SMH Technology

A group of consumers have won a lawsuit forcing US computer giant Dell to honour bargains the firm says it offered in error on the internet.

The Tax Office has scaled back its new $820 million computer system after a bumpy start and a $430 million cost blow-out.

More than 20 Virgin Blue staff and managers from Sydney and Brisbane airports have been sacked for repeatedly using the airline's computers to view and swap pornography.

Apps for the iPad will be coming thick and fast, writes Lia Timson.

A court has ordered that the social networking site Facebook be used to serve legal documents on an elusive father in a child support dispute.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sweats profusely as he is quizzed about recent privacy failures, with one onlooker describing the scene as the young founder's "Richard Nixon moment".

It seems that yet another member of the animal kingdom has taken a liking to the iPad — dolphins.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs doled out technology wisdom as he answered questions about the company's practices, preferences and the competition in a length interview.

Former Miss World Australia Caroline Pemberton is remodelling herself as an iPhone dating guru for young girls, the first in a series of apps designed by the entrepreneurial young model.

Reports that Google is phasing out internal use of rival Microsoft's Windows operating system because of security concerns drew a rebuttal from Microsoft today.

Canada has launched a probe into Google as legal problems escalate surrounding the search engine's disclosure that it collected private data while taking photographs for its Street View product.

Microsoft is pushing ahead with a consumer-tailored mobile phone operating system to rival Apple's iPhone and Google's Android.

When Google launched a preview version of Wave last year, The Chaser team immediately declared war on the collaborative tool, lampooning it for being "complicated".

Australia's peak science body stands to reap more than $1 billion from its lucrative Wi-Fi patent after already netting about $250 million from the world's biggest technology companies, an intellectual property lawyer says.

Pakistan lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologised for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents, a top information technology official said.

Microsoft has launched a Windows 7-themed restaurant in Taipei to promote its new operating system, an official with the US firm said Monday, on the eve of Asia's biggest IT trade show.

BARNABY JOYCE has apologised on behalf of Queensland's Liberal National Party for a Facebook page set up by younger members rejoicing in the old age of a former prime minister.

Two Australians will begin teaching Bangladeshis to tweet and blog, as they start their outreach blogging mission in a Dhaka slum today.

Mobile phone companies will soon start a barrage of advertising for the next advance in wireless network technology: 4G access.

The latest Google web traffic data indicates Facebook is king when it comes to online visitors despite criticism about privacy at the social-networking service.