Bill Gates Thursday promised to offer a $3 Microsoft software package to poor students both in developing and developed countries.

800,000 PS3s sold in EU means success for Sony

A new site aims to take a bite out of Wikipedia's hold on the user-created online encyclopedia market and improve accuracy by requiring contributors to use their real names.

If you thought only Apple was able to generate mass hysteria with the pre-launch of the as-yet unavailable iPhone, think again – Google’s rumored Phone could herald yet another mobile phone revolution.

IT professionals are being forced to adopt Microsoft's operating systems — even if they tell their PC supplier they want a system free of Microsoft software.

The home entertainment market is still wrestling with having two HD optical formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, but soon it will have to deal with another. UK-based New Medium Enterprises (NME) has developed the Versatile Multilayer Disc (VMD), a new optical-based format capable of storing 20GB of data.

Emotiv Systems unveiled on Wednesday a brain/computer interface system with a helmet and software applications at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Could a Second Life-style persistent online world become the PlayStation 3's killer app? Sony game chief Phil Harrison seems to think so.

The internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the web. Can you trust it?

When the European Commission launched a streaming video service last year which excluded Linux users, large swathes of the open source community became deeply angry. Now, a Surrey local council has shown that open source operating systems can be included in such programmes.