Mistaken report sends users searching for 'beta' release.

First unveiled at IDF in 2007, the new system supports speeds of up to 4.8Gb/s, compared to the 480Mb/s speed of the USB 2.0 standard..

This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing

Ah the irony. Battling the IE giant, Mozilla sets a "World record" event to publicise the new Firefox 3, only to see its servers swamped and downloads slow to a crawl.

Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..

Electronics giant Toshiba said that it would be posting deep losses as reports suggested the company would cut as many as 3,900 employees.

Service Pack 3 release moved to first half of 2008.

Apple has officially released the new iPhone 3.0 software update for download, including voice memo recording, multimedia messaging and the addition of Apple's Spotlight search software

Search giant buys ad firm.

New version of player guns for the iPhone crowd.

PayPal is planning to open up its online payment service to outside developers..

Company continues to increase market share.

Profits of $1.58bn on revenue of $9.6bn.

Jobs' MacWorld promise goes unfulfilled.

Wii and DS consoles continue US market dominance.

Newest Mac Pros offer up to eight processor cores.

Adobe pipes HD video into media player.

Upgraded console adds HDMI and larger hard drive.

Chip giant unveils new processors as Dell and HP launch quad-core PCs andservers.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.