Archive for November, 2010
Monday, November 15th, 2010
ONE of Australia's most wanted men - the alleged drug lord Hakan Ayik - has fled custody in Cyprus after being briefly detained by border police.
Mr Ayik has been on the run since August when NSW Police issued a warrant for his arrest after a two-year organised crime investigation, called ...
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
We are not amused.
Just four days after its debut, the British Monarchy's Facebook page has been peppered with abusive comments, forcing the site's moderators to launch a deleting blitz.
More than 220,000 people have "liked" the page since it was launched on November 8 as an accompaniment to the royal family's ...
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Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Social networking, a sector dominated by Facebook, is sending Australians online in droves and driving a hefty increase in the amount of data downloaded by web users.
Almost 40 per cent of the nation's population now use social networking sites, while the volume of content over the web swelled by 57 ...
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Facebook will come under immense pressure from state and federal governments to do more to stamp out widespread incidents of grotesque vandalism of tribute pages for young people who have died.
The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, and the Victorian Premier, John Brumby, were moved to speak out on the issue after ...
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Cyber tributes for a Melbourne teenager who was punched and died and a South Australian girl killed in a triple murder have been defaced with obscenities.
The Facebook memorials to Cameron Lowe, 17, and Chantelle Rowe, 16, were ''desecrated'' with pornographic images and vile comments. But police in Victoria and South ...
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
Ben Cousins' notoriety has now hit such heights that he has joined the elite club of celebrities to be killed off by Twitter.
The Twittersphere was abuzz over the weekend with rumours that the recently retired football star had died yesterday morning.
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Sunday, November 7th, 2010
For years, reportage on the foodie industry has focused on those turning back the clock - the slow food movement, ''locavores'', heritage crops, even the faintly ridiculous ''primal diet'', which urges us to eat like cave-folk. But equal to these trends has been the rapid embrace of new technology by ...
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
A man who absconded from parole in California 12 years ago has been arrested in northern Montana after police tracked him down through updates on his Facebook page.
Glacier County sheriff's sergeant Tom Siefert tells the Independent Record that Robert Lewis Crose's page tipped off a fugitive task force that he ...
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
British spy chief John Sawers is facing public embarrassment after his daughter posted a photo of herself posing with a gold Kalashnikov rifle on Facebook.
Oxford graduate Corinne Sawers, 23, is seen standing in front of a family Christmas tree holding the gold-plated weapon - similar to those found among Saddam ...
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
After Antony Dekort had two sick days around New Year's Eve he did not expect to be sacked. But after the barman's employer saw a photo on Facebook of Mr Dekort celebrating the new year he was promptly dismissed.
Not even a doctor's certificate which Mr Dekort obtained a few days ...
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