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  • Australian Twitter use hits all-time high

    Australian use of the Twitter micro-blogging service hit an all-time high for the week ending 10 January 2009, as a number of factors contributed to its growth.

  • Mobile safety guidelines released

    The Australian Communications and Media Authority has released draft guidelines for mobile service providers to implement to lessen the dangers of mobile chat rooms for young children.

  • AIM worm plays nasty new trick

    A worm found spreading via America Online's Instant Messenger is carrying a nastier punch than usual, a security company has warned.

  • 'Socks' help virus sneak into corporate PCs

    A new variant of the Bagle virus incorporates a Socks proxy and Web services technology aimed at bypassing corporate firewalls, security experts have warned.

  • Electronic Valentines a cop-out: Australia Post

    It's all texting, e-mailing and accessing the Internet this Valentines' Day, with vendors claiming a huge surge in traffic on the biggest day of the year for romantics. However, Australia Post reckons going virtual with your message of love is "taking the easy way out" and your best bet is the old-fashioned card or letter.

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    Start-to-meta: the meta metric

    Seeing this week's Crate Tetris public art piece on the Wooster Collective Web site, installed next to a Melbourne highway as a sequel to Crate Man in Richmond, put me in mind of an old article written for infamous computer game site Old Man Murray.

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