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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson will unveil the full version of the sandbox construction game originally written in Java, at the MineCon convention in Las Vegas over the weekend.

Minecraft, the indie sandbox building game, will be available for the iPhone, iPad and other Apple mobile devices starting today, Nov. 17.

Optus sought on Thursday for Telstra to be transparent on its use of the $11 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) windfall to ensure it would not use the money to stifle competition.

Android users beware: there has been a rise in malware in Android apps that could infect your smartphone or tablet.

Have you logged on to your Facebook account and were greeted by graphic pictures in your wall? Don't panic because your friends did not decide on sharing their fetish with you. This is in fact, a case of spam taking over Facebook.

Online shopping further grew among Australian consumers, mostly spurred by cheaper products offered by international retailers who were able to lure web-prowling customers looking to extend the value of their dollar.

Browsing the Internet is not as harmless as one thinks especially if there are viruses around just waiting for people to make a wrong move in order to get vital information like user names, passwords, credit card details, etc. to use them in illegal activities like stealing money or stealing one’s identity.

Mobile computing continues to fuel growth in the online search advertising, which according to a latest industry report, has generated some $1.4 billion in total revenues during the 2010-2011 financial year.

As more Australians shift to services offered under the National Broadband Network (NBN), comparison Web site, WhistleOut, pointed to five likely strategies that Internet service providers (ISPs) will put in place to gain a larger share of the market.

Steam, one of the world's largest distribution networks for online video games has been hacked. This hacking incident poses as a threat for the estimated 35 million accounts that are registered in the network.

Google is pulling the plug on the Gmail in BlackBerry and the email app will no longer be downloadable to the smartphone.

More choices would be available for Australians who would subscribe to broadband services under the National Broadband Network (NBN).

In response to petitions and advertisers prodding, Facebook has removed many of its sexually offensive joke pages, created by users who were trying to be funny, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Besides carbon tax protesters who promised to make their voices heard when U.S. President Barack Obama visits Australia next week, the mother of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will also hold a protest outside Parliament House.

Australian consumers appear to continue their migration to online shopping but most players in the retail industry seem to continue miss the significant surge because they have yet to implement the necessary adjustments on their websites.

Social media is being lauded as a tool with which HR professionals can engage with past, current and future employees, and is simultaneously being derided as a waste of employees' productive time.

Today, to celebrate my fist post in quite a while, I want to write something fun about social media.

The Zetas drug cartel in Mexico has released a local member of the hackers group Anonymous following threats by the latter to expose the identities of the criminal gang's accomplices in the government.

Facebook creator Mark Zuckerburg recently returned to Harvard, his former academic home before he dropped out seven years ago and eventually becoming the 14th richest person in the US.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently described Google+ as Google's "own little version of Facebook" but Google is out to disprove this description of their own social networking site.

DARPA or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which helped create the Internet more than 40 years ago is now looking for more offensive ways to fight against cyber threats. In its Cyber Colloquium that hosted academics, computer security professionals and hackers, DARPA Director Regina Dugan reinforced the need for more options in the future warfare which would include cyber terrorism.

Anonymous hackers reportedly retaliating from a cyber attack on the DAX, Germany's blue chip stock index, brought down a French rugby club's fan site instead because the latter's URL contained the word "dax."

German sportswear and gear manufacturer Adidas is the latest victim of cyber attack. The company's Web site was closed on Sunday after a sophisticated and criminal hacking incident.

Google's "Do a Barrel Roll" search trick went viral on Thursday after bored users tweeted about the cool trick to their friends. The barrel roll trick isn't the only Easter egg Google's hidden in its site. Here are seven other Google tricks. Be warned that they only work if your turn off the "instant search" feature.

More Australian government agencies will shift to cloud computing services in 2012, independent technology analyst firm Ovum said Friday.

A Briton revealed that Google has finally removed a fake online review of his business on Google's Places that mentioned him as a pedophile after his request to delete it have been ignored for 18 months. Unfortunately, the damage had been done.

Twitter quietly added two new features on Wednesday, "top news" and "top people" which make it easier for users to see a real-time search results.

An animal welfare group and philanthropic organization are showing live online the migration of polar bears in Canada only previously seen by locals, tourists and scientists.

Google Maps will start charging heavy users starting January 2012.