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..

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..

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

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.

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.

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

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

Industries keeping a sweet outlook during these sour times.

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

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..

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

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

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

Things that make you go aaaargh, including Vista, Bluetooth and other things that may or may not make you mad

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..

They say that behind every great man there’s a great woman, although these days it could just as well be the other way around..

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.

Ever wondered which of your favourite Sci-fi films still holds up? Ian Thomson and Shaun Nichols looked at classics such as Jurrassic Park, War Games and The Matrix and found a few surprsies..

One problem: the engines canna take it.

Xerox is claiming a major breakthrough in the field of printable circuitry with a new form of 'silver ink' that could allow electronics to be produced more cheaply and flexibly..