From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality

If you want to compare big TVs sitting on the shelves, go shopping when there's sport on the TV.

Industries keeping a sweet outlook during these sour times.

It's not much bigger than an Eee PC 901, and will cost a mere $429 when it goes on sale in 4 to 5 weeks. But what does it look like up close? Feast your eyes on our exclusive photo gallery.

So your Mum's not inspired by an overclocked Phenom system - but she might go for these gifts.

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.

There's a lot of fake news going around about the upcoming GPUish chip called the GT300. Let's clear some air on this Larrabee-lite architecture.

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.

Mama she's making eyes at me

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..

Despite the expense, TV vendors seem hell bent on pushing the Blu-Ray format here in Las Vegas – and now Sharp has even built it into the TV itself.

New screenshots of Microsoft's next OS appear online - but are they the real deal?

Gartner calls for curb on spending that does not help core business.

Microsoft expects .NET to take the development platform crown from rival J2EE, relegating the current leader to academia and other niche markets in favour of what it sees as the 'easier' alternative.

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..

We take a look at how Europe has used recent advancements in telescope technology to create its own super telescope, and learned a few tricks from the American based Hubble.

Israeli scientists think you look OK, but you could look a lot better, something they intend to rectify with special computer software which 'fixes' pictures of a person’s face based on proved innate human preferences.

High-ranking executive to 'look after product quality'.