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.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Trouble ahead for podcasts.

Barack Obama, Fox News and Britney Spears among the victims. Is anyone surprised?

Global prices for Vista Ultimate and Home Premium to fall by up to 40 per cent.

Intel are reporting that their new range of 34nm SSDs will help push down the price of older drives.

Copyright bloodbath to end at last.

Company readies Phenom processors to compete with Intel's latest offerings.

Viacom not justified in demanding removal of 100,000 videos, says advocacy group.

Intel and Nvidia have agreed to a deal which will end the companies' licensing battle.

South Korean chipmaker Samsung said that it has shipped its first 16GB DDR3 memory modules..

Ever wondered which of your favourite Sci-fi films still holds up? Ian Thomson and Shaun Nichols looked at classics such as Jurrassic Park, War Games and The Matrix and found a few surprsies..

'Switzerland' lets users probe for net neutrality.

Green the theme for new boxes.

Company continues to increase market share.

Skateboarding dogs now available on-the-go.

Search giant buys ad firm.

Skeptics be dammed - BluRay is kicking along just nicely thanks, in fact better than DVD did in its early years.

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..

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.