As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) powers up, scientists at Cern have announced that the twin energy beams at the heart of the device have broken new records..

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

Scientists working for IBM have announced they have programmed a supercomputer with a working simulation of a cat’s brain

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

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 US firm has started selling DVD storage discs that it claims will still be readable in 1,000 years..

Researchers at the Arizona State University (ASU) have been awarded a two year US$5.1 million grant by the USA government to develop a radically improved battery..

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

The New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has announced it is launching an anti-trust investigation into Intel after allegations that the chip giant abused its market position.

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..

Xerox is claiming a major breakthrough in the field of printable circuitry with a new form of 'silver ink' that could allow electronics to be produced more cheaply and flexibly..

Google has officially released the software development kit (SDK) for its Android operating system..

Canonical has announced plans to limit the distribution of free Ubuntu CDs, claiming that demand is outpacing supply

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

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..

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has been voted the most admired entrepreneur by young people in America..

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

An employee has accidentally leaked details of Microsoft’s next operating system via his LinkedIn profile..

This year's Nobel Prize for Physics has been given to three men behind fibre-optics and digital photography..

The head of the UN International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has told delegates at the ITU Telecom World 2009 conference that the next big war will most likely be fought online..