A snip at US$25,000.

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.

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..

They say that behind every great man there’s a great woman, although these days it could just as well be the other way around..

From the Commodore 64 to Microsoft vs Apple, we take a look at the top 10 fights in technology history.

'Intel killer' on schedule, AMD claims.

IBM's Roadrunner system has once again been verified as the fastest supercomputer on the planet..

AMD is opening the champers after its six-core AMD Opteron processor based system was named as the world's most powerful supercomputer.

NICS, the US National Institute for Computational Sciences has just upgraded its Cray XT5 supercomputer called Kraken. It's so powerful, it puts out petaFLOPS of peak power

High performance computing (HPC) may be the pinnacle of the computer speed pyramid, but not its profit pyramid.

The Harwell computer will become the oldest functioning electronic stored program device in the world if Bletchley Park boffins can raise the funds to get it fixed

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..