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A survey of 2300 retail stores reveals that Apple has cleaned up in the smartphone market in Japan.

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While the EU fulminates over the evils of Microsoft and its unfair competition, we were surprised to find that the company everyone loves to hate actually turns out to be a damned sight more helpful than its rivals when it comes to giving users choice.

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A new class of black hole, more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, has been discovered.

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By now we know that iPhone jailbreaking has become a popular challenge among a dedicated developer crowd and freeing the phone from Apple’s chains is a matter of “when”, not “if”. If you have the new iPhone 3GS, you can open up your phone now, less than month after the new model was announced.

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An ant colony rivalling the scale of human civilisation is right under our noses, according to Japanese and Spanish researchers.

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Opinion: Let's imagine for a moment that we're in a strange parallel universe. Many things appear the same, but there are subtle differences. Today, for example, Microsoft launched the new version of its web browser, Internet Explorer 8…

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The Mozilla team is rushing to create the first minor update for its just-released browser Firefox 3.5 for a mid- to late July release. The update will fix at least three of 55 published bugs in the new browser.

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Just when it seemed that Twitter users couldn't become any sadder, news reaches us that an Australian outfit is offering to sell followers to pathetic imbeciles who have no real friends.

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Engineers are one step closer to developing an optical computer, following the successful creation of an optical transistor from a single molecule.

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Opinion: Despite Chinese protestations that its controversial Green Dam Youth Escort porn filter will still be mandated on new machines sold in the country, the whole concept is fatally flawed because there isn't a version for non-Windows machines.

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German scientists have created batteries so thin that they can be printed out, and reckon they'll be doing it on a commercial scale by the end of the year.

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Psystar, currently under legal fire by Apple and bankruptcy proceedings, is selling computers again, including a not so cheap Core i7 enthusiast system.

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US company Terrestar used an Ariane rocket to blast the world's biggest commercial satellite into space.

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Three new dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia: two giant, herbivorous sauropods and one carnivorous theropod, all from the mid-Cretaceous period.

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Dell is trying to appease Taiwanese consumers threatening legal action over a pricing mistake.

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Researchers from across Europe have built the largest quantum key distribution network ever, sending secure, quantum-encrypted information over an eight-node, mesh network.