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Julian Assange has described his planned Senate run as a corrective measure that would deal with the 'flawed political environment' in Australia.

In a bid to further modernise the operations of its post office, Australia Post announced on Monday the launch of the online digital mailbox.

Facebook acquired 750 patents from International Business Machines Corp. in a deal that will help it counter Yahoo's patent lawsuit against the social networking giant.

Zynga Inc. reportedly paid $200 to $250 million to acquire start-up OMGPOP Inc. creator of the popular game "Draw Something".

File sharing service RapidShare has been ordered by the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg to proactively filter files uploaded by its users to prevent illegal sharing of copyrighted content.

WikiLeaks has announced over the weekend that its founder, Australian national Julian Assange, will vie for a Senate seat next year amidst his ongoing legal troubles.

Online payment processing firm PayPal has introduced another of its over-the-counter payment scheme, this time around through the use of the now ubiquitous smartphones.

Education authorities in Australia rolled out on Friday an anti-bullying Web site that offers to children and parents fact on bullying and tips on how to deal with it.

After long and tedious legal battle, Australian inventor Ric Richardson won against software giant Microsoft and could take away hundreds of millions of dollars.

The latest Encyclopaedia Britannica 32-volume edition will be the last to see print as its publisher announced this week the retirement of the book collection after more than two centuries of delivering knowledge to millions to around the world.

The video "Kony 2012" a 30-minute documentary about Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony is an unlikely video to reach the status of the most viral video in history. Uploaded on March 5 the video has been viewed by more than 76 million users on YouTube as of Tuesday, March 13 and has been shared across other social media sites.Kony 2012: A Lesson in Viral Video Marketing

Microsoft's Windows 8 users will have choice in web browsers as both Google and Mozilla are working on versions of their web browsers Chrome and Mozilla to work in the Metro environment.

Internet giant Yahoo! filed an overblown lawsuit against popular social network Facebook. The claims puzzled the latter.

Yahoo followed through on its earlier threats of lawsuits against popular social media site Facebook as the online search firm filed on Monday patent violations before the San Jose Federal Court in California.

Australian users hooked on social media activities breached the six billion mark in 2011, according to a marketing report recently released by Internet research company Experian Hitwise.

Yahoo's woes continue to pile up and the latest difficulty is poised to hit the company's employees as reports emerged that newly-appointed chief executive Scott Thompson plans to axe thousands of workers soon.

A new social networking site (SNS), which boasts of live video-broadcasting capability, is being introduced to internet users, and it is about to go public with more than 80 million shares offered in a bid to raise A$10 million.

Stealing company money is the top white collar crime in Australian companies, a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) survey released on Thursday said. Almost 50 per cent of Aussie firms reported at least one incident of white collar crime in the past 12 months.

Google Inc. celebrated the leap year and composer Giochino Rossini's 220th birthday with a two for one Google Doodle. The Doodle features frogs performing Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville".

The patent wars raging between tech firms dominating the mobile device market could spill over in the equally lucrative social networking sphere as Yahoo reportedly sent notice to Facebook this week demanding for licence payments.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard needs to clarify reports suggesting that American authorities appear to have secretly established a case against controversial whistleblower Julian Assange, an Australian national.

Commonwealth Bank has restored the services of its ATMS and EFTPOS facilities after an outage at about 11 p.m. on Tuesday that affected its system across Australia. The cash machines and payment facilities were back online at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday although some cards continue to experience problems.

Barely a week after Telstra Corporation submitted its revised structural separation undertaking (SSU), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) gave its approval for the $11 billion deal between NBN Co and the country's dominant telco to go ahead.

WikiLeaks has announced on Monday the publication of millions of email exchanges obtained from controversial international security expert Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor), which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has accused of targeting activist groups.

Pressures coming from U.S. attorney generals compelled six leading tech companies to provide more information to users who may be compromising their privacy whenever they download apps into their mobile devices.

The National Broadband Network nears its full realisation as Telstra Corporation submitted on Thursday its revised plan that will pave the way for NBN Co to assume control of the giant telco's national communication network.

It takes a fellow con artist to pull off a fast one over another scammer. This was proven on Thursday by an Australian woman who pleaded guilty to cheating Nigerian scammers of $30,000.

The cities of Melbourne and Sydney are applying for eligibility to operate generic top level domains (gTLD), otherwise known as internet extensions. The Victorian state is also applying, but the government of New South Wales is still mulling the implications of such a move.

A guideline for judging whether a photo is acceptable or not to Facebook has been leaked to the Gawker website and reported by the New Zealand Herald and MSN NZ. The "abuse violation handbook," says a photo that exposes a woman’s nipples is not okay, but man’s nipples in pictures are acceptable. It further specifies that pictures of the act of breastfeeding are banned if nipples are exposed.