An ‘ethical hacker’ based in New Zealand gave a public demonstration of an old Windows flaw at the Kiwicon hacker conference in Wellington after he discovered it was not completely fixed and had exposed some 160,000 computers in New Zealand alone.

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) aspires to put laptops in the hands of children around the globe. While pursuing this goal OLPC has endured feral competition from the commercial segment courtesy of Intel and Microsoft. Now the organization faces politicians with priorities elsewhere and limited interest.

The Monday following the United States holiday of Thanksgiving is called “Cyber Monday”, and is considered the biggest online shopping day of the year.  Too bad Yahoo Shopping left so many merchants without the ability to accept orders.

Greenpeace has issued its quarterly ‘Guide to Greener Electronics’, a look at which electronics manufacturers rank well and which are failing in terms of environmental policy. This time around, it looks like games console makers Nintendo and Microsoft have come in for a bit of abuse.

One of the main reasons Google decided to enter the wireless industry is it wants consumers to have more, better options for a wireless carrier. It hasn’t entered the industry yet, but it’s already had a major impact here in the US. Further proving that competition is always better for consumers, Verizon will open its network to other devices in 2008.

It’s been a bad PR week for Microsoft, what with the endless Vista-bashing. Now with the news Wal-Mart and Dell are making Linux-installed PCs available to the mass market, are we finally seeing the march of the Linux penguins onto our desktops?

Google is looking to both revolutionize and standardize online data storage with a new service that will allow users to store documents and media, and access it remotely from other machines anywhere in the world. However, Google could be directly in the sights of large media corporations for allowing users to share their media through speedy remote data storage access.

Canadian comedy group LoadingReadyRun has sat down and jacked themselves up with enough caffeine and sugar to kill most small children. Why have they done this, you ask? Why would they torture themselves with a driving game so boring it never saw release? Simple, it’s called charity.

Internet users in France who illegally download music or movies or illegally share those files could lose Web access under a new policy against online piracy.

While traditional brick & mortar retailers may be seeing a slump at the registers, e-tailers are scrambling to make sure their websites don’t crash under the weight of a customer surge.

Mario is a staple in the video gaming industry, but in the last several years his performance in the living room has rolled downhill. Mario 64 was Nintendo’s last smash hit in the franchise and Mario Galaxy has stepped in line to inherit that legacy.

It would have been kind of cool to say that this was from the same person (and that could easily be the case) who brought us WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com but it has not been absolutely confirmed.  A new site is now blocking traffic from Digg.

Zoho recently released a new version of their Writer software which was previously online only now enables users to edit documents offline and synch the offline version to the online version.

It seems unlikely that Apple will see the iPhone sell as well in the UK as it did in America. Not only are reports suggesting that sales are running at about a quarter of what was expected, but a survey shows that a large proportion of the population wouldn’t buy one due to the high price.

Not even a month ago, we reported laptops equipped with an HD-DVD drive would hit $1,000 or under and it’s happened but to the chagrin of other companies, the laptop is offered by Acer.

If you were a software giant looking to expand your reaches to the furthest corners of the earth, where would be the best place to plant your resources? Apparently Microsoft has voted Siberia the ideal location for a new data center.

If Skype was a celebrity, it would be the tech equivalent of Britney Spears, minus the hit album. What with eBay’s declaration that it ‘paid too much’ for the VOIP solution and the bizarre decisions that Skype’s made in the past few months, not to mention the disappointment that is Skype’s latest version, drama on the horizon is as predictable as Kevin Federline obtaining custody.