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The Sydney Morning Herald
Technology

Home-workers are hard workers: study

Telecommuters are more committed, productive and have higher job satisfaction than people who work full time at the office, according to a study. Lucy Battersby reports.

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NBN Co rewrites rollout map - will you miss out on fibre?

Updated NBN rollout map.
Adam Turner 12:20pm | Construction areas will be kept from the public after rollout details were stripped from NBN Co's website.

Rollout delays decimate NBN's forecast earnings

NBN Co: Earnt a 10th of what it was expected to be earning by 2013.
LUCY BATTERSBY 11:44am | NBN Co's latest annual report reveals it earnt a 10th of what it was expected to be earning by 2013 due to continuing rollout delays.

Joe Hockey says no to Huawei investment in NBN

NBN - fibre optics
JONATHAN SWAN 10:29am | Treasurer Joe Hockey has potentially exacerbated tensions with China by bluntly rejecting any investment from Huawei in the NBN.

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Smartphone buyers beware: don't trust all .com.au domains

Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S4 (L) and Apple's iPhone 5 are seen in this illustration taken in Seoul in this May 13, 2013 file photo. Samsung, the South Korean giant, now has a 19 percent share of the $80 billion smartphone market in China, a market expected to surge to $117 billion by 2017, according to International Data Corp (IDC). That's 10 percentage points ahead of Apple, which has fallen to 5th in terms of China market share. Picture taken May 13, 2013. To match Insight story SAMSUNG-APPLE/CHINA  REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Files (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
Liam Tung | Some Australian online shops may not be all they seem, as several scam .com.au sites have been shut down.

Adobe hack: 38m users impacted, Photoshop source code also stolen

Adobe launched Creative Cloud in April 2012. More than 38 million customers' details are now known to have been accessed in recent hack.
Brian Krebs 1:09pm | Adobe's recent data breach impacted 10 times more users than originally thought, plus more source code was compromised.

Garage where Steve Jobs started Apple listed as historic site

Steve Jobs home
11:24am | The Silicon Valley home where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs grew up and built some of his first computers is now on the city's list of historic properties.

'World's first' Bitcoin ATM opens

Gabriel Scheare uses what is claimed to be the world's first bitcoin ATM at Waves Coffee House in Vancouver, Canada.
1:06pm | What is claimed to be the world's first bitcoin ATM has opened for business in Vancouver.

Norwegian man buys apartment with forgotten $27 bitcoin investment

Some of Bitcoin enthusiast Mike Caldwell's coins in this photo illustration at his office in Sandy, Utah, September 17, 2013.Caldwell produces physical coins Bitcoins, which have been around since 2008, and have become a form of electronic money that can be exchanged without using traditional banking or money transfer systems. Bitcoins, touted by some experts as the future of money, gained in prominence during Europe's financial crisis as more people questioned the safety of holding their cash in the bank.   REUTERS/Jim Urquhart  (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY)
1:04pm | A Norwegian man who purchased $27 worth of bitcoins in 2009 has bought an apartment thanks to the massive appreciation of the virtual currency.

Motorola's Project Ara: the modular phone you can build yourself

Ara
9:46am | Motorola wants to let consumers design their own smartphones.

Google+ rolls out new photo features, claims 540 million active users

Google+
10:08am | Google+ is introducing more tools to automatically edit images in an attempt to catch up to Facebook.

It's touch and go for iToddlers

Charli Meldrum aged 3 from Northmead pictured with her ipad
3:17pm | Charlotte Deutsch, who will be two years old next month, has a look of pure delight as she swipes the screen of her mother's old iPhone, and finds a picture of herself.

BlackBerry met with Facebook about takeover bid: report

BlackBerry: May have talked with Facebook about a takeover deal.
10:43am | Facebook met with BlackBerry last week to discuss a potential bid for the smartphone maker, according to a source familiar with the matter.
 

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