A town is to become the first in the UK to provide free wireless internet access to all its residents.

  BlueArc Corporation, a leader in scalable, high-performance unified network storage, today announced that its Titan storage solution received the annual HPCwire Readers' Choice Award for best HPC storage product or technology, presented at the 2009 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis , held at ...

  Nov 16 - Experimental technology that stimulates the retina via an external camera has enabled a blind woman in New York to see.

  This has to be something for the ultimate geek. Thing is, I normally associate that term with a guy. This isn't exactly a nice small stud a guy can wear.

  The New Oxford American Dictionary has picked its Word of 2009. The choice goes to show you the ubiquity of Facebook (and MySpace): the word is "unfriend."

  A Chinese-owned solar panel maker is planning to build a 100,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing plant in the Phoenix area.

  If you want to hack a corporation fast, Social Engineering techniques work every time and more often than not it works the first time.

  The Cray XT5 supercomputer known as Jaguar at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility has become the fastest in the world.

  Its romantic to think that all people need is the thought of contributing to the preservation of our planet for them to invest in climate change.

  It's good to have allies and Microsoft's Bing is ensuring it has as many companies on side as possible in a bid to defeat Google by providing the most relevant search results.

  Russian crime gangs are making millions by selling counterfeit Tamiflu to paranoid Britons online.

  Firefox, which just turned five, now claims 25% of end users, according to market research firm Net Applications. Calm down though: it was about a year ago that Net Applications said Firefox hit 20%.

  I've just set up a new consumer Windows 7 PC - " it was HP's Compaq Presario CQ5231UK, not bad value at 399 with Core 2 Duo E7500 , 3GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit - " yes, 64-bit Windows really is mainstream now - " 500GB hard drive and NVIDIA G210 graphics.

  AT&T continues to blast (and sue) Verizon over its recent ads, which make a point of hammering home the 3G coverage holes in AT&T's network. AT&T has said that the ads are misleading, and on Friday, AT&T said it wanted to set the record straight regarding its lawsuit.