 | | |  | Vodafone CEO Bill Morrow says Australian mobile telecommunications companies are ripping off customers by making use of a trick that allows them to round up mobile data "sessions" to make data vanish quicker, writes Ben Grubb. | | Top stories ASHER MOSES 3:21pm | Facebook Home for Android phones has been dubbed by technologists as the death of privacy and the start of a new wave of invasive tracking and advertising. | ASHER MOSES 1:09pm | Australians Nick Crocker and Ben Hartney say they've reinvented Weight Watchers for the digital age. | Stacey Kirk and James W. Manning 12:04pm | BBC's embarrassing gaffe claimed Margaret Thatcher had died of a "strike". | ASHER MOSES | Four decades ago this week in New York, the world's first mobile phone call was made on a Motorola DynaTAC. | BEN GRUBB | IT experts are resorting to some simple techniques to secure their webcams. | Adam Turner | Facebook is working with international partners to pre-installing Facebook Home on other Android devices. | By David Tuffley, Griffith University 2:31pm | It was labelled one of 2012's most important inventions and "the next big thing". | 11:46am | Technological advances have made it harder to know if a conversation is being secretly recorded. | ASHER MOSES | As the financial system in parts of the world crumbles, the digital currency Bitcoin has rocketed to a market capitalisation of almost $1.2 billion. | 9:13am | Residents in Austin, Texas, may soon find out just how fast 1 gigabit internet is . | Facebook has unveiled a software suite which stakes out a "home" on Android smartphones as it steps up its challenge to Apple and Google in the booming mobile market. | Adam Turner investigates the best ways to hold on to your data when upgrading to a new toy. | 6:57am | Margaret Thatcher's death caused paroxysms of confusion on Twitter where some users were apparently left with the impression that the singer Cher had died. | You could use Google Translate to rescue a Chinese orphan and fall in love at the same time. | Apple is set for a possible US summer launch (June-September) of the next iPhone, rather than a US autumn launch like the last two models. | If your smartphone gets into the wrong hands, the thief could learn a lot about you. | MARISSA CALLIGEROS | Forty years ago, a visionary American inventor made the first mobile phone call from a busy New York street corner. | It's no secret that Apple wants to get into the living room by making its own TV set, and there have been plenty of rumours and reports about how and when it's going to happen. | As the video played in the Texas Capitol meeting room, the red target jerked back and forth across the map, tracing every movement that Malte Spitz, a German politician, had made during several months in 2009 - when he was riding a train, when he was at a nuclear protest, when he was in meetings or at a store, and when he was at home. | Katie Cincotta | PosterCandy compiles and prints your most creative smartphone snaps in a poster. | Adam Turner | Choosing between two non-iPad tablets. | Sales of traditional desktop and mobile personal computers are expected to drop 7.6 per cent this year as consumers shift to tablets and other devices, a market tracker says. | Katie Cincotta | Retailers disagree on Microsoft's selling strategy for its new Surface tablet. | A concerning new instagram trend is making parents cringe. | JOHN SILVESTER | One ride in this all-seeing, all-dancing police car is enough to convince you never to indulge in road rage. | Early adventure games can't rival the fun, intrigue and drama of playing a point-and-click adventure on a touch screen. | Philadelphia is getting ready for a supersized game of "Pong" - on the side of a skyscraper. | Damien Murphy | In an increasingly topsy-turvy world, the ''brony'' may be the game changer who makes it all right for men to enjoy things that were designed for little girls. | Jenneth Orantia | Take the pain out of managing your contact lists. | A bitter war over royalties hasn't crushed the hopes of Pandora's Tim Westergren, or his 69 million active users. | Critics says machine-marking is no substitute for live teachers. | Yelp, TripAdvisor, Amazon and others have tapped a market for customised searches. | RACHEL WELLS | Click Frenzy - the much-hyped internet sale that crashed before it even began late last year - is back. | New BlackBerry Z10 smartphone could potentially unmask embarrassing videos you watch online. | The US Embassy in Cairo deletes a tweet of The Daily Show's on Stewart mocking President Mohammed Morsi. | To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. | The average visitor to the Kitten Cam on Animal Planet's website has a hard time leaving. The live internet stream of felines has been watched more than 25 million times since it started last September. The average person, seemingly transfixed by the cuteness, stays on the page for 18 minutes and 50 seconds. | SIGHT AND SOUND | Buying a Blu-ray player is not an easy business, and it's likely to become more difficult as ultra-high definition comes on stream. | Adam Turner | Tech giants struggled to justify their exorbitant Australian mark-ups when they fronted the federal government's parliamentary inquiry examining pricing disparities. | MACMAN | Self-publishing is more accessible than ever, and there's nothing like the triumph of getting there. | One of Manhattan's status symbols, a telephone number starting with 212, is under threat. Voice-over-internet providers, led by Vonage Holdings, want direct access to the national pool of unused numbers. | 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. | IMAGING | Travelling photographer and blogger Yvan Rodic's journal comes with a cautionary tale. | Reviewed by Terry Lane | This massively magnificent camera is a precision tool, built for a purpose. | Adam Turner | Brimming with potential and priced to sell, Acer's stripped-down Chromebook is the perfect travel companion. | James Dominguez 12:46pm | Disney Mobile's attempt at the next big physics-based touch game fails to land on its feet. | Jason Hill | BioShock Infinite is almost as remarkable and fresh as its famous forebear. | James Dominguez | This week DexX has been replaying Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and is thinking it might have been better left as a fond memory. | James Dominguez | If you have not yet finished Bioshock Infinite, then beware: this conversation will be chock full of spoilers. | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | | | | | Security Reminder: Fairfax Media digital never requests personal or credit card information via email. 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