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Adapting to new technologies such as having an online presence was the way how small businesses in Australia coped with the hard times.

Retail establishments in Australia are passing on to shoppers the cost of goods stolen worth about $2 billion yearly. A study on retail crime places the amount at an average of $284 a year hidden as "honesty taxes," the Herald Sun reports.

Smartphone dealers in Hong Kong bought iPhone 4S from Australia and Japan and sold them to locals for up to six times the original price.

The high cost of living is putting more low-income Aussies at risk of falling into poverty, a report says. Poorer households are compelled to spend more of their income on essential goods and services due to price hikes on these non-discretionary items, such as food and electricity, a report by St Vincent de Paul Society says. As a result, households' health and education expenses are delayed, if attended at all.

Although jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad carries the risk of bricking your device and voiding your Apple warranty there are some benefits to jailbreaking your iPhone 4s or iPad 2. Here are the five reasons why you should jailbreak your iPhone or iPad.

If you're one of the lucky ones who were able to snag a new iPhone 4S or upgraded your existing Apple device to iOS 5, then you're probably wondering how fast you can fill up all those gigabytes of memory with apps. The Apple App Store has half a million apps available, so narrowing it down to what you really need can be a forbidding task.

Virgin Australia has begun services between Brisbane and Gladstone for the first time in Monday with new ATR turbo‐prop aircraft.

More than half of Australian mid-market companies are not properly prepared for persistent fluctuations in business conditions, according to the inaugural Commonwealth Bank Future Business Index.

Qantas long-haul pilots on Monday morning called for Qantas management to urgently reconsider their withdrawal from negotiations before Fair Work Australia.

Bob Parsons, the CEO of internet domain name registrar GoDaddy, which sponsored the IndyCar Challenge that cost Dan Wheldon his life, had spoken in relation to the tragedy. Wheldon, 33, died following a horrifying accident on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The accident occurred during the lap 11 of the race, when his car flew mid-air and burst into flames after a 15-car pileup. He was immediately airlifted to a local hospital but was unable to survive due to "serious injuries." Three ...

Apple hit Samsung with a one-two punch this weekend as U.S and Dutch courts ruled against Samsung in its continuing legal battle with the iPhone manufacturer.

Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett may have temporarily banned Samsung Electronics from launching its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, but Aussies have found a way to go around the ban. They ordered the gadget online.

News of Rio Tinto's sale of 13 aluminium assets boosted the company's stocks by 2.74 per cent on Monday. With the increase, Rio Tinto's shares rose to $70.16 which is a month high.

Over a thousand birds had been found dead since MV Rena's reef crash resulting in oil spill almost two weeks ago, as operations in oil removal have been stopped because media vessels are getting too close to the ship.

Australian air carrier Qantas Airways faces a possible legal clash, this time from a stricken mother after the labor beleaguered airliner admitted losing her unaccompanied child last month at the Hobart Airport.

Leighton Holdings has won a major contract by Iraq’s South Oil Company, involving the development of two offshore platforms.

Workers at factories run by US multinational JELD-WEN across the country have voted against a new agreement, which they said would see them slide backwards in pay and conditions.

The ongoing labor dispute of Qantas with unions continues to take its toll on the air carrier's operations as it canceled 16 flights on Monday and ground five planes.

Apple and Samsung are taking a timeout in their fierce legal battle over smartphone and tablet patents to pay their last respect to the late Apple co-founder and technology icon Steve Jobs.

Search engine giant and Android maker Google is joining the crowd of online music stores soon.

Westpac, one of Australia’s four major banks, has invested in a new banking centre in Rocklea.

Australia’s tourism and accommodation industry has voiced worries on the threats it faces as a result of the continuing action by airline unions against Qantas.

Australian customers lined up around Apple stores and other retailers Friday to get the new Apple iPhone 4S, but for budget-conscious consumers, the new smartphone could be too much for their wallets to handle.

Apple has described Siri as an "intelligent assistant" but developers should have added another feature to Siri: budding comedian.

Research in Motion co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie held a phone press conference Thursday to announce that BlackBerry services have been restored globally after several days of network failure.

iPad 2-manufacturer Apple only won half of the battle with Samsung Electronics when it was granted by Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett on Thursday a temporary injunction that stops the South Korean firm from launching the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia.

Higher iron ore and coal production led to a strong third quarter performance for Rio Tinto. As a result, the Australian mining firm is expected to break its record $14.43 billion profit in 2010.

Qantas is expecting another day of turbulence as it canceled 18 flights and delayed 32 more due to a schedule engineers strike.

Apple Stores, resellers, and carriers in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom are opening their doors today, Oct. 14, to people eager to be the first to get their hands on iPhone 4S.