While you are visiting the CES show in Las Vegas next week you may want to stop by the Dell stand and grasp in awe at its sleek new LCD widescreen monitor. 

Desktop computers are definitely getting smaller and this latest one from Lluon shows just how tiny they can get. While most people are buying laptops more than desktop PCs - this one could be considered as possibly the best looking Media Center PC in the world.

Your peripherals could be getting a whole lot quicker as the 1394 Trade Association (the people behind Firewire technology) announced that a new version of Firewire would go all the way up to 3.2Gbps. That's basically a DVD movie-worth of data transferred over the cable every 12 seconds. 

Ah, Windows! It's the magpie operating system. We only say that because some Microsoftie has gone and written on a blog that the next version of the Redmond Behemoth's operating system will take several leafs out of the iPhone's playbook - a la multi-touch features.

It's nice to know that manufacturers are taking the female market seriously. What do women want from gadgets? Is it a pink phone? Is it applications that tell you what make up to wear? Whatever it is, Lindy is keen to get in on that important demographic with a card reader that doubles as a vanity mirror.