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

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..

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..

Get your kids to design LEGO models

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

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.

Seagate has released several new hard drives that feature self-encryption as standard..

The standard was first proposed seven years ago, and is now official for wireless routers.

AMD has been displaying its new ATI Eyefinity graphics card system, which allows users to run six monitors from a single card.

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

The Harwell computer will become the oldest functioning electronic stored program device in the world if Bletchley Park boffins can raise the funds to get it fixed

Though neither company is willing to declare that the effort will make competitors such as AMD and Apple obsolete

Google has revealed that it is working to deliver a 64-bit port of its Chrome browser for Linux users..

Boffins engaged in fusion energy research are creating extremely thin plasma beams that could be useful for nanolithography to make future computer chips.

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen is climbing on board a new browser project known as 'Rockmelt.'.

Microsoft has assured customers it will continue to support version 6 of its popular Internet Explorer web browser, despite growing calls from various quarters demanding it be scrapped and users forced to upgrade..

Telstra's MEOW is a portable trailer sized ADSL station, that aims to be the ultimate in portable ADSL2+ backup, as it can be ported around the Australian countryside for rapid deployment during times of disaster.

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.

NASA has released digitally restored broadcast footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk but the one-inch telemetry tapes recorded at tracking stations in Australia and the U.S. remain lost

Backroom boffins in the US Army have decided that robots will be better at warfare if they have a built in guilt system.