TECHNOLOGY

Youtube's getting a makeover and it is cosmic. With all the new designs Google's rolling out for its sites the search engine giant is now waving its styling wand over YouTube

Space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-135 mission, a flight notable for its lasts, is taking the first iPhone into space to help with experiments aboard the International Space Station.

AbiSource has announced the release of a developmental version of its popular and free cross-platform word processing application, AbiWord. Version 2.9.1 represents the first glimpse of AbiWord's journey towards a major new stable release, which is set to be version 3.0.

Opera has updated its Opera Next browser, which contains the latest developmental (and unstable) build of Opera to version 12.00. This is a pre-alpha release, and contains only a series of minor bug fixes and stability improvements, with "juicy and fresh stuff" promised for future releases.

I'm not the first to ask that question, but there's good reason to pose it again. Media tablet shipments plummeted 28 percent sequentially during first quarter, says IDC. Even the iPad missed earlier expectations.

Never fails to amaze us how much effort web browser development teams are investing to bring us the latest and best browser. But why are Opera and Firefox so keen to be seen to develop and release new versions of their browsers more quickly than ever?

I attempted to go Google-free and, as explained a few days ago, failed. What's that cliché? If you can't beat them, join them. So now I'm going all Google, or as nearly as humanly possible.

More people are making the same move. Since 2008, 1 million US households cut cable's cord and switched to over-the-air broadcasts and online streaming, says Convergence Consultancy Group, which expects the number to reach 2 million by year's end.

Since the release of the first model four years ago, Apple's iPhone has been blazing the trail for all smartphones. A decade ago, in the age of mobile calling and sending short messages, Finland-based Nokia was the king. Then came Research in Motion's BlackBerry, with its bigger display and QWERTY keyboard providing U.S. President Barack Obama and others a more convenient means of sending instant messages and e-mail. But in the age of the mobile Internet and apps, iPhone has been atop e...

New research has revealed Australians’ growing obsession with smartphones, with many using mobile internet-connected phones everywhere from business meetings to first dates and even to avoid awkward social encounters.

A serious security flaw in Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices was discovered Wednesday and raised concerns about the susceptibility of the tech giant's devices to hacker attacks.

Apple's iPhone 5 hasn't been released yet but for Apple fans it's never too early to start speculating about the next generation iPhone after that. After reports that Apple has already started buying key components for the iPhone 5, fans are already looking forward to the next version of the iPhone.

Apple Inc. is releasing a thinner and lighter iPhone at the end of September, hoping to cut off Samsung Electronics Co. and other manufacturers benefiting the delayed release of the iPhone 5.

UNSW solar cell researchers promise to make solar power more affordable with new technology that is said to deliver substantial efficiency gains at minimal extra cost.

A research team from North Carolina State University headed by professor Xuxian Jiang discovered early this month a trojanised app called Fast Racing, hiding malware which it called 'Golddream'.

Rupert Murdoch will shut down Britain's biggest selling Sunday newspaper, the News of the World, in a startling response to a scandal engulfing his media empire.

The Winklevoss Twins are set to continue their endless legal fight with Facebook. Why do you think they persist with court action after court action? Because Facebook has only just got started and they know that.

It's a common human desire to keep up with the Joneses or even to play games of oneupmanship, and it's no truer when applied to PCs.

When Mozilla released Firefox 4 (and now Firefox 5), it appeared to have finally fixed some of the performance-related gripes of earlier releases.

Today, the Consumer Electronics Association announced that, no surprise, Microsoft's CEO would give CES' kick-off keynote next year.

Right now the standard for invalidating patents is pretty high, using what's called a "clear and convincing" standard, which Microsoft wanted to be "preponderance of the evidence" instead.

Microsoft has released a minor update to its Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite of free tools, which includes Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and Messenger. Live Essentials 2011 build 15.4.3538.0513 is available for download now, while existing Live Essentials users will be prompted to update later this month.

For all the talk about Apple innovation, it's still old school in one respect. While Google product managers make major announcements in blog posts, usually accompanied by helpful videos, information control-freak Apple does it the old-fashion way by issuing a press release. Today it's 15 billion downloads from the App Store.

vMozilla has started the Firefox development merry-go-round again, updating its Beta, Aurora and Nightly 32-bit and 64-bit builds to versions 6, 7, and 8, respectively.

Google is in process of changing YouTube's look and feel in startling and refreshing ways. How this new experience comes to market depends in part on how users respond to it.

MARKET CLOSE - CommSec Report (4.30pm AEST)The Australian sharemarket has managed to end higher by the most modest of margins for the third time this week despite being around 0.4 pct lower at one point this morning.

No, you can't actually lift off from highways but at least if you're driving the Terrafugia flying car you can drive it to nearest airport and take off. The world's first flying car has been cleared by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for use on roads and granted it special exemptions as a "roadable aircraft."

Google provides Android for free yet for the most part, its deployment and usage require the assistance of other technologies exclusively owned by other firms such as Microsoft, which holds the right of web content rendering and navigation widely utilised in the OS platform.

Virgin Money, the financial services arm of Virgin Group, is giving one lucky Australian the chance to fulfil their childhood dream and travel into space on the Virgin Galactic.