Boys Of Tech

Nokia's ad blunder, Samsung's blogger blunder, hybrid devices fill gap between tablet and laptop markets, Raspberry Pis being manufactured in the UK, three alleged copyright infringers in New Zealand to appear in front of Copyright Tribunal, file sharing infringement notice fee to stay at $25.

Apple wins patent case against Samsung in US court, Samsung wins case against Apple in South Korean court, Walmart to implement self scan and checkout solution with iPhones.

Australian supermarket chain Coles experiments with a new online shopping concept, Apple is the most valuable company ever, eBay to remove fortune telling and spell categories, LG's gigantic 4K television set.

Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum, jail sentence of four years for linking to pirated content, judge's ruling on a decision goes in favour of Kim Dotcom, Microsoft's rules for naming your Metro app, Saudi Arabia to lodge objection to Vatican's attempt to register the .catholic gTLD, Google Translate app able to translate images of text, Google downgrades search results that contain pirated material, features that Mac OS X Lion users will miss in Mountain Lion, Mountain Lion reportedly harder on battery life.

The man whose Apple devices were wiped by a hacker, Olympic ticket alerting system reinstated after being blocked, businesses investing less in social media, Wikipedia offline due to cut cables.

Android 4.0 ported to Raspberry Pi, Anonymous unhappy about trademark registration, launching a home-built satellite, Mars probe Curiosity about to land, Dropbox to implement two-factor authentication, Kim Dotcom struggles to get verified on Twitter, Telecom New Zealand turns off its CDMA network.

Apple releases Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Mozilla plans to develop its own mobile operating system, virus at Iranian nuclear facility blasts hard rock music, Microsoft in damage control after coding gaffe, Facebook rumoured to be working on a phone device, iPods and iPhones rumoured to get new dock connector, death threat scams by text message, misread domain names, Kim Dotcom releases first single.

New border security technology scans you from 50 metres away, YouTube launches face-blurring tool, a Raspberry Pi reaches an altitude of 40 kilometres.

Wikileaks scores minor victory, Kim Dotcom offers a deal to the FBI, whether we prefer our news online or on newsprint, 450,000 Yahoo! passwords exposed, Vodafone New Zealand buys TelstraClear, Christchurch teen lays complaint with police after his father confiscates his Xbox.

Low-tech fraud at the ATM, Chinese hackers steal Indian Navy data, Windows 8 upgrade pricing announced, EU court ruling on reselling used downloaded software, Dotcom claims US vice president Joe Biden involved in Megaupload case, an Android botnet, the first iOS trojan.

Facebook upsets users with another configuration change, Kim Dotcom's music service still on track, BAE developing a positioning system to rival GPS, farewelling the Minitel, Microsoft's web filter blunder.

Microsoft demos its Surface tablet, auctioning a rare piece of computer history, Pirate Bay's approach to dealing with bans in the UK, why Nigerian scams are so unrealistic, Woz visits Kim Dotcom, New Zealand Post to launch a digital mail service, no Fairfax paywall for New Zealand as yet.

Flame malware linked to Stuxnet, BBC working on 3D radio, selected highlights from WWDC, the Do Not Track setting, Linus Torvalds shares the Millenium Technology Prize.

Flame malware involves mathematical breakthroughs, MPAA does not appose returning legitimate Megaupload files to users, US study shows enhanced e-books can distract children from core content, Microsoft to release Xbox Music, the LinkedIn password hack, Telstra considers selling TelstraClear.

Kaspersky uncovers a major cyber-attack, Google takes down a quarter of a million links each week, technology from Ubi turns any surface into a touch screen, the successful SpaceX mission, Domain Name Commission considers changes to the .nz namespace.

Shelley Fuller from Progressive Enterprises talks to us about the recently launched Countdown Shopping App, IBM bans the use of Siri, US lawmakers consider allowing cracking DVD encryption, Facebook shares fall below initial offering, Microsoft opens So.cl to the public, Swiss solar powered plane begins flight from Europe to Africa.

Diablo 3 is released, Russian outfit Pirate Pay offers to disable torrents for a fee, Facebook ads and whether they work.

Andrew Welch from Ambrosia Software talks to us about the challenges of developing WireTap Studio and other Mac software titles under ever-changing environments, the SMS text message turns 20 years old, a bug in Mac OS X Lion logs clear text passwords to file, Windows 8 will be without Media Center, Mozilla and Google unhappy that rival browsers will not be allowed under Windows 8 on ARM, Steve Wozniak likes the look of Windows phones, New Zealand considers media reforms to include bloggers, a vessel designed in New Zealand is the first solar-powered boat to sail around the world.

Microsoft simplifies the Bing search results page, a bird robot that can land on target, Panasonic to commercialise its shampoo robot, what the most dominant operating systems are, how Google Street View came to recording wireless data.

Tyler DeAngelo talks to us about his Frogger game that uses real time traffic, turning a building into a Tetris game, the technology vendors with the most vulnerabilities, India is the top spammer, comparing cloud storage solutions.