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Antenna problems were forgotten when, at the stroke of midnight, thousands of Apple fans surged into telco stores around the country after waiting hours in line to be the first to get their hands on the new iPhone 4 smartphone.

The perils of social networking are back in the spotlight after a British student won a £10,000 ($17,500) payout in a high court ruling after a "friend" branded him a paedophile and posted pictures of child porn to his Facebook page.

Wikileaks' editor-in-chief claims his organisation doesn't know who sent it some 91,000 secret US military documents, telling journalists that the website was set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it.

Google is holding talks with online game developers as part of its bid to build a social-networking service that could compete with Facebook, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Facebook has begun the rollout of a new feature, Facebook Questions, which will allow users to get answers to their queries from the entire Facebook community.

Google is holding talks with online game developers as part of its bid to build a social-networking service that could compete with Facebook, The Wall Street Journal reported.

WASHINGTON: The lives of informants and double agents have been placed at risk by the release of tens of thousands of secret military documents, intelligence officials say.

International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world, FBI officials said

Two companies will invest an estimated $US400 million ($450 million) in a new 13,600-kilometre submarine cable that they say will double telecommunications capacity out of Australia and further reduce broadband costs to consumers.

Leading social researcher Hugh McKay says Google's mock election for 15-17 year-old students across Australia is "a very strange idea".

Chatroulette is coming clean. The popular voyeuristic video chat site, that has become notorious as a haven for naked exhibitionism, has started tracking and reporting breaches of "inappropriate content" to police.

Chatroulette is coming clean. The popular voyeuristic video chat site, that has become notorious as a haven for naked exhibitionism, has started tracking and reporting breaches of "inappropriate content" to police.

You won't be able to ask Jeeves, the butler that made the search engine now known as Ask.com famous in the late '90s. But in a bid to engage more users, Ask is returning to its question-and-answer roots by tapping its users and the web.

Apple has unveiled the latest update to its line of desktop computers, promising faster speeds and offering the option of multi-touch controls similar to those used on the iPhone.

WASHINGTON: The White House has confirmed an investigation is under way into the source of the leak of thousands of pages of classified documents on the Afghan war to the whistleblower website, WikiLeaks.

Deleted but decoded text messages undermined a schoolgirl's claims against a northern beaches businessman, writes Joel Gibson.

Deleted but decoded text messages undermined a schoolgirl's claims against a northern beaches businessman, writes Joel Gibson.

CLASSIFIED US Defence Department documents leaked to the WikiLeaks website this week suggest the Australian Defence Force covered up the killing of an Afghan policeman by Australian troops.

WASHINGTON: The release of secret Pentagon documents by WikiLeaks highlights the security challenges of the digital age, when gigabytes of sensitive data can be exposed with a single click, analysts say.

Move over Twitter, there's a new social networking tool everyone's talking about. But is Foursquare, which reveals your exact location to other people, a stalker's dream? Leo Hickman reveals how he used it to follow a stranger.