(News) In the beginning, working at PC World was exciting, rewarding, occasionally stressful--and, above all, unforgettable. To mark our 25th anniversary, veterans of the magazine's early days look back.
(News) Without the imagination and hard work of these fifty innovators, technologies you use every day might never have been invented.
(Reviews) These big ideas were supposed to revolutionize technology, but beyond a few prototypes, they never actually appeared. In a few cases, you'll probably be glad they didn't.
(News) You may not spend much time considering Unicode, XML, and digital signal processing, but you couldn't get through your day without them.
(News) Microsoft has launched a nongovernmental organization (NGO) academy in Africa that will focus on regional scalability...
(News) The Weird, the Far Out, and the Yet to Come
(News) Vistitors to the U.S. Library of Congress will be able to scroll through a draft of the Declaration of...
(News) The process of picking technology companies to build the satellites and ground stations for Europe's satellite navigation...
(News) The U.S. faces several challenges as it moves to all-digital television broadcasts by Feb. 17, 2009, including a lack of funding for consumer education, a U.S. lawmaker said Thursday.
(News) Next year a computerized ranking system built by professors at Georgia Tech could help you make your Final Four basketball picks.
(News) Cebit is taking on a green tinge this year, with the Climate Savers Computing Initiative playing a central role at the trade show, which opens March 4 in Hanover, Germany.
(News) The U.S. Congress should keep the promises it made in the America Competes Act of 2007, and restore funding to three federal agencies that conduct basic research, a group of tech CEOs said.
(News) The U.K.'s busiest airport is starting to affix radio chips to the luggage of passengers as part of an experiment aimed at reducing lost bags.
(News) Servers, e-mail applications and other less-than-chic combinations of hardware and software typically inhabit the technology realm. Linen is rarely equated with LEDs, while discussing couture along with the 802.11 Wi-Fi standard is almost laughable.
(News) A suite of articles, blogs, and slide shows celebrates our silver year.
(News) Geek chic of years gone by isn't so cool today, as technology races on.
(News) Toyota will start building a safety system into some of its cars this year that monitors if a driver is clearly watching the road during situations when a crash may occur.
(News) When environmental protestors boarded a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean, images of the action quickly flashed on the world's TV sets, followed by photos from the Japanese ship after the protestors were taken into custody. Getting these images out is crucial if either side is to win the global PR battle, but doing so can be problematic when you're at sea, thousands of kilometers from the nearest cell phone network or broadband connection.
(Reviews) Everybody has a prediction for what the new year will bring. We look at the most common forecasts for the tech world, and separate the sure things from the hooey.
(News) Sony's Transfer Jet technology can move data wirelessly at rates of up to 375 megabits per second, at short range.
(Reviews) Web apps that transcend the Web. PCs that redefine what a PC can do. And oh yeah, a certain cell phone you may have heard of. We pick 25 breakthroughs that you can get your hands on right now.
(News) While Google's Linux mobile phone platform, Android, is currently in the spotlight, the Linux Phone Standards Forum also is making progress.
(News) Nokia fell from first place to ninth and Nintendo placed last in the latest guide to green electronics from Greenpeace.
(News) These former technology luminaries have all taken different paths. How different? One's a country doctor, one's a budding movie mogul, and one teaches toddlers--and he's not even alive.
(News) Hubble space technology and the global networking power of the Internet is being put to good use in wildlife conservation by giving researchers a clearer understanding of the status of the endangered whale shark.
(News) The European Union and the U.S. Thursday announced a breakthrough in their efforts to make Galileo and GPS (global positioning system), their respective satellite navigation systems, interoperable.
(News) Toy robots have been in the dog house since the demise of Sony Corp.'s Aibo, but another Japanese company, Tomy Co. Ltd., hopes to change all that. In October it will start selling what it says is the world's smallest humanoid robot.
(News) IBM Corp. still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-Packard Co. has more of them in operation, according to a closely-watched global survey released Wednesday.
(News) U.S. technology vendors submitted five patent applications for last Friday's launch of a Web site that allows the public to review proposals before patents are granted. Less than a week later, the public had submitted claims of previous inventions that could invalidate each one.
(News) Plus: Mashups for the masses and HD Video in a Digital Camera.
(News) Emerging technology features high-def plasma screens in a specially constructed room; participants appear on the screen in life size and with zero latency.
(News) Kukiri Asatiani arrived in San Francisco from his native Republic of Georgia seven months ago, so he doesn't exactly know his way around the city yet. But that didn't stop him from starting work as a taxi driver last week.
(News) In a major shift on e-voting that could ripple to other states, the Florida legislature Friday voted to replace nearly all of the state's touch-screen voting systems with optical scan devices.
(News) Consumer experience will drive the adoption of home media technology, not a particular piece of equipment, an executive of Intel Corp.'s Digital Home Group said Tuesday.
(Reviews) Touch Screens Take Off
(News) These winners weren't on our Top 50 list--but you told us they should have been.
(Reviews) You know what PC World's number 1 product is--now tell us yours.
(Reviews) From breakthrough hardware to time-honored software, we salute those amazing products that changed technology--and our lives--forever.
(News) The European Commission has formed a group to provide it with advice about RFID (radio frequency identification), which it aims to avoid regulating, according to the commissioner in charge of that area.
(News) I was hungry and it had started to rain when my mobile phone buzzed to tell me I could now buy sugar in a hermetically sealed packet. A picture on my phone's screen of a goldfish swimming past the cheery new packaging drove the point home.
(News) One of Europe's largest shoe companies plans to embed wireless chips in shoes sold at hundreds of stores across the continent.
(News) A group of broadcasters, consumer electronics vendors and civil rights groups pledged Wednesday to leave no television viewers behind as the U.S. transitions to digital over-the-air broadcasts by February 2009.
(News) Qualcomm is betting on its Code Division Multiple Access cellular technology.
(reviews) The 100 Best Products of the Year
(howto) Bad Ideas, Good Ideas
(news) No-Box Security Software
(news) Invasion of the Wireless Sensors
(news) The High Cost of High Definition
(news) Texas Instruments Announces New All-in-One Digital Video Technology
(news) Digital World Insider: Radio Head
(news) Microsoft Offers R&D to Small Companies, Startups
(news) Analysis: Future Looks Bright for OLED Displays
(news) World's Most Powerful Computer Doubles in Size
(news) New Batteries: Twice the Life
(news) OLED: New Star of the Small Screen
(news) Does Your Car Key Pose a Security Risk?
(news) Partisan panel debates presidential candidates' stand on technology issues.
(howto) Plus: Fake spyware removers, phones that ID songs, and home robots.
(news) Millions will cast their ballots this year using voting machines based on PC technologies. We answer the most pressing questions about ballot box security.
(news) Planned community Playa Vista builds in technology to make life easier.
(news) Philippe Kahn speaks out on Borland, camera phones, and the future.
(howto) Here's how to tell when it's time to ring out the old and ring in the new.
(news) Lucas's special effects firm chooses Pentium 4 to power newest animation projects.
(howto) The new Web ads are tough to ignore. Should you try?
(news) Tablet PCs have all the mobility of a clipboard--but with computer features.
(news) IBM ThinkPad TransNote
(howto) It's sobering to remember how maddeningly unfriendly these devices can be.
(resource) DVD burner, Windows XP, and Rambus.
(news) IBM's voice recognition, custom wireless shopping, and data conversion tools will power partners' end products.
(news) What's next for computers, monitors, printers, notebooks? PCWorld.com gathers 2001 predictions.
(news) Electric Fuel's disposable batteries and recharging kits let you talk longer.
(news) A jewelry cell phone for wired women blurs the line between technology and fashion.
(news) Businesses see huge savings in electronic documents, but standards issue looms.
(howto) Office buildings have wheelchair ramps, TV has closed captions, but many Web sites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Things don't have to be that way.
