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The Sydney Morning Herald
Digital Life

Apple iOS 7 drives into storm of protest

The iMessage glitch is just the latest in a string of iOS7 complaints.

Top stories

Google Australia chief wants NBN benefits to flow

Google Australia managing director Maile Carnegie wants the company to be more involved in Australia's digital economy future.
LIA TIMSON 10:38am | Maile Carnegie left a 21-year career at Procter & Gamble to run Google Australia. She talks to Lia Timson in her first interview since taking up the post.

NSW ticket scalping laws come under fire

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BEN GRUBB | New laws welcomed by Ticketek, Frontier Touring and slammed by web auction sites.

The road's closed for these drugs

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Eileen Ormsby | Australians were enthusiastic users of the online illicit drug market Silk Road. But now its owner has been arrested and the site closed. Will they return to the more dangerous alternative of buying on the streets?

Australian music label Liberation fights Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig over copyright

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LUCY BATTERSBY | An Australian music label has been caught up in a legal battle in the US after one of its automatically generated copyright warnings demanded a famous US copyright lawyer remove his own lecture from YouTube.

Telstra email outage hits thousands

Telstra and logo.
BEN GRUBB | Telstra was attempting to recover from a BigPond email outage on Tuesday night that affected thousands of users.

Apple iOS 7 causes iMessage glitch

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JAMES W MANNING | Apple has conceded its new iOS 7 software caused a glitch that prevents users from sending messages through its iMessage service.

Screen overload puts brain development at risk

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LUCY BATTERSBY | Too much screen-based entertainment can hinder development and damage brains, new research shows.

Call of Duty: Ghosts: duty calls, louder than ever

Call of Duty Ghosts video game
Calum Wilson Austin | Polishing the proven goodies makes one of the year's most hotly-anticipated games a winner.

Portable projectors: Aiptek v Optoma

DLP
ADAM TURNER | Running off AC power or built-in batteries, these tiny projectors can slip into your travel bag.

PC viruses: don't give in to the hijackers

File illustration picture of a projection of binary code around the shadow of a man holding a laptop computer in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. An encrypted email service believed to have been used by American fugitive Edward Snowden shut down abruptly August 8, 2013, amid a legal fight that appeared to involve U.S. government attempts to win access to customer information.  Lavabit LLC owner Ladar Levison said he has decided to
Dave Thompson 10:57am | Sneaky hijack-ware won't be detected, prevented or removed by your anti-virus software.

Nokia wants to use lightning to charge your phone

Lightning.
6:03pm | Scientists team up with Nokia to explore harnessing the energy of a lightning bolt to charge a mobile device.

LG plans to unveil curved smartphone screen

A LG Electronics Inc. logo is seen beside the camera on the reverse of an LG Optimus quad core smartphone at the company's booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. The Mobile World Congress, operated by the GSMA, expects 60,000 visitors and 1400 companies to attend the four-day technology industry event which runs Feb. 27 through March 1. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
11:24am | LG plans to launch a smartphone with a curved screen next month to catch rival Samsung.

Fox News replaces desks with giant tablets

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10:02am | Fox News has unveiled what it believes to be the future of the newsroom - giant 55-inch tablets.

Three teenagers to face trial for Facebook kissing photo

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8:11am | Three Moroccan teenagers arrested for posting photos of themselves kissing on Facebook were released to their parents on Monday ahead of their trial for breaching public decency, judicial sources said.

An internet without ads? This $147 'AdTrap' device claims to give you just that

The AdTrap device.
1:47pm | A new device claims to completely block ads from websites, videos, music streams and mobile apps.

Meet Susan Bennett, the woman behind the voice of Apple's virtual assistant Siri

Susan Bennett, a voice-over actress from Atlanta in the US and the voice behind Apple's virtual assistant Siri.
Siri, whose voice do you have? The question has intrigued millions and now the voice actor's identity has been revealed.

Revenge porn: caught in a web of spite

Online revenge.
Hundreds of Australians - most of them women - find themselves targets. Mark White reports.

App creators' baby steps on worldwide web

STEPHANIE ANDERSON | Local app designers are taking on the worldwide web, with a number of Canberrans debuting products internationally.

Screen violence changing young brains: researchers

Video games
RACHEL BROWNE | Heavy exposure to screen violence in adolescence is changing the development of young people's brains, leading to increased aggression and reckless behaviour and decreased empathy.

Apps hunt down stolen goods, but police hamstrung to act

An attendee examines an iPad.
JESSICA WRIGHT | Want to find a (stolen) iPad? If you have the digital know-how there is a good chance you can - but it's unlikely that the police can do anything about it.

What we saw from the tweet suites: Twitter goes on holiday

Sol Wave Hotel
The first "Twitter experience hotel" (aka Sol Wave House) has been introduced this summer in Majorca, Spain.

Watch, then wait before you Gear up

Samsung Galaxy Gear
In the beginning, computers were the size of buildings. To use one, you walked into it.

Indie game maker Valve taps into living rooms

steamos
The world of console video games has some serious new competition.

DJ apps get the party started

Djay2
Mixing a party's worth of tracks is easy as phone, app, play.

Critical mass: the power of TV talk on social media

Walter White
Twitter and Facebook raced to tell the news media about the throngs who shared their instant reactions to Breaking Bad on the social networks.

Will Silk Road bust kill Bitcoin?

In this April 3, 2013 photo, Mike Caldwell, a 35-year-old software engineer, holds a 25 Bitcoin token at his shop in Sandy, Utah. Caldwell mints physical versions of bitcoins, cranking out homemade tokens with codes protected by tamper-proof holographic seals, a retro-futuristic kind of prepaid cash. With up to 70,000 transactions each day over the past month, bitcoins have been propelled from the world of Internet oddities to the cusp of mainstream use, a remarkable breakthrough for a currency which made its online debut only four years ago. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
What will Silk Road's end mean for the popular crypto-currency Bitcoin?

Microsoft hands user data to Aussie government

Microsoft
Microsoft handed Australian government agents personal information about more than a thousand users in the first half of 2013, a transparency report reveals.

How more of us depend on the internet, but wish it had not been invented

internet
Users report secretly hating it and resenting it taking control of their lives.

Social media spam increased 355% this year

A Facebook icon is shown on a Samsung Galaxy III mobile phone in this photo illustration in Encinitas, California, January 30, 2013. Facebook Inc's advertising business grew at its fastest clip since before the company's May initial public offering, helping the company's revenue expand 40 percent to $1.585 billion. Facebook has ramped up its online advertising services in recent months, putting a greater emphasis on mobile ads and introducing capabilities that let marketers target Facebook users based on their Web browsing history.  REUTERS/Mike Blake  (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS TELECOMS)
Spam has risen 355 per cent on the typical social media account in the first half of 2013.

Windows Phone gains in Europe, Apple up in US

A man uses the camera of a Nokia Lumia 820 smartphone as he poses in this photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, September 3, 2013. Two years after hitching its fate to Microsoft's Windows Phone software, a withered Nokia collapsed into the arms of the U.S. software giant, agreeing to sell its main handset business for 5.44 billion euros ($7.2 billion). Nokia, which will continue as a maker of networking equipment and holder of patents, was once the world's dominant handset manufacturer but was long since overtaken by Apple and Samsung in the highly competitive market for more   powerful smartphones. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: BUSINESS TELECOMS)
Windows smartphones are making significant inroads in Europe, while Apple's iPhone is strengthening its position in the US.

Some gadgets should be allowed in flight: US

PLANE; SYD; AFR; 010706; PHOTO: ROB HOMER.GENERIC PLANE. JET. ANSETT. AIRPORT.  AIR TRAVEL. SKY.aeroplane flying overhead.*****AFR FIRST USE*****.
An advisory panel to the US Federal Aviation Administration has urged regulators to allow some personal electronics to be used throughout flights

Grand Theft Auto Online launches with server problems

GTA
Grand Theft Auto Online has gone live with many players experiencing delayed load times as servers struggled to handle the rush of users.

Panasonic DMC-G6 camera review

Panasonic DMC-G6.
IMAGING | The G6 is the entry into the serious micro four thirds category of camera.

Why Apple iOS7 is a luminous iBeacon

Clever guide: iBeacon could change daily life.
MACMAN | The true value at the new iPhone's heart is the software - iOS7, the new operating system.

I'll take mine RAW

If we want to get the best possible picture quality from our camera, we capture the image RAW.
IMAGING | If we want to get the best possible picture quality from our camera, we capture the image RAW.

Future pitfalls in lives lived online

Thanks to technology, someone can know more about you than you know about yourself - or think they do.
Julian Gewirtz and Adam Kern | Digital longevity raises new issues: one is that our former selves may live on beyond their real existence.

iPhone 5s: dawn patrol for Apple hardcore

The Brazilian contingent.
KATIE CINCOTTA | Time differences mean Australians had first crack at the new iPhone 5s.

iPhone 5s review: biometric innovation shows right touch

Anyone who reckons Apple has stopped innovating needs to put hands on the iPhone 5S.
KATIE CINCOTTA | Anyone who reckons Apple has stopped innovating needs to puts hands on the iPhone 5s.

Turntables: a spin back to old ways

Thorens TD158.
SIGHT AND SOUND | Wandering through a electronics retailer recently, Rod Easdown saw something unusual.

Strap on your computer, wearable technology is taking off

Claire Collins is given a demonstration of Optinvent ORA-S augmented reality glasses at the GLAZED Conference, a conference for the business of wearable technology, in San Francisco.
The digital domain is creeping off our desktops and onto our bodies, from music players that match your tunes to your heart beat, to mood sweaters that change colour depending on your emotional state - blue for calm, red for angry.

When is it okay to break Digital Rights Management?

Iron Man
Adam Turner | If you've paid for a movie but can't play the digital download, are you prepared to break the rules?

Android handsets caught cheating on benchmarks

Samsung Galaxy S4 at Sydney launch event.
Adam Turner | Following in the footsteps of graphics cards, Android handset makers have been caught tweaking their devices to boost benchmark results.

Retro gaming - what's your passion?

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.
Adam Turner | Why do we single out gamers for their love of the classics?

Puppeteer: Strings attached

Puppeteer
Jason Hill | Set in a magical puppeteer's theatre, Sony's latest quirky platformer Puppeteer is gorgeously presented.

Friday Question: Do you ever get obsessive?

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James Dominguez | Some games give us so much to do that completing every task is a huge time-sink. How important is it to you to 100% complete a game?

Card Hunter: The free way to deal with your enemies

card hunter dragon
James Dominguez 8:26am | Part trading card game, part table-top RPG, and part tactical wargame, Card Hunter is an amazing achievement in free-to-play gaming.

Men behaving badly: What happens when a character is just too unpleasant?

grand theft auto v trevor gta
James Dominguez | Many great stories have been told about unpleasant characters, but what happens when they get too unpleasant?
 

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