Once the world's leading mobile phone operating system, Symbian is yet another tech icon that is dead and buried
Some assume the Kinect is another tale of Microsoft hardware woe, but it was both groundbreaking and innovative
Long before Skype or WhatsApp achieved their domination, AIM was the pioneer of instant communications (IM)
Not many tech firms come from the US state of Utah, but for many years Novell was the bedrock of…
ZX Spectrum rival and best selling computer of all time, the Commodore 64 was a hugely popular home computer
The text (or SMS) message was once more widely used than mobile phone calls, but its use in recent years…
The debate on Openreach's future has been raging for the past few years, so we thought it was time to…
Microsoft Encarta started life as a CD-ROM based digital multimedia encyclopedia, but the Web eventually led to its demise
Vonage beat Skype to market but struggled to match the global reach enjoyed by its VoIP rival
Napster may have been shortlived, but its impact on the music industry was monumental
Facebook's last serious challenger Myspace is still going, although much diminished from its heyday in 2007
Ultimate survivor. The rise, fall, and rise (?) of former smartphone giant BlackBerry
The house that Larry built. Oracle is the creation of one of the IT industry's most colourful characters, Larry Ellison
The Thinkpad laptop celebrates its 25th birthday, but how did it become one of IBM's, and now Lenovo's, most successful…
In 2003, at its peak, Nokia tried to conquer the handheld gaming market with a console phone hybrid called the…
The story of the smartwatch pioneer who used crowdfunding to bring its products to market, yet its success proved short-lived
Cross platform media player that formed part of the MP3 revolution in the 1990s and early 2000s
The life and times of a British computing giant that took on the world before falling into foreign ownership
Lotus Software had the opportunity to dominate the Office sector for the emerging PC market. What happened?
Kevin Murrell, co-founder of the National Museum of Computing, details how he found and helped restore the Harwell Machine
Adobe Flash: The story of a how a widely-used plugin transformed the web before security and usability concerns killed it…
Scourge of the High Street? How a simple online book seller transformed itself into global e-commerce and tech giant
Windows Phone is officially dead, but it was much loved by those that used it. Why did it fail and…
Take that Alexander Graham Bell! Faxes are older than the telephone, as the ability to send images over a wire…
As world's first ATM is painted gold to celebrate 50th anniversary, we take a look back at the arrival of…
IBM's attempt to regain control of the PC landscape it had let slip in the early 1980s led to the…
Best OS you never heard of? Pick OS was initially developed to manage spare parts for attack helicopter during Vietnam…
Invented in the 1950s and still around nearly sixty years later. It has been quite a journey for Cobol
The 'I love you' worm had a devastating impact on computer networks worldwide seventeen years ago
Unix was one of the most popular server operating systems, but its life has been marred by bitter legal battles