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.

Web search company Google Inc. said on Wednesday it plans to partner with U.S. space agency NASA on space research and to build a new campus at the agency's research center in the heart of Silicon Valley.

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

Last week, we looked at the geeks who created iconic technologies. This week, we examine the executives who pushed those technologies into becoming the basis of some of the largest businesses in the world.

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.

As if it wasn't enough that nerds control the world, now they want to conquer space, with Silicon Valley ‘celebs’ lining up to send their digitised DNA off to the final frontier.

The steadily-climbing unemployment rate in Silicon Valley has reached a shocking four-year high of 6.6 per cent.

Industry reflects on 60th anniversary of invention.

Web pioneer sees online platform as next big thing.

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..

Stolen car triggers 'Here's Johnny', but no axe through window.

Chipmaker officially launches new architecture.

Chipmaker officially launches new chip architecture.

The 3000km race outback race from Darwin to Adelaide will feature a number of green vehicles, but none as high profile as Internode CEO Simon Hackett's Tesla all-electric machine

Sun flip-flops back to Intel Xeon servers.

Every industry has its share of villains, and the computing world is no different.

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

Silicon Valley geek led astray.

Environmental activist organization Greenpeace has made IT giant Hewlett Packard its latest target..

Integrated networking and closing the gap on floating point performance.