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Washington - Can a faster computer allow you to surf the internet with fewer lags? Yes, but only to a point. The speed of your computer has relatively little to do with pure internet performance. Most of the time you spend waiting will be a result of...

Mainz - The number of web pages infected with viruses continues to climb. Between January and March 2008, US-based IT security company Sophos discovered a newly-infected web site every five seconds on average. ...

Bonn - internet users should be extra suspicious of an ongoing wave of e-mail messages claiming to hold links to love letters or video clips. These messages are currently the weapon of choice by hackers trying to build what are known as Storm botnets...

WESTPAC today announced that it is in merger discussions with St George Bank to create Australia's largest financial services company.

AFP - Wikipedia, the upstart internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.

It's part of the natural evolution of a fast-growing company for some early execs to jump ship when they no longer recognize the start-up they helped build. That might've been why longtime Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo has departed.

OPTUS has become the second mobile operator in Australia to announce a tie-up with Apple to sell its popular iPhone mobile phone.