Gary Berline

The question isnt if youre going to lose data—its when. You need to be backing up and you need to be using a reliable product to do it. After testing plenty that let you store data on the Web or locally, we gathered together the reviews of the best. In This Roundup: SOS Online Backup […]

Talk may be cheap, but VOIP makes it inexpensive. Beyond that, new Internet telephony technologies are improving voice and connection quality. Theyre also producing tools that let you get more out of Internet communication—and weve run plenty through the testing ringer in our labs. Thats given us a pretty solid idea of which are the […]

During mid-tide, the volume of water thundering through Nova Scotias Minas Channel in the Bay of Fundy exceeds the flow from every river and stream on Earth. The scene, looking out over that rugged coast, uncomfortably approximates the information tidal wave threatening to drown us all. The torrent of facts, figures, opinions—and garbage—makes search tools […]

Whatever potential a system holds, without a kick to lift it from its energy well, nothing happens. That law of physics extends to the way technologies spread. For example, given our love of power in small packages, laptops would seem to have nearly limitless potential for success. Yet year after year they failed to break […]

For years, weve asked you to tell us how the companies that supply your tech needs are doing. This year, for our “17th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey,” we wanted to know—and more than 8,000 of you told us—how happy youve been with computer makers. Now weve taken that feedback and rounded up reviews of the […]

You may not don battle gear, but switch on an Internet-connected PC, and youve stepped into a war zone where countless insurgents relentlessly pound your system, looking for ways in. “Keep Your PC Safe“, part of the comprehensive new Security Special on our Security Watch page, provides the Special Forces training you need to prevail. […]

Convergence is upon us, and its nowhere more evident than in mobile phones. The latest models go above and beyond the duty of calls. Six are reviewed here. Four work on GSM/GPRS networks, making them particularly useful to globe-trotters: the Motorola V600, Nokia 3620, Nokia 6600, and Sony Ericsson P900. The PCS Vision Video Phone […]