TECHNOLOGY

Instagram views play a pivotal role in making your profile and videos popular and increase its attractiveness.

The first step into building your website is to find a reliable web host provider.

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are encrypted networks that create secure tunnels for communication via the internet. They allow users to connect to the internet securely and privately.

The recent walkout by thousands of Google employees at offices around the world was the first protest of its kind by well-paid and benefit-rich high-tech workers.

Excluding Huawei and ZTE from Australia’s new 5G mobile network was the right move, the head of the country’s electronic spy agency said.

A mysterious, anonymous entity known as “Satoshi Nakamoto” posted a white paper on October 31 2008 entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. It was the first time that the concept of Bitcoin entered the world.

The Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) said the tech giants planned for the “obsolescence” of their smartphones to force consumers to purchase newer models.

Facebook has yet again become the victim of a cyber attack.

Pieter Hanson suddenly found himself become a new meme star after his mother posted a photo of him to call out the Me Too movement.

Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who’s accused Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, released the results of a polygraph test focused on the decades-old incident. They suggest that Ford’s responses to two questions about her allegations were “not indicative of deception.”

After years of undelivered promises, such a technology looks finally set to enter the market: the flexible computer screen.

British Airways is investigating a massive customer data breach from its website and mobile app.

Hopefully you protect your computers from cyber attacks. You might have anti-virus software on your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. You might avoid using them to visit suspicious websites and carefully protect your various login details.

As Google marks its 20th birthday, its success seems so well known and so often repeated that it runs like a myth. But Google needs to examine where it has failed and face some serious challenges if it wants the next 20 years to be anywhere near as successful.

Google added two innovations: highly efficient processes for crawling webpages to index their text, and a new way of ranking a page’s relevance based on the number and quality of pages that linked to it.

Cybercriminals have just been given yet another route to get malicious software (malware) onto your personal mobile devices.

As technology improves, it’s tempting for company executives to slash jobs that are “standard” and “routine”, making them easy to automate. But research shows focusing on improving management practices will do more to improve companies’ bottom lines.

Huawei appears to have been caught lying about its phone camera capabilities.

Although the explosion apparently released potentially harmful substances in the air, it did not result in fire or major injuries.

When Facebook recently removed several accounts for trying to influence the 2018 midterm elections, it was the company’s latest move acknowledging the key challenge facing the social media giant.

There is a new phishing email scam that is designed to fool Optus customers.

Apple has become the first American company to reach US$1 trillion in market capitalisation – US$1,000,000,000,000 in stockmarket value. Behind this glittering success, however, lies a series of unresolved ethical dilemmas.

Could your child be addicted to playing video games? Maybe. If you’re a parent looking for tips on moderating your child’s gaming habits, read on.

When it comes to digital privacy, there are plenty of organisations making money out of using your data – Google and Facebook are just two examples. But what if you were the one making the money?

Why do batteries die? This same question has probably crossed the mind of every cellphone user trying to send one last text before the screen blinks off.

Telstra is getting rid of excess data charges with its new Peace of Mind Data feature and new flexible telco packages.

There might be a way toward a health care system where patients have accurate and updated records that are secure against tampering or snooping, and with data that can be shared quickly and easily with any provider who needs it.

The US president is the first returned result partly due to a concerted effort to associate him with that word.

Chinese hackers have reportedly infiltrated the computer network of Australian National University.