Laptop manufacturers have a long, and let's face it - often awkward history in their attempts to appeal to women.

Boffins monitor brain reward centres during game play.

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..

Abra-keda-bra!.

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..

Israeli scientists think you look OK, but you could look a lot better, something they intend to rectify with special computer software which 'fixes' pictures of a person’s face based on proved innate human preferences.

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.

The glorious software empire, upon which the sun never sets, has turned to 'Tupperware parties' to flog its Xbox360s.

Gender imbalance evening out.

The female of the species is more deadly than the male

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.

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

ASUS unveils a rather risque advertisement for the Eee PC on YouTube, featuring short skirts and sexy women. Cheeky viral marketing -- but there's no Bunny Boy on the way.

PC Authority has won the computing & games category at the inaugural Australian Magazine Awards.

Two Boston sleep researchers have discovered an enterprising way to beat the problems of jetlag by combining mathematical models with 'light hacking', a process that can best determine a person's optimum circadian rhythm and stave off tiredness

Size does matter after all.

Taser device has 1GB of music storage and a 50,000 volt bite.

And one in five of them play games every day.

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Alcohol-dependent people given therapy in virtual environments.