Erik Pineda

Former CNN chair and Time managing editor Walter Isaacson has been successful in profiling the lives of heavyweight figures such as Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger that he realized he could not risk bungling his new project, the authorized biography of Apple head Steve Jobs.

As budget airline Tiger Airways heeded calls made by the Australian consumer watchdog on Wednesday to halt it ticket sales on Wednesday in light of the company’s uncertain flight status, the country’s aviation authority indicated today that a new decision will be issued on Friday.

As the national broadband network overhauls Australia’s telecommunication industry, so is the largest telco in the country, Telstra Corporation, which announced on Wednesday consolidation on its services and reorganization on the firm’s leadership functions.

The local economy is not as robust as its seems and projected growth could falter down the line in the current year as indicated by the latest Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decision to hold off any rate movements for the month of July on Tuesday.

A joint research conducted by Australian and European experts suggested that banana cross-breeding will lead to improved production and make the crop more robust in deflecting pests and diseases.

Blame it to the camel, which according to an Aussie firm, contributes as much as one tonne of carbon dioxide emission each year to the country’s atmosphere basing on their last accounted population of about 1.2 million heads.

Tiger Airways intends to cooperate with Australia’s aviation regulator following the suspension of its domestic services within the country on Friday last week as ordered by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).

Ice sheets frozen for million of years could disappear sooner than we thought as a new study showed that apart from the ‘melting’ effect of global warming on Earth’s poles, the warming water beneath the polar ice reserves could also drastically speed up their evaporation.

Hand it to the Chinese as they not only have the second biggest economy in the world but also two of the longest cross-sea bridges in the planet with the Thursday unveiling of the country’s 41-kilometre Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge.

Months of preparation for Hewlett-Packard’s tablet foray end on Friday as the company officially unleashed the TouchPad, with up to a hundred Best Buy outlets initially offering the device that retails at starting price of $499.

Nokia has signalled its intent to catch up with the exploding smartphone industry and in achieving that, the giant phone maker tapped Microsoft Corporation to provide the Windows Phone 7 OS to the new breed of handsets that the company will start issuing next year.

The proposed mining tax will successfully pass the parliamentary scrutiny and keep its present form, according to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who believes that firm backings from independent MPs will seal the measures’ good fortunes.

From the more than half-a-billion money it poured in 2005 to snatch the then hotshot social networking site MySpace, Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp. has decided to jettison the website from its portfolio and sell the company to advertising firm Specific Media for a measly $35 million.

The legal war between American giant tech firm Apple and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics reached another level as Samsung filed a patents infringement suit against its competitor and business partner on Thursday.

Speculations of his imminent departure from the giant telco proved true today as Telstra Corporation chief financial officer, John Stanhope, revealed on Wednesday that he is retiring after more than four decades of service to the company.

Despite the nuclear meltdown scare spawned by Japan’s near-uranium leak, Rio Tinto said on Wednesday that it remains committed to stay in the uranium mining operations even as the global resource giant has admitted that growth in the sector could some snag over the next 10 years.

Gadget tinkering can easily land you a high-profile job like in the case of the iPhone and Sony PlayStation 3 hacker, who was reportedly hired by social media giant Facebook to re-focus his energy in developing the company’s upcoming application for iPad.

It appears that Earth just escaped a likely ‘doomsday scenario’ as the US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported that an asteroid missed the planet by a hairline on Monday.

Reforms sought by countries outside the European bloc, which include Australia, appeared to have missed the mark as the International Monetary Fund board voted on Tuesday to seat its new managing director, Christine Lagarde of France, and keep control of the influential financial institution on the Euro side.

The Australian government finally sealed its hard-fought agreements with two of the country’s leading telcos that hopefully will roll out the implementation of the National Broadband Network, pending the approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Nothwithstanding US President Barack Obama announcement on Wednesday that thousands of troops will proceed with its planned 30,000- pullout, which is en route to an exit by 2014, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has remained firm that she will make sure diggers posted in Afghanistan will complete their mission.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s legal battles with his Harvard contemporaries Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss may see an end soon with the twins informing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday that they are intending not to appeal its earlier decision.

Reports of a possible BHP Billiton takeover on Perth-based Woodside Petroleum emerged on Tuesday, contradicting earlier speculations that the mining giant is considering a buyout amidst Woodside’s numerous woes on its Pluto LNG project.

Google and the British Library recently sealed a deal that would allow the tech firm to scan some 250,000 copyright-free books and make them available through its Google Books services.

Its acquisition of Skype almost a certainty with the recent regulatory approval pushed by the $8.5 billion deal, Microsoft gears up its consolidation move on its new pet by letting go of executives that experts said is a move that would save up some cash for the new owners of the fairly popular internet calling firm.

The vaunted mining boom may have largely fueled up the national economy yet in the case of the Northern Territory, its residential construction industry appeared to have absorbed the negative impacts of the two-wind growth.

Struggling with dwindling sales numbers while addressing the continued onslaught of Apple smartphones and their cheaper counterparts powered by Google’s Android, Finnish mobile giant Nokia aims to arrest its sliding market shares by refocusing its energy towards the lucrative Asian market.

Telstra Corporation Ltd downplayed reports indicating that it has finalised the finer details of the contract that embodies the giant telco’s $9 billion agreement with NBN Co. that will aid in the full roll out of the federal-sponsored national broadband network.

A stellar cosmic outburst first detected by NASA on late March this year has been determined by scientists as a star, almost the same size of the solar system’s sun, which was gobbled up by a previously dormant black hole.