Essential criteria: Must think like the enemy, know the enemy and report to the American Government. Previous hacking experience considered.

The British Government has been trialing an unusual program designed to keep tabs on problem families by installing CCTV cameras in 2000 homes, and plans for 20,000 more on the way.

The Government's own film and literature classification website has suffered at the hands of an unknown enemy, apparently from some kind of Alien civilisation, according to the hacker's note.

Internode is putting in the call to save copper-line broadband. But is it already too late?

A major DDoS attack against US and South Korean government websites is not thought to be the work of North Korean interests, says a security expert

But unlike MySpace or Facebook, parents or guardians will be contacted personally to verify the identity of every young person who joins the new Livewire website.

Telstra has completed the 100Mbit upgrade to their Melbourne cable network and are next planning to get 30Mbit speeds into the rest of the country; but first they'll need to dispel those endless NBN comparisons

The Mayan prophecy might be counting down, but the science behind the new film 2012 might leave a few people confused. We look at what the film got right and what is best left to conspiracy theorists.

A series of commercials directed by Fight Club director David Fincher for US phone company AT&T in 1993 is making waves across the net for its accurate representations of the future including video on demand and tollway E-tags.

From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality

An IIPA Special 301 Report advises that Spain should be added to the American government's watchlist for countries with dubious file sharing laws. Oddly enough, companies such as Mitsubishi are using the laws to create ingenious Bittorrent promotions.

Microsoft have created their own trailer for the upcoming Office 2010 release, full of Michael Bay style camera shots, Matrix style gun fights and awkward one liners

A controversial Irish proposal to tax SMS messages has us worried about another spike in our mobile phone bill.

Sony will give away 20,000 free Blu-Ray players with each purchase of a pre-selected BRAVIA LCD TV, just in time for the Government's stimulus handout.

MySpace website, home to garage bands, pop stars and countless randy teenagers some of who may be too young to understand the value of money, have partnered with the banking giant Citigroup

A WiMAX grid will give thousands of Victorian homes the capabilities for the smart monitoring of their electricity

A Lenovo analyst has declared his disinterest in Linux, claiming that Microsoft is easier and better to use for the consumer and that Linux is too technical to ever take off. Agree?

Inspired by the recent Jeff Bezos interview, we list our top 8 tech moments from Jon Stewart's Daily Show, from the weird to the kooky.