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The Windows Vista-based Dell Inspiron E1505 remains a good laptop for basic home use, with a solid set of multimedia features and high-end components.

'Star Wars' anti-cell phone PSA, building better passwords, the Encyclopedia of Life, Windows Live betas galore and a 'Warcraft' Visa.

The eMachines new T5226 desktop is powerful enough to run Windows Vista smoothly; we just wish it offered more-compelling hardware for the money.

Rich DeMuro shows you how to share an Internet connection, using the Wi-Fi on your Windows XP, Vista, or Mac laptop.

The Dell Inspiron 531, the company's newest, small-scale Windows desktop, may not offer the most bang for the buck, but it does offer more options than the competition.

The Motorola Q9c offers a refresh to Sprint's aging Motorola Q by bringing Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition, a revamped design with a better keyboard, and GPS.

On this week's episode of Mailbag, we unlock the mystery of the stopping stream on CNET TV, and wonder how many monkeys it takes to install Windows Vista.

Gateway's midrange DX420X is a strong midrange desktop that's primed for smooth Windows Vista performance. If you can live without an HD disk player, we recommend this Gateway, especially if you're looking for some extra performance.

Despite some niggling design flaws and the lack of 3G support, the HP iPaq 510 Voice Messenger offers outstanding voice-command features as well as the enhanced productivity tools of Windows Mobile 6.

The eMachines T5224 has a sleek new look, runs Windows Vista and delivers respectable budget performance with most of the features you'd want, but we think you can find a better PC for the money if you shop around.

A 13-year-old text-messaging champ; BlackBerry does Windows Mobile; Time Warner wants customers to share their Wi-Fi; high-paying high-tech jobs; and broadcasting yourself with Kyte.tv.

Better pictures without the bright light, Yahoo's OMG gets down and dirty with celebs, taking a Safari on Windows, keeping your cube at a comfortable temperature and naming your kid, Web 2.0 style.

The Pavilion m7690n Media Center TV PC will play both high-def movies and 3D games, and it's also ready for Windows Vista, for less than $2,000. No other PC we know of can make that claim. If you're in the market for such a system, this is a steal.

This week in Buzz, the Windows Vista train of horror continues, and the Scrabulous boys get greedy. Plus, death from above!

Brian Tong shows what you can do with the Snipping tool in Windows Vista.

The Asus P527 Windows Mobile smartphone may offer a ton of features and an attractive design but that's all canceled out by its frustratingly slow performance.

The Sony Ericsson P1i is a nice upgrade to its predecessor and offers an alternative to today's Windows Mobile and Palm smartphones, but we're ultimately disappointed by the kludgey interface and lack of 3G.

Apple's takes it already compelling iMac and beefs up the design and updated the under-the-hood components. The result is the best-looking PC on the market, that also compares very favorably against its Windows-based competition.

From CTIA 07 in San Francisco: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks with CNET News.com's Ina Fried about the importance of Windows Mobile and how he sees it evolving.

The Samsung SGH-i718 is a decent Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC smart phone with a 2.0-megapixel camera, quadband GSM support, and integrated e-mail support.