Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Redmond will modify desktop search to allow third-party technologies.

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

Google is to start selling a voice activated search application for the iPhone..

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

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.

Attack shows interesting Google hacking technique.

Agents have to give laptops back under proposed legislation.

Tiny porn images 'fair use', says judge in Perfect 10 case.

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

Search giant gets into the security business.

Google has announced that it is to trial a new, potentially more irritating, form of "expandable" advertising on its search pages..

Available to all on Thursday - SP2 contains improved support for Bluetooth devices, an updated Windows Search tool, support for Blu-Ray devices and a host of other tweaks..

It ain't over till it's over.

If only they could see beyond billing, says HP.

A new computational linguistics tool from OpenAmplify is promising to make life simpler by analysing large amounts of data to find out user’s real wants and needs..

Move could 'threaten internet innovation'.

Proposed merger raises 'antitrust' and 'privacy' concerns.

Study shows around one per cent of all internet content is pornographic.