$70m pay TV piracy network: Sydney shop raid

Posted on February 2nd, 2012 at 1:28 pm in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Police have raided the Sydney arm of an alleged global piracy outfit which they say was selling unlicensed pay TV subscription packages offering over 1000 channels for $50 a month.

Sydney pirate pay TV outfit offering 1000 channels for $50 a month raided: police

Posted on February 2nd, 2012 at 9:09 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Police have raided the Sydney arm of an alleged global piracy outfit which they say was selling unlicensed pay TV subscription packages offering over 1000 channels for $50 a month.

Excited early risers witness Christmas tail like no other

Posted on February 2nd, 2012 at 2:00 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
If you ever saw Comet Lovejoy, you would even say it glows.

iPad, therefore I am, and keeping a wired open mind

Posted on February 2nd, 2012 at 2:00 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
The backpacks at Albert Park College look a little small. But then everything at the school, which is entering its second year, is a little different.

Electronic prescription system could help cut errors

Posted on February 1st, 2012 at 9:14 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Electronic prescribing systems could drastically cut previously intractable hospital medication errors, a study of two Sydney hospitals has found.

Breakthrough in mind-reading tech

Posted on February 1st, 2012 at 8:15 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Scientists may one day be able to eavesdrop on our thoughts, after a major breakthrough which allowed researchers to decode brain activity.

Tourists turned back from US over Twitter joke to ‘destroy America’ and dig up Monroe’s grave

Posted on January 31st, 2012 at 12:56 pm in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
An Australian information technology expert said social media users have to get used to being cautious about what they write online, after two British tourists said they were thrown out of the US for joking on Twitter that they were going to "destroy America" and dig up Marilyn Monroe's grave.

The man who said ‘no’ to co-founding Facebook with Zuckerberg, costing him millions

Posted on January 31st, 2012 at 11:37 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard University roommate, Joe Green, has revealed how he turned down an offer to drop out and co-found Facebook with Mark, a decision said to have cost him about $US400 million ($A376m).

End of passwords? Cracking facial recognition.

Posted on January 31st, 2012 at 11:26 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Remembering complex passwords could be a thing of the past if facial recognition technology takes off.

Apple set for city’s core

Posted on January 31st, 2012 at 3:00 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Brisbane looks to be close to getting its first Apple store in the city with the tech retail giant posting job openings for a store in the CBD.
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