New MacBook Pro models touted as 39 per cent faster.

Emails laced with malicious software.

Company accused of misleading advertising.

New systems feature remote repairs and better battery life.

'Fribet' also connected to SQL attacks.

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

Consumer laptops upgraded with Core 2 chips.

Newest Mac Pros offer up to eight processor cores.

Update addresses laptop performance issues.

Steve Jobs unveils slimmer, aluminum desktop.

PC vendor to back university gaming circuit.

Simpler brand selection for business and consumers, claims chip firm.

Apple, Microsoft, Sony found metadata project.

Rootkit-laden video is latest to exploit Tibet protests.

Prizes for best third-party tools.

Researcher wins US$10,000 bounty with JavaScript attack.

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.