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.
Yahoo! settles with Chinese dissidents
YAHOO! has settled a lawsuit alleging it helped China to prosecute and imprison several dissidents, in a case that prompted criticism of the company for co-operating with an authoritarian regime.
Yahoo!7's targeting tool raises privacy concerns
PRIVACY experts have expressed concerns at a new tool that allows the country's second-largest internet portal, Yahoo!7, to serve up ads based on people's internet behaviour.
EU opens in-depth antitrust probe into Google-DoubleClick deal
European Union antitrust regulators launched an in-depth probe today into Google Inc.'s $US3.1 billion ($A3.54 billion) bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick.
Nuptials for Google's Larry Page
Silicon Valley's richest bachelor is getting married next month.
Google dangles $US10m Gphone carrot
Google is offering $US10m in prizes for people who build the best software for the company's upcoming mobile phone operating system.
An iDellic approach to shifting beige PCs
Dell wants to radically change how it markets its computers in Australia and Asia, pushing its products into retail shops and possibly even opening a Dell store.
Android drops Microsoft into Google's pocket
Senior Microsoft executive dismisses the ipHone, Gphone threat to Windows Mobile platform: "there is only so much you can do with thin-ness," he says.
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.
Google's no threat, says Microsoft boss
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer plays down the threat of Google, denying the rival was ahead in any way but in online searches.
Google eyes new ad frontier in computer games
Google says it is testing ways to deliver ads in computer games.
Facebook, MySpace can coexist: Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch managed to utter the "F" word as he delivered News Corporation's quarterly profit results.
Google Phone project a 'humungous' effort
The wraps are barely off the Google Phone project and already there's breathless speculation about the look, feel and functionality of the new mobile.
Fairfax stands by Financial Review website fee
FAIRFAX will continue to charge users of The Australian Financial Review's website, afr.com, defying market expectations that it might offer more free content to increase readership and advertising sales.
Morally you are Pygmies, Yahoo told
Yahoo's chief executive is verbally lashed by US lawmakers over the internet company's role in dobbing in a Chinese dissident who was later imprisoned.
Longevity predicted for Xbox 360
Microsoft sees potential for its Xbox 360 video game console to stay on the market longer than the five-year lifespan that is typical for gaming hardware, an executive said on Tuesday.
Greengrocer's fresh start
It's the middle-of-the-night phone call every IT manager dreads, especially if they've delayed introducing a disaster recovery plan:
Google's phone man an Apple ring-in
Andy Rubin is one of the primary architects behind Google's push to muscle its way into the centre of the mobile phone business.
Google gatecrashes the mobile market
Google says it is developing a free mobile phone software package so it can more easily peddle ads and services to people who aren't in front of a PC.
UK girds for iPhone launch
Europe's biggest independent mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, could sell up to 10,000 Apple iPhones when it goes on sale next week, a Carphone executive said on Thursday.
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.