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The inclusion of pieces of plastic in Nestle's top-selling brand Kit Kat has forced the Swiss food and nutrition products manufacturer to voluntarily recall at least four of its variants in eight countries.

The powerful 1.5GHz dual core, 1GB RAM, sharper display, and superior speakers of the Kobo Arc Tablet that won praise from reviews finally runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS.

The Australian sharemarket is off to a positive start, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) up 0.6 per cent. We're coming off the back of the biggest weekly fall for the local market since May last year.

Crews of Queensland Rail are working overtime to clean up some 147 tonnes of zinc concentrate that toppled on the rail over the weekend before it causes further damage to the rail and to the immediate environment.

A New Zealander mum has escaped facing potential charges after leaving her newborn baby in her locked car in a car park outside a New Zealand supermarket so she can do some shopping.

Richard (Rick) MillsAhead of the HerdAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

HTC One was released running Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and the smartphone unveiled in the recent Mobile World Congress became the greatest competitor of Samsung Galaxy S4. On May, HTC One will possibly receive an Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, according to HTC.

The dairy industry advertises pasteurized milk as the giver of strong bones and teeth. This can be observed by watching the numerous "Got Milk" commercials on the television. As celebrities show off their white mustaches, parents and their children are led to believe that pasteurized milk makes them strong and athletic.

March Madness is now in full swing. The Federal Reserve's Madness continues apace.

I am often asked, 'How can anyone not see the problems of growing debt in the US? Why can't we get a consensus to change?'

China has tapped software company Canonical to come up with an open-source operating system for local use that will use the Ubuntu operating system. The OS, called Kylin, is slated for release in April.

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the University of Tokyo reported over the weekend the discovery of a large deposit of rare earths at the Minami Tori Shima Island on the easternmost part of the country. The deposit is reportedly 20 to 30 times more concentrated than rare earths deposits in China, which has the potential of breaking Beijing's monopoly of those types of resources.

Divorce is a tragedy which leads to the independence of two people. No doubt that Rita Mae Brown was right -a divorce usually revolves around cash.

Tech Web site Uswitch.com released on Sunday leaked photos of the iPhone 5s casing, which it said was initially uploaded at iPhone5Parts.

FNArena is surveying investor sentiment in Australia in an effort to generate, over time, a guage similar to the AAII Investor Sentiment Survey in the US.

Samsung is sticking to its plan – fill the world with brimming choices of mobile phones, and it appears the rumoured Galaxy S4 Mini is part of the Galaxy menu that is set to be served this coming April.

More exciting offers are coming from Samsung this year, aside from the flagship handsets, the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy Note 3, that the tech giant is set to unleash successively.

Want some fame and fortune? Here's a shortcut to that route - make a high-tech condom for Bill Gates's Microsoft Foundation.

The Australian sharemarket managed to improve modestly for the first time this week, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) rising by just 0.1 per cent. Despite the gains, local shares slumped by 2.9 per cent over the past five sessions. Weakness from the miners continues to be a drag on trade, with iron ore prices slumping by around 15 per cent in just a month. The moves by BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Fortescue are quite closely correlated to iron ore price moves in general.

As the world shifts more toward a global economy, information technology plays a bigger role in making things easier for people, from communicating with people on the other continents to more complex tasks such as preparing reports.

Swedish fashion retailer H&M is set to expand in Australia, with its first store probably located in Melbourne, sometime in 2014.

Apple is proud of the mix of sturdy glass and solid aluminium shell that houses the iPhone, but the tech giant is also aware that a nasty fall can instantly wreck the popular smartphone.

McDonald's China has launched for its Chinese patrons the Sausage Double Beef Burger. Innovative? Perhaps. But is it healthy? Health experts surely think otherwise.

The second coming of Google’s Nexus 7 remains an Asus manufacturing duties and the two firms apparently on a May 2013 debut in which consumers will get LTE capability as among the major upgrades to come with the 7-inch slate.

Massive population numbers could perhaps come quite handy at times as the world's most poplous country, China, overtook Japan in 2012 to get ranked as the world's second-largest movie market, next to the United States.

Apple is all set for a Q3 2013 release of the iPhone 5S and its budget version, with the latter likely to carry a price tag of around $US329, new reports said.

Is it possible that Samsung’s inventory of the Galaxy Note 2 is running short of supply due to brisk sales movement, at least in select U.S. markets?

The Australian share market is trading higher at lunchtime, despite a negative start impacted by more falls on European and US share markets overnight.

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.