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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.

Australian start-up tech firm Lexxe announced on Thursday the launch of its third-generation Internet search engine which uses Semantic Key Search to yield specific target information based on application of natural language search technology.

The Australian legal advisor of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on the Federal Government to help him get a fair trial in Sweden following the British High Court's decision to extradite him to the Scandinavian country to face rape charges.

Hackers may have exploited an unknown bug in Microsoft's Windows operating system to infect computers with the Duqu virus.

Unthink, the social network that markets itself as the complete opposite of such tyrannical sites like Facebook and Google Plus, has already reached 100,000 members in its first weeks of operation.

Google's Street View will not be showing just streets and roads but the inside of selected business establishments as well.

Social networking giant Facebook is known to run the wrath of its users every now and then. While there's no denying that most Internet users are now, for better or for worse, completely hooked onto Facebook, one cannot ignore the fact that these regular glitches and unwanted modifications usually leave most Facebook users grumbling and disgruntled.

A Facebook blog entry disclosed that every day 600,000 log-ins and passwords are compromised.

Google has released three new features for their Google+ service. The new features are described by the company in their blog as "popular posts, eye-catching analytics, photo fun." It is indeed a welcome addition to the ever growing social site as it made it more connected to each member and more fun. Google+ has also entered into Google Apps enabling organizations and business use its social network architecture.

Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC will now offer its Android users 5Gb of free cloud storage thru file hosting service Dropbox. HTC announced this new partnership on its Facebook page.

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.