 | | |  | Would you pay $5931.90 for the installation of a landline in a suburban area? Telstra wanted this customer to do just that, writes Ben Grubb. | | Top stories 8:50am | Nine million Australians - almost 40 per cent of the population - visit Facebook every day, according to the social network firm's first detailed breakdown of its local user figures. | CLAY LUCAS | Interior designer who used LinkedIn to connect with potential customers fired at his day job. | Isaac Johanson | Obsessive attitudes towards social media websites are changing. | LUCY BATTERSBY | Australian consumers will get access to mobile data sharing plans within a year, with Telstra leading the way. | JAMES W MANNING | Microsoft has accused Google of deliberately keeping YouTube off Windows Phone in an attempt to damage the brand. | LUCY BATTERSBY | Proposed in-home speed monitor to help consumers choose plans based on speeds as well as price and download quotas. | Cameron Houston | Hundreds of Australians accessing pornography online have been caught - some quite literally - with their pants down by cyber criminals who fraudulently claim to be members of the Australian Federal Police. | Rod Easdown | Vale 3D television, born 2009, died 2013. Deeply mourned by television manufacturers, hardly noticed by buyers. | JAMES W MANNING | If you think the Hot Spot system used in the Ashes is more trouble than it's worth, a new 360-degree Matrix-style technology could soon solve our cricket woes. | LIA TIMSON | A Coalition government would call on small business, community groups, local councils and telcos to submit proposals to eliminate Australia's mobile black spots. | JAMES W MANNING | LG might want to consider making its next smartphone bulletproof after 20 people were reportedly injured by BB guns in a publicity stunt for its latest handset. | Expectations are so high for digital fabrication technology that disappointment is inevitable. | Apple and Samsung smart watches are coming. Hopefully they'll be better than Pebble. | Google has taken the next step in its transformation from a web-search engine to the Star Trek computer. | Flip phones are making a comeback thanks to Samsung. | A West Australian businessman has been fined NZ$95,000 ($83,300) by the New Zealand High Court for advertising his business seminars with spam emails. | A re-elected Labor government would support new laws that ensure more disabled people can access websites and digital content. | The FBI is investigating an alleged "sextortion" case involving newly crowned Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf and a hacked webcam. | When it comes to social networks, the ascendant paradigm for forecasting the future seems to centre on first-person anecdotes and unsupported hearsay from random teenagers. | Facebook could be spreading unhappiness through society as well as keeping people connected, research has shown. | Jenneth Orantia reviews the best alternative apps to your built-in email client. | Adam Turner | A home media server gathers your digital library and shares it with all your gadgets. | North Korea, one of the most isolated and censored societies on the planet, has unveiled what it says is a domestically-produced smartphone. | CATHERINE ARMITAGE | The selfie so proliferates that Kevin Rudd would stay Prime Minister if it counted more than votes. | Samsung will introduce a smart watch named the Galaxy Gear next month that can make phone calls, surf the web and handle emails, sources say. | Australians were the leading illegal downloaders of the latest episode of Breaking Bad. | Microsoft will begin rolling out the free Windows 8.1 update on October 18. | Google has been forced to defend its privacy policy after court documents suggested Gmail users had no reason to expect privacy. | Norway's intelligence agency has blocked Apple from flying over Oslo to take 3D aerial photos for its map application. | Adam Turner | Foxtel's online pay TV rival, FetchTV, is extending its reach, thanks to improved high-speed streaming video technology. | Charles Wright | SEO Syndrome: Is it the most devastating disorder of the technology-induced kind? | IMAGING | Adobe's Creative Suite products have been so good, users have little incentive to upgrade. | SIGHT AND SOUND | Don't you love internet radio? The problem is the crappy speakers in computers. | Cynthia Karena | The fbShoosher app allows you to remove selected posts and advertising from your Facebook feed. | Reviewed by Terry Lane | The head says Sony and the heart says Fujifilm, a thing of beauty, says Terry Lane. | Adam Turner 11:14am | With movies to rent or own, EzyFlix launches today to challenge the status quo in Australia's growing online video market. | Adam Turner | Do you encrypt cloud files to protect them from prying eyes? | Adam Turner | Microsoft's iPad killer has failed to win over gadget shoppers and PC makers. | James Dominguez | Choosing between a PlayStation 4 and an Xbox One later this year will be tough, as they are both so similar. | James Dominguez | Screen Play readers tend to be older, busier, and have more responsibilities than many gamers. How do we all find time to play video games? | James Dominguez | Literature is the deepest well of cultural content, but it also the one tapped least often by video games. | Jason Hill 5:42pm | Hundreds of rock-hard platforming stages that are different every time you play. | James Dominguez 11:14am | Control a giant space crab, smash spacecraft, eat aliens. What's not to love about Crabitron? Well, apart from RSI... | | | 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. 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