Erik Pineda

Advertisers for Alan Jones’ controversial 2GB breakfast show have started trickling back after more than a week of absence, seemingly proving earlier analysts’ view that the exodus of corporate sponsors from the popular radio program would be temporary.

Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has issued on Monday the rollout map of the $37-billion national broadband network (NBN), providing a panoramic view of the high-speed telecommunication infrastructure’s nationwide reach.

Zune is dead, Microsoft declared on Monday, and in its stead, the software giant will offer the Xbox Music, which owners of the hardcore gaming console will start enjoying Tuesday this week.

It appears that Prime Minister Julia Gillard has scored considerable ‘political gains’ over Opposition Leader Tony Abbott short of a week after she labelled the latter as sexist and misogynist in a fiery parliamentary speech that went viral worldwide.

Mobile gaming is constantly exploding as a new industry report showed that close to 50 per cent of gamers have opted to explore gaming apps exclusively deployed on the millions of mobile devices out there.

Ahead of their scheduled financial reports this week, giant miners are expected to flag serious concerns over softening demands for commodities, which analysts said will be compounded by tumbling global market prices for Australia’s chief export products.

Afghanistan had a surprise visitor in Prime Minister Julia Gillard over the weekend and she was there, media reports said, to boost the morale of Diggers serving in the 11-year Afghan Mission.

The joke is on Labor now as reports emerged that cabinet ministers only rushed to condemn the offensive remarks targeting Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and his chief aide Peta Credlin that day after the incident.

The United States will likely launch pre-emptive strikes on perceived cyber threats, U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday, underscoring the emerging shift of international conflict to the digital arena.

Apple has become so arrogant that it deliberately ignores glaring consumer preferences, according to the tech giant’s co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Australia faced up to terrorist challenge 10 years ago and the nation remains “strong and resilient,” in pursuing the ongoing global campaign to neutralise efforts by terror groups to sow fear and chaos.

First Australia then the United States, now China’s Huawei Technologies must contend anew with fresh regulatory hurdle that likely would come from another key market – Canada.

Key Labor figures condemned on Thursday a joke that poked fun on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and his top aide, Peta Credlin, declaring in unison that the remarks were “sexist, offensive and inappropriate.”

Toyota vehicles are slated to be taken off the road worldwide as the giant Japanese carmaker confirmed on Wednesday a massive recall order of some 7.4 million units, comprising of popular Toyota sedans, compact cars and mid-sized SUVs.

The new iPhone 5 will be so hot of a gadget that Apple is destined to rack up total sales of 135 million units by the end of 2012 and one analyst credits the smartphone’s incredible engineering for the feat.

Global consumers appear to continue their migration from conventional personal computers as new data from research firms showed PC sales shrunk anew in the September quarter of the current year.

Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom is a victim of Hollywood-induced persecution, with significant aids coming from the United States and New Zealand governments, the U.S defence lawyer of the Internet tycoon said earlier this week.

A new topnotch car model is slated to join Opel Australia’s present domestic product lines, the European carmaker said in a press release issued on Wednesday.

Even Microsoft has conceded that Apple’s business model, carefully crafted by its late CEO Steve Jobs, is a rousing success and based on the latest notes from chief executive Steve Ballmer, the software giant is adopting the same approach, much of it at least.

Australia has become a web-centric nation, latest government data showed, with net surfers growing steadily as of June 2012.

Key Microsoft executives took pay cuts in the last financial year for missing corporate goals, according to the latest regulatory filing by the software giant.

The official International Monetary Fund (IMF) global economic forecast is out and the broad outlook is that economies are still on edge and sluggishly weak.

Bail guarantors for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have been ordered by a UK court to pay up around $150,000 for failure to ensure the surrender of the controversial whistleblower, who jumped bail June this year to seek refuge on Ecuador’s embassy in London.

We can call the dogfight between Motorola Droid RAZR HD and HTC One X+ as the race of marginal Android players for obvious reasons: the Android business sphere, despite its smartphone dominance, has so far spawned very few profitable actors.

Federal Speaker Peter Slipper should not be allowed to reclaim his post even if the legal woes currently hounding him eventually developed into his favour, Coalition lawmakers said.

Nokia is struggling to regain its old footing and is placing most of its future bets with Microsoft but few analysts believe that the Finnish phone maker will rediscover the narrow road to recovery.

Labor slid back to where it was three months ago, trailing the Coalition’s wide margin on primary votes and two-party preferred in the latest Newspoll-News Ltd survey conducted late last week.

Julian Assange was obviously resorting to publicity stunt when he unveiled his plans to bring up legal charges against Prime Minister Julia Gillard, whom the WikiLeaks founder has accused of defamation.

A U.S. congressional report has reportedly determined that two major Chinese companies, Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp, pose grave economic and security risks to the United States and should, therefore, be prevented from further making inroads in the country, reports said.