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A video of a young girl in a red sweatshirt throwing several puppies into a river has caused a huge social media backlash on sites like 4chan, reddit and Facebook.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking website is seeking to uncover needless details about his private life.

Google can sift through more than a trillion web links in a matter of seconds, but can the internet search leader help people wade through their overflowing email?

Long a favourite of lovers and honeymooners, a Japanese beach town with fading sparkle has found a new tourism niche in the wired age by drawing young men and their virtual girlfriends.

Customers who bank with Westpac were unable to access their account online for most of today, with the bank citing service degradation as the cause of the problem.

Windows Phone 7 has been designed from scratch to take on its competitors, writes Lia Timson.

Telstra doubled the speeds of its Next G network but delayed its announcement for a week after the election campaign, fearing it may "influence the debate" between the independents who are deciding who will govern the country.

MySpace, which recently revamped itself to look more like Facebook, is now allowing users to sync their posts to Facebook, too.

Secretly recorded mobile phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in north-eastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire.

AUSTRALIAN music industry figures feel the prophets of doom may be too early.

Police statements made by the women involved in the sex scandal engulfing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raise questions over Assange's claims that the charges against him were a Pentagon-initiated smear campaign.

Your digital footprint might benefit from a discreet nip and tuck, or perhaps a complete makeover, writes Johnny Diaz.

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's research business has awoken from a decade-long slumber to seek compensation from 11 companies including Google and Apple for its "groundbreaking" contributions to the internet economy.

Government intervention will be required to give Australian households super-fast fibre, writes Lucy Battersby.

Tweens are more technologically savvy and count the internet as a source of happiness, research shows. Today's six- to 12-year-olds are laden with gadgets their older siblings could only have dreamed about - two-thirds of them own mobile phones and iPods.

THE moonwalk sounds like the kind of dance every young robot would dream of performing. Soon it could be within their repertoire, thanks to Sydney scientists who have programmed a group of humanoid robots to dance - the agile automatons already have mastered hip-hop.

Australians have been able to make phone calls to landlines and mobiles using a new Google Gmail feature that launched this week for US and Canadian users.

A high-tech expedition that aims to create a detailed map of the wreckage of the Titanic has begun exploring the ocean floor where the ship sank nearly one hundred years ago, the crew said.

Facebook has filed suit against Teachbook.com, an online community for teachers. The lawsuit accuses Teachbook of “misappropriating the distinctive BOOK portion of Facebook's trademark.”

FACEBOOK management failed repeatedly to reveal the activity of an international child pornography syndicate operating on their site and ignored continuing admissions by one of the ring's Australian members.