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Nokia and Microsoft is giving 25,000 free Lumia 800 smartphones to developers who will write apps for the Windows Phone platforms.

The latest seasonally adjusted Australian Industry Group - PwC Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI®) contracted in October, albeit at a slower rate than recent months, rising 5.1 points to 47.4. The decline was particularly pronounced across the clothing and footwear sub-sector and sub-sectors linked to the construction industry.

Boeing announced Monday it is leasing the space shuttle processing hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for use as operational base for its commercial manned spacecraft business.

A Facebook blog entry disclosed that every day 600,000 log-ins and passwords are compromised.

Although Qantas is back in the air following the intervention by Fair Work Australia (FWA) over the industrial dispute, Qantas Chief Executive Alan Joyce did not escape recrimination for his unilateral decision to ground the planes and crew on Saturday.

ChiTree Apricot Seeds is recalling its products as excessive eating of raw apricot kernels may cause poisoning from its naturally occurring hydrocyanic acid.

By Greg PeelEarly last week uranium market participants gather in Arizona for a Uranium Fuel Seminar and such conferences have a tendency to remove players from the market.

- Macquarie's result weak but no shock- Costs, staff and divs cut but is it enough?- Stock well leveraged to market improvement- Inexpensive but is it time to buy?By Greg Peel"Following the release of the European financial package," declares Goldman Sachs' equity strategy team, "we believ...

By Greg PeelThe Dow fell 275 points or 2.3% while the S&P dropped 2.5% to 1253 and the Nasdaq lost 1.9%.

By Greg PeelThe RBA has not waited around to see the final detail of the European resolution plan, probably figuring that a weak response from global markets would warrant a cut anyway.

- Some similarities for gold market between 2008 and now- Barclays sees a number of factors as supportive for the metal- Positive backdrop suggests further gains are likelyBy Chris ShawIn late September the gold price fell by 10% in just four trading sessions, a price movement Barclays Capital notes...

For those who missed the buying frenzy when Hewlett Packard slashed the TouchPad's prices to $99 there is still a chance to get the hugely discounted tablet at Best Buy.

Mona Simpson, Steve Jobs' sister said he was a loving family man who remained grounded with his wife and children in the midst of his success with Apple.

Millions have already purchased Apple Inc.'s fifth generation handset, the iPhone 4S. While didn't have any design changes from the previous model, the improved processor and camera, as well as a built-in digital assistant, Siri, have impressed many. Apple has been known to provide amazing and revolutionary computing devices. But it doesn't mean that a product as meticulously designed like the iPhone 4S won't be free of any issues.

Rio Tinto, along with 10 other Australian companies, have been made part of an Australia-Nigeria Trade and Investment Council to look into possible investment opportunities in Nigeria's mining, agriculture and financial services sectors.

An Australian scientist says he has discovered a key factor in high blood pressure.

The Transport Workers Union promised Monday that baggage handlers, ground crew and catering staff who belong to the union will not strike for the next 21 days, if Qantas negotiates in good faith.

A record profit from the National Australia Bank and a higher dividend, supporting the bank's go it alone strategy and trying to make itself different from its peers.

Free to consumer price estimates are popular tools in North America, but they are not without problems. In the coming year or two we expect to see automated valuation modelling being used more widely in Australia - offering either existing or new portal entrants a way to stand out in a rather tough online marketplace.

Despite Fair Work Australia's (FWA) intervention on Qantas' labor row which will result in resumption of flights by 12 noon of Monday, Qantas Chief Executive Alan Joyce's unilateral action did not escape criticism of several groups.

The inadvertent accounting blunder made at the government-owned Hypo Real Estate does not only highlight a case of inefficiency on the part of bank personnel.

Chevron Corp. has announced drilling two gas discoveries in the Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia that are expected to reinforce expansion prospects into the $29 billion Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project.

With China and its steel making industry continuously slashing its production output and ultimately decreasing import demand, revenues of capesize ships that haul steel making raw materials iron ore and coal have been hardly hit and fell for a third day.

By Rudi Filapek-VandyckFNArena has added another video to its Investors Education section on the website.

Qantas will resume flights by noon Monday after Fair Work Australia (FWA) ordered an end to its lockout and grounding of 108 planes that stranded 68,000 passengers worldwide since Saturday.

Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC will now offer its Android users 5Gb of free cloud storage thru file hosting service Dropbox. HTC announced this new partnership on its Facebook page.

It seems like you can't read about tech news without running across news about one company suing another for patent infringement. Just this week, Apple was granted a patent for the slide to unlock feature which is also a feature in most smartphones. What this means is that Apple can now sue other phone and tablet manufacturers for using the slide to unlock feature and we can reasonably expect a new spate of patent infringement cases from this development in addition to all the lawsuits flying...

Australians visit an average of 2,772 Web pages months, according to Nielsen Online Ratings, which recently got the Interactive Advertising Bureau's (IAB) endorsement as preferred measure of counting Internet Activities in the country.

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