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The airport tax is set to go up as of 1 July 2013. Picture: Tait Schmaal Source: Supplied AIRFARES will go up after the airport tax is increased by $8 to $55 per passenger as of July. Operators of 10 airports will be charged to recover the cost of airport community policing, in a new tax which is also sure to flow on to airline passengers. The government's subtle sneaky increases to transport charges were hidden in the line items of the budget and amount to a tax grab of more than $1.3 billion over four years.

TWITTER said that it was trying to figure out how user names and passwords from thousands of accounts apparently wound up posted at an online file sharing website. Information posted on Pastebin.com pages appeared to be from about 35,000 Twitter accounts, not counting about 20,000 that seemed to be redundancies, according to a message "tweeted" by the San Francisco firm."We're looking into the situation and have pushed out password resets to potentially affected accounts," Twitter said.Twitter, which rocketed to popularity by letting people fire off short text messages to limitless numbers of people using smartphones, recommended users change their passwords.The list at Pastebin included spam accounts and incorrect login credentials, according to Twitter.The evident data breach came as Twitter challenged a court order to turn over to law enforcement data on one of its users involved in Occupy Wall Street. The motion filed in a New York state court said the order would require Twitter to violate federal law and denies the user the ownership rights to his Twitter messages.The American Civil Liberties Union applauded Twitter's action, saying the company was standing up for free speech.

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If you feel anxious when you're away from Facebook, get help. You may be addicted. Picture: Thinkstock Source: Supplied Dr Cecilie Schou Andreassen said socially anxious people were more prone to addiction than those with lower traits. Picture: University of Bergen Source: Supplied Researchers create Facebook Addiction Scale Define six signs that indicate addiction to the site Includes feelings of anxiety when you're away from it DO you lie awake at night planning witty things to write on Facebook? Are you restless or anxious when you can’t use the social networking site?It’s official. You could be addicted to

The study did not look at treatment of Apple workers, but it would be interesting. Source: news.com.au WELL, the fan bois have won. When it comes to public perception, it seems no one can rub the shine off Apple. Even after a New York Times article on how the tech company had avoided paying billions of dollars in US tax, Apple’s reputation remained unscathed, according to opinion tracking firm YouGov.This is in stark contrast to General Electric (GE) which took months to recover after a similar story in the Times.YouGov asked 5000 people whether they would be proud or embarrassed to work for GE and Apple, and found Apple’s score actually increased marginally after the crisis. Apple’s score rose from 52 to 58 a few a few days after the story broke, on April 29. Its score has dropped slightly since - it currently sits at 51, slightly lower than it was when their tax strategy was revealed.In contrast, GE’s reputation score dipped from 33 to 23 the day after its tax plan was revealed. Within a week that score dipped to 14. It took the company two months before its score got back up to 33.The survey didn’t measure Apple’s reputation after the expose into the working conditions at its Foxconn factory in China.

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Homes are where Ms Hollander's friendships grew and evolved, she said. She couldn't have done it anywhere else. Picture: Tanja Alexia Hollander Source: Supplied Photographer tries to photograph all her Facebook friends Project to challenge the "myth" of online community Was genuinely surprised to find most were her real friends In Pictures: See Hollander's real Facebook friends here HOW many of your Facebook friends do you actually see? Like really see - in real life? Well one US photographer is trying to document this by photographing her every Facebook friend as part of a project that has already taken

The alleged Apple memo has been criticised by some web users. Picture: AFP Source: AFP Instagram user posts "memo" from Apple  They said it was given to them on first day working there It has sparked a backlash from anti-Apple supporters  IT is said to be the secret "inspirational" memo given to Apple employees on their first day of work, but it has ended up being rocket fuel for fanboi haters. The memo was revealed on Instagram by a user known as “M”, who claims it is what “greets you on your first day at Apple”.“There’s work and there’s your