 | | |  | So fed up with what he calls the "woeful" mainstream media coverage of his preferred national broadband network (NBN) technology, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has taken it upon himself to interview telecommunications industry executives on camera with a microphone in hand, writes Ben Grubb. | | Top stories LUCY BATTERSBY 3:49pm | iiNet will not sign up any new customers to NBN Co satellite services because capacity problems are slowing broadband to unusable speeds. | Lucy Battersby and Marc Moncrief | Australians are waiting longer than ever to get new phone lines connected or faults repaired because Telstra does not have enough technicians to fix its ageing copper network. | Jungah Lee 1:40am | Samsung plans to release a Galaxy smartphone next year with a three-sided display that wraps around the edges so messages can be read from an angle, two people familiar with the plans said. | Chris Strohm 1:33am | Technology giants are fighting back against the NSA by using harder-to-crack code to shield their networks. | Natalie O'Brien | It has a name like a B-grade horror film and computer experts say the latest virus attacking Australian computers is one of the most vicious they have ever seen. | Mark Mazzetti 2:17am | A federal judge in New York on Friday delivered a 10-year prison sentence to Jeremy Hammond, a prominent member of the hacking group Anonymous who pleaded guilty this year to breaking into the computer servers of a string of corporations, government agencies and law enforcement advocacy groups. | Reviewed by Paddy Wood 1:40am | Google's Nexus 5 has nearly everything you would expect from a high-end smartphone - except the price. | Malathi Nayak and Dan Levine 1:40am | A top Apple executive has testified that Samsung undermined his company's marketing efforts, reputation and business by selling devices that copied the iPhone and iPad. | Damon Darlin | The answer depends on what you want to use it for. | Nate Cochrane 1:57pm | Australian companies have rushed to register interest in Workspaces, a virtual desktop technology from cloud giant Amazon Web Services, despite it not being available in Australia until at least next year. | Adario Strange 2:31am | Sony's PlayStation 4 has been widely praised by reviewers as a significant step up from its predecessor, but some early consumers are reporting major problems with the console. | Vindu Goel 3:55am | Facebook pressed ahead on Friday with changes to its privacy policies, first proposed in August, that make it clear that users' postings on the service and other personal data can be used in advertising on the site. | Mark Mazzetti 2:04am | The CIA is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers, sources say. | Max Knoblauch | Google's latest updates to its terms of service have left many privacy advocates crying foul. One new feature called "shared endorsements" allows your name and photograph to be used in targeted advertisements on Google property sites. | ADAM TURNER | Internet radio makes it easy to tap into stations from around Australia and the world. | Kit Eaton | Clever design can teach all sorts of complex concepts without making children feel as if they are learning mathematics. | This post was originally published on Mashable. | ADAM TURNER | Can Australia's old-hat copyright laws work on the web? Adam Turner investigates. | Adam Turner 11:29am | While improving on its predecessor, the Surface Pro 2 is unlikely to win many new converts to Microsoft's tablet program. | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | | | | | Security Reminder: Fairfax Media digital never requests personal or credit card information via email. Be wary of suspicious emails claiming to offer Fairfax Media digital services. You are receiving this email as a registered Fairfax Media digital member. Your username is: kwacijowo@gmail.com. Your email address is: kwacijowo@gmail.com. If you do not want to receive further announcements from Fairfax Media digital, please unsubscribe here. Fairfax Media Limited. ABN 15 008 663 161.
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