Planning that extended weekend away, or perhaps you have an overseas business trip looming? Then this list is a must-read.

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

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..

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..

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals

More digital Swiss Army knife software, including utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

Portable multi-platform IM client

Multi-platform IM client

Red Hat has released the latest version of its Fedora open source operating system and has added new video, virtualisation and networking support..

Modern, professional email client

The WD TV LIVE is the latest product from a slew of manufacturers to offer high definition media centre playback with enhanced multimedia features and multiple file formats

Mozilla has asked developers to build applications for a new open-source email management project called Raindrop.

There's no shortage of twitter clients available for mobile phone platforms. We investigate some of the best

Microsoft is investigating reports that say log in details for more than 10,000 Hotmail accounts have been leaked to the web

MessageLabs warns malware is likely to go undetected.

Google's been promoting its Google Chrome browser hard and now it's set to come as standard on some Sony laptops

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Versatile multi-IM chat program

Thousands of Gmail and Yahoo email addresses and passwords are also leaked on the internet, leading to fears of an industry wide phishing attack

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