SMH Technology
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Report: Google building social network
Google is holding talks with online game developers as part of its bid to build a social-networking service that could compete with Facebook, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Facebook launches Q&A
Facebook has begun the rollout of a new feature, Facebook Questions, which will allow users to get answers to their queries from the entire Facebook community.
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Google 'building social network to rival Facebook'
Google is holding talks with online game developers as part of its bid to build a social-networking service that could compete with Facebook, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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US says war leaks endanger informants
WASHINGTON: The lives of informants and double agents have been placed at risk by the release of tens of thousands of secret military documents, intelligence officials say.
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Botnet mastermind infected 12m: FBI
International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world, FBI officials said
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Cable to double internet capacity out of Australia
Two companies will invest an estimated $US400 million ($450 million) in a new 13,600-kilometre submarine cable that they say will double telecommunications capacity out of Australia and further reduce broadband costs to consumers.
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Google's student election ignores reality: McKay
Leading social researcher Hugh McKay says Google's mock election for 15-17 year-old students across Australia is "a very strange idea".
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Chatroulette cracks down on saucy antisocial networkers
Chatroulette is coming clean. The popular voyeuristic video chat site, that has become notorious as a haven for naked exhibitionism, has started tracking and reporting breaches of "inappropriate content" to police.
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Chatroulette cracks down on perverts
Chatroulette is coming clean. The popular voyeuristic video chat site, that has become notorious as a haven for naked exhibitionism, has started tracking and reporting breaches of "inappropriate content" to police.
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Ask.com wants users to ask each other, not Jeeves
You won't be able to ask Jeeves, the butler that made the search engine now known as Ask.com famous in the late '90s. But in a bid to engage more users, Ask is returning to its question-and-answer roots by tapping its users and the web.
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Apple unveils new Macs, debuts 'magic' trackpad
Apple has unveiled the latest update to its line of desktop computers, promising faster speeds and offering the option of multi-touch controls similar to those used on the iPhone.
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Intelligence officer under suspicion
WASHINGTON: The White House has confirmed an investigation is under way into the source of the leak of thousands of pages of classified documents on the Afghan war to the whistleblower website, WikiLeaks.
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iPhone DNA kills rape case
Deleted but decoded text messages undermined a schoolgirl's claims against a northern beaches businessman, writes Joel Gibson.
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Rape charges dropped after deleted messages recovered from iPhone
Deleted but decoded text messages undermined a schoolgirl's claims against a northern beaches businessman, writes Joel Gibson.
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Wiki points to Australian cover-up
CLASSIFIED US Defence Department documents leaked to the WikiLeaks website this week suggest the Australian Defence Force covered up the killing of an Afghan policeman by Australian troops.
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Letting cats out of bag only a mouse-click away
WASHINGTON: The release of secret Pentagon documents by WikiLeaks highlights the security challenges of the digital age, when gigabytes of sensitive data can be exposed with a single click, analysts say.
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How I became a Foursquare cyberstalker
Move over Twitter, there's a new social networking tool everyone's talking about. But is Foursquare, which reveals your exact location to other people, a stalker's dream? Leo Hickman reveals how he used it to follow a stranger.
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iPhone 4 sale for midnight scramblers
The iPhone 4's launch in Australia is just days away and Apple and its carrier partners have today announced their pricing plans and launch event details.
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US target practice: the $57m Aussie fall guys
Three Sydney university PhD students who developed Terminator-style robots will soon see their technology trialled by US Marines sharpshooters in a $57 million coup.
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'Jailbreaking' iPhone now legal in US
Owners of Apple's iPhone can unlock the device to use applications not authorised by the company, the US Library of Congress said.
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