Australian IT - Top Stories

TELECOM New Zealand is struggling with slow sales growth in its home market and serious problems moving its Australian customers to a new billing platform.

CHARIOT Internet has advised its stakeholders to sit tight after SP Telemedia bid $245 million to buy its major stakeholder, TPG.

TELSTRA staff have already visited the homes of hundreds of CDMA customers it wants to help migrate to its Next G network.

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.

SP Telemedia, which trades as Soul, plans to merge with internet service provider TPG under a cash and share offer.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

THE "clean feed" filtering system the federal government hopes will halt internet porn has already been defeated by British experts.

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

THE French Health Ministry has issued a warning against excessive mobile phone use, especially by children.

QUALCOMM faces patent royalty payments to Broadcom following the latest ruling in their dispute over mobile phone chips.