Top stories Jenneth Orantia | You can transform your smartphone into a panic button in your pocket, writes Jenneth Orantia. | EAMONN DUFF | Two Sydney entrepreneurs are locked in an escalating war with the NSW taxi industry over a revolutionary smartphone app that ensures passengers are never again left waiting for the cab that never turns up. | Google will at 5pm Tuesday AEST close the book on its free Reader service for gathering news stories and other online items in simple, up-to-the-minute lists. | BEN GRUBB | About 13,000 Australian websites scanned by search giant Google in the past year were found to contain malware. | MACMAN | Three things should be said about iOS 7, Apple's new mobile operating system. | Ryan Vogt | With Google getting into the console business,and Apple getting back into it, we're in for a bloodier war than anyone expected. | Tim Barlass | A headset with four electrodes to zap the brain with a surge of electricity offers to improve computer gamers' response time so they can eliminate more zombies and raid more tombs. | State of Decay is the second game in as many days to be turned away by the Australian Classification Board. | Matt Maguire | Classification Board ruling due to the appearance of an anal probe weapon and "alien narcotics" in the video game. | Noel Randewich | Nvidia is delaying sales of its new handheld game gadget, a setback in the chipmaker's bid to use its appeal with personal computer gamers to challenge console makers like Sony and Microsoft . | Rob Lever | Smartphone users have seen a 614 per cent jump in mobile malware in the past year, dominated by schemes targeting Google's Android operating system, a survey has shown. | Iain Gillespie | Music apps are revolutionising the way music is made and challenging the very definition of music itself. | IMAGING | Enlarging digital images is a different kettle of pixels to using a darkroom. | Adam Turner | We test two apps for streaming iPhone media. | Reviewed by Terry Lane | With its small outside and big inside, you can't go wrong with Canon's smallest DSLR. | Nobuhiro Kubo and Edmund Klamann | Apple Inc has applied for a trademark for iWatch in Japan, a patent official said on Monday, signaling the iPhone maker may be moving ahead with plans for a watch-like device as gadget makers turn their attention to wearable computers. | Miyoung Kim | Samsung has launched its first OLED TV, taking the ultra-thin technology into a nascent market despite tenacious production challenges that keep costs high while prevailing LCD screens only get better and cheaper. | Glenn Chapman | The notion of being fashionably smart is getting a makeover as internet-linked computers get woven into formerly brainless attire such as glasses, bracelets and shoes. | Ryan Nakashima | After some hands-on time with Windows 8.1, the update seems to me like a patch over an ever-widening chasm. | NICK BILTON | Photos, once slices of a moment in the past are fast becoming an entirely new type of dialogue. | Adam Turner | Microsoft and Apple are both pushing into enemy territory as they unveil office suites to run on each other's devices. | Farhad Manjoo | Instagram's new feature is just a rehash of Vine - and another bad omen for Silicon Valley innovation. | Malathi Nayak and Tim Kelly | Microsoft will offer its popular Age of Empires game for Apple's iPhone and other smartphones through a tie-up with Japan's KLab, seeking to capture growth in a booming mobile game market. | SIGHT AND SOUND | Rod Easdown reviews a trio of small satellite speaker home-theatre systems. | BLEEDING EDGE | Portable devices lack the power and versatility and sheer value for money of the do-it-yourself workhorse PC. | Katie Cincotta | Katie Cincotta reviews the Netatmo Urban Weather Station housed in sleek cylinders. | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Microsoft will use its annual developers conference to release a preview of Windows 8.1, a free update that promises to address some of the gripes people have with the latest version of the company's flagship operating system. | Craig Butt | Digitally savvy Australians are willing to trade personal data for better shopping deals and banking security, but draw a line at giving away certain information, a survey has found. | Ryan Nakashima and Peter Svensson | Microsoft is trying to reverse slumping PC sales and quiet growing criticism of its flagship operating system with the release of a revised version of Windows 8. | Jenneth Orantia | We list some top apps for personal finance. | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | |
