Local software company Pingar has begun an ambitious push into the Chinese language computer search engine business.

Apple has gone nuts overnight, releasing a host of new machines, plus a couple of interesting new peripherals.

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.

'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.

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.

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

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

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.