A day before it lets loose new Windows-powered devices in New York, Nokia unleashed on Tuesday its free music streaming service, which the mobile phone maker touted as both “enjoyable and easy to use.”
Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest person, refuses to be muzzled even if her controversial comments generate debate in the country. After her hit column in a mining industry magazine which came out last week, Ms Rinehart used on Wednesday popular video sharing site YouTube to air her thoughts once more on national issues.
Cambodian authorities have confirmed over the weekend the arrest of Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who has been in hiding since his popular file-sharing site started encountering legal woes in 2009.
An 18-year-old Australian girl was killed by a man she agreed to see after a Facebook meeting. Her murderer was sentenced to spend at least 21 years in jail.
The diplomatic standoff between Britain and Ecuador over WikiLeaks founder Julia Assange has reached a settlement stage as Quito confirmed on Saturday that “we consider this unfortunate incident over.”
In 2011, Australians lost a total of $4.8 billion to cybercriminals, according to a Norton cyber crime report released on Monday.
The U.S. State Department has accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sidestepping the real issues surrounding his legal predicaments even as a key Labor figure sounded off grave concerns on the prospect of the Australian national getting a fair trial in the United States.
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom must be given access to materials that U.S. authorities plan to employ in pursuing his extradition from New Zealand, a trial court said on Thursday.
Reddit, a popular social news Web site, nabbed a spot at the Guinness Book of Record. It announced that its quest, launched in November last year, to be immortalized with a record for "the largest online Secret Santa game" has ended successfully.
Crowd funding websites may offer one of the coolest means to earn some big bucks but Australia’s corporate watchdog issued an advisory on Tuesday outlining the risks and responsibilities that come with getting involved on such projects.
Julian Assange’s asylum application to Ecuador will be known within the current week following reports that the Latin nation’s president has indicated of an imminent decision on the plea of the WikiLeaks founder.
Although small- and medium-enterprises (SME) in Australia are recognising the inevitable need to have online presence, their actual online activity leaves much to be desired.
The collapse of popular BitTorrent site Demonoid appears to be in the final stage as TorrentFreak reported over the weekend that domain names associated with the file-sharing website were currently up for sale.
A permanent point man for Facebook in Australia should be appointed soon, the giant social media firm said on Monday following its confirmation that an interim head has been tapped to run the company’s local operations on daily basis.
Google intends to employ new search algorithm that would shore up the appearance of legitimate web content providers to the tech giant’s search pages, boosting what the company said chances by music, movie and software producers to lure more buyers away from bootleg sources.
Hacking activist group Anonymous vowed to exact revenge on the Ukrainian government for its ongoing efforts to crackdown on the global operation of popular torrent file sharing site Demonoid.
The more than 300 millimetres of rain that the monsoon dumped on Metro Manila and nearby Philippine provinces failed to dampen the Filipinos' penchant for updating their statuses on social networking sites.
Google has not yet thoroughly deleted all the private information it had gathered in a “mistake” committed while collecting images for its Street View service.
The Australian Advertising Standards Board has ruled that a Facebook page can be considered a 'marketing communication tool' when used by an advertiser.
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom told the New Zealand High Court on Tuesday that the illegal raid conducted by a joint team of local police officials and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation left his multi-million mansion and his life in disarray.
When Facebook announced earlier this year it would hold an initial public offering of stock, some early analyses of the social media giant speculated its value could reach as high as $100 billion.
Visa had rolled out a transaction card and identification document for British children. Called VisaCitizenCard, the plastic money allows the loading of money in a prepaid card for use in daily transactions.
The Angry Birds are targeting not just pig's lairs, but also public investors. Rovio, the Finnish market of the most downloaded mobile app in the world, announced plans to go public in late 2013.
Facebook delivered some good news this week: its active users’ total roll is nearing the one billion mark, specifically some 955 million members worldwide as of the end of June 2012, in the process proving the wide-reach of the hugely popular social networking site.
He would have made a fine Yahoo ship captain but Ross Levinsohn, who twice missed the chance of becoming CEO of the Internet firm, is finally leaving the company that he served for close to two years.
Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Facebook Inc. and other big Internet companies are joining forces to start a trade association. The association will be acting as a influential pro-internet lobbying group in the U.S. The group is to launch in September and will be responsible for handling political and regulatory issues as well.
Could it be that investments to roll out faster cellular networks like 3G and LTE would only be wasted in the future as a new report predicted that tablets deployed with high-speed cellular connectivity will hardly be the must-have devices over the next four years?
Hacking activist group Anonymous admitted on Tuesday that it was responsible for the attacks that took down at least 10 websites being maintained by the Queensland state government over the weekend.
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's newly-installed CEO, could earn as much as $US100 million over the next five years, that is if she managed to stay that long in a chair that has seen five bosses in the same number of years.
Google came out Thursday blazing with impressive numbers as the internet giant reported a general profit of $US2.79 billion in the second quarter, which was backed by an overall revenue of $US12.21 billion.
