Videophones, in one form or another, have been around since the 1920's, with some major attempts to create public videophone booths in the 1930's and 1950's. But why didn't they take off in the modern era?

Legal beagles from software bully Microsoft have managed to close down the last public download source for the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE).

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has put together a supercomputer that's based around a cluster of graphics processing units (GPUs).

Forget the corporate tie, BlackBerry has teamed up with Boost to aim the smartphone at celebrity-mad teens with a pre-paid offer

Stuart Turton spends the third day of his one week odyssey with Linux, fighting Fedora monitor hassles, wishing for Ubuntu at work and discovers that forums can be a Linux user's new best friend.

The latest Avatar trailer takes a closer look at the battle tech behind the film - but we can't help compare it to James Cameron's Aliens in tone and style.

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

Security experts warned today that the Verified by Visa online authentication scheme has become the latest lure used by phishers hoping to harvest personal information from unsuspecting shoppers..

Intel has released a short animated video illustrating the process by which sand is turned into silicon and a CPU. But the over-simplicity has us leaning towards AMD's older and more interesting video

Google is bringing out an operating system - Chrome OS. But how will it fare against the likes of Windows?

Google's much-rumoured 'G-Phone' handset is set for release next year, according to a number of reports..

Mozilla has released the latest beta version of Firefox 3.6, providing a number of updates and security fixes..

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.

Telstra has completed the 100Mbit upgrade to their Melbourne cable network and are next planning to get 30Mbit speeds into the rest of the country; but first they'll need to dispel those endless NBN comparisons

It's not quite Foxtel IQ and it's isn't TiVo either. The T-Box lets Telstra users watch movies and TV from the Bigpond site, as well as record and watch digital TV

More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on your iPhone. Here's seven great Christmas-themed apps

Turn your iPhone into your own personal gym and fitness instructor with these five fitness-centric apps

Scientists working for IBM have announced they have programmed a supercomputer with a working simulation of a cat’s brain

Vendor details editions for Office 2010 along with application virtualisation for testing.