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British police officials revealed on Wednesday the arrest of an 18-yea-old teenager that authorities tagged as the mouthpiece of a hacking group identified as responsible for breaching the security protocols of Sony Pictures and a host of other websites.

Owners and managers in Australia are warned of cyber security risks and are advised to take the necessary measure to protect their businesses from hacking.

According to reports, Netflix's third international market will likely be Europe, Asia, and/or Australia.

Mozilla announced on July 25 that it is planning to launch its own mobile operating system. Tentatively called "Boot to Gecko" or B2G, the OS is based from Mozilla's open-source "Gecko" layout engine that is already in use with other Mozilla apps like Firefox.

While at the start it was Google Plus that was highlighting Facebook's shortcomings, Facebook is now turning the tables around by providing a one-stop-shop (it's free) that would aid businesses take advantage of Facebook's mass user base.

Zynga Inc., the largest developer of games on Facebook, will offer a version of "CityVille" in China, the world's biggest Internet market.The free online game, named "Zynga City", will be offered through an alliance with Chinese internet service provider Tencent Holdings Ltd. The game will be launched in open beta on Tencent's Pengyou network in the next few days. The game will be later accessible on QZone, China's main social games platform. Tencent had about 101 mil...

The iPhone 5 will be out this fall, that is, if it will be launched simultaneously with the iOS 5.

Group buying in Australia is relatively new, being only introduced in 2010 but, it has become the fastest growing sector in the online retail market. In its initial year group buying websites in Australia have already generated 63 million dollars in sales, according to a study in telsyte.com.

Consumers are given better access to lower-priced internet service, according to Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy citing one of the key benefits of the National Broadband Network (NBN) network.

Search giant Google Inc. had this entrance strategy for its new social network -- launch the service without fireworks, release a beta version of the service to select individuals, and have others join via a by-invitation scheme. So far, the technique, the same done for Google's gmail, appears to be working as Google+ has already gained 20 million unique visitors just three weeks into its release, according to estimates by Web-traffic watcher comScore Inc.

Dr. Charlie Miller, Accuvant LABS principal research consultant, will demonstrate at the Black Hat USA 2011 security conference next week that the batteries of Apple's Macbooks, Macbook Pros and Macbook Airs are vulnerable to hacking attacks. Yes, the batteries!

Australian attorney-generals met today to consider placing tighter age limits on Facebook use in Australia. The meeting discussed whether or not children should still be using the extremely popular social networking site and to revisit the debate on R18+ game classifications.

Google is winding down Google Labs, the site where users explore prototypes to aid development of new projects.

Larry Page’s recent tinkering on Google’s in-place structures were meant to reposition the internet giant and keep its competitive posture despite the enormous success that the company has achieved in so short a time.

Now with Activision ready for another record-breaking installment of the CoD franchise, the game publisher has filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum last week to stop Scottsdale, Arizona-based Domains by Proxy, Inc., the current operator of the ModernWarfare3.com, from further using the site.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday that it had arrested 16 individuals across the country allegedly responsible for cyber attacks on PayPal's website and connected with the prankster and "hacktivist" group Anonymous.

Although Facebook is the most popular site in America, consumers "don't like" the social networking site, according to the 2010 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report, produced in partnership with ForeSee Results. Facebook scored 64 on the ACSI's 100-point scale, which puts its satisfaction even lower than IRS e-filers.

Google didn't really know what it unleashed when it banned Anonymous form its social network site Google+. The group has announced that it would be launching its own social networking site, called "AnonPlus" after Google+ banned Anonymous or 'yourannonnews' from the site.

The 400 bookstores under the Borders, Waldenbooks, Borders Express and Borders Outlet names will be closing shop in the U.S. after 40 years of existence, highlighting the decline of the hardcover and paperback bookstores worldwide.

Microsoft announced Monday that it is issuing a monetary reward in the amount of US$250,000 for new information that results in the arrest of operators of the Rustock botnet.

The LulzSec hacking group has attacked the website of the British tabloid Sun and posted a fake story announcing the death of the Sun owner Rupert Murdoch

Hacking group LulzSec defaced on Monday the website of U.S. tabloid The Sun, posting a fake article that media mogul Rupert Murdoch had been found dead.

It appears that Microsoft is planning a foray into the social networking scene with a new project called "Tulalip". The experimental project was revealed after Fusible.com spotted a teaser on socl.com, a domain owned by Microsoft.

Telstra's new offerings in Australia this month include devices known as the Android superphones: HTC Corp.'s HTC Sensation, dubbed as the ultimate media smartphone, and Samsung's Galaxy S II, tagged as Australia's fastest smartphone. With perennial market leaders Nokia, Apple and Research in Motion failing to launch any major offerings this year, devices running on Google's Android operating system this year. For one, Samsung has sold 3 million units of the Galaxy S II within 5...

Google Inc. told analysts that its new social networking service now has 10 million users, just two weeks into its soft release. Although top social network Facebook has more than 750 million users worldwide, the figures still represent overwhelming growth, given that Google+ is still in its beta and trial version and is in invite-only mode.

U.S. government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton confirmed Tuesday that certain of its data files ended up posted on the Internet due to an illegal attack.

Microsoft Corp. announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles, California, that it is retiring its Windows XP operating system and the support for the operating system will end in three years.Kicking off the four-day WPC 2011 event, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said 640,000 partners have made Windows 7 the fastest-selling operating system in history and indicated that with future versions in development, partners can be confident in their bets on Windows for phones, PCs, server...

Google has admitted that it has run out of disk space for its Google+ social networking service according to its SVP of social networking, Vic Gundotra.

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