The browser battle renewed today as Google launched its game-changing successor to e-mail, Wave, while across town NineMSN demonstrated its new search engine, Bing. Both technologies seek to provide web users and businesses with better ways to access or make content. But although Bing adds neat functions...

Medical practices have been asked to lift their game when it comes to the electronic lodgement of patient claims with Medicare Australia, and warned to prepare to have more of their claims audited under new regulations. In a speech delivered today to the Australian Medical Association in Melbourne, the...

Competition regulators have approved the merger of the Australian arms of mobile carriers Vodafone Australia and Hutchison 3. The two companies now intend to complete the transaction within the next two weeks – forming a 50:50 joint venture that will be known as Vodafone Hutchison Australia...

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 went final earlier this week, with numerous fixes and tweaks to improve performance, bolster security, and squash bugs. But some PC World readers are seeing another welcome change to SP2: a lot more free disk space. In comments posted in our forums, several readers reported...

Microsoft loves netbooks, the ultra-small, ultra-cheap laptops that accounted for about one in every 10 notebooks sold in the last eight months, but only up to a point, a retail analyst says. “They love [a] netbook, as long as it’s a low-powered companion, accessory PC,” said Stephen...