All eyes are on South Korean tech giants Samsung and LG which one will win the race to produce a smartphone with flexible screens. However, a Canadian laboratory has actually made a prototype that bends and twists when it received a call or short messaging. The model is called MorePhone, made by researchers at the Human Media Lab of Queen's University.
Unlike the HTC which has been classified by iFixit as a weak phone in terms of repairability, the newly released Samsung Galaxy S4 got good scores from the same repair site.
The ASX200 finished the holiday shortened week with a modest loss. Although the week will be remembered for the resurgent resource sector which helped the index gain in the range of 3.5%.
Amid concerns over privacy breaches caused by wearing the latest gizmo, the Google Glass, techies have come up with a list of 10 places not to wear the device.
The Australian market is improving for the fifth straight trading session, making it the second longest winning streak of the year. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) is up 0.1 per cent or 5.00 pts to 5,089.2. As long as the market holds on to the gains, shares would have improved by more than 3.5 per cent this week.
In 1971, American country singer John Denver released a song titled Take Me Home, Country Road, which immortalised the state, West Virginia, as a place that feels like heaven because of its beauty.
GrainCorp Ltd., Australia's largest listed grain trader and the last standing independent grains handler, has conceded to a $3.4 billion takeover bid offer of U.S.-based Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM).
Russian billionaire Alexander Nesis is poised to enter a joint venture that will tackle the extraction and production of precious rare earths from the country's giant Tomtor deposit in Yakutia.
By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck, Editor FNArenaI joined Twitter. Not because I am curious what this celebrity has to say about her kids, or to read that another one is waiting for a connecting flight, impatiently.
The month is almost over, but some people are still going back to the first day of April by creating April Fools' Day pranks. A recent joke, similar to YouTube's announcement on March 31 that it will close the popular video sharing site, is a post in Facebook that founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to shutter the most popular social networking site with 1 billion members.
The government of Taiwan has advised would-be travelers to China to take extra precautionary measures when visiting the country after one of its residents have contacted the new avian influenza virus H7N9.
Who will win tech firms' battle to create and issue the first smartphone with flexible screen? From all indications, it appears it won't be an American, Chinese or Japanese company, but a South Korean tech giant.
If Microsoft's Surface Pro is the expert's choice of best Windows tablet, what is the device's counterpart among laptops? Techies unanimously picked Apple's MacBook Pro as the best performing Windows laptop.
Melbourne is planning to join the ranks of cities with landmark skyscrapers as city officials disclosed the proposed 82-storey 404-metre office tower by the Stamoulis Group.
By Greg PeelOn Wednesday night the Dow fell 43 points, or 0.3%, while the S&P was flat at 1578 and the Nasdaq was also flat.
- Woodside hands out dividend presents- Brokers question implications for growth- Woodside will now out-yield the banks- Fresh pressure on BHP and Rio?By Greg PeelThere are two things we can claim to be certainties in the stock market of 2013.
Touch your lover over a distance with new innovation over electronic lingerie and underpants called Fundawear. Using tiny vibrating devices similar to smartphones, let it make you feel your partner anywhere in the planet.
If you're in a card game and you look around the table... if you can't figure out who the fool is, he might be you. Then, you get nervous. You start rubbing your hands or scratching your forehead. The other players will see that you've lost your nerve.
Foxconn could suffer up to $259 million due to substandard or dysfunctional issues of iPhone devices which was returned for repair.
While the Australian market ignored the slow implosion of its big neighbour to the north yesterday, it held a party for Woodside, who boosted its dividend payout ratio from 55% of earnings to 80%, and promised to hold it there for the next few years. The stock price jumped nearly 10%.
Global equity markets surged overnight on the back of deteriorating manufacturing data out of the US, China and Europe. Yep, you heard that right.
China's manufacturing activity for April certainly embittered analysts and markets as the preliminary reading showed that the factory activity expanded at a slower pace than initially expected, adding to signs that the world's second economy was slowing down. There are still many various obstacles ahead of China which is trying to get back on the growth track.
Verizon confirmed pre-order of beginning on April 25, 2013 with release date of the device on May 30th. Verizon finally answered all the questions regarding product specifications and price.
That little smugness must have appeared as Credit Suisse Group AG, which happens to be the Switzerland's second biggest bank, informed that its quarterly earnings topped analysts' projections. The bank is slowly levering itself on feet after facing many challenges, including restructuring, debt, etc.
While speaking on fiscal policies in Brussels, the European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, admitted that the 'fiscal austerity' policy practiced in EU in the past 3 years outlived its cause and no longer enjoyed the backing of the people.
HTC released the latest update for their flagship smartphone, HTC One featuring camera, audio, and HDR improvements. Despite the competition with Samsung Galaxy S4 and Sony Xperia Z, HTC continues to devote innovation to their devices.
Network carriers in the United States are having issues with the supply of Samsung Galaxy S4 and concerned with the possible disruption of selling in the country. Samsung reacts to the unexpected high demands and now making efforts on replenishing stocks soon.
Several details revealed that Final Fantasy Versus XIII becomes exclusive to Sony PlayStation 4 and will not be released on Xbox. A report details the financial help from Sony to Square Enix for Final Fantasy XIII development.
The Australian share market has closed 1.6 per cent higher as a lower than expected inflation report excited investor expectations of an interest rate cut in the near term. A majority of sectors registered strong gains. The Financial, Industrial, Health and Utilities sub-indices all gained more than 2%.
Because of their portability and lower prices compared to laptops, the tablet market bloomed in the past two years, causing sales of PCs and laptops to decline further. With so many tablet computers available on the market as tech companies cash in on the tablet trend, experts recommend that potential buyers of the device answer first the following seven questions before making a decision what unit to purchase.
