Top stories LUCY BATTERSBY | A new calling feature in Apple's latest operating system threatens billions of dollars of revenue that network operators such as Telstra, Optus and Vodafone receive from mobile voice calls. | LUCY BATTERSBY | The cost of connecting each premise to the NBN has dropped to less than $2500, a leaked copy of NBN Co's latest three-year plan shows. | BEN GRUBB | Gmail forced 425 million users onto a new compose interface, but you can get the old one back. | 10:49am | An Alaskan airport has closed an aircraft access route due to a glitch in Apple Maps that directs drivers up to an active runway. | MARISSA CALLIGEROS | So fed up are Queensland tourism operators with visitors who are preoccupied with their smartphones they have developed a smartphone code of conduct. | STEPHEN HUTCHEON 8:14am | Urban Compass, a start-up co-founded by Ori Allon, the serial entrepreneur who got his first big break in Australia, has raised $US20 million in new funding round from some of the biggest names in venture capital. | 12:01pm | Samsung are set to unveil a smartphone with a curved screen - a technological innovation aimed at maintaining its lead in a lucrative but increasingly saturated market. | 7:11am | As we have become critically dependent of precise timekeeping a loss of 'micromoments' can have a large effect. | 11:32am | A small, sophisticated hacking group is responsible for breaches at government agencies and companies in Japan and South Korea. | Kristian Silva 12:01am | The Queensland Police Service's latest tool to hunt criminals won't be used, or even seen, by officers on the beat. | Lauren Frayer | An old port city on Spain's Bay of Biscay has emerged as a prototype for high-tech smart cities worldwide. | ADAM TURNER | The Australian Communications and Media Authority has let Telstra off with a warning. | BLEEDING EDGE | In our experience, Windows 8 might have been better named 'Windows Wait'. | SIGHT AND SOUND | It's usually when buying their second home-cinema system that people start getting picky about sound. | IMAGING | During the past 10 years we have owned more cameras than any sensible person needs. | IMAGING | For 2014, for the first time, the human form is the dominant feature in Hyett's photographs. | Cynthia Karena | Shout for Good offers an easy opportunity to be generous to others as we sip our coffee. | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | |
