Atomic, PC Authority and CRN win top industry awards Haymarket cleans up at the 2006 Consensus IT Writers Awards. More...
The huge Culture Shock Christmas comp! Cult DVDs, board games and classic Sci-fi your cultural collection! More...

CSIRO to demonstrate 6 Gbps Wi-Fi link; 12 Gb/s link planned Read it again slowly: six (6) gigabits per second. Over wireless. With more to come. More...
Atomic Chat: Guillermo del Toro Director, producer and writer of the forthcoming, and guaranteed cult classic, Pan's Labyrinth. More...
Microsoft and Razer announce the Gaming Snake The input device formerly known as a mouse will hit stores soon. And crikey, isn’t she a beauty. More...
Atomic’s Game News Roundup -- 1/12/2006 Lost Planet, Supreme Commander and Rainbow Six: Vegas have some video they'd all like to share with you. More...

Sapphire X1950XTX Relatively blissful silence comes to the X1950 series, and for not much more than the X1900. More...
Belkin Tune Talk Stereo A useful iPod accessory! Toll the bells, alert the king; a useful iPod accessory! More...
Borat: Cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan I swear, the grammar checker found no problems with that sentence whatsoever. More...

Solar cell revolution boosts efficiency to 40 percent Best ever sunlight to power conversion. More...
US adults see nanotech as less risky than guns Damning with faint praise. More...
WiMax faces fight from existing mobile operators Don't write off mobile technology yet, warns analyst. More...
Optima, JB HiFi land in hot water with ACCC Both Optima Technology Solutions and JB HiFi have gotten themselves into trouble with the the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission over seperate issues. More...
Post-shakeup, Yahoo needs to focus on products Some analysts said the company has to begin consolidating and improving services as soon as possible, which could be hampered by the absence of a leader in the new business group that would focus on customer-centric products. More...
Microsoft to fix six flaws next week Microsoft doesn't disclose the exact components, services, or applications to be patched prior to delivering the updates, but only offers clues about what it plans to fix. More...
Anti-spyware orgs seek investigation of MP3 site Two anti-spyware groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday to shut down FastMP3Search.com.ar for allegedly stuffing users' machines with spyware, stating that they believed the Argentine site was one of the world's worst spyware spreaders. More...
Microsoft: Vista wireless access could cause laptop battery drain Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning on a company blog, because some wireless access points aren't configured to take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi power-saving mode. More...
New releases fuel Xbox Live and iTunes website traffic surges Apple and Microsoft reap the benefits of new software development. More...
Threat of intellectual property theft growing rapidly Over two-thirds of manufacturers fear the threat to their product intellectual property (IP) has grown over the past two years, new research has found. More...
AMD: 'Digital living room' to take many forms Contrary to the prevailing wisdom, the PC won't necessarily be the centerpiece of the so-called "digital living room," according to Advanced Micro Devices executive Joe Menard. More...
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6 copies of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition for Xbox 360 Win a copy of Activision's stunning new Xbox 360 game: Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
10 Roadshow Entertainment Sci-fi BBC packs 10 copies of Dr Who: The Mark of Rani, plus Red Dwarf: Beat the Geek DVDs
3 x Games Paradise board games sets Includes Superman Returns Monopoly, Star Wars Saga Monopoly, Lord of the Rings Monopoly
Madman Cult DVDs 3 x DVD packs. Includes Donnie Darko Collectors Edition, Master of the Flying Guillotine, FLCL Collection, Paranoia Agent Collection and Wicked City
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