Research in Motion, the manufacturer of Blackberry recently announced a delay for highly-anticipated Blackberry model, Blackberry 10. This delay is just one of the problems that the company is facing as of the moment.
Recent reports are stating that Samsung Galaxy S3 will soon be receiving the latest Android update (Android 4.1 Jelly Bean).
Google Chrome, the popular web browser from Google is now available for Apple devices such as iPhone and iPad devices. Apple users can now download Google Chrome for free through the App store.
Research in Motion (RIM), the company behing Blackberry has announced that the company would be cutting down 5,000 jobs. The announcement was made after the company has revealed a sales decline from their last quarter report.
The federal government extended a $40-million rescue package to Alcoa, which allowed the firm's Point Henry plant to remain open for at least two more years until July 2014.
Siri was first introduced by Apple through its iPhone 4S which was become a hit to smartphone users all over the world. Google introduced a similar voice-like search feature in Google called Google voice search. This feature would supposedly Google's own "Siri-like" version plus more. This leads to the important question of: Is Google voice search much better than Apple's Siri?
Defying the moderate outlook for commodities in the current year, BHP Billiton confirmed last week that it has forged a $3-million deal with Copper Range Ltd for the transfer of the latter's existing and pending explorations in South Australia's Olympic Dam.
The problem with most airlines is that they are quick on the draw to implement extra charges once airline fuel goes up, but are slow to revert when the same goes down, thus said Flight Centre, Australia's largest travel agent, as it lambasted Australian air carriers Qantas Airways Limited and Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd for their poor inaction to automatically lower their surcharges.
It looks like that for the moment, the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the product of the close collaboration between Google and Samsung, will be limited to the estimated 6000 units that Google had distributed to developers last week, at least in the United States.
It is always an interesting debate. There are people who believe strongly that the requirement for a real estate business to operate from a traditional retail premises is becoming obsolete in the age of Skype, iPads and cloud computing.
It was a repeat of the Millennium Bug, also known as the Y2K scare, which caused the delay of 400 Qantas planes on Sunday. Virgin Australia was similarly affected after the manual check-in and dispatch of flight that use the Amadeus system collapsed.
Buying a rental property is a big move. You want to make passive income, but you don't want to take a lot of risks doing so. Passive income has a certain kind of allure to it, but it also takes a lot of work to set up.
Malaysia's house price rises have continued, but at a slower pace, due to a slight GDP growth slowdown to 5.1% in 2011, from 7.2% in 2010. Malaysian houses prices have tracked inflation during the last decade, except during the recent surge.
Tiger Airways aims to roar louder in the regional aviation industry by attempting to eat into the market of leaders Qantas and Virgin Australian. The budget carrier aims to do that by adding 3,600 seats daily from its new Sydney base.
By Greg PeelWith cyclical stocks on the nose for longer term investors in Australia and worldwide, given post-GFC risk frustration, defensive stocks have returned to popularity ? not just because of their defensive nature on a capital preservation basis but also because of the yield they offer on di...
During the past week Google has been hosting their annual Google I/O event. Apple Events attract diehards from all over the world and in the past we have seen almost evangelical like scenes at these events.
There are rumors in and around the market that there is an ongoing deal between Sinopec and Chesapeake. The news of this deal is reigning loud in the market even more than the investment of Carl Icahn, the giant of natural gas.
While the global recession is still a threat to the economies, Retail sector has come as a ray of hope in the damp clouds. Though not an exuberating number, some countries do show a positive development towards retail, which stands as a sign, if not, a complete step towards a U-turn from downfall.
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According to Slipstream Trader Murray Dawes, the technical stars have aligned. They're warning of an imminent market plunge. Murray reckons it could happen within weeks.
By Kathleen Brooks, Research Director UK EMEA, FOREX.comThe EU summit was a curve ball for the markets.
Google has just released its newest tablet in the market called Google Nexus 7 tablet. The release of this tablet means more options for people who are looking for 7-inch tablets like Barnes & Noble Nook and Galaxy Tab 2. This leads customers to asking: Which is the best tablet among the three?
Google has just unveiled Google Nexus Q during the Google I/O 2012 at San Francisco. This is the first living-room hardware device that was manufactured by Google.
Samsung Galaxy S3 has just received a RAM upgrade and there are speculations that the upgrade was a way to prepare users for an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrade.
QR National had awarded a A$76-million contract to the Abigroup for the construction of the Wiggins Island rail project. The venture covers 13 kilometres loop located near Gladstone which would be the location of the Wiggins Island Coal Export Term (Wicet), the unloading point for the coal trains.
Luxury department store David Jones has reportedly attracted the attention of a UK-based firm as company chair Robert Savage confirmed this afternoon the floating of an unsolicited takeover offer to one of Australia's oldest retail player.
Telstra Corporation, it appears, has to work further in beefing up its privacy protocols as regulators said on Friday that the giant telco breached Australia's Privacy Act when it inadvertently exposed last year thousands of customers' personal information.
The retail sector is buzzing on the last trading day of the financial year, with upmarket retailer David Jones (DJS) the subject of a takeover offer. The overall share market is trading flat, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) unchanged at 4085.1.
The financial stability of embattled airline Qantas is facing another threat over the tie-up between Virgin Australia and Singapore Airlines.
According to a 2011 survey by the MIT Sloan School of Business, nearly 80 percent of all brand and market management decisions made by top-performing companies were primarily based on their CEO's intuition, rather than any form of market research.
