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(Reuters) - Microsoft on Friday announced its first major deal since failing to buy Yahoo Inc, agreeing to acquire Web-based survey company Greenfield Online Inc for about $486 million.

THE national innovation review has been delivered to Innovation Minister Kim Carr after a month-long delay.

Kazaa user destroyed evidence Good grief, people. As things are, we'll never have to pay for recorded music ever again. Getting free music online is as easy as picking up five pound notes in the street (when no one's watching) - and the chances of facing a fine range from minimal to non-existent..

AUSTRALIAN consumers will be able to buy Telstra ADSL2+ broadband services under a different badge for the first time today.

PETER Gershon has completed his review of the Government's ICT expenditure, submitting his final report to Lindsay Tanner.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has lost its lead of the U.S. market for online display advertising to MySpace and its parent company News Corp's Fox Interactive Media and MySpace, new industry data shows.

Google's blog publishing platform will soon allow members to track other blogger blogs through the software's "dashboard," and display a graphic of their own followers on their blogs.

Google Maps and Google Earth will get a new infusion of higher-resolution imagery from the GeoEye-1 satellite due to launch September 4.

In a letter to shareholders, the struggling music service reminded them that they still employ an investment bank and are exploring "strategic alternatives" to staying public.

Though fewer servers were sold, the research firm points to the trend in virtualization and consolidation.