Jef Raskin, the Man often credited with creating the Macintosh, died on Saturday aged 61. He has recently been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died at home with his family.

Raskin joined Apple in 1978, becoming employee 31. His work on...

We reported earlier this week that Firefox was becoming a victim of its own success by becoming a higher-profile hacking target, now the downloads passed the 25 million mark.

Happily, the latest weaknesses in the browser - chief among them,...

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has joined Microsoft's Xbox team and in a new development deal, will produce RPGs for the console. The FF series has sold one copy for every person in the UK population (60 million). Clearly Microsoft are quite...

The fact that UK consumers pay more for goods and services than the rest of the world isn't news. The special detail on this occasion is that The Consumers' Association is supporting disgruntled customers by referring calling in Office of Fair Trading...

AMD decided to remind the market that its own 64-Bit range is alive and kicking now that the 32-Bit XPs have been retired, in the face of Intel's move to try and catch up earlier this week.

“AMD's leadership with dual-core processor technology...

While American teens are routinely charged for defacing government websites or hacking, it takes a daring (or foolhardy) hacker to pretend to be the FBI in order to slap more viruses onto unsuspecting users' computers.

The real FBI said;

First it was the GameCube in 2003, then the PS2's revamped version last Christmas. Now it's Microsoft's turn to see its current console fly off the shelves following its last price cut to exactly £100.

Retailers with online arms have issued...

We said we'd keep you posted and now they're here. Early reports whetted our appetite last Friday. Now the world's patience has been rewarded with two new iPod mini digital music players. Apple intends to cover both ends of the market for those rejecting...

Apple took the covers off its brand new iPod photo portable digital music player earlier today. The 30Gb model is now the entry level for the picture ‘Pods, which debut at $349(UK£249). Apple also took the sensible route and cut the cost of the 60Gb model...

Eidos hasn't been in the best of shape recently, shutting down one of Ion Storm's studios in the US and hoping that Hitman fans will buy Blood Money in droves to help revitalise the company's share performance. While EA takes a stake in Ubi Soft instead,...

Like most internet phenomena, it was underground at first, then little by little it became better known, and now for a large portion of users, life without it would be strange. Diehards may have stuck with previous incumbent rival Netscape even after...

The questions about Google's all-conquering dominance of the search market began with its stock market floatation. It was followed by the G-Mail email service with an air of exclusivity with its invitation system and hitherto unknown abilities for the...

First it was music, then movies, now it's the humble small screen that's getting increasingly targeted by British downloaders. The target? Whatever's new and hot on US TV, apparently. Bitorrent is the wild frontier where these shows are located and if...

The name Eugene Jarvis may not be as big as say, Miyamoto from Japan or Will Wright with his Sims. In the early 1980s though, as the coin-operated Arcade explosion had taken off with Space Invaders and Donkey Kong from The East, in America Jarvis developed:...

At Christmas 1994, Intel's big Q3 launch was the original Pentium processor, rated at 60MHz. It's amazing to think that that stupid jingle's been driving us nuts for a decade, and the current version is 50 times faster than the first model ten years later....

Sony, always wanting a little more space for its wares to get attention, waited until yesterday to announce its Digital Camera range updates, after other regulars such as Canon and Olympus spilled the beans on Friday at the Photo Marketing Association...

After sales of five million copies two years ago, another Matrix game was guaranteed and the release of the gigantic box set with everything from 1999 to the end of 2003 in DVD format, development of the online version went quiet, until now.

He's been coding since 1987 so he isn't an overnight success. Peter Molyneux's name conjures up memories of many classics such as Populous, Syndicate, Magic Carpet, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, the like-or-hate Black and White and the recently released...

The first reports of Hotmail's magical, almost mythical 250Mb mailboxes began to surface just over a week ago. The second batch of official emails were sent today but unfortunately, they still promised jam tomorrow rather than allowing users to wake up...

New chart, same old rubbish, might be your parents' way of seeing it, but this is the day that the Music business finally got its rear in gear and gave the public the service it should have done five years ago.

In this digital chart, the...

No, Pirates can't use it but yes, you will be able to get it from your favourite computer magazine's cover CD or DVD. Those are the final answers from the Redmond Giant on Service pack 2, which will be widely available from Microsoft's site by the end...

“MURDER BY PLAYSTATION” screamed the front page headlines on the front of the Daily Mail on Thursday July 29th.

A little further in from the front page today the newspaper sheepishly reported the slightly more intelligent observation from the...

DSG, encompassing PC World as well as Currys and the eponymous chain, pulled the game Manhunt from its shelves in all versions in response to its being blamed in a murder of a 14 year old by a 17 year old. Warren Leblanc, 17, of Braunstone Frith, Leicester,...

It looks like another summer of viruses is underway. Fresh from MyDoom.O hitting search engines as reported elsewhere in news in the quest for new email addresses to spread itself to, the Trojan has left a back door through which Zindos is stepping after...

It seemed like a only short time ago that we brought you news about MyDoom-N, but seems to be working its way through the alphabet. It took a different and nastier turn than its predecessor when it conspired to bring down sections of Google.co.uk and...