Renewed economic growth and a return to increased spending on IT is predicted to see insurers in the Asia-Pacific region lift their IT spending significantly over the next 12 months and beyond.

Members of infamous hacking collective Anonymous have announced they’re starting a Facebook rival of their own, to be known as AnonPlus.

The jury is still out, but there are strong rumblings that social media connections are considerably more valuable and more persistent than those derived from search.  Google, are you in trouble?

The battle of the sexes may have raged for centuries but is now over, at least when it comes to online networking.

As U.S. President Barack Obama re-launches his online marketing campaign ahead of the November elections, Australian politicians would be well advised to take his lead and learn to implement social media into their own campaigns, according to an internet marketing expert.

A new report from Symantec has revealed that potentially millions of Facebook users have been vulnerable to misuse of information by Facebook advertisers for years.

Following eBay's disposal of Skype in 2009, the world was wondering who might be the next owner.  Should we wonder no more?

Thousands of Facebook users have been left all dressed up and no place to go, after a planned 16th birthday party went viral, with almost 180,000 people ‘attending’ before the party was cancelled.

They’re quite smart on the Dark Side: scammers, identity thieves, and other ne’er-do-wells who’re always ready to exploit online vulnerabilities whenever and wherever they see the opportunity–and Cloud Computing is their latest playing field. The solution, as always, is to be ever alert and ready for anything.

Security solutions vendor, WatchGuard Technologies, boldly claims to have raised the bar of what constitutes a firewall by unveiling its application control, which it says gives users new ability to control Web 2.0 applications and also ushers in a “new era of  network protection and business enablement.”