Cyber squatting is making a comeback. Recent domain name sales of Toys.com and Auction.com have seen combined sales of $US7 million despite the gloomy economic outlook.

A rogue group of ex-power sellers have broken away from the eBay mothership and launched their own auction site. The best bit? No listing fees.

A California company is offering personal satellites for sale at bargain basement prices, complete with all the necessary gear to launch, monitor and run your own satellite from the "privacy" of your home computer.

A hacker known as orinOco has boasted that he hacked Steve Job's Amazon account, emailed pics of the hack attack and intends to sell the grimy account details

The hot little seller makes the big leap from Linux to XP, with a small price jump.

Step aside Plasma and LCD, there's a new television badboy on the market. The first OLED television (SONY XEL-1) is due to go on sale later this month, but it won't come cheap. Should you wait?

According to a UK interview with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, companies that use Twitter accounts may soon find themselves having to pay for the privilege, as new revenue streams become increasingly important in the fragile economy.

The lure of free PS3s is proving too strong for thousands of HD TV buyers signing up to claim a games console from Sony, despite complaints about long delays.

Sanyo takes a different tack with its cheap, pistol-grip video/still camera. A curious option if you're already spending a few hundred dollars on a compact camera.

For $29.95 Internode now offer customers the chance to boost their 3G reception. The product can be used with any wireless ISP, though how effective they are is still to be seen

Open source malware now accounts for as much as 10% of the overall malware marketplace as criminals cotton onto the many benefits of adaptable code.

Lenovo's C100 features an Atom-powered desktop housed within a stylish 18.5" monitor, which hides the guts of a cheap and cheerful system.

The Sony Walkman X series MP3 player features a 3" OLED screen, perfect for multiple viewing angles and sharp, crisp video display and state of the art digital noise cancelling earbuds.

Warner Brothers has positioned Benjamin Button as the first release in their day and date strategy across multiple forms of media.

Dragging your notebook around to watch movies? The alternative low tech approach is to throw away the notebook bit with a portable DVD player, and this one has DivX playback. Simple, yet somehow we like it.

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.

In a world first, we've managed to get our hands on a review unit of Sony's stunningly thin ultraportable. Most surprisingly, it sports the newest Atom chip from Intel - the Z550 2.0GHz and GMA 500 graphics.

A Toyota executive says lithium battery costs are hurting electric car development and names fuel cells as the way of the future, dismissing electric plug-in models entirely. Are Fuel cells really the way?

With electric cars destined to cost significantly more than regular vehicles, electric bikes and motorcycles may provide the world's best short term answer to weening ourselves off oil