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Count Siri in as another headache for iPhone 4s users. The voice controlled assistant was down for some users on Thursday with users complaining online about their problems getting Siri to respond to voice commands.Siri is the built-in virtual assistant that uses voice commands to perform certain functions. It can make text messages and appointments. Siri's biggest draw is in using a network connection to search the Web for answers to the user's questions. It's this functionality th...

Apple Inc. is known for its revolutionary and innovative products. But that doesn't mean that devices meticulously designed by the top-notch engineers at Apple are free of any issues.

Australian sales of new vehicles in October posted a 5.3 per cent growth performance over a year ago, data from the Australian Federal Chamber of Automotive released Friday showed.

Prices of copper recovered losses on Friday on hopes Greece will no longer push for a planned referendum on its bailout package and after the European Central Bank slashed its benchmark interest rate, whetting anew investor appetite for the raw commodity.

Rio Tinto Chairman Jan du Plessis said on Friday that while Australia is known as the Land Down Under, present global economic realities is that it is Europe which is down under.

More Australian government agencies will shift to cloud computing services in 2012, independent technology analyst firm Ovum said Friday.

As floods continue to wreck havoc in Thailand, the death toll has now risen to 356 and more than 2 million had been affected within the 147 districts and 26 provinces still submerged by the worst natural disaster in a century in this developing Southeast Asian country.

Embattled Qantas Chief Executive Alan Joyce took responsibility for the grounding of the air carrier's planes and crew on Saturday and Sunday which stranded almost 100,000 passengers.

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.

A Briton revealed that Google has finally removed a fake online review of his business on Google's Places that mentioned him as a pedophile after his request to delete it have been ignored for 18 months. Unfortunately, the damage had been done.

Qantas said it will compensate all reasonable losses of passengers stranded during the two-day grounding of its planes over the weekend on top of giving refunds and re-booking affected customers.

By JP GoldmanIt now seems increasingly likely that Europe will remain a dead weight dragging on the global economy over the next year or so.

By Greg PeelThe Dow rose 208 points or 1.8% while the S&P gained 1.9% to 1261 and the Nasdaq added 2.2%.

Sony's gamble with a PS3 price drop worked and in a financial report released on Tuesday, the company revealed that its sale of the gaming console rose during the third quarter.

Hewlett Packard has announced a new Slate tablet called the Slate 2 with a new processor and some minor upgrades.The first Slate tablet, the Slate 500 was released a year ago in October with a limited amount of success. Well HP is now giving the tablet another chance with a new spruced up Slate 2 tablet PC with better processor and longer battery life.

It used to be Apple Inc. against Android device makers, with the Cupertino, California-based company leading race with its revolutionary and elegantly designed products. It should have been a three-way race, but Microsoft Corp.'s Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates missed the boat after they killed the Courier, a dual touch-screen touch enabled tablet which was...

What could be the most opportune time than now for Strategic Airlines to launch its newest low cost airline, Air Australia, after Australia's aviation travel and tourism suffered a major blow due to a debilitating industrial action in one of its major air carriers.

Australian Bankers' Association Chief Executive Steven Munchenberg defended Thursday the healthy profits registered over the week by local banks.

More evidence that Australian house prices continue to drift downwards.

Westpac has joined its other big rivals in reporting a record profit for its latest financial year, with cash earnings rising to $6.301 billion.

Markets were battered again overnight by fears a surprise referendum in Greece might sink the last week's third bailout rescue and even the eurozone itself.

Google Maps will start charging heavy users starting January 2012.

By Rudi Filapek-VandyckThe first thing that comes to mind when reading "Taming The Beast. Wall Street's imperfect answers to making money" by former WSJ editor Larry Light is how recent most modern aspects of the global financial sector are that most of us today would take for granted.

Australian start-up tech firm Lexxe announced on Thursday the launch of its third-generation Internet search engine which uses Semantic Key Search to yield specific target information based on application of natural language search technology.

Apple Inc. has confirmed battery life problems with the new iPhone 4S as well as mobile devices updated with the iOS 5 mobile operating system.

Toyota will make health care robots available in the market by 2013. The mechanical assistants would be capable of lifting disabled patients out of bed and helping them walk.

- Weaker iron ore prices impact on OneSteel's earnings- Brokers cut estimates and price targets- Lower earnings increase debt covenant risks- Ratings downgraded to reflect uncertain outlookBy Chris ShawManagement at OneSteel ((OST)) yesterday downgraded 1H12 earnings guidance, indicating net pr...

ANZ has announced a $5.36bn full-year statutory profit, but said difficult business conditions will be here "for some time".

BMW Australia is introducing the new BMW X3 xDrive20i variant into the local line-up. It features the new 2.0-litre TwinPower turbocharged four-cylinder engine.