Boys Of Tech

Jake Briggs recounts how his webcam set-up alerts him to a burglary at his house while he is at work, McAfee's big blunder, the lost iPhone 4G, Adobe and Apple don't see eye to eye over Flash, the Downfall movie meme may come to an end, Android on the iPhone, TVNZ On Demand on the PS3.

The Kin phone from Microsoft, eBay ordered to pay out over fradulent user, Nikkei bans unauthorised hyperlinks to its site, Google rankings to depend on server response speeds, TelstraClear announces that Ziln is now unmetered.

Shane Williamson talks to us about Microsoft losing his entire blog of six years, Apple launches a new mobile advertising network, the future of Bebo is unknown, one third of Australians have lost their mobile phones, Telecom XT problems continue, Google directs pedestrians through a bus tunnel.

The iPad is launched, YouTube updates its user interface, uncertainty about the cause of search outage in China, why you shouldn't necessarily trust SSL connections, Sony removes the Linux option on its Playstation 3 devices, users of touch screen phones more satisfied than other smart phone users.

Internet users mysteriously redirected to Chinese servers, a bot defeats Microsoft Live audio Captchas, the rumoured tablet from Microsoft, no Web browser is secure, a new user interface upgrade for Wikipedia, Visa to issue chip and PIN credit cards in New Zealand, yet another Telecom XT outage.

Microsoft's Waledec take-down was successful, more infected HTC Magic phones, Google is interested to hear what Microsoft has to say about Buzz, when your iPad battery no longer holds its charge, no clipboard for Windows Phone 7 Series, Google is no longer the most popular Web site, sex.com is for sale.

Microsoft improves its browser ballot randomness, fake Intel processors, HP reveals its answer to the iPad, malware is found on a new HTC Android phone, the Pentagon trains workers to hack, Sony's new wireless game controller, Vodafone's turn to experience an outage.

Spanish police arrest botnet masterminds, leap year bug hits the PS3, Twitter proposes search-based advertising, Skype service comes to Nokia phones, microchip implants in humans, shorter days due to Chilean earthquake, electromagnetic hypersensitivity, Telecom issues SIM cards for compeititor's network.

Microsoft aims to take out a botnet, Intel was also hacked at the same time as Google, GPS jammers, a legal decision goes against Google in Italy, a famous Rick Astley clip is removed from YouTube, more outages for Telecom, what the new bill says about copyright infringement.

Google drops the ball with Buzz, wireless Internet on the school bus keeps students happy, Iceland's new niche may be as a journalism haven, publishers want more control on iPad platform, a Philadelphia high school is accused of spying on students via webcam, Microsoft's return to mobile devices, Microsoft says a rootkit may be the reason behind patch problems, an estimate as to how much Google earns from mistyped domain names, a misprint on Denny's menus refers customers to a Taiwanese man's Twitter feed, Telecom suffers yet another XT outage, New Zealand to start Internet filtering next month, the florist who changed competitors' details on Google Maps receives community service.

A Windows patch causes the blue screen of death, Office 2011 for Mac is coming soon, Mix FM automatically takes live song requests via Twitter, police enquiry into criticism on Facebook of school principal.

More woes for Toyota, Amazon buys touch-screen company, Apple's 15 percent cash payout, Telecom's CDMA and ISDN networks both suffer outages.

Apple's iPad announcement, Google wants to change the DNS protocol, reverse engineering a spam bot to defeat spam, the new MusicDNA file, another Internet Explorer vulnerability, new standards may mean quieter television ads, Telecom's XT mobile network crashes again.

A new punctuation mark to denote sarcasm, French and German governments issue warnings over Internet Explorer, Baidu.com sues US domain name registrar, the long-rumoured Apple tablet, gadgets at CES, Bill Gates is now on Twitter.

Cameron Slater from Whale Oil talks about name suppression in the Internet age, Google hints at pulling out of China, users complain about problems with Google's Nexus One phone and also criticise Google's support model, France considers taxing Google and others to subsidize music, Europe's private copying levy, a patent filing from Google suggests virtual billboard ads in Street View, Facebook denies that it will begin charging for use, the concept of online privacy in the twenty-first century.

Live video feed from US drones intercepted, up to 33 million passwords compromised from users of Facebook and MySpace widgets, Google loses French copyright case, playlists for the Web make for a better way of searching the Internet, demonstrating the six degrees of separation, Telecom's XT network meltdown.

Why Apple has blocked over a thousand apps from its store, Chinese woman tries fingerprint transplants to avoid detection, Google and Yahoo now include real time data in their search results, Americans consume a lot of data, an airport security manual finds its way onto the Internet, allegations that a florist maliciously changed contact details of competing businesses using Google Maps, concerns over ACTA, name suppression and the Internet.

The DARPA balloon challenge, Switzerland's solar plane test flight, malware asks for SMS as ransom, Psystar ceases selling Mac clones, Mac Pro versus Macpro, Google's new front page.

Mathew Peterson explains why he has had to rename his popular iPodRip software to iRip, music sales in Sweden soar, collisions at CERN, pub offering free wireless is fined for copyright infringement, stories from the Kiwicon hacker conference.

Google wants to speed up the Web, Switzerland takes Google to court, guessing the purpose behind Apple's new patent, Psystar loses case against Apple, Chinese military site attracts millions of hackers, Twitter ads.