HACKERS have defaced the website of the Melbourne Film Festival over a documentary about an exiled separatist leader accused by China of plotting riots. Messages attacking Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, along with images of the Chinese flag, were posted on the festival’s site over the weekend. Festival...

Internet radio got a break Tuesday when the sector reached an agreement on streaming-music royalty rates with SoundExchange, the group that collects royalties on behalf of artists and labels. The two sides announced the deal, which comes after more than two years of negotiations, political maneuvering, and...

A POPULAR website that lets students rate their teachers will remain online after a court ruled against a complaint. Germany’s federal court of justice rejected the case of a woman who argued her rights had been infringed by pupils who gave her bad grades. It found that the rights of the woman, a...

Web 2.0 Tactics for Successful Job-Hunting With unemployment at a 14-year high and 240,000 workers laid off in October alone, many Americans are scrambling to update their resumes and turning to job boards and networking sites. Some are panicking as they try to devise new ways to get in front of employers....

Teen commits suicide live on webcam TEENAGER has apparently committed suicide in front of a live webcam after being encouraged by people online. 19-year-old Florida resident Abraham K. Biggs, who went by the screen names “CandyJunkie” and “Mr Biggs”, told users on a bodybuilding forum he...