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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 11:00

Ex Challenger CIO sets up social network for dead people

Challenger Financial Services’ CIO Derek Goh left the role last November as the sector went into meltdown. But proving a global financial crisis can’t keep a CIO down for long, Goh has resurfaced – this time as an internet entrepreneur with a Web 2.0 obituary site.

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Monday, 27 July 2009 13:44

Netbooks boom leads to Sony, Harvey Norman partnership

The booming netbook market has led Sony into the fray in partnership with leading retailer Harvey Norman. The partnership will see the two companies install kiosks at shopping centres where anyone looking to buy a smaller machine can play around with connected notebooks with the help of technology experts.

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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 06:15

Ubisoft explode Facebook gaming

There is already plenty of ways to fill your hours with fun on Facebook, but now Ubisoft step in to give further structure to the social network with UbiFriends the game portal.
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Monday, 13 July 2009 16:27

Spammers exploit Michael Jackson death

Spammers and malicious code authors have created and launched several new spam and malware campaigns using the death of Michael Jackson as a cover for their infected emails.

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Monday, 13 July 2009 14:37

New technique used in ATO phishing attacks

Spammers have employed a new technique in their phishing attacks on the Australian Taxation Office website in an attempt to snatch tax refund details from users of the site doing their tax return online.

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Monday, 13 July 2009 07:15

KRudd tweaks Twitter transparency

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has quietly tweaked his Web 2.0 communications processes, attaching a moniker to each social media update on services like Twitter and Facebook to help followers recognise whether the message is directly from the PM, or from one of his team.

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Friday, 10 July 2009 12:12

Facebook, Twitter and more coming to Xbox 360

Microsoft is set for a significant increase in online content for the Xbox 360. The company is promising access to Facebook and Twitter by Christmas.
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Wednesday, 08 July 2009 10:04

Increased threat from short URLs: Report

There’s been a huge rise in the use of shortened URLs by spammers which poses a greater security threat to Internet users, including those accessing popular social network sites like Twitter.

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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 12:55

Making a dollar from a Twitter rent-a-crowd

There always seems to be someone ready to make a quid by gaming the system.  uSocial reckons it can sell you Twitter followers.
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 11:09

Australians spying on partners, online!

In the era of social networks and searching the Internet for all manner of information, Australians, it appears, have taken to spying on their partners on the net in an effort to find incriminating evidence to back up suspicions they have about their opposite number.

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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 08:49

Fake Facebook emails warning!

Symantec has followed-up its recent report warning of an increasing trend to phishing attacks on Facebook, with a new warning for Facebook users to beware of fake emails attempting to steal login details to use their account for launching future phishing attacks on unsuspecting social networkers.

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Sunday, 14 June 2009 10:48

Sexting could lead to criminal charges: cyber safety expert

Teenagers need to be much more aware of the legal and potential criminal implications of sexting – sending inappropriate images – of themselves over the Internet to friends, or even placing their photos on social networking sites like Facebook, according to a cyber safety expert.

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Thursday, 11 June 2009 14:03

Twitter phishing hit, as spam infiltrates 90% of all emails

Spam levels climbed to nearly 90 percent of all email last month with some worrying new trends emerging, like the booming Twitter site being used as bait to phish for information.

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Monday, 01 June 2009 17:05

How to make money from your Facebook profile

Think that social networking is a waste of time? Try telling that to the online entrepreneur who has sold his profile to a tongue cleaning company.

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Monday, 01 June 2009 16:11

Too much employee 'socialising' for Aussie businesses

Employees of Australian businesses are apparently spending far too much time chatting and messaging with their friends over social networks instead of doing their work, and their bosses have had enough.

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Sunday, 31 May 2009 11:17

Mobile content consumption growth on social networks

There’s been a steady rise in mobile content consumption on social networks, with mobile content services in the Asia Pacific region grossing US$29.1 billion for vendors last year and significant growth forecast for the next four years.

 

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Sunday, 31 May 2009 10:52

YouTube, Blogspot security 'ineffective', claims Websense

New research findings have revealed that Google’s YouTube and Blogspot community-driven security tools are 65 to 75 percent ineffective in protecting Web users from objectionable content and security risks, according to a claim by Web security vendor, Websense.

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Friday, 22 May 2009 00:43

Yahoo to buy into social media?

Continuing its efforts to position itself as still a player on the Net, Yahoo said it may acquire companies that will help it move into social networking.

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Friday, 24 April 2009 10:07

IBM cloud settles in Hong Kong

HTML clipboardIBM has announced that it is establishing the first IBM cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong.
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 09:23

Twitter gets its worm four times

The early bird gets its worm took on a whole new meaning over the weekend as the popular social networking site Twitter received four separate attacks with malware that compromised about 100 user accounts. A number of sources are attributing the attacks to a 17 year old US hacker.

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