One way Windows 7 will make working lives a damn sight easier is the speed at which it hunts down documents and other files.

In a world first, we've managed to get our hands on a review unit of Sony's stunningly thin ultraportable. Most surprisingly, it sports the newest Atom chip from Intel - the Z550 2.0GHz and GMA 500 graphics.

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Solid state storage vendors have been breaking records with a new generation of solid state drives (SSDs)..

Environmental activist organization Greenpeace has made IT giant Hewlett Packard its latest target..

We've heard much about quantum computing over the last decade, which promises computers worlds faster than any Intel or AMD powered machine, but it's not until recently that we're actually starting to see real progress

From Betamax to Amiga, here's a list of those IT innovations that fell under the bulldozer. Some were cruelly robbed of their advantage, others threw it away with bad management

Thanks to advances in nanotechnology, the future diagnosis of disease may be as simple as using a small, inexpensive, handheld gadget

Microchip controlled bullets that can fly at pre-calculated distances to take out enemies hiding deep inside their bunkers, are now a battlefield possibility thanks to a new weapon technology

Take a trip to the shops today and you'll see two main types of flat panel televisions on the shelves - plasma and LCD (Liquid Crystal Display). But will 2010 be the year OLED televisions storm our lounge rooms?

We've all had great ideas in idle moments that are either forgotten or impractical, but these are people who identified technological advances and made them happen..

Boffins engaged in fusion energy research are creating extremely thin plasma beams that could be useful for nanolithography to make future computer chips.

New York lawmakers set out to ban electronic distractions from cars, with drivers facing a plethora of gadgets at the wheel, from GPS to LCD DVD screens. Do they endanger the driver and should we ban all gadgets in cars?

Intel has announced that its forthcoming mobile processor, codenamed Moorestown, will be much more efficient than at first thought, and has been showing off prototype devices.

As the Guinness Books of Records may prove, people are fascinated with all things big and small. The Sharp Aquos LB-1085 makes us dream big with 108in

Scientists working for IBM have announced they have programmed a supercomputer with a working simulation of a cat’s brain

The 3000km race outback race from Darwin to Adelaide will feature a number of green vehicles, but none as high profile as Internode CEO Simon Hackett's Tesla all-electric machine

Sharp are finalising plans to commercially produce quad and triple layer Blu-ray discs capable of 100GB and 8x read speeds using new disc materials and improved laser technologies

Ask Jeeves has unveiled a database of 300 million pairs of questions and answers, designed to give users more accurate search results.