Daily Brisbane Technology News
- Born to talk and tweet: why some children are always on the phone
- Buying in deep gloom, investors bank on Facebook not going boom
- Brain drain: why young entrepreneurs leave home
- No need to get hysterical but networkers show side effects
- Principal's newsletter call to clamp down on Facebook
- Quit Facebook or be expelled, school says
- Like it or not, Facebook users can expect more ads
- Apple co-founder Woz weighs in against tech giant on price discrimination
- Ballarat, Geelong customers go offline
- Should you backup your social media activity?
- Telstra agrees to clean up the seedier side of its Big Pond life
- Victory for AFL as Optus service ruled out of bounds
- Sex-trafficking video goes viral
- Toss up: Android tablets
- Hand over the console, lads - it's game on for the girls
- Website will help elderly search for care services
- Workers left vulnerable as social media blurs the lines between home and office
- Rubber chicken feast for ridgy-digital gurus
- Spoiler alert: the end is nigh for DVD rental stores
- Time to reclaim your privacy, says philosopher
- Smart TV owners miss out on internet
- Bitter pill for DVDs as tablets take over
- Three contenders ... portable digital radios
- Top free apps to save you time and money
- Click, print and wear: a glimpse into 3D future
- Confused by the new Facebook timeline?
- Optimism shines through experts' view of the future
- Sports betting comes from behind to challenge other types of gambling
- What's in a domain name? It's a bargain at $200,000
- The iPad 3 ready reckoner
- If you use Google, you may want to read this
- Facebook risks alienating users with new ads
- Email reigns among tweets and pokes
- Tweet, tweet, the word is on the wing
- 'Find my phone' app thwarts would-be thieves
- $3.1m Parliament House website a year late
- Lovelorn call in experts to filter out cyber rats
- Indonesia tweeters fly in the face of censorship law
- The computer eyes have it
- Three contenders ... DAB radios for under $200
- Upload tsar behind bars as FBI swoops
- US boost for Brisbane social network
- Gaga's followers take sheen off Madge's globe
- Caboolture kids shamed, but not named, in viral video
- Police embrace the 'digital beat'
- #ConversationEarth
- World's thinnest wire a quantum leap forward
- The tech world in 2012
- Set the controls for the heart of the fun
- Travel company takes on Google's ad ban
- Faceless net giants writing own rule books
- Travel company takes on Google
- Unmanned aircraft to soar over Queensland coast
- BigPond plugs privacy leak
- Apple's latest flagship store opens
- Together in electric dreams
- Tips: Keep your phone bill in check while overseas
- 'Like a loaded gun': Global roaming charges labelled leading rip-off
- I think, therefore I Google: search giant's quest to capture knowledge
- Glitch gives graduates results early
- The double dupe: new email scam
- Google world
- Phone barcode just the ticket
- Long queues for new game
- Optus to charge more for calls
- New hope for cancer patients
- NBN Co chief defends 'gag' on wireless
- Turnbull indicates no faith in NBN boss
- Breakthrough for Gillard on broadband deal
- Silicon Valley luminaries pay their final respects to Jobs
- Tensions rise over Australia Network bid
- Hail the do-it-all device: buyers get wise to smartphones
- A constant search for answers
- Fantastic voyage comes a tiny step closer
- Turnbull's electorate put on hold for NBN connection
- Charging starts as broadband trial ends
- Friending and texting put a smile on adversity
- Bullying, violence, revenge: the dangers of antisocial networking laid bare for children
- ACCC loses case alleging Google deception
- Auditors raise probity queries at broadband overseer
- Ur fired: tribunal OKs text sacking
- Young girls run away with net predators
- Face-saving settlement in Facebook sacking dispute
- Cab up to scratch? You be the judge
- Keeping children safe takes more than 'POS'
- Analyst pokes hole in NBN business plan
- Business giant with poetry in his soul
- NBN push for rise in key rates flies in face of reduction pledge
- Digital pirates cruelling life for creators who truly add value
- Game over for gaming giants
- Flush iiNet in share buyback
- Centres fight back with apps
- Net pirates turn over a new leaf
- Telstra glitch hits Ipswich
- Boxes a building block in $50b online revolution
- iRockin' in your pocket
- Can Do coming to a phone near you
- Police kick own goal with tweets
- 'Corey Worthington - Cairns style' as Facebook invite goes viral
- No word on when for Wi-Fi on wheels
ARE your children spending too much time talking and texting on their mobile phones? According to new research, it's your fault. Or more specifically, the fault of the genes you passed on to them.
EIGHT years after Mark Zuckerberg and friends co-founded Facebook in the college dorms of Harvard University, the most hyped and biggest technology listing will finally launch on New York's Nasdaq stock market.
"WE'VE created crack for women," says 20-year-old entrepreneur Nikki Durkin of her online fashion startup 99dresses. The trouble is, Australian financiers don't want to get the habit.
Doctors have called for research into the links between social media and public health.
The following two messages to parents were contained in the Harlaxton State School newsletter on Monday, May 14, from principal Leonie Hultgren.
A primary school principal is threatening to expel students aged under 13 who refuse to delete their Facebook accounts, in a bold bid to stamp out cyber bullying at her school.
ITS GLOBAL user base is climbing inexorably towards 1 billion and next week, when it floats as a public company, Facebook is expected to be valued at a staggering $US95 billion. But to the company you are worth as little as $4.54 a year.
Apple co-founder Steve 'Woz' Wozniak has sided with Australian consumers on the contentious topic of price discrimination, saying we shouldn't have to pay more for technology goods that cost much less in the United States.
Regional Victorian customers of TransACT are without broadband, phone or TV services because of damage to the telecommunications supplier's network.
With business increasingly being done online and through social sites, how do you effectively backup your social media activity?
Telstra bows to pressure from anti-pornography campaigners and removes salacious content from its Big Pond service.
Optus suspends its online broadcast of football matches after the Federal Court overturns a ruling that was protecting it from legal action by the AFL, the NRL and Telstra.
A video of scantily-clad women dancing in Amsterdam's red-light district has gone viral as part of a campaign against human trafficking.
We compare two Android tablets. Which one wins?
The gender gap in the gaming world is predicted to soon close as women grab hold of the joystick.
FIRST it was the MySchool website, then MyHospital and MyUniversity. Now the elderly and their families can look forward to the My Aged Care website as the federal government promises to bring greater transparency to the hunt for quality aged care services.
POLITICS has been redefined by it; wars have been organised with it; movies have been made about it.
TO THE digital gaming industry and fans, ''Hex'' and ''Bajo'' are as Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton are to moviegoers.
The slow demise of DVD rental stores is unfolding like the inevitable denouement of a film about roadkill on the technological highway.
GOOGLE, Yahoo, Facebook and other commercial organisations that mine data on people's private activities should be required to regularly ''send us a report on what they have got on us'', the English celebrity philosopher A.C. Grayling argues.
IT SEEMS old habits die hard. Despite being sold as the next must-have item for technology-savvy homes, the vast majority of ''smart'' television sets remain unconnected to the internet.
ANOTHER nail is about to be driven into the coffin of the DVD rental store.
After a shaky start, portable digital radios have come of age. Rod Easdown looks at some of the options.
Managing your finances has never been easier thanks to a range of apps for your smartphone or iPad, whether it's splitting the bill, monitoring your shares or searching for a house. The pleasures of touchscreen technology even makes budgeting fun (well, almost). We've whittled down the more than 2700 finance apps listed on iTunes to the seven best of the lot.
Imagine a world where you could see a t-shirt you like online, and print it out. And not just as a picture on paper either. Imagine if you could print a three dimensional t-shirt you could hold, fold and even wear. Sound crazy? Not if you're Horst Hörtner.
If the new Facebook timeline (that becomes mandatory tomorrow) looks utterly confusing to you, here's a quick guide.
Predictions of Armageddon could be wide of the mark. It's not all doom and gloom, writes Catherine Armitage.
SPORTS betting is the fastest-growing way to gamble in Australia - rising almost 15 per cent over the past five years - and is the only form of gambling other than casinos that has been increasing in popularity.
Perth-based iiNet will be the first telco in Australia to announce plans to buy its own domain name today.
This much we know: Apple will launch the third generation of its iPad tablet on March 7 in downtown San Franciso.
Today is your last chance to adjust your privacy settings ahead of a major change to Google's data collection process.
Advertising on Facebook is about to gain a more prominent place, as the company works to boost revenues.
You have 'followers', you have 'likes' - but do you have engaged customers?
Social network Twitter exploded at the announcement of Kevin Rudd's resignation as foreign minister, with the terms ''Kevin Rudd'' and ''Foreign Minister'' breaking into the top 10 search terms in Australia.
Cairns police have used a mobile phone app to apprehend three would-be thieves charged with stealing a woman's handbag.
A "major breach" of Australia's Parliament House computer network partly contributed to a cost blowout and delay.
THOUSANDS of lovelorn Australians are enlisting private investigators to do background checks on potential partners they meet online.
JAKARTA: After pulling the plug on more than a million online porn sites, Indonesia's Communications Minister, Tifatul Sembiring, has now set his sights on Twitter.
We're making progress on more natural user interfaces.
The good news about digital radio is that it's getting cheaper and better.
HE GOES by three names, owns a helicopter and luxury cars including a pink Cadillac, keeps sawn-off shotguns and rents one of New Zealand's most expensive estates.
Start-up website Kondoot - like Facebook, but geared towards live video - wins $3.2million funding.
Madonna may not be Lady Gaga's biggest fan but while she was accepting her Golden Globe, Gaga achieved a milestone of her own by becoming the first person to gain more than 18 million Twitter followers.
A raw video of a child harassing a security guard in Caboolture has gathered almost 100,000 views in the two days since it was posted on YouTube.
When an elderly man went missing, the Queensland Police Service turned to social media for help.
This entrepreneur believes social media is irreversibly changing the way the world communicates about everything, writes Terry Smyth.
SYDNEY physicists have invented the world's narrowest silicon wire – 10,000 times thinner than a human hair – with the same capacity to conduct electricity as a traditional copper wire.
In 2012 gadgets will get even smaller, powerful and internet-connected.
Australian game developers in January will again try to showcase their skills by building a game in just 48 hours as part of the Global Game Jam.
Google's dominance of the internet is facing a fresh challenge from an internet minnow.
Businesses have little recourse - or human contact - when resolving disputes with Google or Facebook, write Julian Lee and Ben Grubb.
Google's dominance of the internet is facing a fresh challenge from an internet minnow.
There will be a new covert eye in the sky over waters off Queensland's coast, with a Brisbane-based businesses to test unmanned aircraft's ability to detect illegal fishing vessels.
Telstra scrambles to reconnect BigPond internet services after privacy breach.
Apple's newest store opens in New York's iconic Grand Central Terminal building.
The Electric car recharge company with an unlikely bedfellow ... the oil industry.
Tips for reducing keeping your phone bill in check while overseas, courtesy of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network.
There's no quicker way of losing your post-holiday glow than opening a mobile phone bill for thousands of dollars.
If you want to find out something these days, you Google it. But being the planet's go-to search engine just isn't enough for the booming company, which is fast moving towards a radical new technological frontier, writes Tony Wright for the Good Weekend magazine.
Eight hundred Year 12 graduates have accessed their core skills test results nearly four weeks early following a Queensland Studies Authority website glitch.
Police have issued a warning about a new Nigerian email scam targeting Western Union and MoneyGram customers.
Being the planet's go-to search engine just isn't enough for Google, which is fast moving towards a radical new technological frontier.
Could this weekend mark the beginning of the end for paper tickets at Suncorp Stadium?
Tens of thousands of people line up on Monday for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
OPTUS will today start charging its mobile phone customers in one-minute blocks on all national and long-distance calls, and plans to charge more for home phone plans.
There is new hope for Queensland sufferers of mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure, with the introduction of cutting edge technology to one of the state's leading hospitals.
Deal that stops telcos comparing their networks to NBN in taxpayers' interests: Quigley.
MALCOLM TURNBULL has declined to express confidence in the head of the company building the national broadband network, raising the possibility he would ask someone else to oversee the dismantling of the company and the Coalition's plans to provide high-speed broadband by different means.
Critical hurdle cleared.
SAN FRANCISCO: Stanford University has once again played host to the legend of Steve Jobs, with a private memorial for the Apple co-founder at its Memorial Church.
SENIOR federal ministers are angry about a leak they believe was designed to pre-empt a cabinet decision on the long-running saga of the $233 million Australia Network television contract.
You can check the weather forecast, do your banking and shopping, monitor emails and play Angry Birds. You can even take them to bed.
The Google boss believes that in order to create, you must start with a clean slate, writes Nick Galvin.
NSW researchers have developed tiny artificial muscles that can twist like those in the trunk of an elephant or the arm of an octopus.
MALCOLM TURNBULL'S electorate was nearly selected as one of the first to have NBN Co fibre-optic cable installed, shows a planning shortlist released under freedom of information laws.
THE national broadband network will open its fibre-optic cable for commercial services today, with retail prices ranging from about $35 to $165.
Australians are a little happier and technologically much more interactive than four years ago, writes Jacqueline Maley.
It all starts with a seemingly innocent picture of a boy and a girl with their arms around each other at school.
Court dismisses claim web giant dosen't distinguish between advertisements and search results.
THE federal agency helping to oversee the $36 billion broadband rollout has had serious questions raised about its ability to ensure the probity of its spending programs.
SACKING an employee by text message can be justified on some occasions, the workplace tribunal has ruled, as it upheld the firing of a spray painter who cost his employer tens of thousands of dollars.
More teenage girls are leaving home with men they meet on the internet, writes Cosima Marriner.
A council worker sacked for calling his bosses "slack" in a out-of-hours Facebook post has settled an unfair-dismissal dispute with Victoria's Hepburn Shire Council.
Ever had a trip in a smelly taxi with the remnants of the last passenger's late-night kebab in the back seat and a driver with no sense of direction, local knowledge or ability to process your credit card?
IT'S the A-Z of sexting, but the state government's effort to educate parents about cyber-safety has split experts about its usefulness.
Fresh doubts surface over network's ability to meet its revenue targets.
As Steve Jobs battles cancer, his biographer Michael Moritz pays tribute to the Apple genius.
THE opposition has seized on a proposal from the company building the national broadband network to raise prices for key services by more than the rate of inflation.
It's increasingly difficult for creators to be paid a fair amount, writes Mark Holden.
Size matters but bigger isn't better in the Brisbane gaming industry.
Cashed-up internet provider iiNet will buy back 5 per cent of its shares over the next year and keep an eye on acquisition opportunities as it waits for the national broadband network to be rolled out.
Shopping centre landlords are tackling falling sales with social networking technology aimed at drawing customers back to the shops.
Stalked by the growth of ebooks, publishing isn't going down without a fight, writes Linda Morris.
Telstra says it has fixed a glitch that disrupted mobile coverage in Ipswich and outer western Brisbane suburbs this week.
FOUR years ago, Fiona Chandler started a business selling kids boxes and storage items for businesses and homes.
FROM its first iPod to monolithic media player iTunes, music has long been front and centre of Apple's world-domination plans.
A catchy political ditty or the most annoying jingle ever created?
In case you missed the news, the winner of last night's soccer showdown between Scottish giants Celtic and Melbourne Victory was actually ... Victoria Police.
A teenager was hospitalised after an 18th birthday party in Cairns was gatecrashed by more than 100 revellers when a Facebook invitation went viral.
Queensland Rail commuters continue to wait for Wi-Fi in carriages and at stations, despite the program being announced more than two years ago.