IT, software and computer companies are certainly not without their share of poor executive decisions and mismanagement. While dozens of notable examples could have made our list, these were by far the top top 10 worst in the history of the technology industry, causing many billions of dollars of lost revenue or resulted in the downfall of entire companies.

Jason Perlow gives you his picks for the best BBQ and grilling tech/accessories for the summer of 2011.

The new OtterBox Defender is the ne plus ultra of hard case solutions for protecting your iPad.

For high school and college graduates, sometimes the basics make the best gifts: Mobile computing, coffee, exercise, fresh water and air.

OtterBox’s new Defender case for the BlackBerry PlayBook now provides the ultimate protection for RIM’s flagship tablet device.

ZDNet's 20th anniversary: In 1991, the world received the graphical user interface. Here's a look.

In terms of the user interface, Canonical’s Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” represents a significant departure from previous versions. Will end-users accept the changes?

With IBM's "Watson" taking the stage this week to compete against the two greatest Jeopardy! champions in history this week, I thought I would take you through a look back at the iconic fictional computers from film and television that helped define the human vision of Artificial Intelligence.

The Amazon Kindle e-Reader software has finally been released for Android devices.

What’s the big deal about Linux Mint and why is it so popular among Linux users? It includes a number of improvements and tweaks that aren’t set up out-of-the-box in the base Ubuntu distribution.