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• In Pictures: A deep dive into Windows 8 Consumer Preview

  By Preston Gralla | 06 March, 2012 09:02

  Windows 8 Consumer Preview offers a new look at Microsoft's upcoming interface for both computers and tablets. Is one device being shortchanged in favor of the other?

• Android: Coming soon to a desktop near you?

  By Katherine Noyes | 25 February, 2012 05:16

  If ever there was a week to make plain the writing on the proverbial wall of the personal computing world, this week has been it.

• Desktop PC killers: Past, present, and future

  By Ian Paul | 25 January, 2012 02:04

  The desktop PC is dead; the era of the gleaming beige tower is over. The age of smartphones, laptops, and tablets is here--or so say numerous pundits and critics.

• Smartphones on rampage: next, camcorders

  By Brennon Slattery | 10 January, 2012 03:57

  The smartphone is on a device-killing rampage, and camcorders are next on its hit list.

• Google releases Chrome desktop-sharing feature

  By Christina DesMarais | 10 October, 2011 02:53

  Google isn’t reinventing the wheel with a new feature it is testing that allows any two computers using its Chrome browser to connect with each other.

• HP or no HP: The PC lives

  By Ian Paul | 21 August, 2011 06:41

  Suggestions that the PC is dead are greatly exaggerated. Flexibility, innovation and users' storage needs will keep it around a good long while.

• Tiny Linux plug PC offers a Cloud computing alternative

  By Katherine Noyes | 14 June, 2011 03:43

  Linux-based plug computers such as the Sheevaplug have been drawing fresh attention for some time already, but on Monday MimoMonitors launched the new MimoPlug, a tiny, cube-shaped contender that's designed as a desktop PC alternative for cloud computing applications.

• OS X Lion features could make Google Chromebooks tough sell

  By Ian Paul | 14 June, 2011 00:39

  Apple's new version of its desktop operating system is expected to allow quick access to the Internet without having to log back in when your system is locked.

• Desktop virtualization coming of age for small business

  By Robert Dutt | 25 May, 2011 04:20

  The acquisition of Kaviza, a maker of simple desktop virtualization software for small businesses, by Citrix Systems is all the buzz at this week's Citrix Synergy event at San Francisco's Moscone Center West.

• First Chrome OS desktop PC will ship in July

  By Katherine Noyes | 24 May, 2011 23:30

  As the U.S. arrival date approaches for the first Chromebooks from Samsung and Acer, hardware maker Xi3 on Friday announced its own entrant in the form of a desktop PC running Chrome OS.

• Tablets are category killers across the board

  By Lisa Greim | 14 April, 2011 09:39

  Computer manufacturers, makers of video gear and game machines, be nervous. Research from Google's AdMob group shows there's a new Borg in town: Tablet computers.

• AGC undergoes wide-ranging IT overhaul

  By Renai LeMay | 06 December, 2010 10:44

  Perth-based fabrication, construction and services company, AGC, has gone through an extensive overhaul of its technology infrastructure over the past year that has seen — among other things — a number of Windows 95 PCs finally phased out and the latest network, storage, datacentre, desktop and telephony technology installed.

• Give Windows 7 (or XP) a Vista-like sidebar

  By Rick Broida | 16 October, 2010 05:55

  One of the things I miss about Windows Vista -- okay, the only thing I miss about Vista -- is the Sidebar. Much as I applaud Microsoft's decision to liberate its desktop gadgets, to make it so you can position them anywhere you like, did it have to be at the expense of the Sidebar itself?

• ATO inks $60 million desktop deal with Lockheed Martin

  By Renai LeMay | 10 September, 2010 20:06

  The Australian Taxation Office has signed contracts with Lockheed Martin – a US technology giant better known for the construction of fighter jets and missiles than enterprise IT services – to provide desktop PC and other end-user computing services, in a deal estimated at $60 million a year.

• Technology's Biggest Myths

  By Patrick Miller | 23 August, 2010 16:50

  As it turns out, Windows Vista really wasn't all that slow; and no, your PC probably won't fry if you open it up without wearing a wrist strap. Thanks in large part to the Internet, the tech world is teeming with lies, half-truths, and misinformation. We've dug up some of the Web's most notorious nuggets of conventional wisdom to see which hold up to scrutiny and which are merely urban legends.