SYDNEY - A 'pro-rape' page on Facebook started by students from the University of Sydney has been shut after receiving harsh criticism.

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SYDNEY - Parents need not worry if their teens are into social networking sites - they are savvy enough to minimize risks for themselves, according to a recent study.

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SYDNEY - Australian scientists have developed a new method for transmitting data with light that may lead to the development of teleportation technology and super-fast quantum computers. According to a report in www.news.com.au, the research team, from the Australian National University, developed a new approach to generating quantum entanglement in beams of light using only two parts.

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SYDNEY - The popularity of a Facebook application mostly depends on whether you are male or female, and if it meets the criteria of being "cool", says a latest study.

The research was conducted by Professor Rebekah Russell-Bennett and Dr. Larry Neale from the Queensland University of Technology. They studied the value of applications such as 'Superpoke', 'Mousehunt' and 'Scrabble' which enable people to interact with social networking sites and other users.

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SYDNEY - Millions of Facebook users are set to join the rush to grab their personalised URLs on the social networking site.t 2pm on June 13, Facebook will allow members to register their own user names to make it easier for others to find their pages. Under the new system, people can get a unique address for themsleves, like http://www.facebook.com/joebloggs, instead of the current system whereby profile pages have a URL with a randomly assigned number such as "www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789″.

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SYDNEY - An inquiry into cyber bullying has revealed that young victims can use friendships on social networking websites to help protect themselves. Gillian Calvert, the NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People, told the inquiry that cyber bullying should not be viewed as a new phenomenon. "We see cyber bullying as an extension of bullying rather than a new threat," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Calvert as saying.

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94pc of Facebookers hate its latest makeover

SYDNEY - Facebook has left 94 per cent of its users, participating in a new poll, facing disappointment after making changes to its services.

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SYDNEY - Bees can recognise faces even when viewed from different perspectives, a discovery that potentially opens the way to improved artificial intelligence software ystems.

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