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.

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

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

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

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

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

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

The company promises that Windows 7 will be the best version of its operating system yet, critical acclaim has often eluded Redmond. We've decided to count down the ten best products ever to come out of Redmond, from DOS 5 to Flight Simulator and NT 4.0

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

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.

Could you really replace your home or business broadband with a mobile dongle? Our broadband buyer's guide names the best plans, the most attractive deals and the best value for money.

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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