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In less than four weeks, Microsoft is set to launch Window 8, which would likely result in the web being flooded with prices of new PCs suited to the latest OS.

As Microsoft moves from Windows 7 to 8, the tech giant is faced with the huge task of teaching people how to use the new operating system, CNET reports. Leaked training videos give a peek of how Microsoft intends to accomplish that huge task.

The new iPhone 5 will be so hot of a gadget that Apple is destined to rack up total sales of 135 million units by the end of 2012 and one analyst credits the smartphone’s incredible engineering for the feat.

Global consumers appear to continue their migration from conventional personal computers as new data from research firms showed PC sales shrunk anew in the September quarter of the current year.

Toyota Australia has recalled almost 300,000 vehicles to correct a defect with the cars' power windows in one of the largest recalls in automotive history.

A Frenchwoman got the shock of her life when her service provider billed her €11.721 quadrillion. Solenne San Jose of Bordeaux, upon receipt of the bill - which is almost 6,000 times France's yearly gross domestic product - immediately called Bouygues Telecom to verify the amount being collected.

Australia is clearly on the road to one million homes having solar photovoltaic panels installed, the chief adviser to the Sustainable Energy Association (SEA) said on Wednesday. To help reach that goal is the opening of the 10-megawatt Greenough River Solar Farm in Western Australia.

Microsoft's notorious Patch Tuesday has been replaced by Update Tuesday, at least for Wednesday, Oct 10, as the company makes sweeping alterations to Windows 8 and its core apps.

A new topnotch car model is slated to join Opel Australia’s present domestic product lines, the European carmaker said in a press release issued on Wednesday.

Facebook are currently added two more buttons, especially made for business people who wants to start or currently has an online store.

There's a trend at work in Lenovo's new convertible family of Windows 8 computing products: the names all suggest what they do, and the theme of flexibility.

Even Microsoft has conceded that Apple’s business model, carefully crafted by its late CEO Steve Jobs, is a rousing success and based on the latest notes from chief executive Steve Ballmer, the software giant is adopting the same approach, much of it at least.

Mary Retallack, a wine grape scientist from Adelaide Hills, was declared on Tuesday the top winner of the 2012 Australian Rural Women's Award. She was recognised for her efforts to help improve the potential of women in the wine industry and rural sector.

Key Microsoft executives took pay cuts in the last financial year for missing corporate goals, according to the latest regulatory filing by the software giant.

We can call the dogfight between Motorola Droid RAZR HD and HTC One X+ as the race of marginal Android players for obvious reasons: the Android business sphere, despite its smartphone dominance, has so far spawned very few profitable actors.

The sales of the Toyota Motor Corp. in the country of China have been down by nearly 40 percent in the month of September as compared to the previous year. The sales of some of its rival companies like BMW and Hyundai however soared high in China. This fact of Toyota's China sales fall reveals how badly the two countries have been struck by their ongoing territorial row.

Nokia is struggling to regain its old footing and is placing most of its future bets with Microsoft but few analysts believe that the Finnish phone maker will rediscover the narrow road to recovery.

The next Nexus phone will appear this month, produced by LG, CNET reports. This will be the first time Google has teamed up with LG and it should help the latter break into the U.S. market. The phone is expected to be heavily influenced by the LG Optimus G.

Much like the battle in the mobile phone space that resulted in three companies - Nokia (NOK), Motorola (GOOG) and one time mobile phone vendor Ericsson (ERIC) - controlling the industry, the smartphone market is now consolidating around its top players. That means market share loss and margin pressure for others.

Several business groups have spoken against the failure of the big 4 to pass in full to borrowers the 25 basis points cut in overnight cash rate the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) made last week. The groups also did not spare the central bank for failing to persuade the lenders to follow its monetary policy.

Another Nokia Lumia will become exclusive for AT&T in US. The Nokia Lumia 920 will run on Windows Phone 8, Microsoft's upcoming software release for PC.

LG announced the addition of 3D video game platform to its Smart TV app offerings. To be released in the later part of 2012, it features primarily family-friendly games in both 2D and 3D in genres including action/adventure, RPGs, puzzle games, sports, and more. User can browse or search for games as well as purchase and play them through the TV's interface which looks like any app store. Owners can use either the LG Magic Remote or any third party game controller.

A study for ANZ Bank conducted by Newspoll found that many Australians favour the use of new but difficult to cheat technologies to access their bank accounts. In lieu of plastic cards used to withdraw money from ATMs, they would prefer retina or fingerprint scanning technology.

Four days after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) reduced by 25 basis points the overnight cash rate to 3.25 per cent, two members of the big four announced rate cuts on Friday.

A new book on the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is slated for publication on 2013 and will be written by his high school love interest, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

Samsung Electronics is expected to hit an operating profit of $US6.8 billion for the September 2012 quarter, likely boosting its income by about 77 per cent in the past 12 months ending in the period.

Pitting the Nokia Lumia 920 against Motorola’s Droid RAZR HD will practically lead into a fierce combat, actually a proxy war for two tech giants that have been at each other’s neck for the longest time.

Free train rides would be offered to rail commuters in 2013 when two major lines and the Adelaide Railway Station close for upgrading and prepare for electrification.

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Javascript was developed with complex applications and at the same time made available a new plugin for Visual Studio. The plugin, known as Typescript, will make Javascript more user friendly for newbies who want to create large-scale web applications.