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Walter Isaacson's biography on the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is an unstinting view of what many claim to be the visionary of our age. "Steve Jobs" is a rare view of a deeply private man who inspired other and drove Apple to change the world.

The Australian Beverages Council, representing the Australian non-alcoholic beverage industry, has criticised the recent US study attempting to link increased soda consumption with violence.

Apple very quietly upgraded its entire MacBook Pro lineup with faster processors and better internal storage but keeping previous prices. The upgrades come just in time to capitalize on the holiday buying season.

Despite the inconvenience suffered by Australian travelers because of the Qantas series of strikes, public opinion still appears to favor the unions that represent the air carrier's workers, instead of Qantas management.

Apple is insistent on closing all doors for rival Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 to enter Australia - even through online retailers.

Microsoft will collect license fees from more than 50 percent of Android devices.

Now stepping up as the latest frontrunners in Google's ongoing war with Apple, Motorola's Droid Razr and Samsung's Galaxy Nexus are both high end smartphones that are both capable of taking on Apple's latest iPhone 4s. While both devices are being compared to the iPhone 4s, they are still competing against one another in the smartphone market. How exactly do they stack up against each other?

Nokia is expected to show the fruit of its partnership with Windows later this week by showcasing three new smartphones running on the Windows 7 OS.

Tourism Australia and Jetstar entered into a $10-million partnership in an attempt to boost the country's visitor arrivals, particularly those from Japan.

Wesfarmers-owned Coles supermarket is set to lift the amount of milk it sources from Western Australian dairy farmers by 33 percent, with its three major new dairy contracts.

Resource-related projects are expected to significantly boost the engineering and commercial construction sectors over the 2011/12 and 2012/13 financial years, according to Australia's leading construction companies.

An Australian teenager's money laundering scam has reached $200,000 because of alleged failure by banks to stop the credit card scheme despite efforts by the teen's mother.

Florida-based asset management firm Stonehenge Capital Management (SCM) announced Monday that its new direction-neutral hedge fund strategy called Forward Curve Realignment (FCR) resulted in strong returns one month after its launching.

Qantas's prolonged labor problem is affecting not only the air carrier's bottom line, but also the financial viability of Australia's tourism industry.

Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics appear, involved in a contentious battle in the courtroom and in the mobile devices market, will be engaged in another showdown: mini tablets.

Leaked pictures have surfaced on the internet of a prototype Nokia Windows Phone called the Nokia Sabre which is set to launch next week.

In two separate interviews Google Android chief Andy Rubin and Microsoft Windows Phone President Andy Lees both had negative things to say about Apple's digital assistant Siri.

The name of Research in Motion's (RIM) upcoming operating system, BBX, is taken and a New Mexico company using BBx prefix to its products has sent a notice to the BlackBerry maker not to use it to avoid confusing the public.

Research has found potential borrowers are saving rather than taking on debt this year, and Australian banks have responded by loosening their lending criteria.

Virgin Australia added another strategic partner on its ongoing quest to put up a global alliance that would allow the company active participation on key aviation markets around the world.

BHP Billiton remains upbeat on its outlook despite recent indications of retreating demands for its commodity offerings, specifically the global miner’s iron ore shipments to its number one customer – China.

A Qantas plane carrying all of the Northern Territory's Central Australian politicians Friday morning had to turn back as part of safety precautions. After experiencing a technical problem, Qantas flight number 1935 with 115 passengers on board, turned around for an emergency landing in Darwin.

The Western Australian government has approved on Thursday the 570-km railway corridor infrastructure project that would enable Mid-West iron-ore projects gain access to the $5.9 billion proposed deepwater port at Oakajee.

Amid global calls for review of excessive executive compensation while the rest of the company employees continue to tighten their belts due to wage hike freezes, an Australian retailer reduced the pay of its top boss.

One option that businesses, particularly small enterprises that could not afford to experiment by moving everything to a cloud computing service provider and then shift to another solution is to give the service first a trial.

Qantas tickets have become more expensive because of the ongoing labor problem with unions. Travelers from Melbourne to Sydney now have to pay $150 more for a one-way ticket, News.com.au reports.

Leighton Asia in joint venture with Gammon has secured a A$1.2 billion contract from the MTR Corporation to construct the West Kowloon Terminus Station North, part of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL).

Fixed interest rates have continued their downward slide in October, with 36 lenders moving rates downward this month, according to new research from Australia's financial comparison site RateCity.

As mortgage lenders continue slashing fixed home loan rates, Australia's financial comparison site RateCity warns availing even discounted rates can actually cost more for households in the long run.