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Stealing company money is the top white collar crime in Australian companies, a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) survey released on Thursday said. Almost 50 per cent of Aussie firms reported at least one incident of white collar crime in the past 12 months.

Google Inc. celebrated the leap year and composer Giochino Rossini's 220th birthday with a two for one Google Doodle. The Doodle features frogs performing Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville".

The patent wars raging between tech firms dominating the mobile device market could spill over in the equally lucrative social networking sphere as Yahoo reportedly sent notice to Facebook this week demanding for licence payments.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard needs to clarify reports suggesting that American authorities appear to have secretly established a case against controversial whistleblower Julian Assange, an Australian national.

Commonwealth Bank has restored the services of its ATMS and EFTPOS facilities after an outage at about 11 p.m. on Tuesday that affected its system across Australia. The cash machines and payment facilities were back online at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday although some cards continue to experience problems.

Barely a week after Telstra Corporation submitted its revised structural separation undertaking (SSU), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) gave its approval for the $11 billion deal between NBN Co and the country's dominant telco to go ahead.

WikiLeaks has announced on Monday the publication of millions of email exchanges obtained from controversial international security expert Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor), which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has accused of targeting activist groups.

Pressures coming from U.S. attorney generals compelled six leading tech companies to provide more information to users who may be compromising their privacy whenever they download apps into their mobile devices.

The National Broadband Network nears its full realisation as Telstra Corporation submitted on Thursday its revised plan that will pave the way for NBN Co to assume control of the giant telco's national communication network.

It takes a fellow con artist to pull off a fast one over another scammer. This was proven on Thursday by an Australian woman who pleaded guilty to cheating Nigerian scammers of $30,000.

The cities of Melbourne and Sydney are applying for eligibility to operate generic top level domains (gTLD), otherwise known as internet extensions. The Victorian state is also applying, but the government of New South Wales is still mulling the implications of such a move.

A guideline for judging whether a photo is acceptable or not to Facebook has been leaked to the Gawker website and reported by the New Zealand Herald and MSN NZ. The "abuse violation handbook," says a photo that exposes a woman’s nipples is not okay, but man’s nipples in pictures are acceptable. It further specifies that pictures of the act of breastfeeding are banned if nipples are exposed.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom walked out of jail Wednesday following a New Zealand court ruling on the same day granting him bail.

What Australians are surfing about on the net these days? Like the rest of the world, they were socialising via Facebook or enjoying the hottest clips posted on You Tube, according to a new study from Experian Hitwise.

Microsoft Corp. launched on Thursday a new trend-tracking service called msnNow which tracks what people are talking about online by shifting through real-time topics across social media networks like Facebook and Twitter. Users can then see what topics are trending at the moment by looking at the site along with a few pithy comments from MSN's editorial staff about the topics.

Modern technology has affected many aspects in the world and dentists should also take advantage of this in order to connect more to their patients.

Club TUKI recently revealed their kid-safe browser. This new kid-safe browser offers new features that will entice children to use this browser and at the same time, put the parent's mind at ease.

MSN announced the launch of their newest feature, aptly named as msnNOW. MSN described this service as something that will help people to be updated on the latest trends.

Professor Max Lu, the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor in University of Queensland recently received a prestigious and highly-acclaimed technology award. The reason behind the award was due to "distinguished and sustained contributions to collaboration with China in science and technology”. Professor Lu received the award together with other 6 awardees.

Hunch, a startup that specializes in recommendation technology, was acquired by eBay in last November 2011. The online auction site hopes to use Hunch's expertise to bolster eBay's business dealings.

A chronicle news reporter recently featured a behind-the-scenes look in MetalDetector.com, the first online retailer of Metal Detectors. MetalDetector.com is located at Southborough, Massachusetts and has been around for 30 years. It is currently being managed by brothers Michael and Daniel Berznweig.

Networking specialist Cisco has decided to mount a challenge on Microsoft's takeover of Skype, lodging an appeal before the European Commission earlier this week.

Facebook users have another reason to celebrate as one of the most-loved games in the world; Angry Birds is now available in the social networking site.

Google's offering to users on this day of hearts is a sweet animated narrative doodle over a minute long and has Tony Bennet crooning "Cold, Cold Heart" as a soundtrack.

Google inches closer on its quest to formally acquire Motorola Mobility with two clearances it received Monday from government regulators in the United States and the European Union.

Google Inc. is offering web users $25 a year to browse the web so Google can monitor their browsing habits in detail.

Fans of "Farmville" and "Mafia Wars" will soon have physical merchandise from their favorite online games. Hasbro Inc. and Zynga Inc. announced Thursday a deal where the toy company will create games and toys based on Zynga's popular online games including "Farmville" and "Mafia Wars".

Google Inc. is reportedly close to launching its long-rumored cloud storage service, Google Drive that would rival cloud-storage provider, Dropbox.

Just days after Facebook filed papers to go public, a large California pension fund is criticizing the social media giant for having an all-male board of directors.