AN interest rate cut in the United States and climbing oil and metals prices have helped to push the share market more than one per cent higher this morning.

Australian telcos are seriously looking at broadband over powerline (BPL), according to vendor NEC — but interference and regulatory issues are still haunting the technology.

At 30th public meeting, replacement for outgoing chairman Vint Cerf also due to be announced.

A new version of the Opera browser has been made available in beta format.

A FLURRY of strong economic data has added to the case for the Reserve Bank of Australia to raise interest rates next month, as widely expected.

The University of New England has chosen NEC as the key vendor in its new campus network rollout.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says it will not intervene into Google’s US$3.1 billion acquisition of ad-serving company DoubleClick.

Google will unveil its long-anticipated plan to bring its software to mobile phones within the next two weeks, according to a report in the The Wall Street Journal

MERRILL Lynch has ousted its chairman and CEO Stan O’Neal, days after the global investment bank and brokerage posted some of its biggest losses.

ST George Bank has posted an 11 per cent rise in annual profit and says it will target earnings growth of 10 per cent this year.