The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.

The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.

Tuesday December 2, 2008

Google Street View launches in New Zealand

CLAIRE MCENTEE 10:50am | New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner says she's pleased with the steps Google has taken to protect individual privacy in its latest product launch.

Snaring the spammers

SUW CHARMAN-ANDERSON | A new form of protection against spam is not only harder to crack, it's also helping digitise text.

Children's welfare groups slam net filters

ASHER MOSES 9:21am | Support for the Government's plan to censor the internet hits rock bottom with even childrens' welfare groups saying the filters are a waste of money.

Dancing Matt profits from YouTube jig

ASHER MOSES 12:47pm | YouTube's most enduring star turns a goofy dance he devised in a Brisbane office block into a global marketing colossus.

Gadgets On The Go blog

Video piracy -

aturner @ SMH on Dec 1 | What hope have the copyright police got when people slip pirate copies of Madagascar

Cheap and cheerful

Jason Hill @ SMH on Dec 2 | Last week I offloaded my heavy Dell Latitude notebook computer to a relative and snapped

Last gasp of 2008 still

simont @ SMH on Nov 30 | What a year it has been for technology. From Blu-ray winning the high-definition

CONNECTIVITY

New wave for wireless

An extra radio band will turn congested networks into a Wi-Fi version of the autobahn.

Bonus content for fans on USB-stick albums

The Australian music industry is getting behind a new locally developed music format that will allow consumers to access an ongoing stream of bonus content and listen to their collections from any computer or mobile phone.

PERSPECTIVES

All aboard the freedom ride

The battle rages on between those who believe that information should be free and those who wish to limit or constrain its availability.

All aboard the freedom ride

The battle rages on between those who believe that information should be free and those who wish to limit or constrain its availability.

UPGRADE

Easing private pain

The boom in free wi-fi hotspots means you need to take extra care when surfing the web while on the road.