Macs are easy to use, so everyone says, and indeed, that's how I found them when a mate introduced me to them back at the beginning of 1988.

Guidelines rather than a law change will be used to allow inventions that contain embedded software to be patented, Simon Power says.

E-reader competition is hotting up.

'If the iTunes account hacking part is true, then Apple really needs to step in and fix this,' wrote one.

The baby of the MacBook Pro family isn't specced too far away from the plasticky MacBook low-end consumer machine.

Oracle's net income has jumped 25 per cent on strong sales and a bump from the acquisition of Sun Micro.

In a move that looks set to delight PC gamers and hard core tinkerers, Intel has launched two new affordable unlocked processors that are built from the ground up to be very overclockable.

Some features in Windows 7 are designed to help users get a lot more from the operating system.

Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7, is close to becoming more widely used than Vista, but still lags far behind XP.

Scalpel-free, virtual autopsy, or 'virtopsy' - a radical new approach to forensic investigation.

Staunch anti-piracy advocate, Warner Bros is being sued by a German company which alleges the studio has pirated its anti-piracy technology.

People called Apple a flash in the pan - but Flash is on the way out and Microsoft just got passed by Apple in market capitalisation.

Accused of "the biggest military hack of all time" Gary McKinnon is, according to the US, the most dangerous hacker in the world.

Many IT workers have reassessed their careers, perhaps got extra training - but they're needed now, and the pay rates are moving up in response.

In 1998, a hacker told Congress he could bring down the internet in 30 minutes by exploiting a certain flaw - and it's still not fixed.