Smart TVs not so smart when it comes to security, privacy

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Smart TVs not so smart when it comes to security, privacy

Will your television set one day need its own anti-virus software? Liam Tung investigates.

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Sydney households face TV cut-off as digital switch-over nears

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BEN GRUBB 10:08am | About 104,000 Sydney households are yet to switch to digital TV, with less than three weeks to go before they face being cut off.

Hands on: LG 55-inch Ultra HD TV

LG's 55LA9700 55-inch Ultra HD TV.
Adam Turner 9:31am | It offers a great picture and surprisingly good sound, but LG's 55LA9700 still doesn't convince me to jump on the Ultra HD TV bandwagon.

Internet users manage up to 50 online passwords

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SARAH WHYTE | Australians are using up to 50 online passwords and creating false identities in a bid to maintain their privacy in the virtual world.

Business 'doesn't care' about IT security: expert

IT security expert and author David Lacey says big business doesn't care about IT security.
BEN GRUBB 8:17am | Business "doesn't care" about IT security and won't do anything about it "unless you put a gun to their head", says security expert David Lacey.

Apple's new iPad mini with Retina display goes on sale

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10:00am | In a surprise move, Apple has announced the iPad mini with Retina display is now available for purchase.

Google Glass expands into music

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4:06pm | Google is unveiling a set of features for Glass to search for songs, scan through saved playlists and listen to music in high fidelity.

US reveals plans for world's fastest spy plane

Lockheed Martin's planned SR-72 twin-engine jet aircraft is seen in this artist's rendering provided to Reuters November 1, 2013 by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin Corp on Friday unveiled plans for the hypersonic spy plane that could fly at Mach 6, twice as fast as its famed SR-71 Blackbird, and said a missile demonstrating the new technology could fly as early as 2018.   REUTERS/Lockheed Martin/Handout via Reuters (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY MILITARY BUSINESS TRANSPORT) ATTENTION EDITORS ? THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR   MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
10:46am | Flying at 6760 km/h, the SR-72 unmanned plane leaves enemies no time to hide.

Apple's Jony Ive talks design innovation in rare video

Picture supplied.   Livewire - Green Guide.    Picture shows: Jonathan Ive, chief designer at Apple, who designed the iMacs.
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Metagaming: When video games are about video games

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James Dominguez 9:31am | When a creative medium matures, it begins to examine itself, and video gaming has begun to produce some fascinating examples of metacommentary.

Your Turn: A Brief History of Microsoft and the Xbox

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Screen Play reader Andrew Yoshimura 5:23am | In the final part of his fascinating series of retrospectives looking at the major players in video gaming history, today Andrew Masters looks at Microsoft and the Xbox.

Facebook warns users after Adobe breach

Change: Facebook is warning users affected by the Adobe breach to change their Facebook login credentials.
Brian Krebs 3:01am | Following the massive data breach at Adobe, Facebook is warning its users to change their passwords to secure their accounts.

Android smartphones dominate, Apple slides

Google on top: Android's global smartphone market share rose to 81 per cent.
11:39am | Google's Android platform was used on four out of five smartphones sold worldwide in the third quarter, according to a new survey.

Pacnet offers on-demand bandwidth between data centres

Pacnet: The new service allows uers to 'dial up' bandwidth on demand.
Stuart Corner 7:27am | A new service gives big customers of communications capacity the ability to "dial up" bandwidth on demand.
 

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