TECHNOLOGY

According to a statement from prosecutors, federal agents found more than $150,000 in cash stored in shoe boxes during a search of the house of Paul Shin Devine earlier this month.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the chip designer, announced that it poached Don Newell three weeks ago to become the company's new chief technology officer (CTO) for its server microprocessors.

Simon Hackett, managing director of Internode, says that the service provider will provide "substantial" upgrades to its broadband plans. Hackett, who said that it would take a few weeks before an official announcement is released, made the comments to users of an online forum.

EMC, the information infrastructure provider, announces its release of an update for its Unisphere management software. The company claims that the solution enables storage administrators to perform common tasks from drop-down menus using far fewer clicks

The prospect of a future without the $43 billion NBN becomes more real as uncertainty settles over Australia's internet research efforts.

It is called Facebook Places. It makes it easy for people to catch up with one another. It also makes it easy to tell people your favorite places are when using this kind of application. I

Apple sees to it that people won't have a hard time trying to learn how to navigate their gadgets. Apple's iPod video is an example of the huge success Apple experienced.

watch TV or videos with them wherever they go. The live TV streaming application for tablet PCs is said to be something that could remove the need for a TV at home and allow a TV everywhere kind of thinking for people.

Harry Bruder. Bruder is fifty-four years old. He has been separated from his wife for two years and has been accused of doing something connected to domestic violence. He was sent to jail for contacting his wife on the social networking site called Facebook twice.

The inclusion of Facebook Chat to Windows Live Messenger is an attempt to update the test versions of the messenger but this connection will take place not in all countries where people use the messenger.

The Australian Sex Party is up in arms over what it claims as censorship from anti-filter campaigner Google. The search engine company reclassified the party's lampoon advertisement "Jerk Choices" as Adult Only content in spite the fact that it has already aired on primetime on free to air television.

Research In Motion launched the new addition to the popular BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones in Australia. Called the BlackBerry Curve 3G, the new smartphone is "designed to provide the growing number of smartphone purchasers with a distinctly powerful, approachable and affordable choice."

The iPhone 4 has encountered more reported problems: users are now describing photos they have taken on the device that are discolored with blue, yellow and green.

In the face of new legal approval of "jailbreaking" by the United States government, Apple has applied for a patent to protect its products from hacks.

Rumors are circulating that Sony's Playstation 3 has been hacked to allow the use of pirated games. The technique, which makes use of a specially constructed USB stick, has dispelled notions that the gaming console is hack-proof.

Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, says that, for this year, he expects to double his company's rate of acquisition and expects to maintain that pace due to the failure of some internal projects to spur growth.

The Coalition is indicating that it will stand its ground on its broadband policy. The party is signaling that it will not try to please country independents who will decide which of the major parties will form a minority government.

Paul Otellini, Chief Executive Officer of Intel, is banking on the possibility that customers will pay to guard against possible attacks that have yet to materialize with his company's $7.68 billion acquisition of security software maker McAfee.

Investors sent Australian telco giant Telstra (ASX: TLS) shares down more than 6 per cent to a record low as prospects of a hung parliament cast doubts about the future of its broadband plans and the wider telecommunications industry.

Uncertainty surrounding the election outcome is providing no clear future for the national broadband network or Telstra (ASX: TLS).

Gone are the days when you need a bulky computer to do all your work. Today, more and more people are enamored by the small stuff; small hand-held gadgets that are lightweight and convenient. Mobile devices even get more functional with Google's Android.

yes google did good making its own web browser, but will it do better with it's own operating system?

it had to happen sooner or later. the big internet market is there and chrome wants a peice of it

since both companies now hold a significant client base, microsoft started a "compromise" for the benefit of multi-product users

new tech brings the popular search engine to an engine overhaul

facebook will now have the video chat feature that makes it a complete social multimedia site

Users face a hefty cost in distributing the fast Internet speeds promised by the National Broadband Network around the house. Households may face costs of up to $3000 to take full advantage of the capabilities of super-fast Internet.

Google founders Sergey Brin's and Larry Page's rise to success will be chronicled in a movie as the right to Ken Auletta's book 'Google: The End of the World As We Know It' have been purchased

Karim Temsamani, managing director of Google's operations in Australia and New Zealand, is leaving his current post for a senior job in the US with the Internet company.