Last week, we looked at the geeks who created iconic technologies. This week, we examine the executives who pushed those technologies into becoming the basis of some of the largest businesses in the world.

Shut down city traffic during union battle.

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

Administrators dismiss it as ‘napkin drawing’.

Investigators baffled over source of fire.

Deal would break four-year AMD relationship.

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

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

World robot Olympics start today.

The standard was first proposed seven years ago, and is now official for wireless routers.

Computer problems dog orbital telescope.

Total open sourcing of Java moves closer.

AMD has been displaying its new ATI Eyefinity graphics card system, which allows users to run six monitors from a single card.

New design could beat Nasa to the moon.

World of Warcraft reduces stress, says university study, after test subjects showed "higher levels of relaxation" after two hour sessions.

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..

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..

IDF is Intel’s main forum for new releases and updates on the older products and as such is key to understanding the company’s direction. Here's what impressed us.

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.

From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.