An annual hacking conference in Canada is offering enterprising hackers $10,000 in cash and phone prizes for finding vulnerabilities in smartphones such as the iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

While Apple has banned a C64 emulator on the iPhone, it seems you'll have no problem playing classic emulation ROMs like Maniac Mansion or Space Taxi if you own a Google Android phone.

This is what every kid dreams about - a way to combine homework AND procrastination in a device you can pop in a backpack.

Thousands of Gmail and Yahoo email addresses and passwords are also leaked on the internet, leading to fears of an industry wide phishing attack

Microsoft is investigating reports that say log in details for more than 10,000 Hotmail accounts have been leaked to the web

NEC has developed an ultra curved 43" CRV43 TV in the US with all the whistles and bells you'd expect from a drool worthy TV specimen. But at that price, let's hope your drool is coated in gold.

An amateur Sydney photographer has won a global photography competition through Facebook: the winning photo will be featured as the main image on Bing search sites around the world.

Ignore the price – incredibly low running costs Make this a winner.

Free music video streaming service Vidzone goes live on PS3 today, meaning the Xbox isn't the only console that's getting video on demand

The open source KDE Community released its 'K Desktop Environment' (KDE) version 4.3 yesterday.

Over half a million credit card holders may have had their account details captured by hackers, after web hosting firm Network Solutionsrevealed that more than 4,000 of the e-commerce sites it hosts could have been breached..

Superb quality, packed with features and cheap to run. A worthy alternative to the Kyocera.

Thanks to advances in nanotechnology, the future diagnosis of disease may be as simple as using a small, inexpensive, handheld gadget

According to Dell, it's finally time to end the world's endless piles of software box garbage and go green. By offering an online alternative, Dell hopes to save costs and plug its new download store at the same time.

Research In Motion has released a new version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) for business customers, adding a web-based administration console and enhancements such as the ability for users to access Windows fileshares from their BlackBerry handset.

Incredibly fast and silent, too, but solid-state is still far too expensive for the mainstream.

Leigh Dyer looks at how to get failover redundancy on a shoestring budget

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Apple computers from the sweetest to the rottenest