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Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, has agreed to stop using threats and bundled prices to hamper competition, settling charges it illegally abused market dominance, the US Federal Trade Commission said.

Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, has agreed to stop using threats and bundled prices to hamper competition, settling charges it illegally abused market dominance, the US Federal Trade Commission said.

Google's Wave has crashed to shore as the internet giant announced today it would pull the plug on the Australian-developed tool that once promised a radically different approach to electronic messaging.

Several versions of Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch have potentially serious security problems, a German government agency said in an official warning.

Finally the world has a hacker-proof communications device. The bad news? It's a brick in a glass case. The joke, told to a cyber conference this week in New York, illustrates what top US experts describe as the dire state of online security.

Wikileaks, the website that released thousands of classified documents on the Afghan war, has said it is seeking help from the Pentagon in reviewing 15,000 sensitive documents before releasing them.

New app gives iPhone users detailed information about the value of any house they care to point their handset towards, but privacy experts warn it may not sit well with the neighbourhood watch.

The iPhone 4 launch buzz has died down and Apple die-hards have most likely already snapped one up, but is it any good for the rest of us?

Apple compares it to a helicopter windshield but a Sydney iPhone repair shop has disputed the company's claims that the iPhone 4's glass is 30 times harder than plastic and less prone to breakage, after the first broken model came through his door.

The federal government has moved to distance itself from its controversial web snooping plans during the election campaign and the decision to hide details from the public.

The federal government has moved to distance itself from its controversial web snooping plans during the election campaign and the decision to hide details from the public.

Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the Blackberry, has unveiled a BlackBerry Torch to take on the hot-selling iPhone, avoiding comment on a plan in the United Arab Emirates to snuff out data service there.

Computer hackers have begun targeting power plants and other critical operations around the world in bold new efforts to seize control of them, setting off a scramble to shore up aging, vulnerable systems.

A newly discovered vulnerability in the software that runs Apple Inc's iPad and iPhone could allow hackers to enslave the popular mobile devices, three security firms said on Tuesday.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken on everyone from Al Capone to John Dillinger to the Unabomber. Its latest adversary: Wikipedia.

Telstra T-Life stores have been rorting iPhone 4 customers by charging them prices far in excess of those advertised on the Telstra website.

Microsoft released an emergency patch for a "critical" crack in Windows operating system software that could let hackers take control of computers over the internet.

Optus has completed an upgrade to its 15-year-old cable network, which will allow it to compete head-to-head with the national broadband network (NBN) for profitable inner-city household customers.

A failure of the cooling system on the International Space Station has forced astronauts to re-route power while NASA plans emergency spacewalks to fix the problem.

Telstra T-Life stores have been rorting iPhone 4 customers by charging them prices far in excess of those advertised on the Telstra website.