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RBA goes after eBay, PayPal
THE Reserve Bank has issued a stern warning to online auction giant eBay Australia, urging it to stop forcing PayPal onto its sellers.
Unwired trouble, heavyweights wade in
Fran Foo VODAFONE and Optus yesterday simultaneously unveiled new mobile broadband offerings that could sound the death knell of wireless internet service provider Unwired, owned by the Seven Group.
Google blogger case goes to court
Tariq Engineer and Jessica Vascellaro A SMALL Indian construction equipment company is demanding that Google disclose the name of a person who used its blogging service in a case that could change the way the internet giant does business in India.
Botnets hit Georgian government websites
ATTACKS by Russian hackers against Georgian websites, including one hosted in the US, have continued despite Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordering a halt to hostilities against Georgia.
Seek boosts profit by 37pc
ONLINE employment agency Seek lifted its full year profit by 37 per cent, and says its confident of improving profitability further in the current year.
Internet trade catches Greeks
A STEROID that suddenly became available for sale on the internet this year has claimed another alleged Greek cheat, with Fani Halkia, the reigning Olympic champion in the women's 400m hurdles, testing positive.
CommBank customers suffer NetBank outage
NETBANK customers have had difficulty logging in and processing transactions after the service suffered an outage on Friday morning.
Sensis sets lawyers on Oz auction site
HAVING settled its own beef with the corporate watchdog over breaching the Trade Practices Act, Telstra's classifieds business has leveled similar accusations at a rival Australian auction site.
Wikipedia founder aims to break Google stranglehold
WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search, a project he spearheads, will break Google's domination of the world's internet search engine market.
Rice tops online 'click magnets'
SWIMMER Stephanie Rice is setting records online as well as in the pool after edging out fellow Australian Grant Hackett to generate the most popular online video moment from the Beijing Olympics to date.
Google resolves Gmail access problems
GOOGLE said it has resolved an issue with its contacts system that caused many users of its Gmail service to have trouble accessing their online e-mail.
Online ads break $1.5bn barrier
THE internet advertising industry has defied a slowing economy to break the $1.5 billion barrier for the first time.
Rudd to fix grocery website
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has promised changes to his government's day-old $13 million grocery price watch website.
Webjet cautious on profit jump
Andrew Colley ONLINE travel portal operator Webjet has reported a sharp jump in after tax profit for the 2008 financial year but delivered a cautious guidance for the year ahead.
Aussies lose $100,000 in Olympics scam
AUSTRALIAN victims of the global Olympic ticketing scam have been duped out of almost $100,000 - and the figure is rising.
Second Life a virtual failure
Jennifer Foreshew THE huge cost in time and energy to companies trying to conduct business in the Second Life virtual reality program has not translated into customers.
Registry ready to take on the world
Mahesh Sharma LOCAL domain name registrar AusRegistry has taken its first global expansion steps and has signed a deal to provide services in the Middle East.
Olympics scam hurts Aussies
AUSTRALIAN victims of an online Olympic ticketing scam have reported losses of more than $40,000 in the first few hours after a national hotline opened in Sydney today.
Fake Olympics ticket website busted
OLYMPIC officials are trying to shut down an online Beijing Games ticket seller accused of scamming sports fans worldwide out of thousands of dollars.
IOC convinces China to unblock internet
THE International Olympic Committee bowed to world media outrage yesterday and forced China to begin unblocking the internet for the Olympic Games.