Erik Pineda

Two new feature phones from Nokia will hit selected global markets this holiday season and the Finnish firm is confident that shoppers will love the handsets’ main attraction – the Asha 205 and Asha 206 are wallet-friendly.

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2 has become immensely popular, especially in China, that its maker caved in to demands voiced out by Chinese consumers – a dual-SIM version of the world’s first commercially successful smartphone-tablet hybrid.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard jumped the gun on the opposition and her critics, denying them an effective platform by holding a press conference on Monday hours before Coalition MPs are expected to grill her on Parliament’s Question Time.

China’s combat capabilities jumped a notch higher as its first sea-operational aircraft carrier, Liaoning, saw the first landing of a Chinese made combat plane, cementing the nation’s reputation as a rising military power in the Asia-Pacific region.

Amazon is practically giving out a gadget steal for consumers willing to be tied up for a 2-year contract with U.S. telco AT&T and all they need to do is make a one-off payment of $US0.01, a package that is reserved for new subscribers of the company.

If you are mulling for a gadget purchase this holiday season and wanting to try out a different smartphone system, the best bet you can get is Nokia’s Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, according to tech experts.

The year 2012 could prove the biggest for South Korean tech giant Samsung so far as reports suggested that the Galaxy device maker is well on its way to keep the global smartphone leadership by shipping at least 60 million phones at the close of December.

Quietly, Samsung has refreshed its Galaxy Tab line, which is the South Korean tech giant’s answer to Apple’s iPad, earlier this year, giving it some bump up to fit prevailing tablet lovers’ demands and trimming some excesses at the same time.

Computer experts in the United Kingdom has successfully restored one of the earliest computers assembled by man, firing it up anew Tuesday this week to relive the infant moments of a device that has undergone radical transformation.

Few months into its scheduled February 2013 launch for new generation of handsets and a revised mobile platform, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) saw considerable boosts on shares value, reports said.

There is a third smartphone system outside the dominant Android and iOS world and it’s called the Windows Phone 8. Of course we know that already in the same way that we equate WP8 to Nokia’s Lumia handsets.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has denied reports she was aware of a Melbourne property that was bought on money allegedly pilfered from union coffers, insisting that her role as lawyer for the Australian Workers Union (AWU) was strictly on setting up its ‘slush fund’.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott envisions a government with sound fiscal policies and more focused in engaging with its immediate neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region, that is if he becomes Australia’s next leader.

One more bad publicity for Microsoft’s Windows 8 as Yahoo! News reported that influential gadget reviewer Jakob Nielsen will wait out for the next version of the operating system, judging the freshly rolled out OS as lacking the punch for a compelling PC experience.

Legally hounded by the United States and New Zealand governments, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom filed an appeal before the NZ High Court to access more cash from his frozen accounts, which U.S. officials said were amassed from illegal activities.

LG’s Optimus smartphone lines can be considered as the South Korean consumer electronic firm’s saviour. The handsets are largely credited for nudging LG out of the red column, chalking up respectable profits after the global smartphone scrambling had ended for the September 2012 quarter.

HTC One S has been in the competition for quite some time but a second and really thorough look seems warranted for a device that enraptured quite a number of tech experts for its impressive and sturdy finish.

TThe battle to win those Catholics to be faithful to the Church and to make them remain as such remains for Pope Benedict as he and the other leaders of the Catholic congregation grapple with allegations of sexual, physical and other forms of abuse of some members of the clergy.

Looking to get Samsung’s Galaxy S3 Mini minus the two-year obligation? The downsized mobile phone is currently available on Amazon, CNET said on Tuesday, but stocks are running very low.

Global sales of Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 8, has been slow at best but devices running the cross-platform OS were moving in a much better pace, tech blog site Mashable reported this week.

Looking to get Samsung’s Galaxy S3 Mini minus the two-year obligation? The downsized mobile phone is currently available on Amazon, CNET said on Tuesday, but stocks are running very low.

The Finnish mobile phone maker is set to deploy its revamped and rebranded map application, now called Here, to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android ecosystems, which the company said should be up and ready for downloads in the next few weeks.

The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is the tablet incarnation of everything about Amazon. As one reviewer observed – consumers so deeply entangled with the giant online retailer’s sub-ecosystem will find this new slate the quickest gateway in accessing products on the company’s store.

Job loss is a possible trigger for heart attack, putting at risk older people and those with serious medical conditions such as high blood pressure and obesity, a new U.S. study said.

A lower cash rate right before the 2012 Christmas season goes into full swing remains a possibility as suggested by the Nov. 6 RBA board meeting minutes, which hinted that ‘further easing’ could be on the way.

Smartphone served as the tech industry juggernaut in the past five years that it catapulted tech firms to record revenues and profits, according to Asymco managing director Horace Dediu.

Former party leaders Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull have insisted that current leadership set ups both in Labor and Liberal-National Coalition are not issues with them, seemingly contented at the moment to abide by the prevailing caucus flow.

Anti-virus specialist Symantec has unmasked a new malware that exploits a function of Google Docs to secretly communicate with its command and control (C&C) server, likely infecting even new machines running on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.

Android appears well on its way to global mobile device dominance, likely to complete its tablet rally much sooner than Apple had expected.