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1. Battlefield of the future
   A secret war is being waged that is changing the nature of conflict. The internet is the new combat zone, where nation strikes against nation, spy against spy and corporation raids corporation. Phil Taylor reports Late last year...
2. Kim Dotcom: Power of money put to test
   Ten years ago Kim Dotcom arranged for a film crew to record an extravagant holiday in Monaco. The German, generally dressed all in black, was the ubiquitous star, appearing with props befitting a Bond movie: super cars, luxury yachts,...
3. Hollywood playing hardball on piracy
   When it comes to protecting its property Hollywood plays hardball.This month a British judge ruled that Richard O'Dwyer, a 23-year-old student, can be extradited to the United States to face charges he posted links to pirated TV...
4. Rage against the machines
   Anthony McCarten didn't intend to write a follow-up to his novel Death of a Superhero when he embarked upon his latest work, In the Absence of Heroes . But after coming up with the premise for a story involving a triangle of characters,...
5. Dotcom's co-accused bail hearing delayed
   One of the men facing possible extradition to the United States with internet millionaire Kim Dotcom has been remanded in custody until next week.A judge at the North Shore District Court this afternoon put off a bail hearing for...
6. Android tablets fight back against iPad domination
   Tablet computers powered by Google's Android software are increasing their global market share but Apple's iPad still dominates the category, a research firm said.Strategy Analytics said Android tablets increased their share of...
7. Norton users warned: Disable pcAnywhere
   Symantec is recommending that users of its pcAnywhere software disable the product following the theft of source code from the US computer security firm."At this time, Symantec recommends disabling the product until Symantec releases...
8. Nokia deep in the red as sales plummet
   Mobile phone maker Nokia has posted a fourth-quarter net loss of 1.07 billion euros (NZ$1.7bn) as sales slumped 21 per cent even as the company's first Windows smartphones hit markets in Europe and Asia.The loss, widened by a 1...
9. Dotcom's A-list minder insists shotgun bought with licence
   A man who listed David Beckham and the royal family of Brunei among his clients has appeared in court on a firearms charge following a police raid on the $30 million Dotcom mansion.Wayne Phillip Tempero, who had been head of security...
10. Assange to front show on Kremlin-funded TV
    A TV channel funded by the Kremlin will air a chat show hosted by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in an unlikely collaboration announced yesterday.Russia Today, which broadcasts from Moscow in English, said that the programme...
11. Tech universe: Friday 27 January
    3D EARTH: The German Earth observation satellites TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X have completely mapped the entire land surface of Earth for the first time. The data is to create a high-precision, 3D digital elevation model of Earth. The...
12. Game review: Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
    Metal Gear Solid is a funny old series, isn't it? It has moments of exquisitely tense and thrilling gameplay... and then bookends those moments with increasingly lengthy, increasingly absurd, increasingly exposition-filled...
13. Dotcom's co-accused granted bail
    Two men connected to German millionaire Kim Dotcom have been granted bail.Judge David McNaughton delivered his decision at the North Shore District Court today.He granted Finn Batato and Bram van der Kolk bail. However, the judge...
14. The mighty Commodore 64 turns 30
    Back in 1982, home computers didn't come with soothing start-up chimes, welcoming splash screens and airbrushed icons. Operating an 8-bit machine was a voyage of discovery, characterised by repeated stabs in the dark and precious...
15. Dotcom's bodyguard on firearms charge
    The man who listed David Beckham and the Royal Family of Brunei among his clients has appeared in court on a firearms charge.Wayne Phillip Tempero had been head of security for Kim Dotcom at his $30 million Coatesville mansion and...
16. HP to make webOS open source 'by September'
    Hewlett-Packard says it will make its webOS mobile operating system available to the open source community by September.HP announced in December that it was planning to make webOS open source, meaning that developers anywhere...
17. BlackBerry: Must-have devices to outdated clunkers?
    In the trend-setting North American market, BlackBerry phones have gone from must-have messaging toys to outdated clunkers - all in the space of a few years. The new CEO of Research In Motion, the company behind the phones,...
18. Polish protests push back over anti-piracy pact
    Thousands of young Poles hit city streets across the country in a mounting wave of off-and-online protest against a government decision to sign an international anti-online piracy accord.The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade...
19. Apple shares soar after blockbuster profit
    Apple shares have soared following blockbuster quarterly earnings and the California gadget-maker leapfrogged over ExxonMobil to become the largest US company in terms of market value.Apple shares were up 6.37 per cent at $US447.20...
20. Customs tip ends Dotcom bail bid
    Secret evidence from a customs official helped a judge decide that internet multimillionaire Kim Dotcom should stay behind bars.In a bail decision released yesterday, Judge David McNaughton said the official showed how someone could...