Stories by: Rosemary Haworth

Philips is mimicking the likes of Creative, Sandisk and Apple by coming up with the Philips GoGear SA2845 -- a tiny MP3 player that dispenses with the fripperies of photo and video and instead concentrates on offering quality music playback.

The internet of today scarcely seems the same entity as the web of just a couple of years ago. Ground-breaking tools for blogging, commenting, embedding video, sharing and championing content via sites such as Digg have turned the web upside down.

Many of us dream of breaking free of the nine-to-five grind and setting up our own businesses, but few of us actually get round to doing so.

Putting together an entire PC isn't as scary as it sounds -- and it's well worth the hassle. We've put together a simple guide to assembling a PC in seven steps.

With identity theft on the rise and personal information at a premium, it's never been more important to be cautious about what you reveal online.

The LaCie Sam Hecht Little Disk is an understated little external hard drive clad all in black, and with no obvious ports to indicate its purpose.

The Memorex TravelDrive Portable is an 80GB USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 external hard drive.

In QuarkXPress 8.0, Quark believes it has the right product to take the desktop-publishing fight back to rival Adobe's InDesign package

The Verbatim Portable Hard Drive is a lightweight USB 2.0 external storage device with a scratch-resistant plastic chassis.

Nintendo Wii Fit is the fitness regime designed for couch potatoes.

Computers come in many different guises; some barely resemble a PC at all. We've had it with plain-vanilla and boring black machines, and we've gone designer. Here's how to get a PC that looks good, both inside and out.