EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon,

The talk of the town today was Google's new alternative to email, Google Wave, and the new Microsoft-powered search engine, Bing.

We've been flooded with calls and emails from the broadcast media wanting to know just what a "Wave" is and whether "Bing" can challenge Google's dominance in search.

Editor-in-chief Nate Cochrane does a great job of summing them both up in today's lead story.

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Nate Cochrane | May 29, 2009

The browser battle renewed today as Google launched its game-changing successor to e-mail, Wave, while across town NineMSN demonstrated its new search engine, Bing.

By Stuart Finlayson | May 29, 2009

Medical practices have been asked to lift their game when it comes to the electronic lodgement of patient claims with Medicare Australia, and warned to prepare to have more of their claims audited under new regulations.

By Ry Crozier | May 29, 2009

NEC Australia has fielded customer requests to apply facial recognition technology to cows and fish but says it will focus on selling systems for gender recognition in retail environments and a DNA system due out at the end of the year.

By Shaun Nichols | May 29, 2009

Microsoft is apologising to users after the company incorrectly listed the date for the beginning of the Windows 7 beta expiration process.

By Ry Crozier | May 29, 2009

Australia's telcos and banks have reportedly shown interest in an expansion of the national document verification service (DVS) system to enable them to verify proof-of-identity with issuing authorities.

By Iain Thomson | May 29, 2009

Microsoft and Asus have launched a marketing campaign to encourage netbook users to use Windows rather than Linux.

By Ry Crozier | May 29, 2009

The Defence Science and Technology Organisation has called on facial recognition system makers to build in more intelligence and improve recognition of low-resolution and partially obscured images.

By Iain Thomson | May 29, 2009

Dell has announced its results for the first quarter of the year and has revealed earnings fell by 63 per cent and business and consumers cut back on purchases.

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