A 13-year-old's suicide highlights the risks to teens of predatory
behaviour online, writes Ian Munro.
Half of Japan's top-10 selling works of fiction in the first six
months of the year were composed on the tiny handset of a mobile
phone.
Australians are facing an online identity crisis, using the web and
social networking sites to unleash their alter egos, new research
suggests.

The government will offer hundreds of millions of US dollars (euros) in credits to help Brazil adapt to the new era of digital TV, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Sunday night during a ceremony to launch the technology.
Chinese-backed computer hackers attacked the internal computer
network of British airp*** engine maker Rolls-Royce, The Times
said in its Monday edition.
US researchers warn that bullies are taking their hurtful ways from
real-world schoolyards to the "cyber" world by targeting teens with
nasty e-mail, text messaging, and online chat.
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French telecom and media group Vivendi will merge its video games
unit with Activision in a $US9.85 billion deal.
Facebook has overhauled a new advertising system that sparked
privacy complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for
other companies.
Taking a bigger step into wireless, Google says it plans to bid in
the US government's auction of airwaves in January to acquire
bandwith for mobile devices.
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The new web-only television soap that started on MySpace recently,
Quarterlife, could prove a Trojan horse that will change the media
landscape.
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