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Australian scientists have developed a fabric that changes color to show a wound's condition. The invention could help reduce the more than $500 million spent in wound care in Australia.

Sony's E3 kicked off its E3 press conference with an apology about the recent PSN outage. SCEA President Jack Tretton presented a humbled figure as he gave a carefully worded apology about the outage and "taking gamers away from doing what you love to do".

Virgin Australia and Singapore Airlines have inked a "major alliance strategy" that will help transform Virgin Australia into a global airline and create problems for rival Qantas international operations.

A research group of Australian scientists have managed to observe T-cells which could lead to major breakthroughs in cancer research.

The Australian government's plans to implement a carbon tax is facing strict opposition from the states with voters labeling Prime Minister Julia Gillard's move a betrayal of her pre-election promise not to implement such a law.

The first laptop to ship with Google's Chromium operating system will be available for in Australia and the United States today. The Kogan Agora is the first device that will run on Google's open source Chrome OS.

Australia will develop a cyber defense strategy in light of the recent cyber attacks on global companies and government officials.

The nation's corporate watchdog is warning financial advisers that there will be more reforms in sight including lifting professional and ethical standards required of financial advisers, financial literacy in school curriculum and releasing more public information about investigations.

Sony Corporation, still reeling from a hacking attempt last April, has another of its websites attacked this Thursday. The group of hackers compromised SonyPictures.com and accessed the personal information of more than 1 million Sony customers.

First they beat humans in Jeopardy, now the machines have conquered the Rubik's cube. A group of students from Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology have created the robot, aptly named Ruby. Ruby was able to solve the Rubik's Cube in a record 10.18 seconds, the fastest time by a robot. It beat the old record of 18 seconds set by Rubot II, developed by Peter Redmond of Ireland.

The recent report released by the World Health Organization that revealed that cell phones emit 'possibly carcinogenic' radiation has sent everyone in a tizzy. The report revealed that scientists have found evidence that mobile phone users showed an increase in glioma and acoustic neuroma brain cancer. The new findings place phones in the same category as lead, car engine exhaust and chloroform.

Microsoft previewed its latest version of the Windows OS at the All Things D conference in Taipei and it is a marked departure from every version of Windows that's preceded it. The new generation Windows 8 has a completely new tile-based interface that is more touch based than any version of Windows.

Two dozen mobile apps were removed from the Android Market after Google discovered that they were infected with malicious code that compromised user data.

The Apple-Samsung legal battle has escalated last Friday when Samsung filed a motion for Apple to provide Samsung a sample of the next generation iPhone and iPad. Samsung claims that seeing the new Apple products will help Samsung evaluate any possible similarities to the Droid Charge and Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Internode takes another stab at the Wi-Fi pocket modem market with the new Huawei E5832, a personal wireless router that can share a 3G internet connection with up to three other Wi-Fi enabled devices like notebooks, tablets and smartphones. The Huawei is a less costly version of the MiFi 2352 mobile hotspot device that Internode released last year. The Huawei costs $149 outright or $49 on a 24-month-plan.

Nintendo Wii peripherals have a hit and miss run on the market. As much as Wii Fit and Wii Zapper are best-sellers there are also the duds like the Sword and Shield and the Knockout Boxing Gloves. So how does the uDraw developed and distributed by THQ, stack up? Well we can safely say that it stays reasonably in the middle of the spectrum.

Asus unveiled its newest laptop, the Asus UX which draws a lot of comparison to the MacBook Air. The 11-inch laptop has an aluminum alloy shell body and is only 17mm thick. It even has an instant-on resume feature. It's gotten increasingly obvious that this laptop was meant to be challenge the MacBook Air.

In an effort to compete with the growing tablet market, Intel has announced plans for a new class of thin and light laptops at the Computex trade show on Tuesday.

Hackers attacked the PBS website on Saturday night and posted a report that rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand. The story was only removed this Monday morning.

Retro gamers will have to find another method to play old games as Android removed a collection of console emulators from the Android markets. CNET reports that console emulators, N64oid, Nesoid and Snesoid from the -oid series developer Yong Zhang had been removed and his account with Android Market has been terminated.

Jimmy Buffet has filled his time recuperating from a fall off a Sydney stage by doing something productive: developing a game. Buffet has teamed up with gaming powerhouse THQ to develop Margaritaville Online, a game that will soon have Facebook, iPad, iPhone and iPod gamers frittering their time away on by partying online.

Russian security company Elcomsoft has found a way to get through nearly all security an iOS 4 device could put up and has managed to access the stored data on any iOS 4 device.

If you deleted your embarrassing office Christmas party pictures out of Flickr but suddenly want to bring it up on the next corporate picnic, Flickr will now hang on to your erased pictures for three months.Flickr's new updated policy about erased content saves your deleted pictures 90 days after you deleted them.

Fairfax Media announced on May 30 that they are releasing iPad applications for The Herald and The Age tomorrow. The applications will have less advertising than the company's websites and will be presented as a news magazine with big pictures and stories culled from newspapers and their websites.

Australian Xbox users were given an early Christmas present when Foxtel declared that there will be no data charges for Telstra BigPond customers who are signed up to the Xbox 360 service. The pay subscription service also announced that BigPond TV channels which include the AFL and NRL channels, TVN and BigPond Sport TV will become available to Xbox gamers who use Foxtel's Xbox package.

The newest trailer for Epic Games' eagerly anticipated conclusion to the Gears of War trilogy was released last Saturday and it gave fans a look into the storyline of the newgame.

If Asus thought that people would be intrigued by their combination of phone in a tablet then they would be right. The PadFone with a new Android smartphone docked into the back of its larger screened tablet companion has proved to be unusual enough that people are looking forward to the big reveal at Computex in Taiwan tomorrow.

The Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will soon be roaring at Mac users according to a report in Australian MacWorld. The new OS is already being tested internally and Apple is nearly ready to launch the Lion. There are even rumors that Apple will unveil its next generation OS at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 6-10.

Cyber crime is at an all time high but online users are still unaware of how to protect themselves and their online identities. In an effort to support the National Cyber Security Awareness Week, PayPal Australia and Pure Profile have joined forces to warn Australians not to share their private details online