Responding to an expanding hole in the market, modem manufacturer PMC Consumer Electronics has given its ISDN terminal adapter a make-over by adding fax and voice messaging capabilities to its specification. The result is the Pace ...

There are now plenty of low-cost ATAPI/EIDE and SCSI-based CD-R and CD-RW drives on the market, making it easy for home and business users to create their own CDs, including backups, music compilations (copyright permitting) and ...

More than five years after the USB standard was first proposed, and several years since virtually all new PCs have shipped with USB ports at the rear, manufacturers are really starting to work on flooding the ...

As most users have probably discovered by now, thanks to the 'impurities' of the telephone network, 56Kbps modems rarely attain their full rated speeds. Somewhere in the low 40s is more likely and, although this is ...

This is not exactly PC hardware, but it's a small, cute, electronic gadget, so it merits a review. The IC Memory Recorder is basically a small audio recorder for note-taking, but instead of using micro-cassette tapes ...

This has to be one of the weirdest computer-related products on the market. Available either singly (for intensive mouse users) or in pairs (for frantic typists), the WristGlider is a small cushioned pad with a fabric ...

When CDs were first invented, Tomorrow's World ran a feature showing how tough they were. You could stamp on them, scratch them and even use them as frisbees, but you couldn't damage the audio tracks stored ...

CD-Recorders, and the blank disks they use, are now so cheap that many people can afford to create their own CDs. Whether for backup, archiving, music-making or software piracy, the volume of 'gold' CDs in circulation ...

One of the big problems with any technological change from one standard to another is that there's a cross-over period in which neither standard is standard enough. This sort of thing happens quite often in the ...

ISDN originally stood for 'Integrated Services Digital Network'. After a few years it became 'It Still Does Nothing'. But it seems that UK businesses, and even a few home users, are catching on to the idea ...

When is a PC not a PC? When it's two PCs. Or even three PCs. The first version of Sharedware, a hardware/software product designed to allow several people to use a single PC simultaneously, was launched ...

It had to happen some time. The ISA bus, which has been a feature of PC motherboards since the beginning of the 1980s, is due to be phased out. Or rather, if the PC99 'standard' put ...

Apparently, while Pace was showing this new modem/answerphone/fax receiver to journalists, it received several ideas for possible names for the product, including 'the cod-piece'. It's not too hard to see why, since this is an unusually-shaped ...

Mobile computing is big business, which implies that the market for mobile communications technology is also rather large. Psion Dacom has a healthy share of that market, and looks set to grab more with the launch ...

Launched a couple of months ago, the latest model in Adaptec's range of SCSI cards is definitely not aimed at the home user. Instead, this PCI adapter is intended for use in very high-end workstations and ...