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A selection of tools and tips to get the best out of your device. Since its launch in March, Google's Chromecast device has been widely received by media fans across the country. Costing just £30, the USB-drive shaped device connects your TV into a multi-faceted broadcasting device, giving you access to hours of entertainment streamed in great quality.

CBR presents eight real-life examples of the specs in action at work.

The definition of SDN from the experts for the kids (and adults, too).

Taiwanese display driver and semiconductor product maker, Himax Technologies, has teamed up with Lumus, an Augmented Reality glasses maker, to develop smart glasses. Lumus plans to use its ultra-thin optics enabled wearable display and combine it with Himax's LCOS technology, which provides high level of brightness required for see-through Augmented Reality, to create wearable technology that can be used in daily life.

The maker of mobile social games Family Farm and Happy Acres is selling its gaming division DianDian Interactive to Chinese construction firm Zhongji for $960m.

Tools to suit any budget or hardware. If you fancy yourself as the next Pixar hotshot, it can be hard to know where to start. Software packages can set you back more than a grand, and the array of options can be overwhelming.

Outsmart the competition with these surprising strategies. Human intuition is a fickle faculty. Sometimes it leads you to exactly what you want, for reasons that are quite mysterious to you. Other times you find your common sense, for all its popularity, is idiocy. So here are some lessons from IT that might surprise you.

The definitive definition of big data from the experts for the kids (and adults, too). Jonathan Birch, Head of Architecture at NTT DATA "Imagine trying to finish the last page of your colouring book, but suddenly you find that you've got more crayons than you know what to do with.

Startup Splice Machine recently rolled out its relational database management system (RDBMS) into public beta. Introduced in May 2014, the Splice Machine system combines the Java-based Apache Derby relational database with technology from the Apache HBase NoSQL database,

From virtual reality to treating brain trauma.

When it comes to PCs, not everyone needs a workstation. For employees simply using email, word processing tools and presentation software, a standard business desktop or laptop will meet their needs.

by Joe Curtis| 04 November 2014 Is this how the future of Microsoft Dynamics CRM will unfold? Microsoft Convergence begins today, with a flurry of announcements set to come from the conference.

Come and sit on Santa's lap...top this December. Starting off with what many users feel is the best laptop you can currently buy, the Macbook Pro. Apple's annually-updated machine comes in 13- and 15-inch iterations, and will set you back up to £1600 for the larger version.

CBR lists 7 reasons why you should care about net neutrality. Net neutrality is the principle that ISP's and governments should treat all data on the internet as equal. This means that there should be no discrimination or charging of separate rates to different users, content, sites, platforms or applications.

If you need to sell things cheaply, the Internet has tools to help.

Add to favorites Jason Zander, Corporate VP at Microsoft Azure, took to the Microsoft blog to describe why the tech giant's Government Cloud beat out competitors in its support of the needs and wants of government agencies.

It was always going to be an uphill struggle for Chinese tech giant Huawei's offshoot Honor to launch its new camera-led Honor 20 phone range, but even high-fidelity 30x zoom couldn't help the company see the elephant in the room