An investigation by has found developers have been accusing innocent people of copyright infringement. Gill and Ken Murdoch, from Scotland, have never played a computer game. They don’t know how to use BitTorrent, don’t know what peer to peer technology is and they don’t know how to download movies for…
A new study has found that more than two thirds of Australians play video and computer games. 68 percent of all Australians play video games, a study has found. An Australian gamer is also 30 years old on average. The findings come from the annual Interactive Australia report conducted by…
A 43-year-old woman has been jailed for killing her virtual ex-husband. A piano teacher has been jailed for accessing a computer illegally and destroying electronic data in a revenge attack to get back at her virtual husband. The 43-year-old teacher had been divorced by her virtual partner inside the online…
…pirated software. If discovered, the program turns the user’s desktop black making it inoperable. Chinese PC users are up in arms. However Microsoft believes the majority of Chinese computer users (more than 200 million) are using illegitimate software. Reports in China’s Daily newspaper cite Beijing lawyer, Dong Zhengwei, as labeling…
…sending messages to friends in the users list directing them to a website where they are asked to install a video player upgrade – the “upgrade” then searches the victims computer for facebook cookies – and so on… Facebook is currently working on ways to disable the attack… Source: news.com.au…
…into the mobile platform is now officially available, for free, as the Android Open Source Project. “It’s a complete, end-to-end software platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations,” he said, inviting outside computer programmers to download Android and begin developing their own applications. “Have…
…a range of computer keyboards. The inspiration for the attack came from two students at the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). They tested 11 keyboard models, plugged into the USB port or the older PS/2 connection, as well as testing keyboards in…
Scientists have produced the first unbreakable encryption in Vienna. An unbreakable encryption has been unveiled at a scientific conference in Vienna. Being used to guard a computer network, the encryption is built using quantum cryptography. Quantum theory works off the principle that information can’t be measured without changing it. The…
Airbus has issued a global warning to A330 operators against potential computer problems after a QANTAS Airbus went for one hell of a nose dive last week. Airbus has issued a global warning to A330 operators against potential computer problems after a QANTAS Airbus went for one hell of a…
…and it would be nice if perhaps Microsoft and HTC would work together to integrate the designs rather than load them on top of each other. Sliding the keyboard out will get you a good feeling hand-held computer. The keyboard doesn’t feel quite as easy to use as what iMate…
…Apple to have a more solid & durable computer chassis that uses fewer parts in the build process too. Up first in the new laptops is the brand new MacBook, an update to the original plastic body entry-level lappy that sports what’s a cross between the current generation of iMac…
…Motion control is obviously no way near anything workable or useful yet and while the implementation is interesting, the lack of use this has in a so-called “portable” computer makes this technology a bit pointless, as does a lack of high definition drive. And while the speed of the computer…