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

Google is planning to launch an e-book store called Google Editions next year to compete with Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

The company said that its new Kindle Books application will allow Windows PC users to purchase, download and read e-book titles from Amazon's Kindle Store service..

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.

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..

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Is the bargain in the shop in front of you really all that cheap? Your phone can let you know. Here's how.

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A Microsoft Surface prototype was unveiled today at the Microsoft REMIX event in Sydney, demonstrating a new way of interacting with Lonely Planet travel titles. But Surface has even bigger plans in 'store'.

To honour John Hughes, we've listed tech movies that give you all an excuse to sit down with a DVD or two and enjoy tech in the movies..

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.

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.

Prophecy is a hazardous art when it comes to computers. We do know what's coming to the PC in the near future however, so read on to see the year ahead

Intel's legal eagles are suing AMD in America as part of its defence in an antitrust case it has already lost in Europe.

The AMD versus Intel fight is going for a rematch in the US courts, and it appears that Intel is getting mean right from the start..

Scientists are betting on a new high tech material, which is among the strongest and thinnest known materials in the universe

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

A British boffin has come up with software that detects whether or not you are looking at your computer and switches off the display if you are doing something more important

Its longlife 24-hour battery makes it significantly less portable, but this laptop is classy in every sense of the word.

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