 | | |  | When a 17-year-old high school student can sell an iPhone app based on another firm's technology and with no revenue for $US30 million ($28m), has the world gone mad? | | Top stories 3:33pm | A malicious virus known as Remote Administration Tools (RATs) can be used by hackers to switch on your webcam and control the machine without your knowledge. Andrew McMillen reports. | ALEISHA ORR | A West Australian man who admits it was his "soft nature" that lost him about $700,000 in two separate scams is warning others to "beware." | Play doesn't need to stop for sports fans taking a bathroom break at a Pennsylvania minor-league baseball stadium that has installed video games in men's room urinals. | Adam Turner 9:40am | Find My Friends adds geofences so you're alerted when Elvis has left the suburb. | Adam Turner | Windows 8 finally feels right when running on a tablet like the Dell Latitude 10. | NICK BILTON | Perfect, shiny screens can give children a false sense of intimacy without risk. | The US Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Apple's application for a trademark to safeguard its widely popular iPad mini tablet, saying the case to own the phrase was too weak. | Derrik Lang | Electronic Arts is ramping up the drama with its next Battlefield game, which will be available later this year. | Jenneth Orantia | Samsung's new Galaxy S4 stacks up favourably against the latest raft of iPhone challengers, writes Jenneth Orantia. | RACHEL OLDING | Pattern recognition software for smartphones has been credited with helping to halve ''tag'' graffiti in a Sydney suburb could save ratepayers millions of dollars, police and developers claim. | SARAH WHYTE | Theodora Chan always thought her online identity was impenetrable. | Reviewed by Terry Lane | The combination of Aperture and iPhoto is just about all the average photographer could want. | BLEEDING EDGE | Each quarter, the price of the 'workhorse PC' reflects movements in currency exchange rates. | ASHER MOSES | Apple Australia may be breaching federal online gambling laws by offering apps such as PokerStars which allow Australians to bet on casino-style games with real money. | SALLY PRYOR | It could be the start of a joke - a man walks up to a girl in a library and says, "You wanna see my app?" | Cynthia Karena | Cynthia Karena reviews the Kickstarter, Bound Round and Jam smartphone apps. | IMAGING | We suspect the scene feature is the least-used function on digital cameras. | Derrik Lang | It's back. The virtual reality headset, the gizmo that was supposed to seamlessly transport wearers to three-dimensional virtual worlds, has made a remarkable return at this year's Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering of video game makers in San Francisco. | Rob Lever | Amid much speculation on the future of the "smartwatch", the consensus is growing: the time is right. | Reviewed by Rich Jaroslovsky | The Windows and Android operating systems have had one thing in common: Both are designed to work on many different kinds of hardware. | Jenneth Orantia | Want to release your inner Tarantino? Jenneth Orantia reviews the best map apps for scriptwriting. | Adam Turner explains how cinephiles can preserve their DVD collections. | Michael Liedtke | Google has picked out 8000 people who will be given a chance to don a pair of internet-connected glasses and make a fashion statement likely to be envied by gadget-loving geeks around the world. | Paul Farhi | Red Bull is just one of the big businesses that are building their brand through slick apps and websites. | Elle Mitaros | Japanese inventors have created a 'female' robot that has the ability to blink, respond to eye contact and can recognize body language, opening the door for a new kind of romantic companion for humans. | Google Street View is giving the world a rare glimpse into one of Japan's eerie ghost towns, created when the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami sparked a nuclear disaster that has left the area uninhabitable. | Craig Timberg | Smartphones are opening up endless possibilities in the delivery of news. | Salvador Rodriguez 10:02am | After announcing a controversial decision to shut down its Reader web feed aggregator, Google is once again drawing heat - this time for changing the way users write emails on Gmail. | Sam Laird 8:51am | You didn't have to be a college hoops fan to get a healthy dose of sports in your Twitterstream on Sunday. Perhaps you saw the name "Kevin Ware" trending worldwide, or the hashtag #PrayForWare popping up here and there. | MEGAN LEVY | YouTube is closing down, Gina Rinehart is the new boss of Channel 10, and the Australian Financial Review is bucking the compact trend and upsizing to a broadsheet. | Apple is seeking a patent for an iPhone that has a display that wraps around the edges of the device, expanding the viewable area and eliminating all physical buttons. | Apple is to face "strengthened supervision" from China's consumer watchdogs, state media reported Friday, as the US computer giant is hit by a barrage of negative publicity and court cases in the country. | Juan Forero | As a small boy in the early '80s, Almir Surui hunted monkeys with a bow and arrow, wore a loincloth and struggled with Brazil's official language, Portuguese. | Internet search leader Google is taking another step beyond information retrieval into same-day grocery delivery. | Valerie Khoo | I have cats. I like taking photos of them. I love sharing these pictures with my friends. But I don't have a $37 million company. That's because I'm not Ben Huh, an entrepreneur whose websites have gained cult-like status around the world. And it all started with a simple website full of cute cats with funny captions. | Alyssa Rosenberg | In the New York Times on Tuesday, Jenna Wortham chronicled how a photograph of Beyonce and her daughter Blue Ivy, who has been relatively shielded from the public eye, travelled from a personal Instagram feed into the pages of many gossip publications. The rise of photo distribution services like Instagram, Wortham argues, poses a challenge to paparazzi, whose market may be undercut by amateurs who happen to be in the right place at the right time. | Ryan Gallagher | An oft-repeated refrain among the privacy conscious is that a mobile phone is really a tracking device that lets you make calls. But a major new study suggests the digital trail left by a mobile phone can identify more than mere movements - it can be used as a "fingerprint" to identify people with a striking degree of accuracy. | Salvador Rodriguez | The BlackBerry Z10 has just gone on sale, and BlackBerry loyalists will like the improvements that come with the new smartphone and operating system. | Farhad Manjoo | The time has come - we're going to have to choose between performance and battery life. | David Pogue | In the early days of personal computers, people talked about how great they'd be for managing recipes. Remember? | The Easter long weekend is here and many people will be hoping to spend some time gardening. | Damien McElroy | North Korea has been caught doctoring a photograph to double the number of hovercraft in a military exercise as part of its increasingly aggressive propaganda campaign. | Leanne Italie and Barbara Ortutay | Bud Light said it with beer cans and Martha Stewart with red velvet cake as companies and celebrities from Beyonce to George Takei joined millions of social media users in posting and tweaking a simple red logo in support of gay marriage. | Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is helping form a group to lobby for US political reform in areas such as education and immigration policy, according to US media reports. | Matthew Dunn 2:00am | A study is being conducted at three Queensland kindergartens to examine the educational benefits of iPad use for pre-school children. | Sweden's language watchdog has accused Google of trying to control the Swedish language in a dispute over the definition of the colloquial term "ungoogleable". | SIGHT AND SOUND | Now that electronic music files are capable of reproducing excellent sound, fine audio has found a new home. | Peter Spinks | Materials scientists and electrochemists are joining forces to create organic batteries that perform better and last longer, are more reliable and demand less of the environment. | James Dominguez 5:29am | The concept may seem unoriginal, essentially just Portal in 2D, but the thought that has gone into Gateways elevates it above a simple gimmick. | James Dominguez 5:21am | We may have just enjoyed a four day weekend, but video gaming news has kept on rolling along. Here are some of the more interesting stories of the past week. | Jason Hill 4:50pm | BioShock Infinite is almost as remarkable and fresh as its famous forebear. | Jason Hill 8:00am | In this franchise reboot's opening, it is made abundantly clear that this isn't the same impervious heroine that made such a splash in 1996. | Screen Play reader Steve Smoothy | A few weeks ago, reader Smoolander listed his "stack of shame", his pile of unfinished games, and invited other readers to confess. Today, we find out which games were the most shameful. | James Dominguez | Playing the new reboot of SimCity is equal parts fun and frustrating. DexX catalogues some of its pros and cons. | James Dominguez | Sharing his StarCraft fan art online, Melbourne artist Luke Mancini could only dream of being paid to work for Blizzard, but that dream came true. | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | | | | | Security Reminder: Fairfax Media digital never requests personal or credit card information via email. Be wary of suspicious emails claiming to offer Fairfax Media digital services. You are receiving this email as a registered Fairfax Media digital member. Your username is: garn14.tech@blogger.com. Your email address is: garn14.tech@blogger.com. If you do not want to receive further announcements from Fairfax Media digital, please unsubscribe here. Fairfax Media Limited. ABN 15 008 663 161.
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