‘Unfriend’ named Word of the Year in New Oxford American Dictionary

MELBOURNE - The New Oxford American Dictionary has named 'unfriend', which means deleting a friend from a site such as Facebook, as its word of the year.

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Satyam Australia appoints Indian as new business development chief

MELBOURNE - Indian information technology services major Mahindra Satyam has appointed Bobby Gupta as its new business development chief, overseeing its operations in Australia and New Zealand.

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ET looking cereal, ‘New Zealand’ among weird things sold on Oz eBay!

MELBOURNE - eBay Australia has revealed that a cereal that looked like ET is the weirdest item ever sold on its website - fetching more than a thousand dollars.

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Sarah Palin enjoys huge fan following on Facebook, Twitter

MELBOURNE - Former vice presidential US candidate Sarah Palin is enjoying a huge fan following on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.he politician has 850,000 "friends" on Facebook, which is second to President Barack Obama among most popular politician on the site.

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‘Clever’ Oz advertisers keep close watch on Facebookers’ updates

MELBOURNE - Advertising agencies in Australia are keeping a close eye on the pages of the six million Facebook users to update advertisements of products they deem fit as soon as there is some change in the social networking site user's account status.

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Now Tweet your way to dating scene with free calls!

MELBOURNE - Would-be lovers could soon be thanking popular social networking site Twitter as it will allow users to call their followers for free.

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Mystery surrounds Satyam grant by Victoria Government

MELBOURNE - The Government of Victoria's decision to give a grant to Indian software giant Satyam Computers now Mahindra Satyam despite failing a federal government litmus test for funding is shrouded in mystery.

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Satyam pulls out of Oz university development project

MELBOURNE - Mahindra Satyam has pulled out of a 75 million dollars software development project at Deakin University that was set to create 2000 jobs in Geelong, Victoria.

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Oz firm selling Facebook friends by the thousands

MELBOURNE - As part of a controversial scheme to expose users to online marketing, an Aussie company called uSocial is offering to sell off Facebook friends by the thousands.

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Qantas praises Mahindra Satyam as a good value partner

MELBOURNE - Qantas has praised outsourcing partner Mahindra Satyam's performance despite the latter being embroiled in a much-publicised billion-dollar accounting scandal.

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