Siri for your car: Dragon Drive lets you text, email at the wheel
Samantha Murphy 9:28am Meet Dragon Drive!, the latest in talking-car technology. Nuance Communications unveiled on Tuesday this new Siri-like voice platform designed specifically for the connected car.
Police chief sent detectives on hunt for son's iPhone
Kate Freeman Berkeley, California police chief Michael Meehan and a crew of 10 police officers searched for his son’s missing mobile phone on taxpayer dollars this January after it went missing from the boy’s unlocked locker at school.
'Mummy porn' surge driven by e-books
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer sees 'rebirth' with Windows 8
Spotify offers Australians 16 million tracks for free - with ads
Will Swampy Gator become the next Angry Birds?
Editor's picks
The nasties of the net
Matthew JC Powell The innocent choice to click could send your computer into a crash.
Apple to bring 'wow factor' back to iPhone with larger screen
Apple plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
New Apple MacBook lineup coming next month
Apple is preparing a new lineup of thinner MacBook laptops running on more powerful chips made by Intel, people with knowledge of the plans said.
Born to talk and tweet: why some children are always on the phone
Nick Miller 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.
Three contenders ... noise-cancelling headphones
Adam Turner Noise-cancelling headphones are a great way to enjoy your favourite music without distraction.
Chrome dethrones IE as king of browsers
Peter Pachal Google Chrome passes Microsoft's Internet Explorer to become the most-used browser in the world, says the latest data from a digital analytics service.
For the smartwatch. telling the time is the easy part
ANNE EISENBERG I've been looking at my wrist a lot lately - and not just to see what time it is.
AFR launches iPad app
Fairfax Media is today launching the Australian Financial Review iPad app.
What would you do with palm-sized computer?
Adam Turner The tiny Raspberry Pi is brimming with potential.
Blogs & Columns
Screen Play
Stealing your virtual loot
Jason Hill 8:46am Just a week after the blockbuster game was released, Diablo III players are being targeted by hackers stripping them of their virtual items. What can be done?
Astronomy
Armageddon anxious: the greatest threats to life as we know it on Earth
Catastrophic events are predicted for the Earth and our galaxy, give or take a few billion years or so.
Gaming
One giant leap for Bird-kind
We line the Angry Birds up behind the wooden slingshot and prepare to launch a few questions about the phenomenally successful mobile game franchise, with a new version taking off this month. By Mike Wilcox.
Bleeding Edge
Google cloud descends at last
Drive integrates well with other services from the giant.
Gadgets on the go
Spotify hits Australia - is Freemium the future?
Adam Turner 11:17am Will Aussies listen to ads to pay the piper?
The Geek
Big hair, black face and taking Twitter way too seriously
John Birmingham The Radike Samo blackface scandal is a storm in a tea cup.
Macman
Apple springs to your defence
A little maintenance via free software updates can keep the bugs and nasties away.
Imaging
Latest camera models play hard to get
Supply may not always meet demand but open days make the wait bearable.
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