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.

Researchers at the Arizona State University (ASU) have been awarded a two year US$5.1 million grant by the USA government to develop a radically improved battery..

The traditional beige box is slowly but surely on its way out in favour of new desktop form factors Intel says.

Intel has developed a new line of Atom processors designed for use in televisions and is calling for developers to write widgets and applications for the new platform.

The standard was first proposed seven years ago, and is now official for wireless routers.

Microsoft has taken the unprecedented step of allowing marketers to re-brand its new Windows 7 operating system..

The Pirate Bay has announced that it has shut down its tracker technology for good and replaced it with a new form of peer-to-peer network..

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has moved swiftly to play down the significance of the arrest on terrorism charges of a nuclear physicist who worked at the Hadron Collider for six years.

This year's Nobel Prize for Physics has been given to three men behind fibre-optics and digital photography..

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is to take a closer look at the proposed deal between Microsoft and Yahoo over their search engine businesses.

Google has accidentally let slip some secret plans relating to its Google Voice call management service, revealing that the service may be coming to markets outside the US soon.

USB 3.0 products are starting to hit the market overseas, according to the USB Implementors Forum (USB-IF)

The famous lab breaks speed records at 100 petabits per second per kilometre over transoceanic distance.

Google introduces push mail to the iPhone and Windows Mobile devices.

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..

A US firm has started selling DVD storage discs that it claims will still be readable in 1,000 years..

Google has officially released the software development kit (SDK) for its Android operating system..

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.

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

IDF is Intel’s main forum for new releases and updates on the older products and as such is key to understanding the company’s direction. Here's what impressed us.