TECHNOLOGY

The biggest game ever made in Australian shores has finally been released on May 17. Gamers and developers across the country are celebrating this massive and ambitious game.

November 8 is a day that will live in infamy, at least for Call of Duty fans. That's because November 8 is when the latest installment of the massively popular first person shooter game will drop in stores. To wet fans appetites, Activision and studios Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer games have revealed the full trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Many say that the Internet and computers these days help improve productivity. Because of digital technology, office meetings can be promptly held via Skype or GotoMeeting, a manager can issue announcements to his staff through a Facebook group page, or a secretary can send documents to his boss via Yahoo! e-mail, GoogleDocuments or Dropbox.com.

Apple stores have a basic set-up. You go in the pristine environment and everything is neatly organized by each product. The iPods, iPhones, MacBooks and iPads are all arranged in their own sections and next to each product is a small piece of paper enclosed in plastic that shows the product's specs and price. Apple has decided to do away with this piece of paper and is now going hi-tech by replacing this with iPad 2s.

Sony Corp.'s Playstation lost a couple of gamers after hackers stole private information, including credit card information, from all 77 million members of the PlayStation Network. With the PlayStation Network back after a month-long layoff, Sony has updated its blog site with new information on upcoming releases Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One.

“L.A. Noire” is a video game about a 1940 Los Angeles police detective, described like a film by video game critics and scholars.

In the minds of most investors, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank assumes the role of leader of the world's economies, with the ECB generally viewed as its close second.

Modern technology has taken a heavy toll on Australian’s spine health, new research has found.

Australia's James Packer's Consolidated Press Holdings, Seek co-founder Andrew Bassat and American hedge fund Tiger Global have invested some $80 million in online retail giant called Catch of the Day.

While Australia is in the midst of an internet explosion, broadband consumers are over-spending on their connections by $141 million due to lack of understanding, new research has found.

A group representing over 5,000 users of vector drawing software FreeHand has filed a class action lawsuit against Adobe Inc. in the California District Court for antitrust violations.

Microsoft can't wait for the Class of 2011 to graduate before offering a sweet back-to-school Windows PC deal for the next group of students.

A Los Angeles-based company has built a new website that will cater specifically to programmers called SourceSale.com, according to sources.

All web browsers now feature a search option at the top of the program window, and many have reduced the address bar and search box into a single entity. This is the case with Firefox, creating the unashamedly named AwesomeBar.

Some people seem capable of organizing everything in their head: the day's tasks, a running to-do list and even when and where all their meetings for the next month will be. For the rest of us, though, we need a bit of help. And your computer or smartphone can help here, by doing all the hard work for you.

Mozilla has released the first publicly available beta of Firefox 5, which acts as a halfway house between the final stable, final release of Firefox and the developmental version, Firefox Aurora.

Well, Apple would be much less than it is today. Much less. The more than 300 retail stores allow Apple to take risks that other tech companies can't, and lets new customers -- the majority Windows PC users -- take chances on Macs and iOS products, too.

The record sales of the iPads have affected other firms that rely on PC sales. Microsoft Windows, the lead operating system for PCs but is not used in iPads, had its sales fall 4.4 percent to $4.45 billion. At Intel, whose processors run more than 80 percent of the world's PCs, had to rely on emerging markets and corporate sales to boost growth in the PC-chip division.

If you don't read Betanews often, or don't really get a feel for my personality through my writing, allow me to give you a brief introduction that is also something of a disclosure of bias.

The famed deal between Telstra Corporation Ltd and the National Broadband Network (NBN), which amounts to $9 billion, is expected to be signed as early as next week with the cabinet to see documents by late second quarter or early third quarter of this year.

That's a question many customers may ask, if a report from Bloomberg proves to be right: There will be at least five Windows 8 editions -- four for ARM processors.

Yes, it looks like real malware has finally come to Macintosh, and Apple is blowing off users who call for support for the problem.

Reports indicate that Sony still does not have its network fully secure: an exploit is now available allowing users to reset your account password with only an e-mail address and date of birth. With this data now publicly available due to the previous hack of the PlayStation Network, it puts millions of users again at risk.

Brisbane-based software developer r2 Studios has released a major update to its pioneering startup management application.

Google has paid tribute to US dancer Martha Graham with an animated doodle showing a dancer spelling out “Google”.

Stocks in Australia and Tokyo close higher Wednesday, reflecting the generally brighter sentiments around Asian markets.

Lawmakers in the U.S. asked Japanese firm Sony Corp. for additional information about an attack that exposed more than 100 million customer accounts to hackers, an event its chief executive officer described as a 'hiccup.'

More than 13 million hours of video were uploaded in YouTube, during 2010 and 35 hours were uploaded every minute. However, YouTube, the video sharing Web site that used to be the world's largest source of Internet traffic, is losing its marketshare in the Internet populace.

Point-Counterpont. In the second of two posts about Google's cloud-connected operating system and Chromebook, Joe Wilcox argues that PC defenders are an unimaginative lot living in the past. He refutes Larry Seltzer's morning commentary: "I'll take Windows and a good browser over Chrome OS."