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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.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy accused on Wednesday a microblogging site of not cooperating with the Australian government due to Twitter's failure to turn over evidence on its probe of cyber abuse.

Only 14 per cent of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Australia are using cloud computing, a study commissioned by MYOB, a business software provider, found.

Fans of BitTorrent downloads beware! A new study suggests that obtaining music, movies and software from file-sharing sites would leave digital footprints that could expose users’ IP addresses under close watch by copyright agents.

Facebook and other social media sites are likely to jeopardise the operations of Aussie Diggers in Afghanistan, according to a new government review that assessed the impact of popular social networking websites to the country’s Afghan Mission.

More than half of Australians were into mobile computing as of May this year – social networking and conducting everyday business via smartphones or tablet computers, a new report said.

Julia Assange is just 24 hours away from facing charges in the United States should U.S. authorities finally decide to throw the book on him, the Spanish defender of the WikiLeaks founder said on Wednesday.

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is on his way out of a Phnom Penh prison following an announcement from Cambodian authorities on Tuesday that the Swedish national will be deported soon.

More risks are out there on the net as mobile computing continues to explode, according to a new report by internet security specialist McAfee Labs, with malware authors now training their attention to Android and iOS, currently the dominant platform in the mobile web universe.

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.