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Time to Ctrl+F more helpful shortcuts
Navigating a computer or touch phone is a whole lot simpler if you know all the right buttons to press, writes Rhodri Marsden.

Kids caught in iPad download rip-off
Parents are facing hefty credit-card bills after their children unknowingly spend real money on online games.

Smartphones test for new privacy law
Time and technology wait for no one, so can an overhaul of the Privacy Act be truly future proof?

Success: Homegrown system, worldwide reach
Business software developed in NZ attracts growing interest in the US.

Tablet devices 'essential' for students, but who pays?
All students will eventually have to take a tablet device such as an iPad to school, but...

Review: Samsung Series 9 laptop
Samsung's Series 9 is boldly taking notebook PC design into a territory that had previously been the near-exclusive domain of Apple.

Google teleports into social networking
Initial reactions suggest the search giant has failed in its attempt to produce a service to rival Facebook, writes John Naughton.