Stories about: LapLink

In this month's issue, we review so much mobile gear you won't have enough pockets or bags to carry it all. PC World's Test Centre also put 10 VoIP handsets to the test, check out the best features and start cutting your call costs! Plus, the latest Vista real world results and check out our two new step-by-step tutorials on Vista and Linux!

The IBM PC is 25. And here are the top PCs ever, from machines you owned and loved to systems you've never heard of.

LapLink Everywhere lets you access e-mail and files from up to three PCs via any browser-enabled device, be it Mac or PC, PDA or smart phone. The software itself is free, but the service isn’t — there’s a monthly fee of $US9.95, or slightly less if you pay annually up front.

In the May 2003 issue of PC World, available now: Build your own PC: Part 1 -- Pick the right components to get the PC you want; Sub-$1000 PCs -- Budget PC buys; Internet fixes -- Fight back against Net nasties; Pick a Pocket -- New personal digital assistants; Dream screens -- Flat and funky LCDs; Picture Perfect Places: Web sites designed for sharing and editing digital images; LinuxWorld -- Mandrake Linux 9.1 Download Edition; In the Test Centre -- 15in and 17in LCD Monitors Best Buys; PLUS, Best Buys reviews of PCs and Notebooks, Tech.Files and Sweet Spot.
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The obstacles of moving data from an old PC to a new one are familiar frustrations to many consumers and corporate IT support workers. Now, several IT vendors, including IBM, Intel and Microsoft have formed a new working group to study and promote methods of improving the PC data-migration experience, the companies involved announced Wednesday.

The "m-life" of a mobile, 21st-century, tech-savvy person may be a new buzzphrase, but Mark Eppley has been living mobile for years. Founder and chief executive of what was initially Traveling Software, he renamed the company LapLink Inc. after its leading product, a remote-control-and-access utility. Newer is PCsync, strictly a file transfer program, also available in a version for PDAs. PCWorld.com caught Eppley on the road and online for a conversation about how he has seen portable computing change, and what he expects next.

The PCsync file transfer software moves files from one machine to another via cables or over the Internet.

Build your own PC, part one; Snoopware - is your PC watching you?; Scanning workshop, plus scanners reviewed; Next-generation viruses; PLUS on the 2 CDs - 600MB+ Linux update; Snoopware file protection; FREE antivirus program, FREE firewall and FREE encryption program, and more.

Who needs that boring nine-to-five job, when you can become your own boss and work the hours that suit you? Whether working at home or in a small office, setting up your own business or working from home can be a liberating experience.

The future of Windows is .Net, Microsoft's initiative for simplifying interaction among computers and related devices and keeping them constantly connected via the Internet. With both Windows 2000 and Windows Me out the door, Microsoft is already well into development on the .Net successor to both, codenamed Whistler.