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The International Olympic Committee has encouraged athletes and other participants at the 2012 London Games to post comments on social media platforms or websites and tweet during the Olympics, but noted that athletes may be sanctioned or barred from competing if guidelines are not followed.

MasterCard Inc., operator of the second-largest electronic payments network, with card brands MasterCard MasterCard, Maestro and Cirrus, temporarily lost service on its website due to a cyber attack from hackers backing whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks.

Diesel, the maker of jeans for hot girls, has released an app that allows you to slack off at work without having your boss catch you on Facebook. Diesel's new "Be Stupid at Work app" makes Facebook appear to be an Excel spreadsheet, which means you can update your status and read updates all you want without the guy who shares your cubicle or your boss noticing. Download the app at http://www.bestupidatwork.com/

The United States and North Korea are never in agreement with each other. They are in a dispute about South Korea, Pyongyang's nuclearization and arms proliferation, and many more. There have been tensions between them in the land, sea, and air, and they might as well take their dispute to the Internet.

After headline-grabbing hacking exploits against the likes of Sony Corp., the CIA, the U.S. Senate, and FBI partner Infragard, hacking group LulzSec said it won't stop its cyber exploits unless U.S. President Obama does one thing."If President Obama wears a shoe on his head throughout the entirety of his next big speech, we will cease fire on all targets forever," LulzSec said in its Twitter account on Saturday.But apparently, LulzSec is calling it quits, according to a farewell...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) seems to be the latest victim of a hacking attack.

We already have our top five most embarrassing tweets for the first half of the year.

The Australian government reached a deal yesterday with the nation's two largest telecommunications companies, Telstra and Optus, bringing the government's rollout of the National Broadband Network closer.

Research firm Gartner, Inc., said that by 2016, 50 percent of all major marketing automation vendors will develop applications specifically for Apple's iPad.

Most Australian internet users will have their web access censored next month after the nation's two largest internet providers agreed to block access to websites that have themes considered to be unsuitable by the Federal Government of Australia.Telstra and Optus have agreed to block access to 500 child abuse sites identified by the Australian Communications and Media Authority and additional sites provided by "reputable" international organizations.Some Internet users have lau...

The Netregistry Group has bought stricken web hosting company, Distribute.IT after thousands of customer e-mails and websites were lost because of a malicious cyber attack.

Starting this July over 500 websites will be censored for Australian internet users. The country's two largest internet providers, Telstra and Optus have agreed to block access to the websites that have themes considered to be unsuitable by the Federal Government of Australia.

The Australian government finally sealed its hard-fought agreements with two of the country’s leading telcos that hopefully will roll out the implementation of the National Broadband Network, pending the approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s legal battles with his Harvard contemporaries Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss may see an end soon with the twins informing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday that they are intending not to appeal its earlier decision.

Company software developer AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, has warned Australians of the persisting personal identity theft as more scams might develop and are being created for the tax return season starting on 1 July.

NBN Co Limited and Optus have inked a binding agreement to migrate Optus’ subscribers to the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Telstra (ASX: TLS) and NBN Company's definitive agreement spells a historic day for Australia's telecommunications industry, independent consultancy group Ovum said Thursday..

According to the monthly Media Metrix report from Internet market research firm comScore, Google in May became the first web property to pass one billion unique visitors worldwide.

LulzSec, the group of rogue hackers who are dominating the news with their antics have set their sights on stealing classified information from governments, banks and other high-ranking establishments.

Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT on Tuesday informed customers who had sites hosted on a number of its servers that their sites and emails were now considered "unrecoverable".

Following a joint effort by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United Kingdom's Scotland Yard, Ryan Cleary, a 19-year-old suspected major player of LulzSec, was arrested in Essex, England. Cleary is in custody at a central London police station and is being questioned on a suspicion of a Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act offence.

Distribute. IT has admitted that its servers are "unrecoverable" after hackers attacked its systems a week ago. The production data and backups for four of its shared servers were erased and at least 4800 Australian sites are now lost with no chance of recovery.

Google and the British Library recently sealed a deal that would allow the tech firm to scan some 250,000 copyright-free books and make them available through its Google Books services.

Its acquisition of Skype almost a certainty with the recent regulatory approval pushed by the $8.5 billion deal, Microsoft gears up its consolidation move on its new pet by letting go of executives that experts said is a move that would save up some cash for the new owners of the fairly popular internet calling firm.

Telco giant Telstra (ASX: TLS) launched today its Telstra Ultimate Mobile Wi-Fi – a battery-powered device that shares Next G mobile broadband connectivity with up to five devices simultaneously.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the group that manages Internet addresses, approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet's Domain Name System.

With the public outcry over Facebook's facial recognition feature growing ever louder, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen is now requesting a meeting with the social networking site. In a letter sent to Facebook, he says the company's failure to provide an opt-in "overlooked a critical component of consumer privacy protection."

It's taken a long time. A very, very long time. But, at last, the latest Chrome 13 beta sees the browser finally gain a Print Preview function. And this isn't just some half-finished beta version, either -- it's really quite impressive.

This week, Mozilla's whirlwind release cycle yielded the first release candidate of Firefox 5 in the beta channel, just a matter of a week before the final version is expected to be released.