The fight is not yet over for recently fired Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz. Ms Bartz said she wants to keep her board seat on the tech firm, but a Yahoo statement said she could not keep the seat.
As humans assimilate gadgets into their daily lives, threats of online crimes further increases, this according to internet security specialist Symantec, and latest estimates indicate that incidence of cybercrimes have reached a staggering cost of $4.6 billion in 2010 alone.
Google has confirmed that China has renewed its ICP license to operate for another year in spite the tension between the two for more than a year.
According to an exclusive Reuters report, Facebook's revenue doubled to $1.6 billion in the first half of this year, as revealed by an unidentified source who knew well about Facebook financials. With 750 million users, Facebook is a force to reckon with among social networks today. It is even believed to have caused the pressure at Yahoo, which recently fired former chief executive Carol Bartz on Tuesday.
Travel Massive is a global initiative to connect people in the travel industry locally. It brings travel bloggers, brands, startups and socially engaged travellers together by way of a free monthly meetup in various cities.
Anti-trust regulators in South Korea raided Google's offices in Seoul on Tuesday.
Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz was fired on Tuesday by the technology company's board of directors. The 62-year-old Bartz was informed of her removal only by phone.
Australia's information technology workers (iWorkers) are squeezing work during downtime - in the bedroom, family gatherings, during commutes and even on vacation, according to the second annual Consumerisation of IT study, conducted for Unisys by International Data Corp. (IDC).
Facebook is facing another lawsuit and in Northern Ireland this time as a father sued the globally popular social networking site for its lack of security measures that reportedly allowed the man’s young daughter to display her racy images on the website.
Yahoo Inc. has confirmed that it has fired CEO Carol Bartz and has named Tim Morse, Yahoo's chief financial officer as interim CEO. Several senior Yahoo executives were also named to the newly formed executive leadership council while the company searches for a permanent CEO.
Popular retail stores are telling distributors and wholesalers to stop selling products online if they have the same in their stores, claims eBay. Responding to draft recommendations released by the Productivity Commission last month, eBay managing director (Australia and New Zealand) Deborah Sharkey alleged on Monday that certain unidentified Australian retailers had taken an anti-competitive approach to block the availability of products at online sites.
The Dutch government reported on Monday that a hacking attack on a Dutch Web security firm in July led to the issuance of fraudulent certificates for major Web sites, including that of the Central Intelligence Agency and Twitter.
Google and Facebook have urged people to sign up using only their real names while those who use aliases are banned. Although internet analysts see only commercial goals, such as users-advertisers matching, as a reason behind this move, dissuading the use of aliases might prove some good points to consider.
Ever since Google introduced Google+ to us a few months back we have seen a rapid acceleration in features both on Facebook and Google+, particularly on the personal front, whilst business pages and groups are being left behind.
A 55-year-old grandmother from Perth was conned online and lost almost $100,000 just when she thought she could take another chance at love and romance. Commerce Minister Simon O'Brien said scam-related phone queries to Consumer Protection had doubled in the past year to about 900 calls per month, noting that in the last financial year the reported financial loss to victims had been over $5million.
Australia's employers have opted to advertise online rather than on newspapers, according to the latest survey conducted by ANZ Bank, which showed a a monthly and annual decline indicative of a persistent sluggish economic growth.
You can find out anything in the internet these days. A single click in Google and you can have all your reference materials. However what about those times when you're not connected to the Internet? What will you do if the Wi-Fi fails during Quiz Night at your favorite pub? Here are some of the best free reference apps for your iPad or iPhone.
Standard & Poor’s knocked down America’s credit rating earlier in August this year and almost immediately the world’s biggest economy courted the possibility of another recession, a scenario that Australia had apparently encountered in early 2009.
The perils of making friends via social networking websites have never been clearer, but warning signs have abound after cases such as murder and theft have been linked to some friends found through Facebook and other social networks.
The National Broadband Network rolled out in Thursday Townsville, the first location in Queensland to gain access to the high-speed broadband service.
As Google’s Android platform beats Apple’s iOS, group buying site Scoopon has last launched its own Android app which is proving to be very popular in the Android Market’s lifestyle section.
Sleek designs and fantastic user interface are usually synonymous with Apple. Nonetheless, tablets using the Android platform might finally have a browser that makes the Apple's Safari browser unattractive.
More than 25 per cent of Aussie dads use Facebook to keep track of their social networking kids, with one in four admitting visiting their kid’s pages is their favourite thing to do on Facebook, reveals a new Telstra research.
Even the gods have been playing favorites. Samsung was scheduled to unveil on Aug. 29 the Galaxy S2 in the United States, the world's largest economy. But what could be a record launch of "the best smartphone that is not an iPhone", we have Hurricane Irene causing massive blackouts, billions in damages, and at least 44 deaths. Aug. 29 would have been a brilliant timing, as Tim Cook is still rearranging the furniture at Apple's executive offices after being abruptly asked to succe...
Networking technology, particularly Facebook, has been cited as a reason for relationship problems and breakups.
People are now asking -- who will be the next Steve Jobs?
There is a lesson to be learned from the 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
With the HP TouchPad selling for only $100 this weekend enterprising modders are looking to import Google's Android OS to replace the TouchPad's less than stellar WebOS. HacknMod is holding a contest that offers $1500 for any techie who can get Android on the HP Tablet.
Want to make your engagement pictures memorable? How about inviting a flesh eating zombie to crash the shoot?
A lack of technological knowledge is getting in the way of keeping their kids safe online, according to new Telstra research released today.
