An overdose of plastic pink and blue kids' bins and storage boxes at Coles, Broadway.

Australian security experts, consumer advocates and privacy campaigners have sounded the alarm over the hundreds of thousands of free smartphone applications that spy on their users.

Queensland police are tracking public transport passenger journeys using electronic fare Go Cards to investigate crime. Police can use Go Card journey information because they have an exemption to the Information Privacy Act.

The Australian Greens hope to use the upcoming Senate inquiry into internet privacy to make all the relevant documents relating to the government's controversial data retention proposal public, without any parts censored.

A computer that monitored drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon had been freezing with a "blue screen of death" prior to the explosion that sank the oil rig last April, the chief electronics technician aboard testified Friday at a federal hearing. (Not a Windows issue per say, more a computer maintenance issue)

You have just GOT to refute the ridiculous idea that immigration is causing the overcrowding in cities/schools/trains.

The telecommunications industry is alarmed by the Federal Opposition's desire to shut-down the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) project.

So yesterday Fairfax launched it’s Sydney Morning Herald iPad app. The strategy – designed to shore up print – and the execution – already derided by users as a “glorifed PDF reader” – are both laughable.

Labor's internet filtering policy isn't being discussed in the run-up to the election but its impact on Australia is significant.

Spying the Ferris wheel over the overpass at Darling Harbour.

John Howard must be eating his own liver around about now. He had only to look sideways at a little brown foreign chap and the media would be all over him for dog-whistling up a storm of racism. Granted, he might well have been blowing some wicked tunes on the bow-wow flute, but he'd have been called on it. The Orange Roughy meanwhile is in danger of popping her eyeballs out she's blowing so hard but nobody's calling her on it.

The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians' web surfing, obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws, out of fear the document could cause "premature unnecessary debate".

A long row of people stand on platform 22 at Central Station, Sydney waiting for the train going around the city circle via St James.

Why the Internet filter issue is just a beatup by IT journos. And that the election will be decided by issues that more Australians connect with.

Because some parents do not understand the Internet, Professor Matt Warren thinks that the Internet should be censored for all Australians. Dumb down the Internet to cater for the lowest common denominator.

Lots of piles of crashed cars on the set of Transformers 3.

The Australian Christian Lobby was briefed one day before Labor's major announcement on delaying its controversial internet filter plan.

On how it was possible that the expert would be able to access pages automatically blocked by all Australian ISPs, the spokeswoman said: "The independent expert will have powers to carry out their job." The government is not saying how much the expert will cost taxpayers. (Or how they will deal with checking 10,000 pages individually)

Looking out the windows of Kingsford Smith Airport's domestic terminal at planes of fluffy white clouds and blue sky peeking through.

If video killed the radio star, then downloads may in turn kill the video. The advent of Foxtel IQ, Telstra's T-box and fetchTV, which allow movies to be downloaded on demand, threatens to render the local video store redundant.

New research suggests that misinformed people rarely change their minds when presented with the facts — and often become even more attached to their beliefs. The finding raises questions about a key principle of a strong democracy: that a well-informed electorate is best.

"Trading in shares on the stock market requires certain skills and expertise and to expect this from deities would not be proper," judges P.B. Majumdar and Rajendra Sawant said, according to Indian newspapers.

About the beatup and FUD behind cybercrime.

While preaching is not allowed in Australian public schools, it is apparently fine to replace school counsellors with 'Christian Volunteers' such as Darryl.