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Australians, Most Frequent Online Shoppers

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.

Analysis: What is Next for Twitter?

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.
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Don't Let Daddy See: Furious Father Fights Facebook

An angry father has launched a suit against the world's largest social networking site after it failed to prevent a 12-year-old girl in Ireland from posing suggestive photos of herself. This has reportedly led to sexually explicit emails from men worldwide. Currently, 7.5 million Facebook users are under the required age of 13 according to a recent Consumer Reports Study. Many, if not most are there with the casual consent of well-meaning but unwitting parents.

Miss Universe 2011: A Beauty Pageant for Smartphones? [PHOTOS]

The high-end smartphone market has attracted device makers due to its high margins and skyrocketing demand. With tens of smartphone models available today, who will emerge the winner if we send each handset to a contest where their beauty and talent will be judged?

Website of Russian Embassy in UK Hacked

The website of Russia’s embassy in UK crashed due to a suspected DDoS attack on the day of the UK prime minister's scheduled trip to Russia. A Russian embassy spokesman said problems with the website began on Friday night. The embassy said it had set up a "mirror" website (www.rusemborguk.ru) to give the public and media access to information and developments regarding Prime Minister David Cameron’s trip to Russia on Sunday reports said.

iPhone 5 Release Date in October Confirmed by Leaked Memo from Carrier

Rumors of the iPhone 5 should be over in just a few weeks. An internal memo from U.S. carrier Sprint says that employees can't take time-off during Sept. 30 to Oct. 15 due to a major phone release. The memo backs rumors that Apple Inc.'s long delayed but highly anticipated iPhone 5 will be released in early October.

Hotmail Down: Top 8 Reasons Why Cloud Computing Is Still in the Stone Age

Outages are occurring too often. Up to 365 million users of Microsoft Corp.'s e-mail and cloud services worldwide were scratching their heads at the end of the week: Hotmail, Skydrive, Office 365, and others Windows Live service were inaccessible. Though service was restored in a couple of hours for most, the downtime was the second in 30 days.

6 Innovative Ways to Use the iPad in Your Business

Apple's popular iPad is a hot commodity with consumers but can they be used to make your business better?Here are 6 ways other companies have tailored the iPad to make a better customer experience and enhance their overall service.

Fired Yahoo CEO Blasts Chairman for Betrayal

In a move that has come to define the dog-eat-dog business world, Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz was fired this week. Bartz has come back at this perceived betrayal with some expressive comments directed at the board of directors of the internet company.

Samsung, Microsoft Join Forces on Windows 8 Tablet

Samsung Electronics has reportedly teamed up with Microsoft to make a new tablet computer powered by Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 8. The new collaborative device will reportedly be showcased at Microsoft's BUILD developers' conference in California from September 13-16.

The 10 Most Influential Australians in IT

Recently, SmartCompany released its list of the 10 most influential people in Australian IT. The annual list judged the people in Australia's tech industry based on their involvement in the industry and their capacity to influence the sector beyond their own companies or organizations.Here are the 10 most influential IT people, according to SmartCompany.

Smartphone Use Spreading Rapidly in Australia

Australia used to not care much about wireless connectivity using smartphones, but things are now a-changing. Aussies have beaten the mobile use of Americans in terms of applications for their mobile phones, according to this new study.

Fired Yahoo CEO Wants to Keep Board Seat

The fight is not yet over for recently fired Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz. Ms Bartz said she wants to keep her board seat on the tech firm, but a Yahoo statement said she could not keep the seat.

Demand for Android-based Apps On the Rise

Developers try to keep up with the demand for smartphones and apps based on Google Android operating system, by hiring new programmers and releasing updated versions of the software.

Droid Bionic vs. the iPhone 5: A Change of Heart

I was never the lazy student that gave "the dog ate my assignment" alibis. I wrote an article stating 1,000 reasons why Motorola's Droid Bionic would beat the iPhone 4. But that was in January, when Motorola touted a new device with amazing specs at a time when Nokia Oyj was still busy experimenting with the Meego, Samsung had yet to become a major player in mobile devices, and Apple's fifth generation iPhone was still months away.

Samsung and Microsoft Partner for New Tablet

Samsung Electronics and Microsoft have teamed up to manufacture a new tablet computer with Microsoft's latest operating system, according to a report from the Korea Economic Daily.

HTC Files Infringement Claims vs Apple Inc

HTC Corp., Asia's second-biggest maker of smartphones, on Thursday filed infringement claims against Apple Inc. using nine patents it bought from Google Inc. HTC believes it now has more ammunition in its fight to fend off multiple patent-infringement claims lodged by Apple that contend phones running Google's Android operating system copy the iPhone.

Norton: Cybercrime Has Become a $4.6B Industry in Australia

As humans assimilate gadgets into their daily lives, threats of online crimes further increases, this according to internet security specialist Symantec, and latest estimates indicate that incidence of cybercrimes have reached a staggering cost of $4.6 billion in 2010 alone.

Facebook Soars In First-Half Revenue

According to an exclusive Reuters report, Facebook's revenue doubled to $1.6 billion in the first half of this year, as revealed by an unidentified source who knew well about Facebook financials. With 750 million users, Facebook is a force to reckon with among social networks today. It is even believed to have caused the pressure at Yahoo, which recently fired former chief executive Carol Bartz on Tuesday.

Are You Really Investing in your Real Estate Website?

All websites are based around a content management system (CMS) which is the platform that your real estate website is structured/built-on and which allows you to update website content. In real estate, basically all products offered by real estate web development companies are built from the software company's own in-house CMS.

Digital Realty Acquires Melbourne Site

Global data centre provider Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR) has nabbed 162 and 163 Radnor Drive, a 30,250 square meter development site, in Melbourne for a purchase price of approximately AU $4.1 million. This represents the second acquisition in Australia for Digital Realty Trust.

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