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.

This feature is for anyone who's finished a working day with the horrible sense of dissatisfaction that things didn't go to plan, that you've been ineffective. That you just didn't do all the things you wanted to.

As we bring our Information Overload summit to a close, we have decided to name and rank the biggest culprits for the overload, the issues which more than anything else are causing companies to drown in a deluge of data..

A shift of focus to advanced CSS and JavaScript handling, but Dreamweaver is beginning to look old-fashioned

AMD is likely to shift production of desktop CPUs to 45nm process technology by the third quarter of 2009 and launch several new CPUs, say sources in the know.

Forget the corporate tie, BlackBerry has teamed up with Boost to aim the smartphone at celebrity-mad teens with a pre-paid offer

Not quite the consumer/business crossover it aims to be, but there’s a lot to like in this clever mix of old-style business laptop and feature-packed modern machine

ARM's Director of Mobile Computing, Bob Morris, says he sees a "fundamental shift" in the PC industry towards lower power, "full day use model" devices and reckons his firm is well placed to bring the fight to Intel in the cheaper than Atom chips sub $200 market.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has proclaimed that economic conditions will help shift the tide against pricey Apple products and help consumers to see the error of their ways.

iSuggest, Record Me, 12 new SD channels, 15 new HD channels, new plan pricing, IQ formatting changes and more time-shift options are all expected to be phased in over the next month.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Asus have launched their new 2009 range with a bunch of improved netbooks and laptops with better battery specs, better keyboards, touch screens and one model that disperses negative ions.

The upcoming 2TB SDXC card format on display here at CES will mean a whopping 136,000 photos on a single card.

Sleek and professional, the Hp Mini 5101 is another attractively pitched netbook that can't shake its very poor battery life. When will manufactuers learn that battery life is all-important to netbook success?

New skills needed to consumerise corporate technology, says analyst.

Nextep has extended its transparent LAN private network product with unlimited 3G access from Optus at a price it claims will be "not too dissimilar" from buying business-grade ADSL services

Criminals are continuing to extort money from vulnerable users, through 'scareware' practices that trick users with bogus security threats.

A powerful phone with a superb keyboard, but it’s simply too costly to win an award

Neither fish nor fowl, the N10J nonetheless manages to command both graphics and portability