Google's new social networking platform Google+ is less than a fortnight old, but already people are begging for invitations to the closed beta. Is it time to get on-board? And could it really be a threat to Facebook?
What are the risks facing Australians doing business overseas in the wake of the allegedly Chinese attacks on Google and 33 other US corporations?
Two potentially huge privacy risks on Patch Monday this week. Contactless EFTPOS and credit cards that allow you to make payments without a signature or entering a PIN, and the vast honey pot of personal data that is Google.
Melbourne newspaper the Herald Sun told the world who had won the Gold Logie before it had even been announced. It's hardly the world's most serious data breach, but it was easily avoidable.
Is the government really talking about recording all your web browsing? Is the European Directive on Data Retention, which the government is using as an example of what it could adopt, really benign?
Today's complex, targeted attacks succeed because companies fail to cover information security basics, according to senior Kaspersky Lab analysts.
Google's domination of the search market could enable it to engage in anti-competitive behaviour, and Ben Edelman believes he has evidence they're doing just that. Google strongly denies the claim, and points out Edelman's links to arch competitor Microsoft.
Google, one of the world's largest corporations, is in a trademark dispute with Australian web start-up Groggle. What's the law here? And what are the trademark issues in choosing a name for your new online business?
Google demands that users of its Google+ social network be identified by their real names. It's a bad policy that's been badly implemented, but is it proof that Google just doesn't get people?
