Top stories Brad Howarth | Six out of 10 Australian business leaders don't know how to extract value from the Internet of Everything. | Alice Philipson 10:42am | It is one of the great bugbears of modern living: people checking emails and replying to texts while ignoring the friends they are with. | Estelle Shirbon 9:28am | Twitter apologises to a group of high-profile women who have been threatened with death and rape and makes it easier to report abuse. | TIM ELLIOTT | Michael Tamits hasn't done much travel; the furthest he's been is the Gold Coast. Understandably then, the 18-year-old Adelaide student is pretty excited about a little interplanetary jaunt he's got planned for 2023 - a 225-million-kilometre one-way space trip to a place called Mars. | Alexei Oreskovic 8:59am | Yahoo acquires social web browser Rockmelt for millions, the latest move to scoop up talent to bolster its networking efforts. | NICKY PHILLIPS | In a region of outback Queensland so harsh only the dead seem to survive, palaeontologists have discovered a sprawling new fossil site bursting with the bones of ancient mammals, including a likely new species of primitive marsupial. | Lucy Carroll | Nothing prepared Ruby Jacenko's father for what was waiting for him on his return from a short trip to China: a $60,658.42 mobile phone bill. | Nicky Phillips | Were it not for satellite technology, Dr Michael Archer doubts he would be on an isolated outcrop in north-west Queensland, ankle deep in red dirt. | Adam Turner 3:24pm | With porn filtering planned for the UK, will the filtering debate reignite in Australia in the run up to Rudd versus Abbott on September 7? | LUCY BATTERSBY | Nearly 80 per cent of Australian children under 10 years of age use social networks. Among older teenagers - those 16 and 17 - parents underestimate bullying and risky online behaviour. But the most likely candidate for cyber-bullying is a 14 year old girl who checks her Facebook account daily. | Brian Chen | The Obama administration has vetoed a ban that would have forced Apple to stop selling some iPhones and iPads in the US next week. | Nick Bilton | In the clash between technology culture and consumer culture, the tech giant often chooses the wrong side. | Reviewed by Chris Gardner 10:26am | In a moment of deja vu, my time with the BlackBerry's new Z10 smartphone reminded me of how good other smartphone operating systems are. | Zoe Hincliffe | With smartphone apps being developed and introduced on a daily basis, it takes a particular type of creative expert to capture the attention of our technologically driven society. | Jenneth Orantia | More staff are using their own devices in the workplace. | Jenneth Orantia reviews the best classic board and card game apps. | Adam Turner | These 55-inch slices of high-def goodness are vying for pride of place in your lounge room. | JULIA MEDEW | Australian smokers should have to carry a 'smartcard licence' to purchase cigarettes so health authorities can track their behaviour and better target quit messages to them, health and legal academics say. | Farhad Manjoo | Introducing the fast, cheap, easy new go-to way to stream your favourite shows. | Raf Sanchez | A hacker has posted what he claims are intimate emails between former US secretary of state Colin Powell and a Romanian Member of the European Parliament who claimed he was ''the greatest love of my life''. | Helen Womack | If it's Tuesday, it must be the housing estates near Aeroport metro station; if it's Friday, Moscow mayoral candidate Alexei Navalny will be meeting voters in the Yasenovo district. | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | |
