Do you remember Windows ME, the Sinclair C5, Zip disks or the Apple III? Early adopters usually pride themselves with getting the finest tech products first, but sometimes being first isn’t always best.

Australia has long been known for its 'big' tourist attractions. Now, with over 6 million Aussies downloading from BitTorrent site Mininova in April, we've officially become a nation of 'big' download lovers.

Sony’s new laptop sports a Blu-ray writer and one of Intel’s latest Penryn processors, but it’s overpriced.

Up to 40% of drives purchased on eBay contained a mix of personal and corporate data, including private photos, emails and even bizarre fetishes.

The strange, the antique and the downright geeky – we chronicle the 10 best (and worst) vintage tech advertisements of all time

Using popular jailbreaking tools freely available online, an iPhone developer and hacker has demonstrated the lack of security on the Apple iPhone 3GS - and posing potential worries if you're using the iPhone for business.

A few disappointing extras make this an unappetising upsell from the standard ZoneAlarm suite

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

The Sony HDR-XR200VE mini cam uses gyros to provide image stabilisation, and has an inbuilt GPS receiver

Care to pimp your car, geek style? Azentek have just released a Vista (shudder) powered in-car PC called the CPC-1200 that they claim will be safe for use while driving.

The camera giant throws its weight behind flash-memory with its first solid state video cameras. It's also the first from Canon to record at 1920 x 1080 Full HD.

Online backup company offers unlimited online backup space - is this better than portable USB drives?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is giving away a series of large cash prizes for the discovery of Mersenne prime number discoveries. A record breaking 12-million digit prime recently scored its finders a $100,000 cash prize.

Asus add yet another netbook to their range: the swivel hinged T91 Eee PC and HP offer the Mini 5101 netbook for professionals. We investigate the perfect netbook for busy professionals

New screenshots of Microsoft's next OS appear online - but are they the real deal?

Bringing destruction to life on screen is a everyday job for the effects wizards behind the upcoming film 2012. In fact, the filmmakers produced a whopping million gigabytes of data

Form and function meet in the middle in one supremely well-made package

A hybrid spawn of Alien and Michael Bay’s Transformers – this 4TB, Quad Core predator from Acer shows no gaming fear.