nternational Women's Day has long been a time when the focus shifts to gender inequalities and unequal pay. In the IT sector, concentration tends to centre on the lack of women in the profession and how the industry can be more appealing to half of its resource pool. As we mark the event again today, statistics and surveys show that women are pretty much in the same position as they were last year.

The internet created a cash free-for-all but many of the pioneer firms soon crashed. A decade on, James Ashton looks at what made some into lasting winners and drove others to early graves.

Microsoft is to ask millions of users across Europe if they want to use a web browser other than its own. Windows users will be offered the choice as part of a deal Microsoft struck with the European Commission.

Cast your minds back to the end of September 2009 and the big day for the country dubbed "Retune". Yes, that was fun, wasn't it? Stepping round the risk of asking if everyone's managed to get their channels back and their equipment working again, it might be time to remind us all why we went through it in the first place. Well, one of the big reasons was to make room for Freeview HD. So, what the hell is Freeview HD then?

The idea of hot peppers actually helping alleviate pain sort of feels like something out of a fantasy novel, or a poultice an alchemist might make in a D&D game. Well, to my surprise (and relief) the product really worked.

A mass train graveyard, located on the world's largest salt flat on the outskirts of a small town in Bolivia, can be seen via satellite photos available on Google Maps.

Forty-five men you've probably never heard of were honored with an Academy Awards ceremony of their own that recognized scientific and technical achievements in moviemaking.

A growing number of software companies are capitalizing on an unexpected business opportunity: Internet censorship. In countries where governments continue to ramp up Web filtering systems, more people are searching for tools that will allow them to access inaccessible information -- and they are willing to pay for them.

Learn how supercomputers helped construct a faster bobsled for the 2010 U.S. Olympic Team.

Executives from Sony Ericsson, the struggling European handset maker working hard to make a turnaround in 2010, said most of its new phones introduced this coming year will sport the Google Android operating system.