Google could face the maximum fine for allegedly obstructing a Korean investigation of its business practices, the head of the Korean Fair Trade Commission told that country's fourth-largest newspaper. That antitrust official, Kim Dong-soo, made the comments in a recent interview with the paper, Hankook Ilbo (note: original article is in Korean), according to a independent translation of the article by ZDNet Australia 's sister site CNET . The paper reported that when the agency raided Google Korea's office in September , the company obstructed the investigation by deleting key files from PCs and asking its employees to telecommute from home, which had the effect of undermining the investigation

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Google faces fine from Korean trustbuster

When scanning the globe to see what country is offering the best, fastest and cheapest fibre broadband plans, it looks like you can't go past Hong Kong. Could competition deliver the same value in our major cities? City Telecom's Hong Kong Broadband Network now boasts 1Gbps broadband speeds with unlimited downloads, priced at just US$26 per month.

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By the numbers: fast, cheap and subsidy free

Travelling well with tech is all about having power for your devices, according to Gleuto Serafim, CEO and chief enterprise architect for IT consultant Tecala. See his travel tips in this week's Travel Tech Q&A.

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Travel Tech Q and A: Tecala's Gleuco Serafim

A nasty bit of malware making the rounds on Facebook has reportedly made off with the usernames and passwords of more than 45,000 users. Most of those affected by the worm - called Ramnit - are from France and the United Kingdom, according to a bulletin issued by security researchers at Seculert .

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Worm steals over 45,000 Facebook log-ins

The Federal Government has rejected opposition frontbencher Joe Hockey's claim that its $36 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) project is hurting productivity. Treasurer Wayne Swan's office on Friday questioned Hockey's remarks, saying that the high-speed NBN represented critical long-term economic reform. "If it was up to Joe Hockey, we'd still be talking to each other using two cans and a piece of string," the office said in a statement

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NBN doesn't 'detract from productivity': govt

(Credit: Apple) Some new Android handset owners are complaining that they can't receive text messages from friends who own iPhones. According to a growing thread in Apple's support forums, former iPhone owners that had been communicating with friends via iMessage are unable to receive any messages from those same folks when they try texting from an Android device. "I bought an Android phone tonight, replacing my iPhone," Apple support forums user "Literroy" posted last month

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iMessage bug swats iPhone owners who switch to Android

Would you join the Church of Kopimism in Sweden, and pray to the god of file sharing? It doesn't seem any more absurd than any other religion is to me

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Pray to the god of file sharing?

analysis It's sad but unsurprising that Kodak appears headed for bankruptcy protection . It should be a cautionary tale for camera-industry powers that might think themselves better off. Kodak logos through the decades

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Kodak won't be the last digital-photo victim

The E*Trade outage experienced by ANZ during the Christmas period has had a flow-on effect to St George's online-trading service, Directshares. (dragon image by devra , CC BY 2.0 ) ANZ recently confirmed that its trading platform had come under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack during the festive season.

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St George affected by E*Trade DDoS too

analysis Android tablets were expected to give the Apple iPad fierce competition in 2011. It never happened. Here's why Android tablets flopped

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Android's tablet failure: a post-mortem