Ford Australia is increasing turning to online social media to reach customers and understand their thoughts.

Two new surveys reveal that interest in blogging is flagging among American teenagers and young adults, while American teenagers hardly use Twitter at all.

Jeff Atwood, one of the two founders behind the popular StackOverflow question-and-answer site, has suffered a complete loss of his entire blog archive including both his personal Coding Horror blog and the StackOverflow blog site. Given Atwood has admonished people in the past for not following his advice on backup regimes what went wrong?

Telstra has unveiled a new blog site, Telstra Exchange, to replace its controversial Nowwearetalking web site, scrapped some months ago.

The adult industry has tapped into the increasing popularity of social networks, with a rapid rise in porn spam now bombarding sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, and their subscribers, with everything from provocative images to hidden malware.

Meet Sara Ford. She’s the program manager in charge of Microsoft’s answer to SourceForge, CodePlex. She’s also responsible for donating some $29,000 to families affected by Hurricane Katrina.

AAPT is touting a first for the residential broadband market with the launch today of its 12-hour, off-peak, unlimited downloads service which it says is an evolution of its first unlimited download offer released to the Australian market in May this year.

A wave of enthusiasm, mild awe and wonder, not least from iTWire’s own, has swept the world with the launch of Google’s Australian-developed application Wave, and we’ll soon hear about its development, right here in Australia, from one of the developers who has made it all happen.

Only rarely does a new technology emerge which is so sensible, so simple and so wonderful that you can't imagine how it never existed before. Google Wave is one such thing and it's the biggest thing to hit the Internet since the Web itself.

New research findings have revealed that Google’s YouTube and Blogspot community-driven security tools are 65 to 75 percent ineffective in protecting Web users from objectionable content and security risks, according to a claim by Web security vendor, Websense.