Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist views of indigenous Australians.

Australian Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt recently discovered the US-based site by searching "Aboriginal and Encyclopedia" in the search engine.

He tried to modify the entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica, a satirical and extremely racist version of Wikipedia, but was blocked from doing so.

Mr Hodder-Watt then undertook legal action, that resulted in Google acknowledging its legal responsibility to remove the offensive site.

His lawyer, George Newhouse, said the site was "one of the most offensive sorts of racial vilification you could possibly find".

"It portrays indigenous Australians in the most unsavory light possible, and you wouldn't want a child stumbling across it," he told ABC Radio.

Mr Newhouse said Google agreed to take the link down after he filed an official complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

"Lo and behold they agreed last night to take down the sites."

Mr Newhouse believes the site would be filtered under the Australian government's mandatory filter.

"Sites that promote racial vilification would actually fall within that description [illegal sites] and therefore would be filtered."

The Australian government plans to introduce legislation this year requiring all service providers to ban "refused classification" material.

US mother and her two daughters logged on to Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to tons of private information.

The glitch the result of a routing problem at the family's wireless carrier, US telco giant AT&T - revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the internet, not just Facebook users.

In each case, the internet lost track of who was who, putting the women into the wrong accounts. It doesn't appear the users could have done anything to stop it. Several security experts said they had not heard of a case like this, in which the wrong person was shown a web page whose user name and password had been entered by someone else.

Here is a small demo of what was avalible to have a play with at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show:

Game-controller glove - Iron Will Innovations demonstrated a futuristic looking black and silver glove that replaces a keyboard and lets users control games by touching their fingers together instead. Called the Peregrine, the glove includes five sensors on each finger that replace different keystrokes when touched to the glove's thumb.

The glove and plugs into a computer's USB port. The Peregrine should be in stores for US$150 by the summer, though the company is taking pre-orders online for US$20 less.

Wireless charging -Powerpack, a battery that replaces the one that comes with your cell phone and lets you charge your handset by placing it on the mat - no other attachments needed. Powerpacks that are compatible with dozens of handsets are expected to be available for US$40 in May 2010.

3-D camera - The big push from TV makers this year is for sets that show 3-D in the home. Fujifilm, betting that people will want to shoot their own 3-D movies and photos as well, is also selling a digital camera with two lenses, set apart as if they are human eyes.

The screen on the back of the Finepix Real 3D W1 presents, if you squint a little bit, a 3-D image using a glasses-free technology similar to the old 3-D postcards. The 3-D camera is available now for US$599, and a 3-D photo frame sells separately for US$499.

3-D colour printing - Shapeways has been offering 3-D printing for a few years, taking data files and turning them into sculptures with the help of a machine that lays down successive layers of a plaster-like material.

At the show, the Dutch company announced that they're now offering sculptures in full colour. The dyes are impregnated into the material as it's being built up. The cost: US$16.22 per cubic inch.

Mopping robot - Cleaning robots? The vacuuming Roomba robots will get competition this September from the Mint, a square robot that has a pad for a dry or wet Swiffer-type cleaning cloth. Evolution Robotics says the price will be around US$200 to US$250.