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

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..

The internet's most famous meme has now turned up on Australian iPhones, infecting vulnerable jailbroken phones with the 80s pop star's image - proving that not all malware is humourless.

Google have announced that they will release free turn-by-turn map navigation for Android phones, making us wonder whether phone GPS is finally good enough to replace dedicated in-car devices

From Betamax to Amiga, here's a list of those IT innovations that fell under the bulldozer. Some were cruelly robbed of their advantage, others threw it away with bad management

There’s so much to like about this package that it might just be worth switching operating systems to get hold of it.

The company promises that Windows 7 will be the best version of its operating system yet, critical acclaim has often eluded Redmond. We've decided to count down the ten best products ever to come out of Redmond, from DOS 5 to Flight Simulator and NT 4.0

Synchronise your IE, Firefox & Safari bookmarks

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on your iPhone. Here's seven great Christmas-themed apps

Quit unresponsive tasks before you reset your system

Thoroughly remove installed software

Take this free multi-format archive manager on the road

Try this brand new email client

Try this brand new email client

If you haven't set up your desktop with two LCD monitors, then now's the time. We've picked this LG Flatron as the winning 24in LCD in our latest group test

Give your PC additional protection with this free security suite

Securely store your passwords & web form info

A stunning piece of design matched with excellent battery life, but with an Atom inside the price is surely too high

The Mayan prophecy might be counting down, but the science behind the new film 2012 might leave a few people confused. We look at what the film got right and what is best left to conspiracy theorists.

AMD/ATI and its partners made quite a splash with the recent release of the 5 series GPUs, and is creating a lot of excitement about what future iterations of the cards will be able to do