The online video market will have a retail value of more than $3.8 billion worldwide by 2011, according to Understanding & Solutions.

PC Magazine has declared that Windows Vista is the most disappointing product of 2007. Quoting: ‘Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?

Greek traffic police are threatening to fine Coco the parrot — or rather his owner — with "illegal parking" for letting the bird perch in the road outside his pet shop, press reports said.

Chances are you just finished dropping a boatload of money on holiday gifts. You probably paid for the bulk of your purchases with a debit or credit card, particularly if you did any of your shopping online. But what did you do to protect yourself against identity theft?

British scientists have discovered waves that flow deep in the Pacific Ocean. Using ocean-going robots they detected the waves flowing eastwards almost a mile deep.

The fun-lovin’ computer scientists at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg held a funeral for their retired 47-year-old IBM 650 mainframe, Betelgeuse. The festivities included pallbearers who carried the machine out onto the frozen, snowy lawn, a brass band that played a mournful New Orleans style Amazing Grace during the procession (and broke into joyous […]

The first top ten list of influential under-fives - the toddlers whose parents’ combined fame may mean they one day eclipse mum and dad in the spotlight in earning power and notoriety

A high-tech version of the traditional sailing ship is the latest bid to halt climate change. Two German companies have teamed up to create a kite system that uses wind power to pull enormous ships.

We’ve always thought that 1) buying baby chicks - cute as they are - for little children’s transitory enjoyment on Easter is kind of cruel and 2) colored chicks get to be that way because they are sprayed with dye after they are hatched.

The world’s tallest snow sculpture has just been completed and will debut at the 20th International Snow Sculpture Art Expo which opens on Dec. 20 at the Sun Island Scenic Area in Harbin, capital of northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province.

The inventor of a worm-driven composting toilet in New Zealand had to prove the worms were not traumatised or stressed by their task before council bureaucrats would approve the system.