Place your bets
What's worth money in the bank and what is going to go to the dogs
this year? We're putting our credibility on the line with some
short and long-odds bets in IT.
Oxygen fans the flames of SMS
Despite huge sales of mobile email devices, text messaging shows no sign of going away.
Vista fuels Microsoft profit rises
Microsoft signals confidence to a rattled stock market by raising
its full-year profit outlook and reporting a 79 per cent rise in
quarterly profit.
Gates calls for 'creative capitalism' to help poor
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates called on Thursday for a new
"creative capitalism" to help the world's poorest people.
Wii boosts Nintendo's bottom line
Nintendo's profit for the first nine months of the fiscal year
nearly doubled from the previous year, propelled by booming sales
of its hit Wii game machine.
eBay CEO to make way for new broom
Meg Whitman will soon step down as chief executive of eBay, the
online auction company that went from wobbly startup to
multibillion-dollar household name.
Motorola CEO says no quick fix for phone woes
Mobile phone maker Motorola said on Wednesday its profit fell 84 per cent in the fourth quarter and warned that the recovery in its struggling handset unit will take longer than expected. Its shares plummeted.
Google on hiring spree
Google plans to increase staff numbers by a third, bringing its
Australian workforce to 266 as it builds on its dominance of the
$637 million paid search market.
Tennis bounces back to Second Life
Last year it was by invitation only, but this year IBM is inviting
the public to inspect its virtual replica of Melbourne's Rod Laver
Arena.
eBay boss set to call it quits: report
News that eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman may retire comes as the
online auctioneer faces slowing growth and disappointing returns
from its gamble on Skype.
Investors gag on Apple's latest numbers
A dramatically lower forecast sends Apple shares plunging on fears
about slowing consumer spending on electronics.
Yahoo! forced to trim the ranks
Yahoo! is planning to lay off hundreds of employees in an effort to
increase its profitability, and narrow the focus of its business.
Serial entrepreneur with the golden touch
Few internet entrepreneurs practise what they preach as devoutly as
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
Optus enters iPhone race
Optus has emerged as the dark horse in the race between mobile
carriers for exclusive rights to launch the iPhone in Australia.
Microsoft embraces virtualisation strategy
Microsoft announces several moves it says will help its business
customers take advantage of a technology called virtualisation.
Nintendo crowned Australia's console king
Brisk demand for video games over Christmas and a bumper year for
Nintendo caused local games sales in 2007 to swell by almost 50 per
cent over the previous year.
Disc wars loser set to do a Beta
The costly battle over high definition DVD formats is over.
Nintendo tops 2007 games sales
Fueled by the success of Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's "Halo 3",
more video games were sold in the US in 2007 than in any other
year.
EU regulators probe Microsoft, again
EU regulators investigate Microsoft on suspicion of abusing its
market position by squeezing out competing products.
All eyes on Apple's new offerings
Apple is expected to grab the spotlight with an ultra-slim laptop
computer and online movie rentals at its biggest annual show next
week.
CASE STUDIES & PROFILES
The Hippocratic oath meets Web 2.0
A Perth website bridges the gap between doctors and their patients
with reliable information and community, writes Lia Timson.
BIZ-TECH COLUMNISTS
Time to change spots
Apple's latest operating system, Leopard, is on the prowl, so we spent the summer putting Leopard (aka Mac OS X 10.5) through its paces on a 17-inch MacBook Pro.
