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  • Olympic scam losses run to $40k

    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.

  • Internet crime rife, says Keelty

    From Olympic ticketing scams to sophisticated operations stealing credit card details, the internet has become a place where criminals can operate undetected, according to Australian Federal Police chief Mick Keelty.

  • Olympic ticket booking system can't stand the pace

    Only half an hour after the start of second round ticket sales for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the online booking system broke down.

  • You can't censor the Internet, says Gates

    Government attempts to censor Internet sites are useless because people can still use e-mail or other means to spread banned information, Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates said.

  • Chinese gamer wins back virtual swag

    An online gaming company in China was ordered to return a player's virtual goods that had been hacked and stolen.

Blogs (1)

  • How Seven blew the internet Olympics

    If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.

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