From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality

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

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.

Every industry has its share of villains, and the computing world is no different.

From Betamax to Amiga, here's a list of those IT innovations that fell under the bulldozer. Some were cruelly robbed of their advantage, others threw it away with bad management

From watching iView on your mobile to live Australian TV while overseas, to Freeview, Foxtel IQ2 and TiVo, Stuart Andrews and Zara Baxter perfect the menu for takeaway TV.

A fortnight ago we reviewed the worst villains in computing history. But what would a villain be without a hero to battle with?

From movies and games to sporting events and even pornography, David Bayon explains why 3D displays are the next big thing.

No matter how much we tell ourselves that we are rational, scientific human beings a Friday 13th still sends a tremor up some spines.

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.

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..

This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing

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..

We gaze into a crystal ball and and ponder the future, or possible demise, of some well-known technologies.

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

For every way that the web has improved life, it has also made things more complicated, frustrating and dangerous..

After the disappointment - perceived or otherwise - of Windows Vista, many are pinning their hopes on a revival with Windows 7. And from our first impressions of the pre-beta code, that's exactly what they can expect.

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..

As we bring our Information Overload summit to a close, we have decided to name and rank the biggest culprits for the overload, the issues which more than anything else are causing companies to drown in a deluge of data..

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