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Qantas passengers stranded last week by the grounding of the airline's fleet can get a free return economy flight to any destination within Australia, or a trans-Tasman flight to New Zealand and back.

Arianespace will launch its sixth satellite for Optus by 2013 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The rocket will launch from Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, Paul O'Sullivan, Optus Chief Executive, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, announced in Sydney, Australia.

With a growing global consciousness of environmentalism and carbon footprints, comes the growth and opening of various green industries that haven’t previously had a chance.

A TV deal between Nine Network and the parents of the 14-year-old boy on trial in Bali, Indonesia for buying marijuana was cancelled on Sunday.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

Google Maps will start charging heavy users starting January 2012.

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.

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.

If you could design the next Hollywood movie star car to rival the Back to the Future DeLorean and Steve McQueen’s 1968 Mustang GT from Bullitt, what would it look like?

The ultra-efficient Volkswagen XL1 will become a production reality in 2013.

Qantas would immediately refund passengers for canceled flights and out-of-pocket expenses caused by Chief Executive Alan Joyce's unilateral decision to ground all crew and flights on Saturday until Monday noon. However, to get immediate refunds, ticket holders must contact Qantas's call centre.

Supermarket chain giant Woolworths will open 39 new stores in Australia and New Zealand in fiscal 2012 and create 10,000 new jobs, the company announced Tuesday.

Hackers may have exploited an unknown bug in Microsoft's Windows operating system to infect computers with the Duqu virus.

Rio Tinto will buy from Japanese firm Komatsu Limited 150 driverless trucks in the next four years under its Mine of the Future programme.

Like other western nations, Australia is engaged in a battle of the bulge as obesity rates soar.

Qantas hopes to appease angry customers and lure them back to its fold with lower domestic and international fares, double frequent flyer points and other special deals.