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.

Saturday August 30, 2008

Computer viruses make it to orbit

9:25am | NASA confirms a computer virus sneaked aboard the International Space Station only to be quarantined by security software.

Blogger arrested over Guns N' Roses leak

11:26am | $US10,000 bail set for arrested blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy on his website.

Internet Explorer 8 heralds stealth browsing

9:20am | Microsoft releases test version of Internet Explorer 8, delivering a feature-complete upgrade to the world's most widely used web browser.

Dead Sea Scrolls go digital

11:35am | Israeli scientists take digital photos of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2000-year-old documents available on the internet.

Gadgets On The Go blog

Aussie phone users

aturner @ SMH on Aug 27 | More than half of Australia's mobile phone users have used content on their mobile phone

Your Turn: August winner

Jason Hill @ SMH on Aug 29 | Congratulations to Dylan 'dylillama' Foulcher, winner of this month's Screen Play Your

The smartest of smartphones

simont @ SMH on Aug 25 | It's ironic that Palm now makes some of the best Windows Mobile devices in the

Dead Sea Scrolls go digital

Israeli scientists take digital photos of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2000-year-old documents available on the internet.