If your iPad requires service due to the battery's diminished ability to hold an electrical charge, Apple will replace your iPad for a "service fee".

If you're a systems engineer who wonders whether you've chosen the right profession, I bring you good news. For a survey has declared that systems engineer is the best job in America.

Despite all the money companies spend on research and development, they still manage to trundle out some absolute junk. There are thousands of bad products out there, but here's the ten worst that we've encountered in all of our years of reviewing products.

When Steve Jobs badmouthed Adobe Flash to The Wall Street Journal, he said it was buggy, littered with security holes, and a "CPU hog." It's hard to argue with the first two, but a new study claims the Apple cult leader was wrong about the hog bit.

Anything that makes the form-filling associated with claiming a refund less tedious is a win for consumers. But it's also a potential nightmare for governments and companies that provide the services we rely on. Les paper work, more claims.

Microsoft is to launch its UK video-on-demand service today with hundreds of hours of programmes, including Skins, Kingdom, Faking It and Waterloo Road, and has promised that online high-definition viewing will follow.

Once again, rumours are making their rounds that Google is going to make some sort of set-top box play. The latest: the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is working with Dish Network on a new feature that would let users search both TV content and web videos on set-top boxes "using elements of Google's Android operating system".

You don't often hear Microsoft's Steve Ballmer gushing about Apple, but he was sure being nice to his Cupertino, Calif., rival last week. Microsoft and Apple are reportedly close to adding Bing search to the iPhone, and Ballmer's praise of Apple's App Store may be another sign that the companies' frosty relationship is thawing.

A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.

Self charging devices have been dreamt about for a long time now, and there have been many attempts to come up with a good implementation of such a concept. Now Nokia has managed to lay claims to a patent that could result in a self charging mobile phone (or gadget).