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Corel Home Office

Despite some compatibility setbacks, Corel Home Office suite is useful for creating documents. Its conscientious size, small-screen optimisations, and attractive price make it a good buy for a Netbook office suite, or for saving space by shedding advanced features.

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  • Asus Eee Box B206

    For undemanding users who aren't into HD video, Asus' Eee Box B206 is worth a look; however, it's not powerful enough to take on other media-centre PCs.

  • HP Pavilion s3680a Home PC

    Obviously being a small desktop, performance isn't at the super high end of the scale. But being on par with a mid-range laptop these days, we don't know why you wouldn't just buy that for cheaper.

  • Sony PlayStation 3 Home Preview

    Sony's Home is one of the most highly anticipated titles on the PlayStation 3, and it has the potential to revolutionise the way users interact online. However, there's no doubt it's taken a long time to come to fruition.

  • Harman Kardon DMC 250 Digital Media Centre

    Despite the name, the Harman Kardon DMC 250 isn't a Windows Media Center but a DVD player which can rip music to and playback content from USB drives and memory cards.

  • Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000

    Unless you desperately need a full-sized keyboard covered in silver to match your decor, we'd suggest you pass on the Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000, and go for one of the cheaper options.

  • Pioneer VSX-LX70

    The Pioneer VSX-LX70 is a top-of-the-line receiver which features 1080p upscaling, HD-audio decoding and a piano black finish.

  • Pioneer VSX-LX60

  • Acer Aspire E700 MMX1

    The Acer Aspire E700 MMX1 is a respectable but not groundbreaking machine. While we've seen other machines that have managed better results for the price, we've not seen one in such a well designed package.

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  • IceTV wins EPG High Court decision

    Australian company IceTV has won a long-running court battle against the Nine Network in which the television station had claimed IceTV's electronic program guide infringed its copyright.

  • iRiver's Wave Home

    There's been a little bit of buzz at CES here about the iRiver Wave Home, which marries a networked multimedia device with a communications hub to form a kitchen/home office-friendly gadget.

  • VTech enters the home-audio market with music-streaming device

    In an interesting move, VTech, the makers of wireless home phones, has entered the home-audio fray with the IS9181, a Wi-Fi-enabled internet radio receiver.

  • Data-corrupting Home Server won't be fixed til June

    Yesterday Microsoft dashed the hopes of users waiting for a fix to the Windows Home Server data corruption issue -- the patch will not be available in its official form until June.

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