Just in time for the release of the PSP-3000 comes the announcement of the latest firmware for the Sony hand-held device.

Last week, the technology company Novell announced the release (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/mono-project-announces-mono-20-for-cross-platform-microsoft-net-development,567497.shtml) of version 2.0 of Mono - something which was described as an an open source, cross-platform .NET development framework....

Here's a useful service that could soon be offered by your ISP: online backup for your files over your broadband connection.

In terms of pre-orders which are now totalling 1.5 million, Google's first Android G1 gPhone is certainly hitting the gSpot, while reports say South Africa will also get the gPhone in 2009....

A German-led study and a British/American-led study have both found a second gene locus location that is responsible for alopecia, or hair loss. Can we screen men now for male...

The flash memory revolution keeps on revving up, with 32GB now a standard USB flash memory drive capacity at prices that anyone can afford. Cool!

Finally out of the beta and release candidate versions, Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been released for anyone to download and try for themselves. Here's my first look at this...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is looking into evidence that the suggested amount of vitamin D children receive should be doubled from 200 to 400 units daily. Why double the...

Mac users might less vulnerable to Internet security threats than those who take the Windows route to computing nirvana, but 'less' is not the same as 'not at all' and...

People pulling around rickshaws in India could one day be a thing of the past ndash; replaced instead with solar-powered motorised bicycle-drawn rickshaws known as the ldquo;Soleckshawrdquo;.

At the recent Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS), a presentation outlined how grown-ups are better prepared to lsquo;skim,rsquo; lsquo;bouncersquo; and lsquo;viewrsquo; on-line material than are their children.

There is nothing worse than catching the common cold. Nothing, that is, other than having someone decide to identify your personality type by the way you react to being ill......

So the BBC is on a mission to make the iPlayer available on more portable devices, as long as they support Windows Media-protected content that is. Which means no iPlayer...

With its vast resources Microsoft certainly has developed (and continues to develop) some excellent products. But they have also rolled out some very average ones and even some real shockers....

Wow - way back in 2001, only a few years after Google launched in 1998, the 2001 index only let you search through a mere 1,326,920,000 web pages ndash; and we can...

Banned from being imported or printed in Australia, the ldquo;Peaceful Pill eHandbookrdquo; Digital Edition from Australiarsquo;s own ldquo;Dr Deathrdquo;, aka Dr Philip Nitschke, is being launched today in London ndash; to get...

Richard Farnsworth, head of IT and controls at the Australian Synchrotron, in a series of podcasts for iTWire, continues his fascinating insights into the control engineering and information technology used...

Seagate, the worldrsquo;s largest hard disk manufacturer, is slowly making the move towards the solid state disk (SSD) space, but faces fierce competition from the very NAND manufacturers it will by its...

Yet another UK ldquo;data lossrdquo; scandal has erupted, with the shocking news that ldquo;up tordquo; 700,000 defence personnel have been exposed to whoever has an unencrypted hard drive with all of this...

Online criminals are once again trying to fool computer users into loading malware onto their computers, this time using an email with a ldquo;security updaterdquo; attached, purporting to be from Microsoft.

BlizzCon 2008 will again feature the same old Blizzard developed universes, World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo. But this time around they are all playable.

More introspective than balls-to-the-wall, the Brothers in Arms franchise attempts to deliver large chunks of humanistic elements within the confines of a WWII tactical shooter.

In a significant advance for information security science, the first live quantum key distribution (QKD) network was just demonstrated in Vienna at the SECOQC Demonstration and International Conference.

Optus has announced a three year, multi-million dollar sponsorship of Football Federation Australia (FFA) and the Qantas Socceroos, billing it as its most significant sponsorship to date. Optus...

An Australian research study shows that 97% of pre-school children in Australia are not brushing their teeth and gums correctly. In fact, one Australian health expert calls bad teeth:...

A U.K. study finds that devout Catholics have less pain than agnostics and atheists when viewing a painting of the Virgin Mary and being mildly shocked with electricity.

Fed up with room service that doesn't answer your calls, or a TV remote squeezing the last bit of juice from its batteries or how about trying to get some...

OLO ndash; itrsquo;s the name of what looks like a notebook or netbook computer, but in place of the trackpad, you slot in your iPhone ndash; and use its screen as a...

When it announced that early adopters of the online music download store would lose access to tracks they had already purchased, Walmart discovered that the Internet gives consumers a very...