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The chief meter maid, Roberta Aitchison, has accused Microsoft of telling fibs over a promotional stunt that went awry at its TechEd conference on the Gold Coast.

Microsoft says it had no idea the "meter maids" it hired to titillate attendees of its TechEd conference on the Gold Coast would be half naked after the promotional stunt backfired spectacularly.

Micorsoft hopes Windows Phone 7 will bring it back from the mobile wilderness as it courts developers this week on the Gold Coast, writes Lia Timson.

It's dangerous, sometimes deadly, and is played almost exclusively by children and young teens. It's called the choking game and YouTube has served up a new twist to what the experts warn is literally “dicing with death”.

A Melbourne IT expert, recognised internationally for a faultless program for counting postal votes used in the 2007 federal election, is now in prison for serious drug crimes.

After more than two years of negotiations, Australia and 10 countries formulating a landmark copyright agreement are hopeful of a resolution by next month.

Using Google to check for skeletons in potential employees' closets is exposing job seekers to discrimination but there's nothing much even they can do, lawyers warn.

As Samsung prepares to release its iPad-rival, the Samsung Galaxy tablet, its attempts to keep a lid on it were foiled earlier this week after an Australian technology journalist filmed it on a Sydney train.

Paul Devine, the Apple manager accused of taking kickbacks in exchange for company secrets, must give the government access to two safe deposit boxes that a prosecutor said may contain “proceeds of the fraud”.

Police up to the rank of superintendent are facing the sack as part of a major investigation into pornographic and racist emails circulated through the Victoria Police computer system.

STOCKHOLM: Swedish prosecutors are yet to complete their review of sexual abuse accusations made by two Stockholm women against Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, but people with knowledge of the case discount a conspiracy to discredit WikiLeaks.

Tony Abbott has remained tight-lipped on any changes to his broadband policy to woo regional independents, but an analysis of his plan shows he could boost rural services in the next three years without a budget blowout.

A woman at the centre of the alleged smear campaign against the founder of the Wikileaks whistleblower website said she had supported a rape claim because she had experienced unwelcome sexual advances from him.

Computer failure cripples Eftpos and credit card services throughout Australia.

25.94 seconds. That's how much time it took Melissa Thompson of Salford, England, to type a complex sentence on a Samsung Galaxy S, which makes her the new Guinness World Record holder for fastest typing on a phone.

THE federal government-owned NBN Co will freeze its tender process and employment program while minimising spending until a new government is formed, it announced yesterday.

Apple iPhone 4 users are reporting another issue with the smartphone: photos obscured by an annoying coloured tinge.

The simple text message has been harnessed to create a powerful tool that can save lives, writes Josh Halliday.

The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is at the centre of a ''dirty tricks'' dispute after Swedish prosecutors issued, then withdrew, an arrest warrant against him for rape.

FACEBOOK risks a privacy backlash after introducing a feature that shares information on the location of users with their online friends, despite devising a range of controls that require users to opt in to the service.