The Mayan prophecy might be counting down, but the science behind the new film 2012 might leave a few people confused. We look at what the film got right and what is best left to conspiracy theorists.

Bringing destruction to life on screen is a everyday job for the effects wizards behind the upcoming film 2012. In fact, the filmmakers produced a whopping million gigabytes of data

HSPA earmarked as dominant technology for now.

None of that flashy Chinese nonsense

Service revenues to reach US$400bn by 2012, reports Informa.

Every text you take, every click you make.

Overall sense of 'cautious optimism', reports analyst.

Still facing strong competition from cable and satellite.

Imminent launch of 3G services to push sales to $21bn by 2012.

For the next next generation of consoles, PS4, XBox3 and Wii2, it looks like Intel is in, Nvidia is out. The picture for their GPUs is starting to become clear.

Sector expected to be worth $17bn by 2012.

Revenue for leading technologies to double from 2006 to 2012.

Chip firm will release its first six-core Opteron this summer.

IDC reports steady transition to portable PCs.

Plaintiffs allege Redmond still dragging its feet.

Open source OS on mobiles not a question of if, but when.

Analyst predicts drive from emerging markets and casual gamers.

New payment technologies are key, says analyst.

We list the world’s 10 most annoying viral marketing campaigns; the one’s that had you wondering ‘WHAT THE!?' from the moment they popped up in your inbox or clicked on them in YouTube.