Apple continues to defy hard times with solid sales, including the company's strongest quarter ever.

Palm has said that it will be dropping the Windows Mobile operating system in favour of its own webOS platform.

It is starting to look like things are going to heat up on the GPU front as Nvidia and AMD go head-to-head in the next month or so.

It is looking like Acer will be the first PC manufacturer to release an Android powered netbook. According to a company statement, the outfit will release an Android version of the Aspire One in the third quarter of this year.

Nvidia has confirmed that its already much-maligned Fermi GPU based graphics cards won't be seeing the light of day in 2009.

At his keynote address to the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco the company's general manager of architecture Sean Maloney will be showing off Intel's first 32nm processor, codenamed Westmere..

The announcement of a pair of 2GHz dual-core processors from ARM has drawn speculation over a new chip war with Intel in the netbook space, despite the fact that products based on the chips are not likely to appear for at least another year.

While more expensive PC's are getting harder to sell, netbooks and cheap systems are showing improved growth.

Nokia has outed the 6700 slide and 7230, two colourful sliders aimed at social networkers on a budget

Around 5,000 homes in Tasmania will be the first to experience 100Mbps Internet via the National Broadband Network - which government backers are likening to the electricity revolution.

At Computex today, home grown Taiwanese firm Acer unveiled its new Aspire One netbook sporting the Android operating system.

The days when laptops occasionally explode due to their lithium batteries breaking down could soon be over thanks to a new invention which shuts down the explosive reaction.

The New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has announced it is launching an anti-trust investigation into Intel after allegations that the chip giant abused its market position.

There isn't much point, after all, in owning a network printer capable of printing thousands of pages per month at a ridiculously low price per page if the people that use it don't print out that much on a day-to-day basis.

Lightning quick Transfer Jet "touch to transfer" tech showcased at IFA 2009

That 50in screen might seem like a good idea, but here's why you should be careful about falling victim to screen envy

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..

Microsoft has assured customers it will continue to support version 6 of its popular Internet Explorer web browser, despite growing calls from various quarters demanding it be scrapped and users forced to upgrade..

A datacentre conference has heard how one nation plans to drastically cut the cost of running data centres by using sea water to cool servers.

About 100 people signing up every hour to support the pro-file sharing agenda of the Pirate Party.