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Revenue: one search Google won't answer

Google's new Australasian boss has predicted a surging online advertising market for the next two years, challenging recent industry predictions of a slowdown in the booming sector for 2008.

CASE STUDIES & PROFILES

Timing is everything for AdSense man

Rex Wong is a serial IT entrepreneur. He dropped out of his computer engineering course at the University of California, Davis, to make his own way in the IT industry.

BIZ-TECH COLUMNISTS

Not just about the laptop when it comes to profits

The One Laptop Per Child project sounded like a good idea in 2005, but two years is a long time in the IT industry when the big boys want a piece of the action.

Mini mouse

It's pretty hard to improve on the humble mouse, but Microsoft has done it with the Mobile Memory Mouse 8000, a tiny wireless optical mouse designed to be used with a notebook.