compact camera with high speed shooting: Over the years Canon has managed to pack an enormous array of features into its never-ending series of IXUS cameras. Generally speaking this seems to be the electronic equivalent of squeezing a pint into a half-pint...

dual-socket Xeon tower server: Remember Gateway and its garish black and white boxes? Well, times have changed, and the fancy boxes are long gone. Moreover, Gateway is now the business arm of Acer, with the Gateway GT350 F1 server the...

stylish and compact mobile scanner: In a technological age where the emphasis is increasingly on becoming more compact and user-friendly while still maintaining high quality and a myriad of features, it's perhaps not surprising that scanners are now receiving the attention...

family tree software for the Apple Macintosh: In the main, genealogy software is notable for two things: its popularity (no-one likes to pass up a good family history/mystery) and the awfulness of the interface. Web-based services had made some progress here but much...

business oriented workhorse: The Samsung P580 is a business grade laptop that isn't going to win any prizes for looking good or showing off fancy features. But it is a solid performer. The 15.6-inch screen delivers 1366 x...

12-megapixel camera with GPS and HD video: The Panasonic DMC-TZ10 has the look and feel of a digital camera that has been designed by metal workers rather than the usual bunch of electronic engineers. For starters your eye is likely to be drawn...

latest version of bestselling CAD software: It's hard to believe that the first edition of TurboCAD saw the light of day in 1986, but it's usually a good indication that a product has found a solid position within the market when 24...

impressive low cost Android smartphone: HTC prides itself on having some of the most feature packed smartphones on the market, but the Wildfire is something different. Specifically designed to be a low cost smartphone, it nevertheless runs Android 2.1, which puts...

miniature Android smartphone with a slide-out keyboard: The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini pro is a superb smartphone. It is innovative and well built, though right at the outset we should note that it runs Android 1.6, which puts it somewhat behind the...

small business accounting package: Other than minor tweaks to cope with legislative changes, accounting packages don't change very often these days. So it comes as no surprise to discover that QuickBooks 2010 is the first major update to Intuit's bookkeeping...