Posted on March 19th, 2010 at 12:55 pm in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Australia's largest online bargain shopping site, DealsDirect.com.au, was blacklisted by Google and major internet browsers today after it was found to be hosting malware.
Posted on March 19th, 2010 at 11:09 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
ChatRoulette may be overrun with males and perverts but new figures show its popularity is skyrocketing, and many have come up with fun and amusing ways to use the new voyeuristic webcam chat service.
Posted on March 19th, 2010 at 10:32 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Teenagers who cannot tear themselves away from the internet, computer games or their mobile phone can get help from a new addiction service, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
Posted on March 18th, 2010 at 11:55 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Plenty of people download music from the Internet every day, but illegal downloading has a huge economic impact and could put more than one million people out of work by 2015, experts say.
Posted on March 18th, 2010 at 10:53 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Internet behemoth Google now boasts a network that's bigger than all but two of the world's ISPs and telcos fear the search giant is just one step away from becoming an ISP itself.
Posted on March 17th, 2010 at 2:38 pm in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
It's not often you read the words Microsoft and innovation in the same sentence these days, which is odd for a company with one of the biggest research laboratories in the world.
Posted on March 17th, 2010 at 12:35 pm in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Google has begun putting ads on its popular maps pages in Australia in a world first - but companies must be ‘‘relevant’’ enough for their logos to appear.
Posted on March 17th, 2010 at 11:41 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
The Australian Human Rights Commission has threatened legal action against a widely read but controversial US-based website over an article that encourages racial hatred against Aborigines.
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 12:05 pm in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
The use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by militant and hate groups is growing year on year, according to a US report.