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.

Quick, packed with interfaces, but just a little too expensive.

A computer error has led to some Visa prepaid credit card holders being charged enormous sums for simple purchases

A permanent internet connection in space is gradually turning into a reality after the first node was connected to the International Space Station (ISS)

Most people agree that applying for work is a full time job. But when that job application requires you to list the very details that make up your private life, one suspects that the hiring process has gone way too far.

The FreeAgent Theater allows you to share movies and photos from your PC to your TV; except most TVs already do this now. The concept still needs work, although the unit's navigation is easy to use.

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.

Telstra's MEOW is a portable trailer sized ADSL station, that aims to be the ultimate in portable ADSL2+ backup, as it can be ported around the Australian countryside for rapid deployment during times of disaster.

Utilising new engineering technologies to produce incredible high and lone tones, the Bose SoundDock 10 is a virtual orchestra in your lounge room.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

So it seems that the Wii and PS3 won't be hogging all the motion-sensitive gaming fun for too much longer: the first motion-tracking controller for the Xbox 360 has just been unveiled at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

See the trailer for one of this year's promising science fiction movies, Moon, which takes cues from Odyssey 2001 and Solaris

Google Android set to make its way into stacks more devices next year if T–Mobile has its way

But can't get it back for them

An unorthodox race in South Africa has revealed that it is faster to transmit 4GB of data via carrier pigeon than it is to send it over the country's main ADSL services.

A California company is offering personal satellites for sale at bargain basement prices, complete with all the necessary gear to launch, monitor and run your own satellite from the "privacy" of your home computer.

NASA astronomers say the about-to-lift-off Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) could result in "ten school buses" worth of debris when its payload hits the moon surface