 | | |  | Bebo founder Michael Birch has bought back the social networking site for $US1 million ($1.08m), just five years after it was sold for a staggering $US850 million ($921m). | | Top stories BEN GRUBB 3:35pm | E-tax for Mac has been years in the making, cost $5.2 million so far and yet the Tax Office still managed to bungle its deployment. | 3:48pm | Google will at 5pm Tuesday AEST close the book on its free Reader service for gathering news stories and other online items in simple, up-to-the-minute lists. | 3:23pm | Two billion years from now, an ever-hotter Sun will have cooked the Earth, leaving microbes confined to pockets of water in mountains or caves as the last survivors, a study says. | Nobuhiro Kubo and Edmund Klamann 8:52am | Apple Inc has applied for a trademark for iWatch in Japan, a patent official said on Monday, signaling the iPhone maker may be moving ahead with plans for a watch-like device as gadget makers turn their attention to wearable computers. | Sylvia Pennington 1:46pm | Amidst a sea of high-tech gloom, a clutch of smaller players say the future has never looked brighter. | Trevor Clarke | Scientists make an impassioned call for long-term funding assurance for Australia’s supercomputing infrastructure. | 4:01pm | France warned on Monday that allegations of Washington spying on its European allies were threatening talks on a crucial free trade pact, as US President Barack Obama vowed to respond to Europe's concerns once he had all the facts. | 4:01pm | This post was originally published on Mashable. | Chris O'Brien 4:01pm | Even in a place where the seemingly fantastic happens on a daily basis, the events of last week involving Oracle left many long-time observers of the tech scene in Silicon Valley stunned. | NICK BILTON 5:48pm | Photos, once slices of a moment in the past are fast becoming an entirely new type of dialogue. | 11:04am | Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus on Monday said he is handing over the helm of the struggling social games company to Microsoft entertainment division chief Don Mattrick. | Stuart Corner | Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand's future now lies in providing cloud computing and mobility services. | 4:01pm | Google has notched a legal victory in its bid to create the world's largest digital books library, winning the reversal of a court order that had allowed authors challenging the project to sue as a group. | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | | | | | Security Reminder: Fairfax Media digital never requests personal or credit card information via email. Be wary of suspicious emails claiming to offer Fairfax Media digital services. You are receiving this email as a registered Fairfax Media digital member. Your username is: garn14.tech@blogger.com. Your email address is: garn14.tech@blogger.com. If you do not want to receive further announcements from Fairfax Media digital, please unsubscribe here. Fairfax Media Limited. ABN 15 008 663 161.
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