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..

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..

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

We gaze into a crystal ball and and ponder the future, or possible demise, of some well-known technologies.

A hugely likeable phone that excels at web browsing and manages to just live up to its ambitious name.

The Mayan prophecy might be counting down, but the science behind the new film 2012 might leave a few people confused. We look at what the film got right and what is best left to conspiracy theorists.

We like the ambition of producing a low-cost BlackBerry, but until it drops in price there’s too much competition.

A father and son team have completed an arduous 3000km journey across Australia on an ex-'postie' motorcycle, all for the sake of proving that the impossible can be done with expensive Polish alcohol

There’s so much to like about this package that it might just be worth switching operating systems to get hold of it.

Wireless in-car connectivity centres are gaining popularity thanks to 3G and burgeoning 4G services. We take a look at a couple of the bigger examples and investigate how they're changing the way we drive.

AMD/ATI and its partners made quite a splash with the recent release of the 5 series GPUs, and is creating a lot of excitement about what future iterations of the cards will be able to do

Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative 'safety' of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over.

Get the latest gear to stream movies from the study to the lounge room, record digital TV and watch TV online

The latest high-tech gadgetry for when you’re tangling with nature

Be the most connected home on the street with these tech toys for getting your family online.

High-profile short films from around the world are now getting made on DSLR cameras, thanks to rapidly improving sensors and prices. Judge for yourself, with these five videos made with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Bringing destruction to life on screen is a everyday job for the effects wizards behind the upcoming film 2012. In fact, the filmmakers produced a whopping million gigabytes of data

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

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

Google have announced that they will release free turn-by-turn map navigation for Android phones, making us wonder whether phone GPS is finally good enough to replace dedicated in-car devices