TECHNOLOGY

A recent survey from Vancouver consulting firm AptiQuant shows that Interntet Explorer users have significantly lower IQ than users of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The survey which tested over 100,000 users randomly found through user searchers and targeted advertising found no significant differences in the IQs of users of Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

South Korea-based Samsung has agreed to stop advertising or selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia until a lawsuit between the two are resolved.

Twitter users will have no choice but to upgrade to the new version of the social media service after the company announced that it will be retiring the old version.

A security firm has discovered the largest series of cyber attacks to date with a single server hacking more than 70 corporations and government organizations including the United Nations.

Google+ has hit 25 million users already and is the fastest growing website to reach that audience size, according to recent findings by comScore on Tuesday.

Transportation provider Metlink has released the new Metlink Android app as beta, providing Victoria passengers with public transport information on the go.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) year book for 2009-10, most of Australia's carbon dioxide emissions occurred due to the burning of fuels.

Sony Computer Entertainment announced Tuesday that long-time partner Sucker Punch Productions is joining the global development operation of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS).

According to a research firm, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has moved ahead of Finnish handset maker Nokia, with its flagship Galaxy S II product performing well. But Samsung's overall performance was underwhelming, considering the opportunities offered by the upheaval at Nokia, according to research firm Canalys.

Adobe, the software company famous for its Flash software running the online animation, video and graphics on most computers, unveiled a preview of its latest software called Adobe Edge.

The death of 20-year-old British student Chris Staniforth has been linked to a marathon Xbox gaming session.

The iPad-optimized Skype application made its official debut on the Apple App Stores and iTunes August 1. However, not long after the app appeared for download, Skype removed the new app.

According to reports, Apple is releasing the iPhone 5 this year, but has again delayed the release of the new device to October due to another series of setbacks.

Apple's iCloud website went live Monday but only as a "beta" version and is only available for existing MobileMe customers with the Mac OS X on their desktops and notebooks.

Payphones will soon be a thing of the past and in their place Telstra will be releasing public internet kiosks. Dubbed the "21st century upgrade for the payphone" these kiosks will allow customers to surf the net, pay bills online and even make phone calls.

Australians will have to wait for quite a while before they could get their hands on the new Samsung Galaxy tablet computer as the South Korean consumer electronics manufacturer decided to suspend its local sale, at least until the company’s legal dispute with Apple has been resolved.

Apple-loving analyst Gene Minster claims there is "pent up demand" among Verizon subscribers for iPhone 5 -- that something like 74 percent of potential Apple smartphone buyers will wait for the newer model.

One of the biggest early draws to Google's new social network Google+ is the ability for users to break their list of friends into "circles" which each have their own level of communication.

A British judge has released Jake Davis -- more commonly known as "Topiary" -- on bail Monday, however he has been banned from using the Internet as a condition of his release.

It has taken more than two years, but the benefits of a deal struck in July 2009 between Best Buy and TiVo are finally being realized. The retailer on Monday debuted two HDTVs carrying its in-house Insignia branding, both featuring the TiVo user interface.

Commonwealth Bank today announced a new online game that will help gamers invest money without risking real life money to do so.

With the hotly anticipated release of the iPhone 5 only months away, tech blogs and articles have been fixated on every little bit of iPhone 5 rumors and news they could get. Here are some of the more important ones released last week.

Nokia's woes continue to grow as it was dislodged from the top of the smartphone market for the first time in fifteen years. Apple and Samsung Electronics vaulted over Nokia to gain the first and second rankings respectively at the smartphone sales rankings, according to Strategy Analytics this Friday.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA) today introduced a new social game designed for budding property investors. Australia’s major bank has released Investorville, an online simulation tool that helps users de-mystify the often complex world of property investment, including simulating ongoing costs, without ever putting any of their own capital at risk.

Skype has announced the release of Skype for Windows 5.5. Its headline feature is deeper integration with Facebook. Once installed, you'll be able to see which Facebook friends are online and chat directly from Skype itself, plus update your Skype Mood and Facebook status together.

The standard is the Smart Battery Specification. Consumer electronics batteries, especially on complex devices like computers, are complex devices themselves. They interface with the host system to allow for fine control of the power in the system. It turns out that if a program has the correct code to do so, it can query the device for its status and command it, as well as the charger.

There's something wrong with your country when one of the most financially stable companies has more cash on hand than you do. But that is exactly what happened at the end of business Wednesday, according to the latest available daily financial statement from the US Treasury.

So say you're Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and you're sitting on a boatload of cash that's burning a hole in your pocket. What to do with it?

Personally, I never understood what got people so excited about Barack Obama. But back in 2008 people were positively gooey about him, and one of the lesser reasons was "cybersecurity". Obama "got it". He understood the deadly seriousness of this business.