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Security
How to bypass the threat from Heartbleed
Adam Turner The internet is recovering from its biggest security failure yet. But what should you do now?
Kids tracked by GPS watch
Cosima Marriner Anxious parents are using technology to monitor every movement their children make.
No, Twitter is not dying
If Steve Jobs were alive, should he be in jail?
Browser plug-ins to dodge geo-blocking
Samsung ordered to pay Apple $128.9 million
Lego The Hobbit review
Editor's picks
Tech
QWERTY keyboard still king despite other not-so brilliant ideas
Mahesh Sharma Microsoft's new gesture-controlled keyboard is the latest in a long line of attempts to improve on a 100-year-old typing device.
Battery drain
The apps that exhaust your smartphone battery
Mahesh Sharma We take a look at the worst offending apps when it comes to draining your smartphone battery.
Apps
Ride-sharing apps ruled out by NSW government
Jacob Saulwick and Ben Grubb Uber app that allows non taxi drivers to ferry people around is illegal, NSW government says.
Apps
Snapchat adds real-time chat
Snapchat is adding a chat feature to its self-destructing photo-messaging service.
Apps
Foursquare splits into two apps
Alex Barinka Foursquare is splitting its app in two as the novelty of checking wears off.
Social
Facebook reveals anonymous login
Alexei Oreskovic Facebook users can limit what data they share with third-party apps.
Coverage
Virgin suffers nationwide outage
Eamonn Duff Virgin Mobile customers languished without service on Saturday.
Security
Microsoft issues IE security fix
Microsoft has issued a fix for the Internet Explorer security flaw for Windows users, including XP.
Review
Why I hated Google Glass
Hayley Tsukayama I was prepared for bugs and even headaches, but not all the attention.
Blogs & Columns
Gadgets on the Go
Quickflix coming to Chromecast and Apple TV
Adam Turner Aussie subscription video service Quickflix aims to run on Google and Apple's streaming media players by the end of the year.
Screenplay
Infamous Second Son: Powerful
The lively Second Son clearly has ambitions to be more serious than the PlayStation 3 Infamous games.
Imaging
Traveller's best friend is an iPad or iPhone
Garry Barker I have always admired Phileas Fogg, that fictional chap created in 1873 who won a wager of £20,000 by toddling around the world in 80 days.
MacMan
Filters up for partial solar eclipse on April 29
Perry Vlahos The eclipse begins about 4pm. Mid-eclipse, when more than half the sun will be obscured, is at 5.07pm. The sun sets while still eclipsed at 5.37pm.
