Erik Pineda

The Australian mobile phones market continue its climb and latest figures from IDC Australia showed that almost 13 million units were snatched by local consumers in 2010 alone, coming from the 10.99 million handsets sold in the previous year.

An ICT audit conducted by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) exposed the lax security measures being implemented by four major government agencies, highlighting the risks of possible leak of internal information.

Porsche has announced on Wednesday the availability of its new 918 Spyder Hybrid series, scheduled to roll out from the German carmaker’s production line by the last quarter of 2013.

NASA plans to reach an asteroid orbit nearest to Earth by 2025 and one possible location in Australia is strongly considered by scientists as one of the landing sites for the mission, according to a news report.

Australia’s emerging mobile commerce (m-commerce) registered total sales of up to $155 million in 2010 despite consumer concerns on security of online purchases, according to a new survey conducted by Nielsen.

Reports of “an extremely sophisticated cyber-attack,” on data security specialist RSA may have exposed many Australian firms being served by the security company and chief among them was Westpac, according to a tech report published by SmartHouse.

Facebook has been deleting the accounts of its underage users, at a rate of up to 20,000 globally being wiped out each day, which the social media company said is only one of its numerous ways of policing its 630-million strong followers worldwide.

More than half of Gunns Ltd workers who were axed when the timber company closed down its Manjimup project on February found new careers as fly-in fly-out miners, thanks to Rio Tinto Ltd.

Outgoing Google chief executive Eric Schmidt lauded the Australian government’s national broadband initiative of putting up a country-wide network that he said would boost business and consumer growth.

The federal government has yet to decide on a definite carbon price level despite the new review issued on Thursday by Climate Change chief adviser Professor Ross Garnaut that calls for a maximum tax imposition of $30 per tonne produced.

Man’s numerous space activities have created enough space junks, numbering to some 19,000 objects dangerously orbiting Earth by the last count, that scientists are now considering the use of ground-based laser beams to move the trash out of the way and prevent possible collisions.

Australian mobile users appear to be gravitating towards Virgin Mobile for their portable communication needs thanks mostly to the satisfactory services delivered by the telco owned and operated by Virgin Group owner Richard Branson, a new report said on Thursday.

The powerful Japan earthquake last week damaged some communication cables that link many countries in the Asia-Pacific region and to the mainland America.

Considered by astronomers as the fifth brightest object in the sky, the world is poised to get a closer glimpse of the planet nearest to sun as the Messenger spacecraft launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) six years ago is set to orbit near Mercury beginning on Thursday and explore it from a distance.

Global disasters will likely impact the Australian economy through the fourth quarter of 2011, with its expansion projected to be hampered by sluggish pace that experts said should commence by the second quarter of the year.

The massive earthquake and the tsunami it spawned in Japan pushed back the late March launch of iPad 2 in the country even as Apple struggle to meet the refurbished tablet’s online demand, admitting on Wednesday that global consumers will have to endure weeks of delay.

Telstra’s Yellow Pages publisher Sensis has followed the ways of other firms as it unveiled on Wednesday an iPad app that would allow the gadget’s Australian users to access directory database through the Apple bestselling product.

Giant internet firm Google continues its ongoing campaign of raising the quality of its services, snatching this week an Irish company that it deems would bring better technology in improving the video offerings of its subsidiary, YouTube.

The person who used to man the frontline on Telstra Corporation’s industrial tiff with its labor unions has departed from the company, according to a news statement released on Tuesday.

Economists’ calculators are already pounding on their keys to estimate the likely impact of the powerful quake and tsunami that shocked Japan on Friday even as actual human costs and property damages are only starting to unfold.

The person behind the viral spread in Facebook for an overblown birthday party invite for a young girl residing in New South Wales has been identified by the state police.

The rising smartphone sales in Australia is expected to further accelerate this year and among the competing brands, Apple, according to experts, currently holds the edge due to its iPhone’s wide range of apps offerings.

Finally, Internet Explorer 9 shed its beta-status as Microsoft Corporation announced on Tuesday the formal launch of the web browser during the South by Southwest Interactive technology festival held in Texas, USA.

Scientists are expecting a larger than usual full moon on March 19, also termed by many as Super Moon, and talks are ripe that the astronomical phenomenon may have influenced the massive quake and giant tsunami that swept through Japan’s eastern coastlines on Friday last week.

Nokia Australia has unveiled the new E7 Symbian smartphone, with the phone maker expecting to lure mostly business professionals in snatching a unit that mostly boasts of a wide 10cm touchscreen that slides sideways and tilts for better viewing pleasure.

Up to 10,000 people were feared to have perished in Japan following the strongest earthquake ever to hit the country on recent history, with Prime Minister Naoto Kan admitting on Sunday that his nation is facing a disaster almost comparable to the crisis spawned by the aftermath of World War II 65 years ago.

Earth shifted its axis by almost four inches when the great magnitude 8.9 earthquake rocked the northeast coast off Japan on Friday and spawned inundating tsunami that killed hundreds and destroyed millions worth of properties.

Scientists from around the world are expecting the arrival of three coronal mass ejections from the sun on either late Thursday or early Friday, which they said are part of the waves of charged solar particles that were flared directly towards Earth last week.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has joined in the fray of the escalating bank war in the country as it announced on Friday that customers switching from the National Bank of Australia (NAB) to them are poised to benefit from cash incentives and discounts.