Apple has posted a lot of information about the iPad. Much of it was covered in the introduction, but Apple has filled in some blanks.

Microsoft has been forced to admit that a security update for its popular Excel application caused non-English text to appear on some users' screens.

Captain Kirk might want to avoid taking the starship Enterprise to warp speed, unless he's ready to shrug off interstellar hydrogen atoms that would deliver a lethal radiation blast to both ship and crew.

Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans, particularly off the United States' Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say.

While the Nintendo Wii has had this segment of the market cornered for some time, Microsoft is developing a camera-only motion control system for the Xbox 360 called Project Natal (still a working title), and is now officially joined by Sony in the console gesture control arms race.

The TomTom Car Kit and the Magellan Premium Car Kit are two devices that fill the same very small niche. With such similar functionality and performance, we decided that it all comes down to form factor. With that in mind, we put these two iPhone accessories side by side to see how they stack up.

The inevitable Merging of the traditional tv and the internet has not been lost on Google. Already taking a hold over every market on earth, they have yet to enter the tv or online tv market. But now they have partnered with Dish Network, and are trialling a new search service that makes finding your tv shows from both the internet and tv much easier.

An odd lot, those Android modders. Clearly bored, one of them tinkered with Android a bit until it responded to the accelerometer all the way round. So now, whenever you turn your T-Mobile G1 round, the display turns too. But not just between portrait and landscape modes – all they way round, turning your homescreen completely upside down.

A convicted sex offender was today sentenced to life imprisonment after admitting the kidnap, rape and murder of an English teenager Ashleigh Hall he had met on Facebook.

Is it our imagination, or have an unusually high number of so-called “sexy” apps started to appear on the Android Market this last week or two, ever since Apple launched its POWER-MAD attack on all sex-related apps on its App Store?