Apple is in hot water for shipping iphones with hairline cracks in the casing.

GeForce 8800 can speed up brute force attacks by a factor of 25.

Two brothers sent down in major sting.

44,000 sites closed and 868 people arrested ahead of Olympics.

Trouble ahead for podcasts.

Warning shot fired in first anti-spam case.

Not pretty, but a technically competent and comprehensive upgrade to the best free office suite around.

Hacker shows how to bypass AT&T sign-up.

Microsoft left red faced after live hacking demonstration.

Xenofex 2 is an updated range of Photoshop-compatible plug-ins from Alien Skin, the developer of Eye Candy 4000, one of the most popular filter collections and a personal favourite of ours. This was mainly down to its interface, which is thankfully shared by the new Xenofex collection.

Windows 7 may be fresh on the shelves, but new job vacancies on the Microsoft website show that work on Windows 8 is already underway

Search giant's privacy boast proves too tempting.

Video site agrees to limit billing software.

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Durable and laden with features, but let down by average performance and poor battery life

European projects centre on polymers which can recover properties.

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