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• Email hits Australia Post where it hurts

  The digital age has hammered Australia Post with the organisation recording a $67 million loss to its reserved letter mailing business in the 2008-09 financial year.

• Using the Internet makes people smarter, study finds

  Could it be that the Internet actually - gasp! - makes you smarter?

• ICANN freed from US gov't oversight

  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has reached a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing the nonprofit greater independence, while giving more countries oversight of the organization.

• Internet lenders to pay $1 million to settle complaint

  A group of Internet payday lending companies that allegedly threatened customers who didn't make payments with arrest and called customers at work and swore at them has agreed to pay US$1 million to settle charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the state of Nevada.

• Internet pioneer Cerf urges IPv6 migrations

  Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf has repeated a call for migrations to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) to stave off an anticipated lack of available addresses on IPv4.

• Google to release Chrome for Mac and Linux

  Two weeks after its first birthday, Google Chrome developers have celebrated by releasing Mac and Linux versions of the Internet browser. The company revealed it's working on Google Chrome for Mac and Linux, which are making rapid progress on the developer channel.
  

• Thousands lose phone and Internet services in Sydney CBD

  Phone and Internet connections have been severed after a contractor accidentally cut crucial telecommunications cables in Sydney’s central business district.

• Chinese man detained in second Web addict beating

  Chinese police have detained a man who beat teenagers sent to an Internet addiction camp he ran, state media said Wednesday.

• A third of Europeans have never used the Internet

  Nearly a third of Europeans have never been online, according to a EU report.

• China's grip on Web prevents dissent on deadly riots

  Beijing's Internet clampdown appears to have succeeded in shutting out dissenting views over deadly riots in western China that claimed at least 156 lives.

• Trans-Atlantic Internet cables may be filled by 2014

  Voracious Web surfers, e-mailers and downloaders will use up the trans-Atlantic cables that were overbuilt early in this decade within the next five years, forcing carriers to invest in new ones in a market that's become used to adding bandwidth cheaply, according to research company Telegeography.

• The Internet is incomplete, says its co-designer, Vinton Cerf

  WASHINGTON - The co-designer of the Internet's basic architecture, Vinton Cerf, said the Internet "still lacks many of the features that it needs," particularly in security, in a blunt talk to a tech industry crowd here.

• 20 years after Tiananmen, China containing dissent online

  The Internet has brought new hope to reformists in China since the country crushed pro-democracy protests in the capital 20 years ago. But as dissidents have gone high-tech, the government in turn has worked to restrict free speech on the Internet, stifling threats to its rule that could grow online.

• DNS attack downs Internet in parts of China

  An attack on the servers of a domain registrar in China caused an online video application to cripple Internet access in parts of the country late on Wednesday.

• 10 web brands account for half all internet time

  The top 10 web brands are getting stronger, despite the proliferation of new sites and services. The 10 web brands on which Britons spend the most time accounted for nearly half of all UK internet time - compared to less than 42 percent a year ago.