Erik Pineda

The Australian government was not surprised at all that neighbouring governments would find the Coalition’s border protection and migration policies unacceptable, specifically the party’s insistence of turning back boats filled with asylum seekers when safe to do so.

Apple recently added three attractive colours to the latest iPod Touch edition, giving consumers more funky options to best represent their unique taste and apparently making it easier for them to buy the upgraded gadget.

Apple has officially unleashed the iPad Mini with company executives insisting that global consumers will not be getting a watered-down version of its bigger sibling – what will be rolled out come Nov 2 is an entirely new gadget, said the tech titan.

The Labor-led government has unveiled its updated federal budget plan that now carries a downward revised surplus target of $1.1 billion but with more spending cuts that drew scathing criticisms from business leaders and the Coalition.

Pro-smoking applications have proliferated on mobile apps, which a new report said were actually masquerading as game or entertainment apps that in effect were being employed as subtle promotion of tobacco products.

Former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Graeme Samuel is “cheerleader for the NBN,” and naturally he would support the $37 billion Labor broadband initiative that would deliver high-speed internet access across Australia.

No offence meant, according to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, when he remarked today that the Gillard Government was sorely lacking in raising up kids, exactly the reason it can easily cutback baby bonus payments.

Nokia’s floundering fortune is the handiwork of company chief executive Stephen Elop, his predecessor said in a recent blog, which also pinned the blame on the embattled CEO for betting too much on Microsoft’s mobile platform.

Windows 8 will set the stage for greater things to unfold at Microsoft, company co-founder Bill Gates said on Monday, stressing too that the new multi-platform operating system represents “the big time for us.”

Prime Minister Julia Gillard further surged in the popularity race with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, attracting as much as 50 per cent of Aussie voters who regard her as their preferred leader, the new Fairfax-Nielsen survey said on Monday.

Australia suffered another death in Afghanistan Sunday night, bringing to 39 the number of Diggers killed in the decade-old conflict that started in 2001.

Aussie children’s regular diet is so filled with added sugar that the average intake, according to a new study, exceeds that of the recommended levels by the UN World Health Organisation (WHO).

Newsweek, considered one of America’s publishing icon, is closing down its print edition as current owners of the newsweekly magazine disclosed on Thursday that final issue will come out end of December 2012.

An antiquated gaming console in Xbox 360 and diminishing consumer interest on its slew of Windows-related products appeared to have conspired in Microsoft’s shrinking financial hauls as shown by the software giant’s latest quarterly report.

Samsung’s tablet lines were not as cool as the iPad, made by Apple, a UK appellate court said on Thursday, in the process affirming that the South Korean consumer electronic giant did not violate its U.S. rival’s intellectual property.

Australia got what it came for in New York – the coveted UN Security Council seat--the country secured through intense diplomatic campaigns and a whopping price tag of $24 million, not to mention the billions spent and issued as aids to specific nations in order to win their support.

Radio host Alan Jones played climate change expert in 2011 when he claimed “nature produces nearly all the carbon dioxide in the air,” and man hardly contributed to the rising air pollution, blamed by scientists as one of the leading causes of extreme shift in global weather cycles.

Australian politics is sorely lacking in policy debate that the public longs for, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Wednesday, stressing that “the season has come for us to lift ourselves above the ruck.”

Popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay (TPB) has commenced the migration of its operations to the cloud, hoping that the move will shield it from threats of shutdown that befell similar online services.

The world is over the billion mark, that is the number of smartphones in circulation as of the September 2012 quarter, creating an impression that we are more digitally connected than in the previous decades, a new report said.

What we’ll have is a ‘shooting war’ between Asus and Sony if we are to compare head-on the upcoming PadFone 2 and the Xperia Acro S.

So the media invites are out, which confirmed earlier reports that Apple will host an event set for Oct 23, most likely to enthrall the world again of new products to be pushed in time for the 2012 holiday rush.

Blame it on the shoe, yet again, as Prime Minister Julia Gillard was again haunted by shoe malfunction this time in India, in which Ms Gillard stumbled down face-first when her high-heel got stuck in grass grounds she was walking on.

Japanese carmaker Nissan is gunning to roll out safer cars and its basic concept: less human intervention as possible, more safety vehicle functions and features.

HIV infection in Australia rose by at least 50 per cent in the past 10 years ending in 2011, a new report said, indicating too that last year alone, Aussies diagnosed with the AIDS-causing virus spiked by more than eight per cent.

Samsung had introduced the phablet concept, having a smartphone and a tablet in one gadget, but Asus thought splitting the two but allowing them to dock and work in unison is a lot better. Thus, the birth of Asus PadFone 2.

Security experts have always warned that risks constantly hound an online lifestyle and mobile computing is not spared from the ever-present threats that come with the expanding ecosystems.

Will Australia re-enter the UN Security Council after more than two decades of absence? Foreign Minister Bob Carr would love to think so but he admitted that the result of the rather late Aussie bid could never be known until the last vote is cast.

Next week is a busy week for the tech world. Windows 8 is coming out and shortly after, devices on the new Microsoft platform will roll out while Apple is reportedly pulling down the cloak on its new gizmo – the iPad Mini.