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The Liberal Party appears to have pulled Google advertisements after threats they breached electoral laws and could lead to a challenge of results in marginal seats.

Devotees of Google Wave have set up a protest site to persuade the global advertising giant not to abandon the collaborative messaging platform, following last week's to halt development of the tool.

McAfee, the number two security software maker, said production of software code known as malware, which can harm computers and steal user passwords, reached a new high in the first six months of 2010.

Dating site OkCupid has completed a study about its users' smartphones and sexual history and has determined that among people who use smartphones, iPhone users have the most sexual partners, followed by BlackBerry users and finally Android users.

The telecoms industry has savaged the Coalition's broadband policy, calling it a ''grab-bag'' of old ideas and rejecting it as a solution to long-term competition problems in the industry.

South Korean police have raided Google's Seoul office, the latest in a series of legal challenges the company is facing because of data collected by its controversial fleet of "Street View" cars.

The Coalition has dealt itself into the broadband debate, offering a $6 billion scheme for faster internet but declaring it will not enter a spending ''arms race'' with the government.

Hackers have begun adapting tried-and-true computer infections to work on internet-enabled smartphones that are all the rage with consumers.

A location-aware iPhone app has spawned a sexual revolution in Australia's gay community by providing what is effectively a meat market enabling people to meet other gay men who may be just metres away from them.

Online retailer Amazon has introduced a cut price Kindle into the sizzling e-reader space to help fend off new entrants now flocking into the market.

Voters attempting to learn about their local candidates via Google today were more likely to stumble across surreptitious Liberal Party advertising.

The German government said ministers and senior civil servants have been told not to use iPhone and BlackBerry mobile devices as the interior minister warned a "dramatic" rise in cyber attacks.

The iPhone 4 has landed and telcos are fighting for their slice of the action, writes David Flynn.

After recovering deleted text messages that helped a man beat rape charges, surveillance expert Gary Coulthart's services have been in high demand - from lovers' quarrels to peeping toms to workplace thieves and perverts.

Senate candidate for Family First Wendy Francis stands by deleted comments she made yesterday on social networking website Twitter, where she compared legitimising gay marriage to “legalising child abuse”.

The woman at the centre of the sexual harassment claim that forced the resignation of the Hewlett-Packard CEO is a former softcore porn actress who once appearing in a reality TV show in which women competed for the attention of tennis star Mark Philippoussis.

An internet guru is now focusing on colonising other planets, writes Paul Harris.

SEXUALLY active teenagers who send flirtatious text images to each other are at risk of being prosecuted under child pornography charges because of discrepancies in state and federal laws.

As the Prime Minister stood down from a forklift yesterday during a warehouse visit, she lost her shoe. It was quickly replaced by a kneeling forklift driver named Rob Stewart, who said he was ''just doing the gentlemanly thing''.

Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair.