COMPETITION regulators in Europe have approved without conditions Hewlett-Packard’s US$13.9 billion (A$14.6 billion) acquisition of services giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

MOBILE phone carrier Vodafone Australia says it added 117,000 for its fiscal fourth quarter to the end of March, pushing the company’s total customer numbers beyond four million for the first time.

The Federal Government is looking at two vastly different models from bidders for its $4.7 billion National Broadband Network following Macquarie’s decision last week to join Telstra as an adviser.

SEARCH giant Google’s plans to launch new mobile handsets equipped with a new open source operating system will not be ready until next year, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.