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The website used to be called 'Depressionet' and is now funded by the Federal Government under the name depression.services.org.au. It offers information and online counselling for people suffering mild to moderate depression. Fifty-one-year-old Rose Williams from Adelaide used the website...

46% of users happy to reveal all to complete strangers IT security and data protection firm Sophos has released the results of its latest probe into how easy it is to steal identities via Facebook. Sophos created two fictitious users...

Game Developer Won't Edit 'Aliens vs. Predator' To Appease Australian Censors from the it's-for-adults dept Rose M. Welch alerts us to the news that game developer Rebellion has decided not to resubmit an edited version of its game Aliens vs....

Sony's versatile console can now record digital TV. Mike Wilcox reports. Since it launched in March 2007, the PlayStation 3 has always been a jack of more than one trade, that being video games. The console's access to online activities,...

Most plasmas and LCDs have built in tuners. Goodbye analog TV, hello 11 channels, writes Adam Turner. Almost a decade after our first digital summer, digital television is finally starting to heat up in Australia. Australia's cricketing battle against the...

It pops up on your screen, trying to sell you watches, Viagra and a host of other goodies and it pretends to be your friend through Facebook and Skype. Now the Australian Communications and Media Authority will begin a new...

Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey told AFP the device, the "Square," aimed particularly to enable small transactions, for paying "people like the babysitter, the car parker, the golf instructor." The small black square plugs into the phone's microphone, turning the iPhone...

ExxonMobil Corp has awarded contracts for parts of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Papua New Guinea to Japan's Chiyoda Corp and JGC Corp, Exxon said in a statement on Wednesday. Analysts expect the order for the 6.6 million...