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Whether you prefer a laptop or an iPad as your mobile workstation, you can't use it alone--you need to bring along other stuff to make it truly useful and to [...]

+ How to squeeze more pages from any printer Printers are money pits: you pay for the machine, and then you keep on paying more for the ink or toner [...]

WHETHER YOUR PRINTER costs $40 or $400, the purchase price is only the first item on your new list of ongoing printing expenses. Over time, buying the ink or toner […]

Your next printer may have multiple personalities. For years multifunction printers have saved scarce office space, but the latest all-in-ones print as well as general-purpose printers do, at comparable prices. […]

Freelance writers Richard Jantz, Dan Littman, Mick Lockey, and Carla Thornton, and PC World reviews editors Richard Baguley, Tracey Capen, Sean Captain, Rebecca Freed, Alexandra Krasne, Melissa J. Perenson, and […]

Bonkers About Beige? Better Act Quickly Test Center The MPC Millennia 910A, second on the power section of our Top 15 Desktop PCs chart, is the last of its kind. […]

THESE HARDWARE EXTRAS should be considered essential laptop partners. A laptop puts music, movies, games, and Web browsing at your fingertips, but you'll need some decent headphones to get the [...]

FEEL LIKE YOU'VE set up your office in a phone booth? Attempting to carve out a work area for your home business or small office can give you that Spam-in-a-can […]

Coolness Key: Way Cool: ***** Cool: **** Kinda Cool: *** Not So Cool: ** Tepid: * We scouted computer stores, elbowed our way through trade shows and picked the brains […]

To glimpse the future of PCs, go straight to the top of this month's Top 20 Power Desktops chart. There you'll find Dell's Pentium-200 Dimension XPS M200s, one of the […]

Convert Webpages to PDFs on iPads Q: I'd like to call up webpages and save them as PDFs on my iPad. Is there a way to do that? Eric Margerum [...]

A simple strategy for finding the printer that's right for you. You'd think buying a printer would be easy. You figure out what kind you need, then find the model […]

The Enterprise Team searches for one printer to handle clients from several LANs Tested and Written by Nicholas Petreley - Senior Reviews Editor, Nancy Durlister - Senior Systems Analyst And […]

Color emerges as the new corporate standard EVERY FEW YEARS the corporate world ups the ante. It redefines what is considers 'acceptable' output for written communications. At the dawn of […]

WINDOWS 7'S NEW Homegroups feature simplifies sharing files and printers on a network, by letting you connect to files and printers with a group password--but only if all of the [...]

It has been more than two years since Hewlett-Packard Co. started shipping the LaserJet III printer, which dramatically expanded the feature set of this printer compared to previous generations. The […]

You may be on the road, but you still have deadlines to meet. Luckily, today's notebooks can keep up with the busiest mobile executive, and their accessories aren't far behind. […]

IF PINK IS the new black, and 50 is the new 40 (and I really hope it is), are laptops the new desktops? I'd have to say yes. With the […]

TODAY'S SYSTEMS MAKE way too much noise. We spend good money on high-quality speakers so that our CDs and MP3 files will sound terrific, and then we force those speakers […]

Fred Zagurski never worries about running into hardware glitches with his Olympus C-700 Ultra Zoom digital camera. 'It has performed flawlessly,' says Zagurski, who runs his own company out of […]

Byline: Colin Neagle In his keynote speech at the Inside 3D Printing conference in New York today, 3D Systems CEO Avi Reichental said that when he's asked if 3D printers [...]

3D printers are the hottest new technology on the IT landscape. Everyone --users and vendors alike-- wants a piece of the pie and, with 3D systems now printing candy and [...]

You may notice that that prices on fast, well-equipped PCs are coming down to earth, with a fourth of our budget desktops selling for under $1500. You may also notice […]

(2) Brother MFC-J870DW go.pcworld.com/brotherj870dw >> Near-field communication is a technology waiting to take off--tap any two NFC-enabled devices together, and they can share data. Consumers, however, have been slow to [...]

Byline: Colin Neagle Widespread adoption of 3D printing technology may not be that far away, according to a Gartner report predicting that enterprise-class 3D printers will be available for less [...]

A notebook could never be everything a desktop is without sacrificing its portability. Can you imagine trying to balance a 17-inch screen on your knees, or lugging around a set […]

Will we soon see faster processors? We often do when PCs based on the current top-speed chips are selling for near-budget prices. Pentium-200 PCs have steadily dropped in price, and […]

The 21st century is half over. All over the world, billions of people work and play by connecting their minds to the global computer network, injecting themselves into virtual reality. […]

Byline: Keith Shaw These days, cases for your new smartphone, tablet or e-reader are just as important as the device itself. Whether it's to fit a specific style, taste or [...]

Byline: Jon Gold A tiny, cloud-connected printer that can be used for offline news, puzzles and even social media content is now available for pre-order. MORE TRADITIONAL PRINTERS: Best practices [...]

Byline: Jon Gold Let's face it - a lot of the technology that smartphone and tablet makers use in their devices is pretty similar. After all, there's only so many [...]

Byline: Linda Musthaler Here's a riddle for you: When is a printer not a printer? Answer: When it is a sophisticated document and data storage device on your network. Those [...]

Byline: Galen Gruman When then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised in spring 2010 that iOS would support native printing, I and many others were happy, as the inability to print was [...]

The year was 1968: Nixon was elected president, Apollo 8 circled the moon, and Vietnam War protesters shifted into high gear. On the big screen, Stanley Kubrick dizzied the masses […]

The one major system component a traveling PowerBook user typically leaves behind is a printer--for obvious reasons: its weight and bulk. But what can you do when you're on the […]

Byline: Ellen Messmer now, the idea of using data-loss prevention (DLP) technologies to detect and block unauthorized transit of sensitive information across a network at host and gateway points is [...]

Cheap and cheery things to put under the Apple tree Hey, What is with everybody lately? You can't pick up a newspaper without reading about the gloom and doom at […]

Byline: Linda Musthaler About 20 years ago, when I was a systems engineer for a software company, I spent hours and hours generating custom printer drivers that would work with [...]

Looking at the maze of printing devices in any organization, it is clear we are still a ways off from the completely digitized work environment. Out of necessity, convenience and [...]

Have you been keeping that old Selectric around just to address envelopes? Here's how to bring labeling into the computer age. When it comes to addressing envelopes, labeling file folders, […]

The past couple of years have seen the consolidation of color laser printers as affordable, reliable mainstream machines, delivering a big boon to office workers who need to produce attractive, […]

A printer depletes toner and wears out other components at varying rates, leading to operating expenses that fluctuate over time. Based on our calculations, most color printers cost more to […]

Inspecting content on the wire, the approach taken by the products in this roundup, is nothing new. In fairness to these vendors, they've put a lot of hard work into […]

64-bit buzz made a lot of noise, but management software still has room for improvement By InfoWorld Test Center staff The world of server hardware revolved around newfangled 64-bit systems […]

Even offices that work mostly with memos, spreadsheets, and other no- nonsense documents need color output sometimes. Dell's 5100cn addresses this need in a very affordable, low-maintenance package. With a […]

Hewlett-Packard showed off 14 new imaging and printing products during an event in Frankfurt, Germany. Executives showcased the HP LaserJet 4345mfp multifunction copier, which they said can crank out as […]