Australian IT - Breaking News

GOOGLE is introducing an online business software package designed to make it easier for employees to share documents with each other.

BRITISH chip designer ARM will show a prototype mobile phone based on Google's Android platform next week, a source said.

AUSTRALIA'S immigration authority is struggling to contain rising costs for its Systems for People project.

OFFICE supplier Corporate Express has launched a $34.5 million SAP enterprise resource planning project as it strips myriad IT systems out of the business.

AOL is looking for local advertisers who want to reach the 1.6 million Australians who now use international AOL sites.

ACCOUNTING software maker MYOB has rejected a $731 million indicative takeover offer from an unnamed Australian private equity firm.

CAMERAS the size of pills could soon weave their way deeper inside a person's lungs than any non-surgical device has been able to go.

ELECTRONIC Data Systems posted a 13 per cent drop in earnings and 2 per cent growth in revenue for the fourth quarter.

YAHOO is holding out hope that there are ways it can thwart Microsoft's unsolicited takeover offer.

CISCO Systems's profit rose 7 per cent in the second quarter as sales climbed more than 16 per cent.

PHOTOS sent from the mobile phone of hikers lost in a Victorian national park were instrumental in rescuers finding the trio.

CRICKET Australia chief executive James Sutherland has endorsed the use of more technology to improve the game.

IRRECONCILABLE differences has forced Intel to walk away from a global project to equip disadvantaged children with cheap laptops.

LENOVO is targeting consumers with a flashy new notebook line called IdeaPad, as it tries to compete head-on with HP and Apple.

THREE Indian students crammed into one bedroom were killed in a house fire in Melbourne after a PC monitor overheated and blew up.

CHINA is stepping up efforts to control its blossoming online video industry with new regulations on the ownership of video websites.

ILLEGAL downloads of videos continue to grow, with Australians increasingly pirating new US shows well before they ran down under.

JIMMY Wales, founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will next week unveil his much-awaited search engine dubbed Search Wikia.

WOTIF.COM has declared its off-market takeover for travel.com.au to be free of all conditions, chief executive Robbie Cooke said.