Ethical worker rights do-gooders plan wheelbarrow delivered petition protest featuring 250,000 signatures and an ethical iProtester dressed in a presumably ethically made iPhone iSuit – in Sydney, Washington DC, New York City, San Francisco, London and Bangalore.

Are you annoyed that your iPad seems to charge really slowly – or that your Windows PC refuses to charge your iPad, instead giving you a “not charging” message? Here’s what you absolutely must know!

It was with considerable sadness that the Australian tech and Internet world learned of Exetel CEO John Linton’s passing due to a stroke, while also taking away one of the NBN’s fiercest critics.

A news report says Kevin Bermeister, of Kazaa fame, thinks major network equipment providers could easily use a “global file registry filter” to “reduce piracy” – but surely censorship could easily rear its even uglier head?

If you’re in a 4G coverage area and you’re sporting a 4G LTE capable device, it should come as no surprise to discover that 4G devices deliver vastly better ping and download speeds than 3G devices.

In a world where Android smartphones are potential Typhoid Annie’s in your pocket, all the big security companies have released Android Internet Security suites, with Vodafone and McAfee now joining forces to provide protection – and all important backup – for AUD $3 per month.

If you’ve ever used Apple’s iOS, and then had to suffer through the mishmash of interfaces, front-ends, endless processor and hardware variations and more from the world of Android, it should be absolutely no surprise that Apple was able to reclaim the Q4 2011 top spot.

Flurry, a mobile app analytics and advertising platform, has released some analysis showing, Amazon’s Kindle Fire equalling the “session usage” that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is seeing in astounding record time.

Way back in 2007, when Google’s then CEO Eric Schmidt was still a presumably trusted Apple board member, he was asked by then Apple CEO Steve Jobs to have Google stop trying to poach an Apple employee, with Google starkly promising to rapidly terminate the person responsible.

The first reviews of the HTC Velocity have arrived, and unsurprisingly, we learn that while it’s fast, it’s not the absolute "best", but as it’s the first… this is no surprise!

Despite a fierce attack of Android clones, Apple’s iPhone 4S and earlier models have propelled the crunchy kingdom to the top of the smartphone pile in Q4 2011, but it’s a neck-and-neck race for supremacy between Apple and its major co-opetitor, Samsung.

Although they should have launched in Australia last year, Nokia’s Windows Phone 7.5-powered Lumias are finally coming in around 8 weeks time, although with that timeframe due to see the iPad 3 arrive, along with the later arrival of Galaxy S III’s and iPhone 5’s… does Nokia stand a chance down under?

If there’s a new or rehashed iPhone rumour, it must surely be a day of the week ending in Y, with the latest suggesting a 4-inch screen will finally arrive, a new design will also come (but no teardrop shape), and perhaps a restoration of the iPhone launch to the US summer timeframe.

It’s nearly February, the month that Apple is meant to announce its next 4G LTE enabled iPad, before then supposedly selling it to consumers from some time in March, so here’s the top 10 feature demands the world’s rumourmongers have cooked up and that we’re expecting.

Although Ruslan Kogan has taken his surname and turned it into a brand name, there’s clearly plenty o’ cash to be made from selling existing top brands at competitively low prices, with Kogan promising “up to 46% off” retail pricing on brands like Apple, HP and Dr Dre.

Listen up, moronic thieves: if you’re dumb enough to steal modern technology like iPads, iPhones and other smart, connected devices, you’d better be prepared to dance with the police – and very large dudes called Otis who have a bad habit of dropping the soap.

HTC’s Velocity 4G is the fastest smartphone in Australia, primarily because it’s the first to offer a 4G LTE chipset, and while more 4G models are clearly on the way, the ironic “wait” for ICS 4.0 to arrive with some velocity for the Velocity begins.

The wait for an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 is finally over, with French hacker Pod2G and the Dev Team hackers releasing a jailbreak tool called “Absinthe”, which is indeed a form of “greenpois0n”.

Every single day, E-Week has another set of 10 reasons to do this, or that, or something else. Are you sick of it yet?

George Lucas, the great Star Wars director (and hypocrite who railed against directors screwing up their classic movies in a 1988 letter to Congress), has finally stated that he’s not going to make any more Star Wars movies or make any more changes. Thank God, Thank Darth, Thank Luke, Thank freakin’ everyone.