Boys Of Tech

Shane Williamson takes us through Google+, Justin Timberlake invests millions in MySpace, Madelaine Zammit's Facebook Song goes viral, LulzSec disbands, Tau Day, the TDL-4 botnet.

Man arrested in connection with LulzSec hacking, Sega is hacked, Anonymous and LulzSec working together, the biggest domain name change in the history of the Internet, Dutch coins with QR codes, China no longer has the world's fastest supercomputer, iPads in the cockpit, disgruntled man hacks into former employer's computer, Microsoft says WebGL is harmful, Australian government considers mandatory photo identification for domestic flights, Whangarei doctor falls victim to Rugby World Cup scam, the BNZ loosens its online banking terms and conditions.

Google releases Me on the Web, hacker group LulzSec opens a suggestion line, Facebook growth slows, Apple no longer accepts apps identifying police check points, Apple faces law suit over the iCloud name, Paul Ceglia passes a lie detector test, disappointing results for RIM, touch surfaces with dynamic tactility, the New Zealand government announces switch-off dates for analogue television.

Apple announces new operating systems and iCloud at WWDC, Sony hacked again, Spanish authorities arrest Anonymous hackers, RSA to replace SecureID tokens, face recognition in Facebook.

Sony's online systems compromised again, Windows 8 and the desktop, Twitter launches its own photo sharing service, Skype installation includes crapware, Google will no longer support legacy browsers, teenager sells kidney for iPad 2, Eric Schmidt recommends using a Mac.

Aseem Mishra reports back after representing the United Kingdom at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, Lodsys targets Android developer, doctors and dentists looking to own your feedback comments, Skype's service outage, France attempts to apply book pricing law to eBooks, the cookie law change is deferred for one year, black boxes in cars, a 200 megapixel camera, Twitter users warned about election day campaigning.

Rumours of Apple planning cloud music service, Sony announces an apology package, the Blogger outage, Slovakia implements a paywall for news sites, Mac users fall for fake security software, HADOPI temporarily not receiving copyright infringement data, Android devices leaking access tokens, iPhone developers receive legal threats over patent issues, Internet access at New Zealand libraries may be under threat, why New Zealand is not ready for Chrome OS laptops.

Microsoft buys Skype, Google Music Beta is launched, Google introduces Chrome OS laptops, the poisoning of Google image search results, Facebook involved in smear campaign, private data exposed to developers through tokens, hackers bring back the Other OS option on the PS3, a prototype phone made from electronic paper, the US government puts pressure on Mozilla to remove the MafiaaFire plug-in, how a computer store owner caught a laptop thief.

Google sued over Android location data, Google Shopping debuts in Australia, lobby groups oppose format shifting laws, more security breaches at Sony.

Apple explains hidden iPhone location data, the PlayStation Network outage, the Yahoo! Mail outage, YouTube to launch a movie rental service, Sony plans two tablet devices, the white iPhone has landed, Iran suspects foreign governments behind virus, the Casio F-91W watch, NZ Post looks at digital mail, a day of protest against copyright infringement legislation.

The life-size AT-AT walker replica isn't going to happen, multimedia pioneer Norio Ohga passes away, Judgement Day comes and goes, hidden iPhone file stores location history, Android devices also keeping location history, credit card payment solution Square available through the Apple Store, the world's largest Pac-Man game, a lego replica of the USS Intrepid, computer glitch causes New Zealand supermarket to open on a public holiday.

Researchers find security flaw in PayPal integrations, Cisco puts and end to Flip video cameras, Google puts and end to Google Video, Australians spending more time online, RIM's PlayBook a disappointment, plans to make a fully operational AT-ATwalker.

Aseem Mishra talks to us about his drum jeans that won him the title of Young Engineer of Great Britain, US terrorist attack warnings to be made on Twitter and Facebook, a woman with a spade cuts off an entire country from the Internet, new features in Windows 8 revealed, poor sales figures for the Motorola Xoom, Wozniak may consider a return to Apple if asked, the Commodore 64 is back, the Samsung 500 GB drive that wasn't.

Google to use Gmail content to target advertising, Tesla sues the BBC, India is the first nation to block the .xxx domain, autonomous quadrocopters playing pong, printing all 2559 featured articles on Wikipedia, Grant Odgers from SwiftPoint talks to us about his company's award winning mouse showcased at CES, MasterCard to offer Tap & Go cards in New Zealand.

Ben Krasnow talks to us about building a scanning electron microsoope in his garage, the school-yard bullying video that went viral, laptop thief begs to have video of him removed from YouTube, a hacker from Queensland may face charges from the FBI, the .xxx TLD gets approval, Google fined €100,000 for its Street View gaffe, ISPs urged to block file sharing sites, Apple sues Amazon, the inflated amount of damages being sought from Limewire by record companies.

Visa to introduce online fund transfers, rumours that Google is going to launch a new social network, another party invitation on Facebook inadvertently open to all, Netflix purchases broadcast rights to House of Cards, another road sign is hacked, the Mark Zuckerberg action figure, Dick Smith Electronics drops Vodafone, the RSA SecurID hack.

A monthly fee to legalise music sharing, how illegal TV streamers are tracked down, Facebook to start streaming movies, Twitter tells third party developers not to make any more Twitter clients, the Google Science Fair, using technology to do away with postage stamps, the latest Pwn2Own results, Australia reaches 2 million domain names registered, five reasons not to buy an iPad 2.

Apple announces the iPad 2, rumours that Steve Jobs came close to knighthood, rumours that Jonathan Ive may leave Apple soon, a Windows trojan is ported to the Mac platform, losing $200,000 to a fake online girlfriend, PS3 shipments siezed and held in Europe.

Intel unveils Thunderbolt, Paypal account belonging to a Bradley Manning support group is reinstated, the Motorola Xoom tablet, problems caused by a Windows Phone 7 update, the market share of iPhones, false party invitation on Facebook attracts the attention of thousands, why Google is tweaking its PageRank algorithm, Anonymous attacks a hate web site, GPS records used as defence in court, New Zealand Post and Yellow settle out of court, 1000Memories.com attracts significant capital investment.

Google announces One Pass, a new twist to high rise apartment living, capturing and dissipating a laser beam, Detroit raises enough for its RoboCop statue.