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Australians visit an average of 2,772 Web pages months, according to Nielsen Online Ratings, which recently got the Interactive Advertising Bureau's (IAB) endorsement as preferred measure of counting Internet Activities in the country.

The distinction between online retailers and bricks-and-mortar stores is slowly being erased due to the falling rates of rentals in Australia.

Facebook protects majority of its 800 million active users from spams using a massive defense network called Facebook Immune System (FIS). But a researcher said users may lose their personal information to bots posing as friends.

Google has paid out a record $26,511 in bounty to four researchers who found bugs in the Chrome browser.

The parents of a 15-year-old Gold Coast schoolgirl who died from an Internet-inspired choking game on Oct. 3 warned that the U.S. fad has spread to the country and is deadly.

As social networking sites keep popping up like mushrooms in a damp forest, Leonardo DiCaprio is following the footsteps of fellow celebrities Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Ashton Kutcher and has just led a $4 million round of funding for a company called, Mobli, a social network for "real-time visual media."

Beginning next week some patients in South Australian hospitals will have bedside touch screen computers under a $36.7 million deal between Telstra and the medical institutions.

Two recent decisions highlight the differing outcomes for employees who criticise their employers on social media sites outside working hours. In O'Keefe v Williams Muir's Pty Ltd T/A Troy Williams The Good Guys [2011] FWA 5311, a decision of Fair Work Australia delivered on 11 August 2011, a Townsville worker who was dismissed after making insulting and aggressive comments about his employer on Facebook lost his claim.

Although business information analysts are forecasting a 6.1 per cent dip in spending at the Melbourne Cup Carnival this year, bets will continue to rise by 1.6 per cent.

A Swansea Crown Court judge sentence a man to a 16-month jail term for torturing his teenage girlfriend, who he allegedly accused of flirting and cheating via the popular social media site Facebook.

WikiLeaks no longer has money to operate and may shut down by December if cash donations does not come in soon, its founder Julian Assange announced in a press conference in London on Monday.

Tourism Australia and Jetstar entered into a $10-million partnership in an attempt to boost the country's visitor arrivals, particularly those from Japan.

Comparison Web site WhistleOut backed the Labor government's claim that Australians would benefit from using the National Broadband Network (NBN) than current ADSL 2+ and line rental plans.

Police have evidence to charge two Bendigo brothers who set up a Facebook page that rates teen's sexual encounters.

With Steve Jobs's death sparking more interest in Apple products and services, there is a growing interest among techies and companies in Apple's looming iCloud service.

Victoria train riders may soon be able to send emails or surf the Web while on their way to work or home. The state government is considering installing wi-fi transmitters and improving communications on regional trains, according to Public Transport Minister Terry Mulder.

Angry Birds maker Rovio revealed at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday that the popular video game will add a new bird while preparations for a movie version is underway.

Web browser maker Opera Software has developed a new mobile web browser that can load pages faster on devices running on the Android operating system.

Making its debut this week, Chime.In, Uber Media's new social networking site combines Twitter's sharing ability, Reddit voting and it actual pays users for their posts.

Shareholders of Telstra have agreed and voted in favor of the $11 billion deal with the Australian government, allowing Telstra's fixed-line dominance be used by the NBN Company.

Google Inc. has announced it will close down social networking site Google Buzz in the next few weeks to concentrate on building up its successor Google+.

Anti-rape campaigners are raising a howl over Facebook's refusal to remove pages that glorify and make fun of rape and violence against women.

Search engine giant and Android maker Google is joining the crowd of online music stores soon.

The American hacker who illegally accessed email messages of Hollywood celebrities apologised to his victims, who included Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and Christina Aguilera.

The Apple logo with the silhouette of the company's co-founder Steve Jobs replacing the bite may not be an original design after it matched with another designed by a Briton.

On the heels of news that Google+ traffic has been consistently dropping, a Google engineer has inadvertently published a 5,000-word rant on his frustrations at work for all his +/- 2,000 followers to see. He said the post was supposed to be for internal discussion among his colleagues. In his latest Google+ post, Engineer Steve Yegge explained how his "long opinionated" rant on how Google could be doing a "much better job" on Google+ for better public access.

Macquarie Telecom, Fujitsu, Infoplex and VMware have formed the OzHub, a national cloud council which aims to promote cloud computing to enterprises, small businesses, consumers and governments in Australia.

Attempts to gain unauthorized access to 93,000 accounts on the Sony PlayStation Network, Sony Entertainment Network and Sony Online Entertainment prompted the online gaming network to lock the accounts on Tuesday.

American and Canadian users of BlackBerry smartphones are now experiencing delays in sending and receiving e-mails as the service disruption entered its third day.