Developers are setting up alternatives to Apple's App Store in an attempt to break the company's tight grip on what software can be used on its products..

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

Mobile industry desperate to drive data revenues.

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals

A phone application designed to show off how rich the user is has been hit by the recession..

Take up of free applications has not troubled market leader.

We take a look back at the tech products that were so overdone by marketing hype, that by the time they were released, most failed to meet expectations.

We gaze into a crystal ball and and ponder the future, or possible demise, of some well-known technologies.

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..

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.