Pit the Galaxy Note 2 against the Xperia Z and you’ll get a good match. The Samsung device is an unabashed phablet while Sony has obviously configured its new 5-inch flagship to test the waters that the Note series has been familiar with.
True to its tradition, it actually is just a matter of time before the Vatican steps in to tell the College of Cardinals to zip their mouths in sharing bits and pieces of information from the pre-conclave talks on account of their oath to secrecy.
A 63-year-old Australian anaesthetist from the state of Victoria has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for infecting 55 women patients with Hepatitis C between June 2008 and November 2009.
The fundamental error behind central planning is being repeated in China. Wen Jiabao leaves office telling his colleagues that, 'Unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable development remains a prominent problem.' China's planners are past caring, though. And as our colleague Greg Canavan has said all along, China's real estate bubble could be the biggest and most damaging yet.
The local share market is virtually unchanged at lunchtime in the East, after rising to highs not seen since September 2008 yesterday.
Silently, Nokia presented to select bloggers and journalist its rumoured replacement for the Lumia 920 during the recently concluded Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As earlier reported, it’s known for now as Catwalk.
They stretch across the outskirts of dozens of major urban areas, criss-crossed by empty highways. The rows of modern skyscraper apartments are all sold to absent investors. There's little doubt these scenes create compelling television.
Apple reinvented the touch screen manipulation of mobile devices. Now a new patent application pointed to upcoming iPhone versions that will read users’ commands via squeeze gestures.
One Google executive trumpeted last month that future Nexus devices will come with insanely great features, most notably in the camera department. Naturally, we expect the Nexus 5 to come rolling out with a bang.
According to the newest report by HSBC, emerging markets saw their growth decelerate in February. The EMI showed that especially larger economies witnessed more sluggish economic growth.
Picture the Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series sporting near tablet-size screens, which a new report said is the focus of Samsung’s future smartphone plans. The current mantra appears – the bigger, the better handset.
US dollar strengthens as strong US data adds to positive sentiment.
Wednesday night it is was US non-manufacturing PMI that pushed the Dow to all-time highs and the S&P near its all-time high; last night, however it is was non-farm payrolls shooting the lights out.
The US ADP reported another 198,000 private sector jobs were created in February, with January numbers revised up to 215,000. The underlying trend remains one of improvement in terms of job creation. US factory orders fell back by 2pct in January, largely due to a fall in demand for military hardware and commercial aircrafts.
By Greg PeelThe Dow closed up 42 points, or 0.3%, while the S&P gained 0.1% to 1541, but the Nasdaq slipped slightly.
The last 24 hours for global markets have been defined by positive news. One of the headline grabbing outcomes has been the Dow Jones closing at a new record high over night. Supporting news included European manufacturing reports which didn't disappoint investors, the Chinese administration announcing that the 2nd biggest economy in the world will grow at 7.5% this year and a better than expected read on activity in the US services sector. As a result the volatility which gripped the markets...
A few years ago, pre-teens had to lie about their real age just to open an account at the very popular social networking site Facebook. After a couple of years, these same young people have reached 13 and are legally allowed to open an FB account, however, some of them find the portal now uncool.
Production lines for both the iPhone 5S and its budget version has commenced humming, a new report said, supporting an earlier story that Apple is set to release the two handsets on June at the earliest.
A fusion of the Galaxy S3, the Galaxy Note 2 and the Galaxy Note 8.0 – that’s how the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4 came out in a new image render.
It is now Day 3 of the pre-conclave talks by the cardinals who are being holed up at Vatican City. And from today, there are only 18 days left for the cardinals to be able to come up with a new 266th pope in time for the Roman Catholic church’s Palm Sunday rites, which heralds the start of its Lenten season. Yet despite the decreasing number of days, the College of Cardinals seem not wont to succumb to outside pressure to immediately start the ball rolling on this year’s anticipated papal concl...
After a great run here at home yesterday where the ASX 200 index closed 1.3% or 64points higher, European and UK markets rallied. Regained confidence in the US markets pushed the UK FSTE index to a 5 year high at the close of trade.
While Australia's farmers face bright prospects in the long term as global demand for food is project to go up by 75 per cent in 2050, they have to contend with short-term dip in prices.
After a debilitating horsemeat scandal, Ikea is again on the hot seat, this time after Chinese authorities discovered excessive levels of faecal or coliform bacteria in its chocolate almond cake products that were imported by the furniture and accessories store to China from Sweden. An equivalent two tonnes (1,872 kilos or 4,100 pounds) of the chocolate almond cake were immediately destroyed.
Samsung was rumoured to preview the Galaxy Note 3 via the 2013 MWC in Barcelona but all the talks proved untrue. The Asian tech giant only allowed a glimpse of the Galaxy Note 8.0.
By Andrew NelsonAnalysts from JP Morgan recently attended an analyst forum; the draw card was a presentation by Vivek Tulpule, Rio Tinto's ((RIO)) Head of Economics and Markets.
April looms as the likely launch schedule for the iPad Mini 2, that’s the good news. The bad news is Apple is unable to include Retina display for its small tablet refresh, a new report said.
It will be a June launch for the new iPhone and the likelihood is Apple has set a double-punch, in which both the rumoured iPhone 5S and the budget iPhone version will be unveiled simultaneously.
By Andrew NelsonThe Week from the 20th and 27th of February was another subdued one for shorting and short covering activity on the Australian share market.
The Australian Dollar has mostly held its ground against the US Dollar, getting support from decent economic indicators here and abroad and also from yesterday's RBA interest rate announcement.
China has provisionally overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest net importer of oil, said the Financial Times on Tuesday, after the U.S. posted its lowest import figures since 1992 on the back of booming domestic oil production.
