A study for ANZ Bank conducted by Newspoll found that many Australians favour the use of new but difficult to cheat technologies to access their bank accounts. In lieu of plastic cards used to withdraw money from ATMs, they would prefer retina or fingerprint scanning technology.
When Google rolled out their Panda and Penguin updates earlier this year, I was one of many people who thought that this was probably a good thing.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Javascript was developed with complex applications and at the same time made available a new plugin for Visual Studio. The plugin, known as Typescript, will make Javascript more user friendly for newbies who want to create large-scale web applications.
Macquarie Telecom won five-year outsourcing contracts to provide 12 Australian federal agencies with Internet services. The agencies include the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Fair Work Australia.
A growing number of Australians expressed their dissatisfaction with Facebook because of the popular social networking site's culture of narcissism and self-absorption.
More than 7 million users are using Instagram daily, more than the number of Twitter users. Impressive, eh? But why are more people becoming more active Instagram users?
Cybergeddon is humanity's battle against a large-scale viral assault on all computer networks, systems, and activities. The threat of growing population of tech literates versus tech experts is a factor to the growth of sophisticated hacking programmes and mechanisms used by malicious perpetrators. This may sound threatening but even though it is possible to happen, experts are also doing everything they can to prevent a global crisis like this.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Thursday that freedom of speech for the U.S. government is mere lip service and is being employed by U.S. President Barack Obama to gain political traction.
Rovio Entertainment, maker of the popular Angry Birds game series, aims to sustain its profitability by ‘killing’ the aggressive winged creature this time around.
Fresh from delivering delight to Yahoo shareholders last week in the form of the $US7.5 billion deal with Alibaba Group, company CEO Marissa Mayer announced on Wednesday the appointment of a new key executive.
Only few Australians are logging in social media using their mobile phone, despite mainstream popularity of online platforms like Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.
The funky map application on Apple’s iOS 6 will not be rescued by Google anytime soon, the internet giant’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday in Tokyo.
Social media is fast becoming a huge presence in the lives of more Aussies, with Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) leading the pack of networks in Australia.
The New Zealand government has admitted on Tuesday that Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was a subject of surveillance operations conducted by NZ’s domestic spy agency in 2011.
Police forces in New South Wales and Victoria contained Islam protests on Sunday in the two Australian states. The protests are part of the ongoing global mass action against a 14-minute video posted in YouTube titled Innocence of Muslims.
Some visually entertaining videos don’t get old. Take the “Mentos plus Coke Diet” video clip from the MythBusters, as an example. It was uploaded in 2008 and has so far gathered 7 million views, but it still gets fresh visits and comments from YouTube users.
Tech consultancy firm DataGenetics recently analysed a database of 3.4 million passwords, all of them compromised, and as it turned out, the most popular password combinations were the most vulnerable too – be they numeric or alpha-numeric.
National Australia Bank (NAB) launched on Wednesday nabtrade, its own online share trading platform which will mainly target investors in self-managed superannuation funds.
It took only a few months for new Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer to finalise an agreement with China’s Alibaba Group, which in the last two years has not come in to terms with the CEOs that came before her.
To understand Facebook’s Marketplace Ads system, you first have to understand Facebook. You will see that there isn’t much blanketing terminology on the site besides its Marketplace, which deals with four distinct categories of ads: Facebook Object, Page Post, Sponsored Story, and External Website ads. Of course, these ads all play together for the larger goal of boosting your business and your profits, but each much be handled individually.
Microsoft said on Wednesday that another fix on the freshly identified security hole in Internet Explorer will be dispatched in the next few days, insisting that the patch should temporarily protect millions of global users while engineers work for an IE update.
Malwares, which employ the same command and control (C&C) servers attributed to Flame, remain in active circulation, according to new findings issued by the same team that detected and tracked the powerful computer spy tool earlier in 2012.
A new malware has been unleashed to hostage or pilfer data from computer systems running on Windows, Microsoft said on Monday.
The infamous Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, are now engaged into the social networking business following their legal battles with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, leaving the two $US65 million richer.
Not only that the national broadband network (NBN) roll out is suffering from delays and budget blow out, many Australians may also end up not having access to fixed line communication facilities, the Coalition said on Thursday.
Microsoft has unmasked a new malware that reportedly operates from a Chinese domain and spreads through freshly-unboxed PCs that were exclusively assembled by a computer manufacturer, also in China.
Around the world, more than 850 million people use Facebook regularly to communicate. More and more employers also are using Facebook as a way to examine potential employees before making hires.
While seeking tougher laws to battle Twitter trolls which he experienced, NRL star Robbie Farah himself made a similar offending tweet in 2011 to Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Mobile apps are more attractive when offered free, tech research firm Gartner confirmed on Tuesday as latest data showed that global users will likely download more than 45 billion smartphone and tablet apps by the end of 2012.
How much illegal music downloads would cost? For a U.S. woman it’s $US222,000 as determined on Tuesday by a federal appeals court, which declared that the hefty fine was just and reasonable.
