The iPad officially arrives tomorrow, but people have been able to buy the tablet computer locally since May - at a cost.

The long wait is almost over for technophiles but mystery surrounds the release of the Apple iPad due to hit stores here this week.

The Apple iPad will finally go on sale in NZ on Friday with recommended retail prices of $799 to $1349 , the company has announced.

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.

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.

Apple's mobile operating system, iOS4, is now available through iTunes for iPhone and iPod Touch - iPad users will have to wait.

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.

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.

The Joint Border Management System will give Government agencies a powerful data-matching tool for identifying those transporting illegal goods.

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