From the moon landing, to the rise of Apple and Google, we rate the most inspiring technology moments in history.

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..

Things that make you go aaaargh, including Vista, Bluetooth and other things that may or may not make you mad

Great design and comprehensive features make it a truly great Media Center PC. Only the price lets it down.

Want to skip the Christmas crowds, or nab a once in a lifetime bargain? Online shopping could be the answer. Tim Dean looks at the glory and the pitfalls.

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..

The other alternative camp of AI research that sprang up in the 1980s decided that the whole idea of high level abstract intelligence and complex models of the world was a bad idea - or at least too a

The world wide web is celebrating its twentieth birthday. Over those last two decades, the web has changed the way society works, plays, and interacts..

Earlier today I pondered the possibility of an Intel Atom-based smartphone. It looks like I wasn’t far off - Intel has just shown video of an Atom based cordless home phone.

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.

Every day it gets hard and harder to keep up. Here is a list of 10 handy tools for increasing workplace efficiency.

Hitachi pioneered the idea of consumer cameras capable of recording video direct to DVD. The early models were large and relatively expensive but high quality. It has taken a while for the idea to take off but it is certainly gaining momentum with a number of competitors now coming into the market. Hitachi has responded by progressively making its cameras more compact and adding extra features such as a SD memory card for storing still images or compressed video clips.

The future of Internet access is now. The idea of connecting cables to a computer to enable a connection will soon seem as archaic as manually cranking the engine of an automobile. Ed Dawson samples a cross-section of bleeding-edge wireless broadband services and cuts through the hype.

Anyone who has heard of the idea of noise-cancelling headphones would agree the idea sounds terrific.

One would think that, with ever cheaper, faster and more reliable SSD drives, the idea of a small "Turbo Memory" or "Flash Cache", would be passe by now. Not so.

As futuristic technology concepts go, 3D screens have been right up there with the teleporter as an aspirational idea that could change the way we see the world, yet the idea still resides in the realm of the science fiction.

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