More Opinion

  • 14 November 2006

  • Opinion: Cisco scores touchdown with sports team

    Cisco is warming up for what could be a 'grand slam' deal with the Oakland A's major-league baseball team.

  • Opinion: Laptop buying guide

    Buying a laptop but not sure what to ask for? Here's our no frills guide to getting value for money, and sounding like an expert in the shop...

  • Opinion: Preparing for Vista

    Vista will be released soon and many people are thinking about installing it. When XP was launched, some people ended up uninstalling it because a game wouldn't run or some hardware wasn't supported. The safest way to try Vista is to install it in its own partition, keeping XP untouched until you're sure it works.

  • 13 November 2006

  • Opinion: Tokyo PS3 launch: chaos and cynicism

    The Tokyo launch of Sony's hotly anticipated PS3 games console was an alarming and disorganised spectacle, with serious gamers the losers.

  • Opinion: More than just a bow

    When Sony met Tokyo reporters last month to finally explain the battery debacle that kept the company in the headlines for more than two months, it raised eyebrows not for what it said but for what it did – or rather didn't do.

  • Opinion: YouTube, you be careful

    Will the crackdown on video-sharing sites put a damper on public opinion and discourse?

  • Opinion: First pics of Japanese PS3 interface

    Our fearless Japan-embedded reporter has the first pics of the PS3's interface.

  • 11 November 2006

  • Opinion: The future is online

    These days, the internet is where the most innovation seems to be happening. Whether in the form of the YouTubes and MySpaces of this world, or in collaborative online efforts such as Wikipedia and news blogs, it’s largely shared applications on the web that have turned the ways we present and document events and data on their heads.

  • 08 November 2006

  • Opinion: Wish hunt

    "Ok guys, this truly is freaky, the phone literally rang as soon as I read the last word of this email!!!!!"

  • Opinion: Does this mean I have to buy security software?

    Here's a dirty secret. I work for PC Advisor, and I own a Mac. Actually, I have a PC too. I may struggle with the luxuries (nice clothes, good food, a roof…) but I've got two computers. And some time ago I unhooked the PC from the web, choosing to use only my Mac to surf. Why? Instant freedom from malware and the constant effort to keep net nasties off my system. But such days are long gone.

  • Opinion: Wi-Fi networking – the easy way

    One reason for the popularity of wireless networking is its reasonable cost.

  • 07 November 2006

  • Opinion: Christmas miss list

    What’s top of the Christmas wish list in your household? E-commerce giant Amazon already thinks it knows, having announced its top 10 gift predictions just in time to give you eight weeks to place your order before the big day.

  • Opinion: Christmas miss list

    What’s top of the Christmas wish list in your household? E-commerce giant Amazon already thinks it knows, having announced its top 10 gift predictions just in time to give you eight weeks to place your order before the big day.

  • Opinion: Mobile phones: newest form of birth control?

    Researchers say that men who use cell phones frequently have significantly lower sperm counts than those who don't use cell phones at all.

  • Opinion: Bill Gates the hotelier?

    On the surface it may seem like a case of very strange bedfellows. But when Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and the world's richest man, teamed up with Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, the world's eight richest person, to launch a $3.7 billion (£1.9bn) bid for the Four Seasons Hotels group, it's not as odd a pairing as many might think.

  • 06 November 2006

  • Opinion: OpenOffice patched

    Office applications of all types are feeling the pain: OpenOffice.org has just patched three critical bugs in its competitor to Microsoft Office.

  • 05 November 2006

  • Opinion: TIP: wipe your old hard drive

    Personal financial details are being harvested from old PCs sent to third-world countries and used to commit fraud. Security experts have been quick to point out that you should always clean your personal data from a PC before selling it.

  • 04 November 2006

  • Opinion: Your browser is watching you

    Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and other browsers keep accurate records of your online activities, and not just in their history records. Clearing out the virtual breadcrumbs in your internet cache and browser histories preserves your privacy and can improve your PC’s performance by freeing up disk space, too.

  • 03 November 2006

  • Opinion: Reader tip: home page lock

    Andy writes: "My PC is locked to Mesh’s home page. Start Page Guard didn’t help. So I replaced the Internet Explorer shortcut with a shortcut to my desired home page and changed it to the IE icon."

  • 02 November 2006

  • Opinion: Audible interest in James Bonds latest caper

    Marketing hype for the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale, is ramping up. Audio book seller Audible.co.uk is pushing its range of original James Bond novels, read by suave actor Rufus Sewell.

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