Apparently, dogs and cats don't like the same hifi systems as us. You might think 'sod 'em', and play your music anyway; you might, if you're particularly soft-hearted, buy them some teeny tiny earmuffs.

Criminals can successfully use credit and debit cards without knowing the correct PIN.

Spare a thought for all those poor, lonely sheep farmers in Australia, who are apparently falling for online dating scams like never before.

One of the founders of Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, has launched a website that, er, lets people pay for content on the web.

Apple is promising a $10,000 gift card to the person who makes the ten billionth iTunes download.

US video game sales are still on the slide, with NPD reporting January figures 13 percent down on last year.

UCLA chemists have created synthetic gene-like crystals that they say could capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions.

Google has bought Aardvark, a social search company which allows you to badger complete strangers with stupid questions at the touch of a button.

The Hubble space telescope has for the first time snapped the flickering aurorae that light up both of Saturn's poles.

A UK journalist has opined that consumers should be paying more - not less - for mobile applications.

It’s a dog eat dog world out there, or should we say, horse eat horse, with security experts reporting that one particular Trojan program seems to have waged all-out war on its bigger competitor, wiping it off any machine it finds it on. This may sound like white-knight type behavior, but unfortunately for the end victim, the results are the same. 

Google has finally released an updated beta version of its Chrome browser for OS X that offers support for over 2,000 extensions and bookmark sync capabilities.

Microsoft has confirmed that it will be releasing an updated version of its Office suite for the Mac sometime during 2010.

Were you impressed by Avatar in all its overhyped 3D glory? Well, forget that! Avatar has gone 4D. 



Microsoft founder Bill Gates has confirmed that he isn't suffering from a chronic case of iPad envy.

A Macworld without Apple? Can the show go on without Saint Steven Jobs and top spinner Philip Schiller?

It would be a lot easier than converting the Godless: a quick bash at the right bit of the brain, and they could be as religious and righteous as you.

The Milky Way@Home project - which ropes in home computer users to help map the galaxy - says its combined computing power has now overtaken the second-most-powerful supercomputer in the world.

It's amazing the things you can see on StreetView. The Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower - and frogmen leaping out of lawn chairs.