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

The five-year deal includes monitoring and maintaining P&G's four existing IBM ISS Proventia SiteProtector management consoles used in Asia, Europe, and North America.

MACQUARIE University is the latest Australian institution to demand its academics make their research freely available on the internet.

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.

The sixth paragraph of the story "Dell profit falls as revenue grows," posted Thursday, misstated by a factor of 1,000 Dell's revenue for its fiscal second quarter. The story has been corrected on the wire and the sixth paragraph now reads:

Mini-laptops are among the hottest new products this year and with the back-to-school sales season upon us, I created a list of items to help you choose the right one.

Microsoft has agreed to buy comparison shopping business Ciao in a deal worth around US$486 million, and plans to integrate the service into its Live Search sites, it announced Friday.

The Bradesco Foundation school in Campinas, Brazil, is home to one of the largest one-to-one computing projects in Latin America.

Industry execs say crowdsourcing is one of the best ways to stay on top of consumer trends, so a host of new sites are asking professional and armchair designers to submit art for sneakers, skateboards, car art and stationary.