Vendor to support XP Home and Media Center Edition for an extra five years.

New computing platform seeks to streamline nursing.

Proof-of-concept code targets ActiveX component.

Climate-modeling cluster to top 67 teraflops.

Now you see it, now you don't. XP and Vista service packs delayed by "compatibility issue"..

Time change causes problems for vendors.

Security patch addresses wireless vulnerabilities.

'Planetary Skin' to gather data on global warming.

Deciding to stay in the "save-XP" camp? This month's Service Pack could be the last, so lets hope it's a good one.

Experts give early word on simulated attack.

New OS includes mobile version of Internet Explorer.

Program pushes internet-scale development to students.

Scottish supercomputer said to be ten times more energy-efficient.

Script-kiddie virus authoring tool starts churning out custom exploit code.

Some of the people on this list are successful billionaires, Some Nobel prize winners or high-tech nomads. However, some individuals are weird even by geek standards.

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.

From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.