced Audio Digital Profile)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Devices are finally emerging that allow the same Bluetooth headset to be used both for telephony and for listening to music in stereo. All conform to a specification called A2DP (Advanced Audio Digital Profile), which was approved a few months...

Products - New players climb Ipod bandwagon.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Apple last month showed off a whole range of products from third-party vendors that are design to be used with the music player, including these striking transparent Harman Kardon speakers (right), which sounded as good as they look. The...

Products - Sleep on cue.(Dextronet )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Version 3.50 of a utility called Smartsleep, from the Czech company Dextronet, allows you to schedule shutdowns, reboots, log offs, suspends, hibernation, screen blackouts, and file execution as well as to define screen messages. A limited...

Products - Food advice.(www.skyscapeonhand. com/mypyramid)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Picky eaters can have professional advice to hand with a free utility called Mypyramid, which offers guidance from the US Department of Agriculture. It runs on Palm OS or Pocket PC PDAs and smartphones, as well as Windows PCs and can be...

Products - Square One.(palmOne Inc)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Palmone has now officially changed its name back to Palm, though few of its customers appeared to be aware that the brand had changed when the hardware and software arms of the PDA pioneer split into separate companies. The software...

Technology - IBM dual-core one in the eye for Apple.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... IBM has unveiled a dual-core version of its 970FX PowerPC processor - just weeks after Apple, the highest-profile user of the architecture, announced that it is switching to Intel. The new 970MP offers nearly double the performance of the...

Technology - Faster Itaniums.(Intel Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Intel has recently released two Itanium 2 processors with a 667 front-side bus. They provide 65 per cent more bandwidth on the data highway linking them to the system memory. Earlier versions had a 400MHz FSB.

Technology - Cutting-edge vision aids. Necessity is mother of invention at the human-machine interface.(Sight Village)
October 1, 2005... People with sight and hearing problems have become pioneers in the development of the human-computer interface as they harness IT to ease their lives. They were among the first people to use speech recognition, voice control and...

Technology - Smooth words ease reading.(Zoomtext 8.1 and Zoomtext 9.0 of Sound and Sound)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... This screenshot shows how text remains smooth-edged and unpixellated even at 32x magnification using Zoomtext 9, the coming version of a package aimed at helping poorly sighted people use computers. The view of a Windows hand-cursor hovering...

Comms - Enter the wireless web.(standards of Wi-Mesh Alliance and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... An emerging standard could allow Wifi access points to link up to form a self-configuring network capable of bypassing the hard-wired Internet. The 802.11s standard, being drafted by a US IEEE task group, allows for the routing of IP...

Comms - Going walkabout with Wip 2.(product launch by Zultys Technologies)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... A Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone that allows you to use a Wifi link to connect to the network has been released by Zultys Technologies. The Wip 2 phone gives you all the functionality of a desktop IP phone, but provides up to four hours of...

Comms - Serious crime eclipses teenage kicks.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Rewards are no longer effective in helping to track down the writers of rogue code, say security experts. This is despite the $250,000 'bounty' from Microsoft that led to the arrest of the German teenager who wrote the Sasser and Netsky worms...

Comms - Phone Q.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Motorola has unveiled this Blackberry-like phone that is said to be half the weight of any other handset with a full Qwerty keyboard. The Motorola Q is based on the ultra-thin design of its Razr phone and uses Microsoft's latest Windows Mobile...

Comms - Group mail.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Sproqit has announced a workgroup version of its email-on-the move system that lets you use smartphones and other handhelds to view Outlook in boxes on remote PCs. Sproqit Workgroup Edition, which costs [pounds sterling]584 for a five-user...

Comms - 2Mbit Wimax.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... A 2Mbits/sec symmetric broadband service using wireless Wimax links will be available to businesses in Central London from this autumn. The [pounds sterling]295-a-month service will use wireless rooftop antennas to link into backhaul lines and...

Comms - Car Windows.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Microsoft has released Windows Automotive 5.0, a version of its Windows CE 5.0 operating system that is tailored for use in car navigation, entertainment and communication systems. A new toolkit will enable developers to create 3D graphics and...

Technology - One screen gives two views.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Two people can share one LCD monitor at the same time to perform separate tasks using technology announced by Sharp. The twin view is produced by superimposing what is called a parallax barrier over the screen, which has the effect of...

Technology - Philips puts pictures on your pillow.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Rory Reid. Philips has unveiled products and prototypes using cutting-edge technologies developed at its European research facility. Prototypes include a pillow and a backpack, which use photonic textiles with embedded organic LED...

Technology - Vertical media.(product development of hard disk media)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... A Japanese company has begun what it says is the first commercial production of hard-disk media that uses 'perpendicular' recording to gain a data density double that of conventional devices. The media from Showa Denko KK (SDK) will...

Technology - Scenic view.(usage of camera telephones by British Broadcasting Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The BBC has become one of the first organisations to exploit the data-capture possibilities of mobile-phone cameras. Plaques at 100 locations on Britain's coastline will contain bar codes that can be snapped and sent to the BBC, which will send...

Technology - Web by wire.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... IBM is testing a system of delivering data over electricity supply lines, initially as a way of reading household meters remotely. The trial, for Houston-based Centerpoint Energy, could be a cheap way to provide home web access. Devices...

Search engine - Google evicts squatter.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Google has won a victory against 'typo-squatting' - the use of addresses close to those of much-used sites. It was granted the rights to the variations googkle.com, ghoogle.com, gfoogle.com and gooigle.com after the US National Arbitration...

Search engine - World in your hands.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Google Earth is one of the best free downloads to appear for years. It lets you view satellite images from just about anywhere in the world - including places you could not buy a map for. You can zoom in and out and 'fly' from one country...

Columns - Inside information - When a sweet spot proves not so hot. If you're thinking of buying a 42in TV and connecting your PC, Gordon Laing suggests you think twice.(Column)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Gordon Laing, gordonl@pcw.co.uk. Every product range has a sweet spot where a particular model delivers especially good value. Dropping to the next model down rarely saves much, while upgrading to the next one costs you more. It's...

Columns - Kewney @ large - What are online firms so afraid of? Gives us a telephone number - don't hide behind anonymous email addresses, demands Guy Kewney.(Column)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Guy Kewney, guyk@pcw.co.uk. Recently, a friend ordered a book from Amazon. It didn't arrive. Complaints to an email address produced instructions to 'check the status of your order' which, of course, showed that it had been...

Columns - Straight talking - Keys, codes and unplayable discs. Hollywood's great hope in the war against DVD hacking is to launch soon. Barry Fox has some good and bad news.(Column)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Barry Fox, barryf@pcw.co.uk. Hollywood sees blue laser as a way to save face after DVD's copy protection, CSS (Content Scrambling System), was defeated. A hacker simply sucked the encryption keys out of a legitimate player and...

Reviews.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Will Stapley. We've got a couple of PCs with a difference this month. First up is Cube247's Taurus system (see review opposite). Featuring no fewer than three 19in TFT monitors, you'll have a huge combined desktop resolution of...

Review - Cube247 Taurus. The widescreen concept is taken to new extremes.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Rory Reid. No, this isn't a multiple-exposure error by our photographer. The Taurus is the latest in a line of computers from Cube247 that uses three separate TFT monitors. Far from being superfluous additions, the Taurus'...

Review - Hardware - Evesham Decimator 78FX. Two 7800 GTXs make this a beast for graphics and ultra-fast gaming.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Will Stapley. If you thought last month's Mesh Matrix Titan FX57 GTX was powerful in the graphics department, check out Evesham's latest effort. Incorporating not one, but two Innovision Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTXs in a dual-SLI...

Review - Hardware - Elonex Lumina. Much more than a 40in screen.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Rory Reid. It may look like a high-end TV, but the Lumina is a PC at heart. At the rear of the 40in TFT panel is a 3GHz Pentium 4, 1GB of Ram, a 400GB hard drive and ATI Radeon 9600 graphics. Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005...

Review - Hardware - Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi. It's got the looks, but what about speed?(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Luke Peters. Another year, another Acer Ferrari notebook powers its way into PCW. Unlike previous models, the Ferrari 4005WLMi makes more of an effort to live up to the hype generated by its name. Like the sports car, it looks...

Review - Peripherals - Sonos Digital Music System. Fill your home with music like never before.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Luke Peters. It's not often we see a piece of kit that makes our jaws drop, but the Sonos Digital Music System did exactly that. It's far more expensive than any other streaming device we've seen, but then it's aimed at a...

Review - Peripherals - Kiss DP-558. Record TV, play DVDs and surf the web.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Luke Peters. Hard disk video recorders will fight for top spot on many Christmas lists this year, but they're not just about recording TV shows - many come with additional features. The Kiss DP-558 doesn't just operate as a PVR...

Review - Peripherals - Lexmark P4350. Good design and quality prints.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Emilie Martin. The P4350 is Lexmark's newest multifunction device (MFD) and the design is an improvement on previous models. Combining a flatbed A4 scanner with an inkjet photo printer in a sleek and stylish case, the P4350...

Review - Peripherals - Canon LBP-5200. Decent output at a reasonable price.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Luke Peters. The price of colour lasers has now dropped enough to make them worth considering for large volume printing. The LBP-5200 is the latest, and cheapest, addition to Canon's Laser Shot range. Cheap doesn't have to mean...

Reviews - Peripherals - Biometric devices. Too many passwords to remember? Let your finger help you out.
October 1, 2005... Originally the stuff of James Bond and science fiction films, devices that recognise a user by their face or fingerprints are now a reality. Today, biometric technology is making its way into just about everything, from office buildings and...

Review - Peripherals - LG Flatron L2013P. Ergonomic design and good performance.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Paul Monckton. The 20.1in Flatron L2013P is the latest in LG's huge range of TFTs. The models vary from home LCD TV products to budget and high-end office, up to leading-edge designer models. The 13 series, of which the L2013P...

Review - Peripherals - Iiyama Prolite E481s. Faster and brighter than before.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Paul Monckton. Too new and late to make it into September's round-up of 19in TFT monitors, Iiyama's revamped Prolite E481s has arrived, faster and brighter than before. The model name may have remained the same, but with its...

Review - Peripherals - Lilliput 629GL-70NP/C/T. Tiny monitor with a touchscreen control.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Paul Monckton. The diminutive 629GL-70NP/C/T from Lilliput is a widescreen 7in TFT monitor with touchscreen control and a variety of input and power connections. It comes with a removable monitor stand with lockable tilt, a 12v...

Review - Peripherals - Freecom Mediaplayer-3. Play your media everywhere you go.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Rory Reid. The Freecom Mediaplayer-3 is a small, portable device that lets you watch video and view images on a television, as well as listen to music through a hi-fi. Unlike standard external hard disks, the Mediaplayer-3...

Review - Peripherals - US Robotics Maxg Router. 802.11g with enhanced range and speed.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Will Stapley. High-speed wireless kit is flooding the market at the moment and US Robotics is the latest to release a new range. Maxg claims to achieve theoretical speeds of 125Mbits/sec, more than twice that of 802.11g and...

Review - Peripherals - Netgear TA612V. Phone calls over the net, but there's a catch.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Will Stapley. VoIP (voice over IP) looks set to revolutionise the way we make telephone calls, but the speed at which it catches on depends largely on the ease of migration from standard phones. Netgear recently added the...

Review - Peripherals - I-Tech Bluetooth VKB.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Will Stapley. A keyboard like no other, the VKB projects a keyboard onto any flat surface. Using both infra-red and laser technology, it allows you to tap away on it like a standard keyboard. When we first looked at the VKB back in...

Review - Peripherals - Philips DVDR16LSK.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Will Stapley. The Lightscribe technology, which uses lasers to burn image labels on to Lightscribe-compatible discs, is still attracting manufacturers, despite its slower writing speed and higher cost per disc. Philips has used...

Review - Peripherals - Sennheiser RS 130.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Anna Lagerkvist. Wireless headphones give you increased flexibility, mobility, and remove the hassle of trailing leads wherever you go. Sennheiser's stylish RS 130 headphones have switchable surround sound and work well for hi-fi,...

Review - Peripherals - Wacom Volito2 pen tablet.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Clive Akass. The Volito2 pen tablet offers many of the facilities of Wacom's professional models at fraction of the price. It measures 25 x 25cm, with an A6 drawing area that maps to your screen via a USB port. You can use the...

Review - Components - Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal. A great combination of Nvidia and Intel.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Simon Crisp. Nvidia has finally joined forces with Intel to provide Nforce chipset support for its processors. The first result of this new agreement is the Nforce4 (Intel Edition) chipset. Gigabyte has wasted no time in...

Review - Components - Akasa Eclipse-62. Conservative looks, but quality design.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Simon Crisp. Some cases attract your attention with outrageous styling or a variety of multi-coloured panels but, every so often, one comes along that's so well built it needs neither of these. The new Eclipse-62 from Akasa falls...

Review - Components - Asus P5LD2 Deluxe/EU-P3.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Based around Intel's Socket 775 and latest I945P chipset, the P5LDL2 Deluxe from Asus is about as feature-rich as motherboards get. This version also includes a combined Wifi TV card with remote control. Although you get two x16 PCI Express...

Review - Components - Zalman Reserator 1 Plus.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... If the idea of water cooling your PC sends you running for cover, maybe Reserator 1 Plus from Zalman will help change your mind. The Plus is the latest version of Zalman's passive water cooling system that now includes a VGA water block in...

Review - Components - Akasa Amber Series Quiet fans.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Available in 8, 9.2 and 12cm sizes, Akasa's Amber Series of case fans offer good airflow but, more importantly, they do it quietly. As you might expect the 12cm version offers the best blend of airflow - 44.8CFM (cubic feet per minute) and...

Review - Components - Akasa Powerplus 550W.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Although marketed as a server-class power supply, the Powerplus 550W PSU from Akasa is aimed at anyone looking for a high-output, quiet and well-built power supply that conforms to the latest standards. It comes with four 12v rails, 24-pin EPS...

Review - Components - Scythe Ninja.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Apart from some great product names, Scythe stands out from other cooler manufacturers because of the sheer size of its products. Its latest offering, the Ninja, is a passive CPU cooler, weighing 650g and standing an impressive 150mm high when...

Review - Components - Antec V-Cool.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Fitting a third-party graphics card cooler normally means prising off the standard cooler and praying you don't damage the GPU in the process. With Antec's V-Cool there are no such worries. However, you may be concerned about how much space it...

Review - Components - Gigabyte 3D Aurora.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... The 3D Aurora, Gigabyte's first foray into the world of PC cases, is made from aluminium. The front bezel is a mix of an aluminium door and silver plastic casing. The door hides five 5.25in and two 3.5 drive bays, all of which are tool-free....

Review - Software - Microsoft Student 2006. Now there's no excuse for your children not to do their homework.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Will Stapley. In an independent survey commissioned by Microsoft, 44 per cent of parents highlighed homework as a source of tension and family disputes, with maths the biggest problem of all. Apparently, 70 per cent of children...

Review - Software - Symbiant Easygen 2.2. Take the hassle out of creating a database-driven website.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Paul Monckton. Building your own website is never an easy task and there could be a lot riding on the design and functionality, especially if it's a commercial venture. If you've also got to sort out how to link your site to a...

Review - Software - AVG 7 Plus Firewall. PC security at a great price.(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Laura Jones. Last time we looked at AVG's anti-virus package, we reviewed the free version of the software. We were pretty impressed by the breadth of features offered, but felt the heavy-handed marketing was irritating and the...

Review - Software - Metaboli. The world's first games-on-demand service.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Rory Reid. Metaboli allows subscribers to download PC games from a central server to play on their home computers. It works in a similar way to the Napster music download service, but most of the browsing is done via the Metaboli...

Review - Software - Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 2006. Feature-rich file transfer client.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Tim Smith. If you're frequently transferring data to and from an FTP site, a decent FTP utility is a must. Basic FTP access is built into Internet Explorer, but it's very restrictive. WS_FTP Professional 2006, from Ipswitch, makes...

Review - Software - Destinator PN. Satellite navigation for Pocket PC.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Tim Smith. Destinator PN is a software-based PocketPC satellite navigation system with streetmaps for Western Europe and major roads for the rest of Europe. The UK maps take up 128MB, but you'll need a hefty 1.5GB of space if you...

Review - Software - Easy Wireless.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Will Stapley. In an effort to replace the wireless network tool that comes free with Windows XP, BHV Software has come up with Easy Wireless. The interface attempts to be more graphical than Microsoft's Wireless Zero Configuration...

Review - Software - Infinite Sudoku.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Anna Lagerkvist. Sudoku fever is gripping the nation, so it was only a matter of time before a PC version came out. If you're new to Sudoku, the challenge is to fill every horizontal and vertical line, as well as each of the...

Review - Software - Navicore Personal.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Clive Akass. The Navicore Personal turns any Symbian Series 60 or Series 80 phone into a navigator. Using a tiny GPS receiver built round a low-drain Sirf III chip, it registers a satellite signal even in cities. UK maps and...