More opportunities for e-retailers, and less chance of fraud, says paymentfirm.

US$900m 'virtual gold' economy faces regulation.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is giving away a series of large cash prizes for the discovery of Mersenne prime number discoveries. A record breaking 12-million digit prime recently scored its finders a $100,000 cash prize.

From the Commodore 64 to Microsoft vs Apple, we take a look at the top 10 fights in technology history.

Our full guide to saving cash-saving secrets is here, from how to get discounts on PCs, to SIM only phone contracts, the best DSLR cameras deals, and discount licensing from Adobe, Microsoft and others.

Professional hackers are forming new specialized crime-software syndicates, complete with their own illegal lexicon.

Cash refunds for all purchases.

Rootkit-laden video is latest to exploit Tibet protests.

Vendor to reduce 'dilutive effect' of equity compensation programmes.

Two internet cafes have been robbed by armed men in the central Sydney suburb of Surry Hills within a week in incidents that police believe may be linked to other recent robberies in nearby Gladesville and Petersham.

ATM security is so poor worldwide, that many more machines are likely to be easily compromised in the future, warns Kaspersky

Trade association warns that web users still not taking security seriously.

Last year the Pentium 4 was beginning to show its true colours as a top performance desktop CPU, but it was still squarely outmatched in the value stakes by the new Athlon processor. DDR RAM was also becoming the standard, with SDRAM finally going the way of the extinct plankton, graptolites.

It might seem unfair comparing MYOB’s best selling single user product with Quicken’s multi-user small business accounting package, but the key difference between the two is number of licences and not the functionality.

A fortnight ago we reviewed the worst villains in computing history. But what would a villain be without a hero to battle with?

No matter how much we tell ourselves that we are rational, scientific human beings a Friday 13th still sends a tremor up some spines.