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

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..

Apple has big plans to tackle iPhone jailbreaking, with a job posting for an "iPhone OS Platform Security Manager" showing Apple means business

Long been considered the Holy Grail of online funding, Micropayments were once hailed as the next big thing in internet commerce. But somehow, they just never took off. We delve into the days before Paypal ran the show.

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

Windows 7 may be fresh on the shelves, but new job vacancies on the Microsoft website show that work on Windows 8 is already underway

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals

Director of Conficker Working Group admits that the worm still represents a massive threat.

Apple has been avoiding questions recently about an alarming quirk with its new iPhone OS 3.1.

Japanese researchers claim to have found a way to break the Wi-Fi Protected Access(WPA) encryption system used in wireless routers in just 60 seconds..

To honour John Hughes, we've listed tech movies that give you all an excuse to sit down with a DVD or two and enjoy tech in the movies..

Using popular jailbreaking tools freely available online, an iPhone developer and hacker has demonstrated the lack of security on the Apple iPhone 3GS - and posing potential worries if you're using the iPhone for business.

The USA is responsible for 15 per cent of all junk mail, says a Sophos report.

The best of the rest. Who's reporting what in the world of PCs, technology, science, broadband, sci-fi, products and more:

Employers are blocking access to social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook three times more frequently than they were before the global financial crisis took effect

Asus have launched their new 2009 range with a bunch of improved netbooks and laptops with better battery specs, better keyboards, touch screens and one model that disperses negative ions.

Holland's largest Usenet group, FTD, are suing anti-piracy outfit BREIN. File sharing is perfectly legal in the Netherlands and Bittorrent sites such as Mininova are fighting to stay alive by going on the attack

Hackers have apparently found a way to decipher the PIN code data from millions of ATM cards without the need for external skimming devices at the ATM

A fortnight ago we reviewed the worst villains in computing history. But what would a villain be without a hero to battle with?