An Obama administration policy allowing US border officials to seize and search laptops, smart phones and other electronic devices for any reason was challenged as unconstitutional ... (more)

Australia's plan to run fiber-optic cable to 93 percent of the country's homes and provide minimum 100Mbps speeds (the rest of the country will get 12Mbps, delivered by wireless and ... (more)

A network optimisation specialist, Blue Coat Systems, has warned that the latest BBC iPlayer V3 update, which launched earlier this week and added lots of new social networking style ... (more)

Batman is an always an interesting character, but the most recent takes on the Caped Crusader have been almost oppressively dark. Go back and read the comics that took place before ... (more)

When asteroid 2010 RX30 zipped past Earth early Wednesday, observers at the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy were ready. At 12:45 am local Italian time, amateur astronomers Ernesto Guido ... (more)

An optical illusion is about to be trialed in West Vancouver, Canada, starting September 7, to try to jolt reckless drivers into slowing down. The illusion of a young girl chasing ... (more)

Switzerland-based anti-piracy company Logistep has to stop collecting IP addresses from P2P users, the country’s High Court decided today. The court ruled that IP addresses are personal ... (more)

The film industry is using pirate tactics to beat the pirates – by employing “cyber hitmen” to launch attacks that take out websites hosting illegal movies. Girish Kumar, managing ... (more)

Tuesday evening, Mozilla pushed out the fifth beta of its Firefox 4 Web browser. With this update, improvements to the browser's audio, video, and security have been added. Two weeks ... (more)

The FBI and other police agencies don't need a search warrant to track the locations of Americans' cell phones, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a precedent-setting decision. ... (more)

ISP TalkTalk has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for failing to disclose enough about a malware system it was launching The ICO said the ISP should ... (more)

Whether you seek out cutting-edge tech gear or keep to a strict budget, the tech industry has ways to nickel-and-dime you out of your hard-earned cash. Here’s how to fight back. ... (more)

Google Inc will launch its service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the ... (more)

Despite being granted a permanent ban on the sale of a PSJailbreak "dongle" Sony Computer Entertainment have been given a two finger salute by hackers who have now released the software ... (more)

Broadband Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the UK can rest a little easier today after the latest Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) draft, which hopes to establish international ... (more)

Sweden's Frederick Ingblad is a specialized intellectual property prosecutor, and this morning he made a very specialized announcement: at the request of Belgian authorities, Ingbland ... (more)

If you guessed $1.25 million a year, plus $2.5 million in bonus if things go well, you'd be right. Time Warner's executive vp and general counsel Paul Cappaccio (left, with judge ... (more)

How dizzyjam.com, muzu.tv and The Vynyl Factory are staging a musical revolution. ... (more)

The curse of the unencrypted memory stick has struck Manchester Police, which has suffered embarrassment as a drive containing apparently sensitive information was found lying in the ... (more)

Another round of negotiations, another leak: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) published what it says is the latest draft of the secret Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) over ... (more)

Death by iPod is being blamed as a contributing factor to the 25 per cent rise in the number of pedestrian fatalities in NSW. The ''iPod zombie trance'' people get into when walking, ... (more)

As the summer night sky draws near its close, there are still some cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchers equipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes. Compiling ... (more)

Microsoft has declared Windows Phone 7 "ready", and started to ship the software to handset makers and networks. This process, known as release to manufacturing (RTM), means that ... (more)

It's apparent that the physics lexicon has been dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th century with a recent paper published in Nature Photonics titled "Hacking commercial quantum ... (more)

The Associated Press didn't need any help from a bunch of unshowered bloggers pecking away at their keyboards from the basement offices in which they play "reporter," thank you very ... (more)

Magic is experiencing something of a renaissance. Its online communities are thriving as wannabe Derren Browns rub shoulders with professionals. Once-struggling magic shops are thriving ... (more)

Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that ... (more)

Copyright trolls are nothing new, and Righthaven is just the latest group of lawyers to try to turn copyright litigation into a business model. What these lawyers have in common is ... (more)

The constants, they may be a-changin’ - and so may some of the fundamental laws of nature, a controversial new study suggests. Studying the pattern in which gas clouds absorb the ... (more)

On the final day of the public consultation on Brazil’s copyright bill (English translation), all wakes of the legal, creative, civil society and industrial sectors were abuzz with ... (more)