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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.

Google's Street View will not be showing just streets and roads but the inside of selected business establishments as well.

The ongoing legal battle between Samsung Electronics and Apple for a larger share of the Australian techie market escalated further on Tuesday after the South Korean firm sought a look into Apple's deals with major Australian telcos.

Some storied rivalries never die. In the case of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates that rivalry lasted their entire professional lives and tied the two men together in a relationship that was at times fractious but still symbiotic. During an interview with ABC News, Bill Gates summed up his professional rivalry with Jobs as sometime co-workers who spurred each other on.

Barnes and Noble sent out invites to media for an event on Nov. 7 that many believe will be the launching of a new Nook Color Tablet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.