The European Commission has hit search giant Google with a third fine, related to abuse of its AdSense advertising service, and told the company to fork out €1.49 billion (A$2.38 billion) for breaching EU anti-trust rules.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has announced that it will hand down its final decision on the proposed merger between TPG Telecom and Vodafone Hutchison Australia on 9 May.

Should you upgrade to a new iMac? Not really because the reasons to do an upgrade are fast disappearing as Apple banishes its Mac line to the category of niche product says long time Mac user Stephen Withers.

Lobby group, the Regional, Rural and Remote Communication Coalition, has welcomed $220 million in funding for regional Australian communications, describing it as a win for bush communications across the country.

Netflix says nearly 14 million Australians now have access to some form of pay TV or subscription TV, up 11.8% on a year ago, with the increase driven by Netflix as well as other SVOD services including Stan, YouTube Premium and Amazon Prime Video.

A recent survey of 2000 PC users found it took just 60 seconds for tempers to rise over a slow or frozen computer. This was experienced by around half of the responders. Almost always, a RAM upgrade was the solution.

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