A well-featured package with some unusual tricks that falls just short of a first-rate performance.

Excellent features and an innovative interface are dealt a killer blow by average print quality.

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.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

This Investigator reports how one man spent six weeks fighting "tooth and nail" with People Telecom over a contract he claimed was extended by 12 months without his permission.

The credit crunch has put Bill Gates back on the top of the Forbes rich-list as the number of billionaires on the planet falls by almost a third.

This phone can do it all, but it’s exceedingly frustrating to use, and that counts it out

Microsoft is investigating reports that say log in details for more than 10,000 Hotmail accounts have been leaked to the web

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.

Still holding its own at this price, but note the HD 4830.

Lighter than ever, but its all-round performance isn’t quite first class.

Unmetered download agreements are next the battleground as games consoles follow the Apple TV's lead to support movie download services.

The world's first universal programmable quantum computer has been unveiled in Colarado by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The A330 is a competent, fully featured and easy to use DSLR, but a backward step in some respects.

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.

It’s fast, but not quite fast enough for the huge price.

Fans of the films will probably get a kick out it, but it's probably not the greatest use of the franchise.