Hitachi’s ingeniously hinged screwdriver is your flexible friend when it comes to awkward screws and looks remarkably like a Halo 3 gun

Hitachi, Canon and Matsushita join forces.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) has taken the wraps off the world's first 2TB 7,200rpm desktop hard drive..

Joint project to develop 32nm and 22nm processors.

Joint project to develop 32nm and 22nm processors.

Travelstar 5K500 due next month.

High-capacity desktop drives have never been so affordable. Darien Graham-Smith puts 23 to the test to find the best

They're not obsolete yet. Capacity isn't the only saving grace for hard drives, with Hitachi spinning out 7,200 rpm devices.

How much capacity and how many drives do you need? We look at a selection of storage options

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

Monster storage; plus a choice of professional SAS or consumer SATA interfaces and reliability to boot.

A tad pricey but a well-built desktop DAS appliance with plenty of fault-tolerant storage and top performance

Sony has developed a user identification technology that scans veins in the finger to allow access to mobile devices and personal computers.

An inexpensive laptop that, when it comes to style and quality, more than punches above its weight

Small enough to fit in your pocket but with enough power to make light work of rusty screws and flat-packed furniture

Graphics cards manufacturer Nvidia posted a fourth quarter $147.7 million loss, as demand for Nvidia-equipped PCs weaken.

30 major consumer electronics firms under the spotlight.

Feature-complete release candidate of virtualisation software released.

40 per cent drop in 12 months.

Now a hard drive manufacturer is talking about switching to the super fast solid state drives.