Boys Of Tech

The rumoured Google music store, a mandatory Playstation update in response to the jail-break, Apple publishes App Store approval guidelines, the link between what you say on Facebook and the risk of being burgled.

Wikileaks founder again faces a rape investigation, Playstation jail-break is now in the wild, outrage on the Internet over animal cruelty video, trying on make-up made easier with virtual mirror, Sony rolls out online media store, Sony's Android-powered television, research supports longer music samples, the Skitterbot electronic insects, scammers pretending to be HADOPI, police in New Zealand clears Google over its wireless sniffing, a couple loses $15,000 in an Internet scam.

Thief unknowingly photographed by victim, tabacco firms using YouTube to push their message, jail-break hack for the Playstation 3, Facebook not happy with Teachbook, MPEG LA extends royalty moratorium indefinitely, voice calls in Gmail, Minister of Defence criticises latest Medal of Honor game, flipping the charging model around for international bandwidth.

No rape charge for Wikileaks founder after all, rumour that Apple will launch an HDTV, a milestone in the number of devices connected to the Internet, Adam Hutchinson talks to us about the SEO Challenge 2010.

Google offices in South Korea raided by police, Facebook nears saturation point in the United Kingdom, Android Trojan sends text messages, BSkyB in a dispute with Skype over its name, girl lying on the ground in Google Street View photo is not dead, hacking cars through wireless tyre sensors, the Google Alarm, what may have been behind the chaotic iPhone 4 release in New Zealand, authors appeal for a licensing fee.

Google pulls the plug on Wave, Google moves to fix flaw in audio CAPTCHA, using Google Earth for law enforcement, new world record for pi accuracy, a single pedal for acceleration and braking, faceless watches with silent alarms.

Sam Dalton talks to us about purchasing an iPhone 4 on launch day in New Zealand, massive set of Afghan war files published on Wikileaks, hacking ATMs, the new Streetslide technology in Microsoft Streetside, the Facebook data harvester speaks out, University of Ballarat study on copyright infringement of BitTorrent files, Hell Pizzas Web site hacked.

Al-Qaeda links behind closure of Blogetery, Facebook claims Zuckerberg's contract with Ceglia was forged, Dell motherboards ship with embedded malware, Samsung gives away free phones to disgruntled iPhone 4 customers, trading an old cellphone for a Porsche on Craigslist.

Patenting a virtual page turn, Microsoft to release a range of tablet devices, a man claims he owns 84% of Facebook, Steve Jobs addresses the iPhone 4 reception issues, bit.ly links fail on Facebook, mystery shrouds the sudden disappearance of two sites.

iTunes accounts hacked to artificially boost app sales, soldier charged in connection with leaked video, Prince releases his new album as physical copy only, Swiss solar powered plane makes history with night flight, compression technology inventor charged with fraud.

Google might come out with a Facebook killer, Facebook accidentally deletes BP protest page, the new HDBaseT standard, half a million Sony laptops overheating, the iPhone's signal strengh bars.

Australia proposes minimum security requirements for computers connected to the Internet, French data protection agency CNIL finds email passwords in Google Street View data, reception problems with the iPhone 4, a new top level domain for adult content, FullCodePress 2010 results, the YouTube vuvuzela button.

Security software provided by French ISP turns out to have a significant security hole, Microsoft's new Internet Fraud Alert system, Google and Rumblefish plan to announce a new service, the GoogleCL command line tool.

Apple launches the iPhone 4, a zero-day exploit for Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash is out in the wild, police department domain name snapped by campaigner against speed cameras, privacy concerns over threat to publish photos on Facebook, Google may be investigated over privacy issues, the United States proposes a kill switch for the Internet.

ISPs in the UK may start collecting information on filesharers, China to become a supercomputer superpower, Jetstar to trial in-flight iPads, rumours that Google is ditching Windows on its staff computers, Microsoft voices concerns over Google's dominance in the search market, mum reunited with daughter after tracking her down through Facebook.

Microsoft issues a warning about the Parallels Windows migration tool, Mozilla pushes for VP8 to be included in the HTML 5 specifications, Time Warner and Universal refuse to change Flash based interface for iPad users, the person behind the fake BP Twitter account is still a mystery, the live video feed of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, Microsoft responds to rumours that Steve Ballmer will be at WWDC, what Microsoft needs to do to get ahead.

Dr Stephen Hughes from Queensland University of Technology talks to us about the inaccurate definition of the word siphon in many dictionaries, 9 year old MCSE holder Marko Calasan joins us from Macedonia, Kate Carruthers gives her side of the dispute over the geekgirl trademark, Google's open source codec that could rival H.264, Skype on Panasonic televisions, Facebook identifies the hacker Kirlos, Amazon's next generation Kindle, a new ebook store for Australia, Firefox possibly heading for a steady decline in popularity, mistakes that Linux newbies make.

Facebook privacy concerns, Adobe's disasterous Flash demo, rumours are that Apple are developing an alternative to Flash, Google is rumoured to be working on an alternative to the iPad, Android phone sales in the US outdo those of the iPhone, a possible second iPhone 4G leak, Skype may start displaying third party ads, an Australian physicist corrects an error in the Oxford English Dictionary that went unnoticed for 99 years.

The Courier and Slate tablets won't be released to market, the new Joojoo tablet, Google asks for an extension over the Groggle trade-mark dispute, Internet Explorer 9 will natively support H.264, Facebook hacker rumoured to be in New Zealand is not in New Zealand, Javascript performance in Chrome 5 Beta, non-Latin domains activated, text messages on the Telecom network arrive scrambled.

Cameron Collie from Groggle talks to us about the battle between his company and Google over trade marks, Lufthansa offers Gray Powell a free flight to Germany, police raid the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, McAfee announces it will compensate users affected by its recent blunder, Sony plans to stop manufacturing floppy disks, a well known Russian hacker may be living in New Zealand, Whitcoulls to launch ebooks later this month.