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Despite the delays in its production due to parts shortage and the non-repairability due to its unique body case, HTC One emerged again as the best phone, according to tech experts.

By Greg PeelThe Dow fell 138 points, or 0.9%, while the S&P fell 0.9% to 1582 and the Nasdaq lost 0.9%.

The Aussie market failed to make it three straight days of gains, with a slightly worse than expected Chinese manufacturing report together with profit taking slamming the breaks on the improvements. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) slipped by 0.5 per cent, wiping out close to half of yesterday's gains.

The going public of basketball player Jason Collins about his being gay has reopened the debate on whether a person's sexual orientation is important to his career.

Australia's first ever banknote is scheduled to go on sale and expected to generate some $3.5 million for its current owner.

A federal judge ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive available for girls as young as 15 years old to be purchased without any prescription.

Local shares are slipping for the first time this week despite firmer global markets overnight. A lower than expected reading for China's official manufacturing PMI has kept investors in a selling mood. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) is down 0.3 per cent or 18 pts to 5,150.6.

HTC must be pleased to hear the positive feedbacks now surrounding the recently launched HTC One smart phone after the unsuccessful HTC Thunderbolt release with owners complaining about poor battery life and performance as well as incompatible update cycle. Though it is not an official statement from HTC, an employee bravely acknowledged the Thunderbolt issue and apologized on the social news and entertainment web site “Reddit.”

Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie seems to suffer several delays after rumours had spread regarding its upcoming debut on Google I/O event. As fans worldwide anticipate its arrival, another version of the Jelly Bean has been detected carrying the assigned number - Android 4.3. Is this the "Ultimate Jelly Bean" of the Android OS?

The famous cosmetic brand manufacturer Johnson & Johnson loses its license in India due to an ordered case by the Food and Drug Administration after 15 batches of baby powder products were found sterilized by an irritant and cancer-causing component.

-Earnings growth unlikely in FY13-Austen quarry has key to price upside-Challenges for clinker production-Hostage to housing improvementBy Eva BrocklehurstQuarry, concrete product and cement producer Adelaide Brighton ((ABC)) used a tour of its Austen quarry, NSW, to let brokers know that the going ...

Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) opened on Tuesday its $2.2 billion diamond mine in Argyle, Kimberley, Western Australia with a tradition ceremony to ward off evil spirits.

By Greg PeelThe Dow closed up 21 points, or 0.1%, while the S&P added 0.3% to 1597 and the Nasdaq jumped 0.

Is BlackBerry Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins being prophetic or simply sourgraping? That question will definitely be on the mind of techies and geeks alike after Mr Heins forecast the tablet will be dead in 2018.

The Australian sharemarket made it two straight days of gains, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) rising by 1.2 per cent. US markets hit fresh record highs thanks in part to improved corporate earnings, while the financials led local stocks higher in Australia today.

Hewlett Packard is preparing for a high-end tablet with 10-inches of screen display and running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Moreover, the device seems to have Nvidia Tegra 4 chipset clocked at 1.8GHz and its performance has been discovered via AnTuTu benchmark app.

Airline travelers frequently passing through Australia's Darwin International Airport may expect to experience improved changes as the airport starts next month its planned $75 million expansion upgrade.

While global attention is on the intense rivalry between South Korean tech giant Samsung and California-based Apple, two phone manufacturers are getting more notice from techies for outstanding features of their devices.

Great start for the Aussie market with the ASX 200 index hitting a 52 week high in early trade after getting a real leg up from a strong rally in banking stocks. By lunch The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) stood at 5,145 points up 38points.

Look out world. It seems not everything fake or imitation just originates from China. Another Asian country, war-torn Afghanistan, has been reportedly selling iPhone 5s for $700 courtesy of a retailer not recognized by the Apple Store hierarchy.

The U.S. network carrier Sprint has recovered from scarce supply of Samsung Galaxy S4 and announced the good news for consumers that the device is also available on their retail stores. Sprint also released an Over-the-Air (OTA) update for owners of Galaxy S4 to fix most bugs on the device.

Are you a rich or adventurous vagabond out to conquer the most delicious restaurant cuisines the world can offer? British magazine Restaurant has released its annual 50 best restaurants in the world, and for 2013, the top spot distinction has been given to Spain's El Celler de Can Roca.

Google services are slowly getting inside the flagship devices of Apple and these are acting more Android than before. One of the core part of the Android OS, Google Now comes to the iOS ecosystem and acts as an alternative for Siri.

Apple's iPad tablet continued to show competitors that it is still the tablet computer to beat based on the latest result of the U.S. Table Satisfaction Study released on Monday by J.D. Power and Associates.

By Andrew NelsonLast week on the uranium spot market might not have been busy, but at least it was positive.

In 2011, a college student from the University of Alberta, Josh Le, were only one pair of jeans for 15 months and to his surprise found that the germ level of the garment was not worrisome. Could the same thing be said of shirts?

Ah. So that's what happens when you spend money you expect to have and then the money fails to show up. You get a $7.5 billion federal deficit that will be around $12 billion by the end of the year. If Standard and Poor's said Australia's AAA credit rating was under threat without a government commitment to reduce the deficit, then aren't bigger government deficits a threat to Australia's credit rating now?

BHP Billiton informed that it finally got rid of the Pinto Valley copper mine and a railroad in Arizona. The lucky buyer of these assets is Canada's Capstone Mining Corp. which is to pay as much as $650 million to the global mining giant.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. the financial behemoth, which employees 258,965 people and is considered the largest US Bank with operations across the globe, announced the departure of its Co-Chief Operating Officer Frank Bisignano on the 28th April 2013.