Staff at the Auburn store of KS Computer Technology were held at gunpoint on Monday night, the latest in a spate of reported robberies at computer retailers in Sydney’s West since August.

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.

Western Sydney computer reseller Big Ben Computer has paid $55,000 compensation to Microsoft Australia after being sued in the Federal Court for hard-loading unlicensed copies of Microsoft Windows software onto PCs.

Police have questioned two men over the theft of games consoles and a truck worth a total of almost $1 million from a freight yard in Sydney.

A one-of-a-kind laptop computer has been stolen from a bicycle shop in Kings Cross, according to a NSW police report.

Millions of pounds worth of consoles stolen in two hijackings.

A North Carolina man was sentenced this week to a nine year jail term for spamming millions of America Online users, America's first felony conviction for spewing junk mail.

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