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A baby boy removed from his parents’ custody after they offered to sell him on eBay as a joke is back at home, a prosecutor said.

eBay is strong-arming its users into embracing PayPal despite saying it had shelved plans to block other payment methods.

Yahoo!7 and Telstra’s BigPond are preparing to exploit a 20 per cent rise in TV audiences predicted for the Olympics next month with comprehensive coverage streaming live for the first time online and to mobile phones.

eBay has backed down on plans to force all of its users on to PayPal just as the competition regulator looked set to scuttle the move.

Optus has announced comprehensive plans for the upcoming 3G iPhone including an option to buy the handset outright on a pre-paid basis.

Computer Science students are farming out their coursework to cheap overseas programmers and universities are powerless to prevent it.

The anti-virus vendors have begun circling over Apple as the legendary virus-free status of its Mac OS begins to fade.

The Xbox 360 is now the cheapest next-generation games console on the market after Microsoft slashed the price of the entry level Arcade model to $349.

Social networkers have found a new frontier for the ever-blurring line between inner and outer worlds: ultrasound photographs.

Microsoft is dangling prizes made by arch-nemesis Apple to entice Australian web surfers to give its online search products a second chance.