From highly anticipated, the iPhone 5 is turning out as old and out of style, i.e. if you believe Martin Fichter, acting president of HTC America. He says that iPhones are not that cool anymore as his daughters college classmates are now touting Android phones from Samsung Electronics and HTC.
Canada-based Research In Motion Ltd. might share the same fate.When PlayBook was released, RIM's best-case scenario was it would be able to sell a tablet version of the BlackBerry. The worst-case scenario, was like the others, RIM's tablet couldn't gain ground against Apple Inc.'s iPad.
Chevron’s Australian subsidiaries have inked a sale and purchase agreement with Kyushu for the delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Wheatstone Project in Western Australia.
An ex-Samsung manager has admitted that he leaked early information about the iPad to representatives from an "expert network" firm and a hedge fund
Major US airlines announced Tuesday they would limit available seats to reduce the airlines' costs while driving up ticket prices. Airline stocks went up following the announcement.
The Falcon is on the slide, in terms of overall sales since last year, according to Ford Australia but the carmaker remains optimistic that the setbacks it incurred in the local market during the past few quarters would be reversed by the entry of its newly-overhauled flagship sedan.
Australian retailer Myer is spending $9 million on a new website aimed at making the store the country's largest online department store. Myer targets to generate up to $40 million in annual sales from the new portal.
More than 3000 Qantas staff plan to stop work on Monday September 20. The planned industrial action is to take place in the morning peak period in most airports around Australia, which will last four hours.
Facebook is postponing its initial public offering (IPO) planned in October or November and will go public late next year instead.
- Woolworths hosts analysts tour of Masters store- Initial reactions mixed- Citi suggests currency guidance for Masters is conservative- Brokers ratings for Woolworths unchangedBy Chris ShawWoolworths ((WOW)) has opened its first Masters home improvement store in Braybrook, Victoria, and the company...
To avoid disruption to passenger travel during the planned Sept. 20 strike by about 3,800 union employees, Qantas will use larger aircraft and redeploy staff.
US consumer prices rose by a larger than expected 0.4pct in August and by 3.8pct over the year.
A massive chemical factory is currently burning on Dacre Street in Canberra's central business district. The fire hit Mitchell, an industrial suburb 5 kilometres north of Canberra, but is close to residential homes.
U.S. stocks notched a fourth-straight gain after a pledge by central banks to pump dollars into the European banking system spurred investors to snap up equities.
Paypal will further innovate their services by integrating new features, including easy access to PayPal anytime, anywhere.
Apple is reportedly planning an upgrade to its MacBook Pro notebooks with a marginal speed bump in time for the holiday season.
Police in London arrested Thursday a UBS trader suspected of making unauthorized trading the previous day that caused Switzerland's largest bank to lose nearly $2 billion.
Sleek, stylish and modern are some of the words apt to describe the new Windows 8 courtesy of Bill Gates’ Microsoft.
The Transport Workers Union has blamed Qantas management for its members’ decision to take industrial action next week.
Australian house prices went up in the June quarter, recording the largest increases since September 2010.
Nigerian scammers are actively and successfully operating in the real estate industry in Australia, the Real Estate Institute of NSW has warned.
The REIQ June quarter median unit and townhouse report has found the preliminary number of sales rebounded across most of Brisbane, with median prices also holding firm.
The O’Farrell Government’s decision to slash First Home Buyers benefits by removing stamp duty concessions for existing homes will hit rural centres hard, according to the NSW’s peak industry body.
Beijing municipal government will implement a policy requiring all companies to establish a labor union not only to attract new investments, but also to help labor workers receive higher wages.
The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that Lufthansa pilots can fly a plane until the age of 65 after finding the airline's age restriction for such workers as constituting discrimination.
New home building has seen its third decline in four quarters, and could deteriorate further in the year ahead.
The billions of dollars in Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's bank account must have inspired so many young technology geeks in the U.S. that they are following the footsteps the Internet mogul took when he was in university.
Changes to regulations surrounding self-managed super funds could ultimately impact on rental affordability, it has been claimed.
Employees of Toyota Motor Corporation in Australia went on strike on Friday.
By Greg PeelThe problem with assuming the price of gold simply has to go higher in the current short and longer term climates is that everyone is pretty much on the same page.
