After promotions helped spike Microsoft’s share of Web searches earlier this year, the company is again on the downslide, losing ground to Yahoo and Google, according to numbers from ComScore and Hitwise.

Fashion designer Giorgio Armani has opened up shop in virtual world Second Life, with a store modelled on his flagship location in Milan, his company said in a statement on Wednesday.

Apparently the Newton doesn’t fall very far from the Apple tree: Cupertino watchers AppleInsider are reporting that Apple has a project underway to develop a minitablet computer based on the OS X operating system it has developed for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

Apparently the Newton doesn’t fall very far from the Apple tree: Cupertino watchers AppleInsider are reporting that Apple has a project underway to develop a minitablet computer based on the OS X operating system it has developed for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

STRONG growth in the number of job vacancies in the three months to August could contribute to another interest rate rise this year, economists say.

THE share market remained on positive ground at noon after local banking stocks and big miners lifted higher off the back of a positive US lead.

Broadcaster Seven Network has made an off-market cash bid of up to AU$127 million to acquire Unwired in a move designed to guarantee access to a national wireless network.

THE dollar was stronger at noon, but traders were consolidating the morning’s sharp gains on the back of more weak US economic data.

Cutting costs by deploying Linux is a well-established strategy on the server and even the desktop, but what effect could it have on the cost of mobile computing?

A RECORD budget surplus of $2.3 billion in the boom state of Western Australia has sparked demands for tax relief from business and the Opposition.