The Australian sharemarket managed to improve for the second time this week today, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) up 0.5 per cent or 22 pts to 4765.0. Today was the busiest day on the market in terms of volume so far this year; with $4.12 billion worth of shares exchanging hands.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 16, 2013
HTC is saving the best to come in the few months ahead and its latest offering, the dual-core One SV, is a straightforward midrange smartphone intended to woo the budget-conscious buyers.
Erik Pineda
Jan 16, 2013
Powerful Android smartphones are in the 2013 gadget pipeline, but nothing beats the excitement reserved for Samsung’s Galaxy S4, which reports said will debut early this year with a 4.99-inch screen size.
Erik Pineda
Jan 16, 2013
The company Doist developed a productivity app called Todoist which is available on a mobile device, desktop, browser, Gmail, and many more. Now used by over 450,000 people, the app was named top mobile application by The Guardian and cited by The Next Web as among the 35 best productivity apps for 2013.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 16, 2013
Apple, the tech giant, is cutting orders of screens and other components used to manufacture iPhone devices due to weak sales of the iPhone 5. Its rival, Samsung marches on as the company reached the 100 million mark of Galaxy S sales in the mobile market.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 16, 2013
BlackBerry is raring to blaze the path for recovery via its initial two handsets launch on February, namely the Touchscreen Z10 and the QWERTY X10, both set to run on BB10.
Erik Pineda
Jan 16, 2013
In what seemed to be a subtle way of overturning Google's dominance in the search engine arena on the World Wide Web, Facebook launched on Tuesday its New Graph Search that enables its more than 1 billion users discover people, photos, places and interests. Well, at least for now.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Jan 16, 2013
The Australian share market lifted slightly in morning trade, with gains in banking and health care stocks covering the losses for our big name miners and energy players.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 16, 2013
There are no supply issues hampering the production of Nexus 4, a South Korean official of LG told a Chinese publication this week, dismissing reports that the Google smartphone stock outs were mostly caused by a supply chain that is erratic and scarce.
Erik Pineda
Jan 16, 2013
It is a search function in a beta mode that would allow members to search information posted by their friends, not a smartphone. Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's announcement on Tuesday at the company's headquarters dashed weeks of rumours that the most popular social media company would soon roll out a mobile device.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 16, 2013
Rio Tinto PLC, the world's second largest mining company, informed that it would expand iron ore production by approximately 15 percent as it saw its 2012 output grow to about 253 million tons, topping its earlier forecast. The strong results were pushed mainly by the revival in China's demand for iron ore.
Jamelle Agbuis
Jan 16, 2013
Despite the shift by Chinese steelmakers to use more local iron ore, mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) is not fazed and hopes to cash in on anticipated renewed Chinese demand amid rising prices of the commodity.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 16, 2013
By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck, Editor FNArenaA late rally pushed the S&P500 1.66 point into the positive to close at 1472.
Admin System
Jan 16, 2013
Local stocks ended slightly lower on Tuesday. Market news was a less a factor behind the weaker tone, rather it was a couple of unsuccessful attempts to make new session highs in the morning that provided sellers with some encouragement and over the course of the afternoon the index lost ground.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 15, 2013
Ben Bernanke gives a speech on Monday in the US. He may try to 'walk-back' the minutes of the December Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Those minutes suggested that at least one FOMC member wants to end the Fed's bond buying program this year. If he's feeling bold, Bernanke will fly the inflationist flag.
Jamelle Agbuis
Jan 15, 2013
Nokia and its partners have been delivering impressive after-sales services for the Lumia 920, dispatching timely patches and offering great accessories to further increase the attention it managed to capture starting late 2012
Erik Pineda
Jan 15, 2013
The good thing about digging holes is that you can fill them back up again. You get two bursts of economic activity from the one project. Heck, you could employ two people to do the job instead of just one. A hole digger and a hole filler.
Jamelle Agbuis
Jan 15, 2013
Well here we go. Let the countdown begin. China's fourth quarter GDP numbers come out on Friday. We reckon most of the run up in the All Ords to 4751 has been in anticipation of good news. If form holds, stocks will trade down once the news is in.
Jamelle Agbuis
Jan 15, 2013
Jaguar Land Rover to Add 800 Jobs in Solihull Due to 2012 High Car Sales
Jamelle Agbuis
Jan 15, 2013
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is likely to come out within the first quarter of 2013, a new blog report said, which based the claim on the hints ‘leaked’ by Samsung during a side gathering in the recently-concluded Las Vegas CES.
Erik Pineda
Jan 15, 2013
Sony’s Xperia Z seems worth comparing with the Nexus 4 from Google-LG. The two gadgets draw energy from one power source – the 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro that works sweetly with a 2GB RAM for a trouble-free handset behaviour.
Erik Pineda
Jan 15, 2013
The Australian sharemarket is off to a positive start for the second consecutive session, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) up 0.2 per cent or 8.1 pts to 4753.8. Global markets overnight ended mostly higher, with the Dow up 0.14 per cent, while shares in Germany and France also improved modestly.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 15, 2013
The new Sony Xperia Z packs all the right elements to deliver joy for the Japanese firm, long searching for a hero phone that will measure up with the mighty iPhone and Galaxy smartphones from Apple and Samsung, respectively.
Erik Pineda
Jan 15, 2013
There are hundreds of thousands of application that can be downloaded from Google Play and iTunes for their respective devices. Before, most of these applications are exclusive to either Android or iOS, but now, developers have optimised their applications to make them usable to both OS platforms, increasing their target market users.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 15, 2013
The GooPhone is the Chinese nemesis of Apple because their products resemble iOS devices. If the Apple has iPhone 5, they have GooPhone i5.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 15, 2013
Technology giant Samsung is slapped with legal charges from another big company, LG Display. According to Dow Jones Newswires, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 OLED screen display violated LG patents which resulted to the conflict between the two Korean companies.
Jenalyn Villamarin
Jan 15, 2013
By Andrew NelsonAs the old curse goes; may you live in interesting times. And for the uranium market, last year contained surely some interesting times.
Admin System
Jan 15, 2013
By Alexander Green, Investment U Chief Investment StrategistFriday, January 11, 2013: Issue #1946A powerful new bull market in stocks is just beginning to take off.
Admin System
Jan 15, 2013
Someday, someone will fund an academic study identifying the crevice in the human brain that craves year-end predictions for the coming 12 months. Wherever it resides, it is undeniably strong and far more prevalent among the populace than the craving for news about, say, the 'fiscal cliff' or the New York Jets' quarterback saga.
Jamelle Agbuis
Jan 15, 2013
iPhone's steady hold on the smartphone market is growing weaker as months go by in the never-ending battle against Android mobile devices. The signs of weakness begin to show as Apple cut the orders of screens and other components by 50 per cent.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jan 15, 2013