SMH Technology

The story of how Google went from a garage start-up to earning almost $US25 billion a year is heading to Hollywood, hot on the heels of a feature film about the tortuous early days of Facebook.

A German bank robber led his pursuers straight to him after taunting police in an email over their efforts to catch him.

Abbreviations of everyday words were once an Aussie birthright, but are our barbies and smokos being swept aside for a new generation of language in which we txt, tweet, rickroll, and lol?

THE case of the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, for wireless to deliver broadband internet has been undermined by revelations he was a vocal opponent of many mobile phone towers during the 1990s, Labor claims.

Google Australia managing director Karim Temsamani has been appointed as the new head of the internet company's global mobile ads strategy.

Apple is in damage control after its top enforcer of the iTunes App Store was found to be selling fart and urination simulator apps.

A new video game that lets players opt to fight alongside Taliban soldiers against the US in Afghanistan has provoked outrage in Australia and abroad.

The head of the national broadband network has criticised key elements of the opposition's broadband alternative.

JERUSALEM: The integrity of the Israel Defence Forces has again been called into question following the release of more photographs showing Israeli soldiers posing alongside bound and gagged Palestinians.

Nuisance SMS texts are of growing concern for the industry's watchdog, which says you can act.

The games industry slams federal government moves to censor mobile game apps, with developers saying they will stop selling their apps to Australians due to the prohibitive costs.

A western New York man suing over claims he owns 84 per cent of Facebook has a copy of a $US3000 cashier's cheque that may support his contract claim against the company and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg.

The rise and rise of tech gadgets means most of us have more "stuff" than ever before, but these very gadgets are allowing a new breed of digital minimalists to get rid of most of what they own.

The independent MP Rob Oakeshott - who would be crucial in determining the next government in a hung parliament - has launched a phone app that allows people to track his exact location.

JERUSALEM: A former Israeli soldier who posted on Facebook controversial photographs of herself posing with blindfolded Palestinian prisoners has said she did nothing wrong.

Google's chief has put forth a novel solution for today's teenagers whose wild online antics threaten to follow them into their adult life: change your name.

Experts have again ridiculed Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's sheer lack of knowledge surrounding broadband and labelled the Coalition's policy "technical ignorance on a national scale".

There's someone out there who can help you with your project — and probably for a bargain price, writes Brad Howarth.

There's someone out there who can help you with your project — and probably for a bargain price, writes Brad Howarth.

Despite security fears, people are reluctant to upgrade their browsers, writes Danny Gorog