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Samsung Electronics Co., one of the largest smartphone companies in the world, is rumored to reveal Samsung Galaxy Note 2 in the market. Though details are still scarce about Samsung Galaxy Note 2, many people are already questioning if whether or not they should upgrade their Samsung Galaxy Note with the newest Galaxy Note model.

Virgin Australia owner Richard Branson revealed on Friday that his space tourism program, Virgin Galactic, will lift off as planned in the last quarter of 2013, with him and his family as among the first passengers.

One unintended consequence of boom in ecommerce is a corresponding increase in credit card fraud cases. Reports said that in 2011, over one million cases of card fraud were recorded in Australia.

Rumors about a new tablet from Apple called the iPad Mini has long been discussed in the Internet. Recently, new pictures showing the design of the iPad Mini have surfaced which further strengthened the rumor that Apple would be releasing the iPad Mini in the market.

Digg, the once popular social news site, was recently acquired by Betaworks. Details of the acquisition was not disclosed but there are reports stating that Betaworks paid $US500,000 for Digg's assets which includes the site as well as its technology.

Australians were at the mercy of global online retailers for now, which is the main reason that digital contents and products marketed locally carry more premium price when compared to offshore online stores, a new government submission said.

Some few months prior to the launch of its new operating system, Microsoft confirmed on Thursday that it has implemented re-adjustments intended to fine tune the core function of the tech giant's marketing and advertising divisions.

No thanks to the premium price of Apple's iPhone, Android smartphones have become the preferred device in most developed economies, according to the new figures issued recently by Kantar WorldPanel ComTech.

Yahoo recently experience a hack in their software which exposed more than 450,000 e-mails and passwords thus leaving the said data as vulnerable. Most of these login details were stored in plain text.

The chances that shoppers at Coles would find half-empty shelves at the supermarket giants' different outlets became higher as the strike at its Melbourne warehouse entered its fifth day on Friday.

Local stocks closed in the red for the sixth session in a row today, posting the Australian share market's longest losing streak since November last year. Weaker than expected jobs numbers hurt investor sentiment while falls on US share markets and reports China is considering reducing state steel output contributed to the negative tone. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) closed down 29pts or 0.7pct to 4106.

Blackberry and Windows could be considered as the "underdogs" in the smartphone market because they have been overshadowed by big players in the smartphone market like Apple and Google's Android.

A new research report shows that PC sales are now declining while the sales figures of tablets and smartphones are rising. This new trend shows that people are now more interested in tablets and smartphones as compared to PCs.

New rumored pictures of iPhone 5 have emerged courtesy of Gotta Be Mobile. The images revealed that the iPhone 5 has the same width with the previous model though a little taller and thinner.

Facebook, the largest social networking, recently revamped its Events page with Calendar and Lists view.

Apple's MacBook Air is known as being one of the thinnest laptops in the world. As it turns out, this title is not really for MacBook Air as Acer Aspire S5 takes the crown for this title.

Global shipments of personal computers shrunk anew in the June quarter, underscoring the weakening interest on the device that has been the tech world's hero product since Apple, IBM and Microsoft launched their initial units in the early 1980s.

If BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) will pursue its Olympic Dam expansion plan, the venture would produce sufficient uranium to fuel one-third of the global demand for use in nuclear power plants, according to South Australia Mineral and Resources Minister Tom Koutsantonis.

Coles put in place on Wednesday a two-pronged strategy to address the worsening labour row at its warehouses. It asked Fair Work Australia (FWA) to assume jurisdiction over the problem, while Toll Holdings made a new wage offer to the striking workers.

The Australian share market closed marginally in the red today, its fifth consecutive session of losses, although volumes were very low. Falls on offshore markets overnight contributed to the negative mood, although there was some buying in retail related stocks on the back of a pick-up in consumer sentiment. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) finished the day's trade at 4135, down 3pts or 0.1pct.

Apple Inc. has recently asked to remove 39 Apple products from the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). This decision from Apple has raised some recycling concerns from industry observers and environmentalists alike.

The newest Android update which is Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is now available for unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus as of today. The update would start for devices located in the U.S.

As part of Google's "spring cleaning", Google announced that they will be shutting down iGoogle. The iGoogle service is scheduled to end on November 1, 2013.

Apple is known for having a "signature" design in their products but there is one specific product that defies this "signature" design. This is the iPod Nano.

Coles, Priceline, Target, Bunnings and Dick Smith are the country's top rated retailers, all coming in first place within their respected sectors, a survey conducted on 16,000 digital shoppers has revealed.

News about Xbox 720 and its pending release has been going around in the Internet ever since leaked documents about the Xbox 720 was revealed. The latest prediction about Xbox 720 is that it will go on sale for only US$99 with a monthly TV subscription fee.

The arena for a price war is no longer limited to grocery shelves between supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths. It has gone up 30,000 feet into the Australian sky as Qantas and Virgin Australia battle for corporate travelers.

Volvo has lifted the lid on its next generation of vehicle safety systems designed to protect drivers from stray animals and red-light runners, and take full control of the car in congested city traffic.

The industrial action at the Coles warehouse in Melbourne entered its third day on Wednesday with Toll Holdings, the operator of the facility, threatening striking workers with legal action.