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.

New platform guns for enthusiast users with four graphics cards.

Student faces 69 felony counts for altering transcripts.

Adobe pipes HD video into media player.

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.

Are 32 nanometers better than 45? You bet your sweet High-K/metal gate. IBM is claiming a 35% performance gain over today's CPUs.

6-core server chip unveiled.

Technology could allow for wireless transmission of HD video.

Ever wondered which of your favourite Sci-fi films still holds up? Ian Thomson and Shaun Nichols looked at classics such as Jurrassic Park, War Games and The Matrix and found a few surprsies..

Backers still have high hopes for platform.

Big Blue promises faster high-end processors.

All over bar the shouting.

AMD has released a special limited edition processor designed for heavy overclocking. The Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR chips will support higher voltages and perform at higher frequencies.

Company to research optical on-chip connectors.

M18 chips aimed at multimedia mobile phones.

Via Technologies has introduced a new x86 board design which is capable of operating in extreme temperatures..

A new report is predicting that sales of Blu-ray discs will top 100 million by the end of 2009..

All the data on AMD's new Radeon lineup, including the 4870 X2 which clocks in at 2.4 teraflops.

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