Among the people who agree that more people need to get into computers and engineering is Leah Buechley, an assistant professor at MIT's famous Media Lab. That's why, at ETech in San Jose today, she gave a explaining the secret super powers of electronic fashion. "It's not enough to take existing mo...

Not really… but they can give it a good try anyway. In case you missed it, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is currently serving up a ballroom blitz in Dancing with the Stars – one of the highest-rating TV shows in the US. DWTS, as fans probably call it, is an American version of the BBC's popular...

The technology trendwatcher and publisher officially kicked off this year's Emerging Technology conference in San Jose with a call to arms Day zero of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference – ETech – has just ended, and so far, so good, so quiet. The preamble to the main event consisted of ...

Probably not... unless you're drummer Lars Ulrich, anyway. Over the years the heavy metal stalwarts have been one of the most vociferous opponents of online filesharing – indeed, their lawsuit was one of the spurs behind the case that brought down the site that started the peer-to-peer movement, N...

Tough… particularly if you're Dell. The Texan computer manufacturer has been taking a battering recently - and things aren't getting better, according to financial results released yesterday. In the three months ending in January, the company's income was down to $351m from $679m for the same peri...

Apple's invisible man continued to exert his influence at the company's annual investors' meeting For most bosses influencing your company is hard at the best of times, let alone when you're not even in the room. Trifling things like physical presence are not a problem if you're Steve Jobs, however:...

After success with his predictions in sport and politics, Chicago's Nate Silver found Hollywood harder to analyse We've written before about Nate Silver, the statistical mastermind behind US election tracker FiveThirtyEight, which analysed the polls to predict who would win the White House – and b...

Questions about the internet giant's dominance have been gathering steadily since the revelation that Christine Varney, who is Barack Obama's pick to take over the top antitrust job at the Department of Justice, has already talked about the subject. "For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are no...

You might not imagine that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has a lot in common with singer Belinda Carlisle or the actor Denise Richards. But soon they'll be starring alongside each other in one of TV's biggest shows; Dancing with the Stars. According to network ABC, Woz - who we interviewed just a c...

It's very easy to get caught up in the speed of the web. Everything's fast. Everything's connected. Things change so fast we forget what happened yesterday. Fast has its benefits, of course. We can be more informed. Ideas can spread quickly. Facts can disseminate at breakneck speed. On the other han...