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Yahoo! Inc. issued an apology Thursday over the blocking of e-mails that contained or mentioned the website of Wall Street protesters saying it was unintentional.

Facebook is set to recruit a high-profile executive whose primary role is to make sure that the social network would establish solid ties in the film and music industries in a bid to boost its content.

Federal prosecutors said on Tuesday that one of the biggest online poker sites, Full Tilt Poker, was taking in millions of dollars in bets, and was claimed to be misusing the players' money.

With an aim to provide high-end technologies to everyone, Microsoft will give one million students marked down PCs, software and internet to poor families.

In a bid to get a larger cut of the shrinking Australian consumer market, online department store CatchoftheDay rolled out on Wednesday it third e-commerce portal named Grocery Run. By its foray into grocery, the online seller challenges traditional supermarkets.

The two giant technology giants, Google and Facebook, upped their ante this week as they battle for supremacy in the cyberworld.

Facebook friends will soon be able to see a real-time stream of what the others are watching and listening to in the web in real-time, via a "ticker" stream. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is expected to unveil more changes at FB in its upcoming f8 conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

Google Inc. opened its Google+ social network to the world on Tuesday, removing the required invitation to join the search giant's rival to Facebook. Click google.com/+ to join in.

It seems like smartphones running on Google's Android platform are slowly, but surely winning the race, while crowd favorite Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5 is still sleeping in some overseas production plants. Android phones now have bigger screens, an improved interface, more powerful processors, and now, virtual wallets?

iiNet has unveiled its National Broadband Network (NBN) packages, while other ISP giants Optus and Telstra have yet to release theirs. iiNet's $49.95 monthly bill covers 40GB data quota and maximum speeds of 12 Mbps.

Scarlett Johansson, or more correctly her nude images leaked last week on the cyber world, spurred unprecedented spikes on web searches apparently trying to find and gaze at the Hollywood star in all her glory, according to reports furnished by Google Insight.

As rival telcos unveiled their new broadband pricing schemes, giant Telstra Corporation revealed on Monday new offerings that it hopes would continue to lure customers amidst the approaching roll out of the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Facebook is joining forces with Twitter - does this spell doom for Google+? If the outcome depends on the numbers, Google+ could be dead. Facebook has more than 750 million active users and Twitter has 100 million, compared with only 20 million users and no signs of growth so far for Google's social network.

US and Australian officials have decided to include cooperation on cybersecurity as part of their defence agreement. The decision to add cyberspace to the two nations' bilateral treaty mean the two allies will work together in the event of a computer-related attack in either country.

Top Ten lists are a staple in the entertainment industry but this is one list that celebrities would rather not be a part of. McAfee has released its annual list of its most dangerous celebrities on the internet. Searching the names of these celebrities will yield more than a ten percent chance of running into a website that will crash your computer. Don't say you haven't been warned.

Fashion bloggers hold the key to online retail sales of up to $15 billion in 2015, a study indicated.

Australian retailer Myer is spending $9 million on a new website aimed at making the store the country's largest online department store. Myer targets to generate up to $40 million in annual sales from the new portal.

Facebook is postponing its initial public offering (IPO) planned in October or November and will go public late next year instead.

Sleek, stylish and modern are some of the words apt to describe the new Windows 8 courtesy of Bill Gates’ Microsoft.

The billions of dollars in Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's bank account must have inspired so many young technology geeks in the U.S. that they are following the footsteps the Internet mogul took when he was in university.

Microsoft has expressed optimism on Wednesday that despite the worldwide slide on sales of personal computers, Windows will remain relevant in the tech world that has largely been transformed by mobile computing.

Minecraft 1.8, the latest adventure update to the hugely popular sandbox building indie video game written in Java by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson, is now officially live.

Federal investigation has begun to find out whether eBay misappropriated confidential information from Craigslist, according to a Reuters report.

Giant internet company Google showed its resolve of finalising its purchase of Motorola Mobility when it raised by 33 percent to $12.5 billion its original bid of taking over the American firm largely credited for inventing the first mobile phone.

Buggy or not, due to popular demand, we're giving a quick guide on how to install Minecraft 1.8:

Microsoft Corp. is unleashing next year Windows 8, its first operating system designed to work for personal computers, tablets and smartphones. But before the Redmond, Washington-based firm could extend its market dominance to mobile devices, it's possible that Google will launch a serious attack at Microsoft's forte: the desktop and laptops. Google, developer of the world's top-selling smartphone platform, will likely be an "Android" to PCs. It's not a question of if but ra...

While most online shoppers are Americans, about 88 percent of Internet customers in the U.S., Australians beat them in terms of frequency of buying online, according to a study.

With 100 million users at the start of this year, Twitter now faces the challenge and mounting pressure to go public. An analysis of the social networking site's future moves and motives.

Re-launched as a social gaming platform, Friendster is now gaining momentum with increasing users and premium games.