Industries keeping a sweet outlook during these sour times.

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.

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.

From the Commodore 64 to Microsoft vs Apple, we take a look at the top 10 fights in technology history.

For every way that the web has improved life, it has also made things more complicated, frustrating and dangerous..

The world wide web is celebrating its twentieth birthday. Over those last two decades, the web has changed the way society works, plays, and interacts..

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..

Rod Beckstrom, president of Icann, has used his address to the Black Hat USA 2009 conference to propose a new economic model for valuing computer networks and the internet..

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 the moon landing, to the rise of Apple and Google, we rate the most inspiring technology moments in history.

Things that make you go aaaargh, including Vista, Bluetooth and other things that may or may not make you mad

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..

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

A fortnight ago we reviewed the worst villains in computing history. But what would a villain be without a hero to battle with?

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 new computational linguistics tool from OpenAmplify is promising to make life simpler by analysing large amounts of data to find out user’s real wants and needs..

To honour John Hughes, we've listed tech movies that give you all an excuse to sit down with a DVD or two and enjoy tech in the movies..

IDF is Intel’s main forum for new releases and updates on the older products and as such is key to understanding the company’s direction. Here's what impressed us.

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

New "racetrack" memory promises to make DDR2 look archaic, thanks to something the boffins mysteriously call "spintronic phenomena".