Erik Pineda

More than half-a-million vehicles have been tagged for global recall by Chrysler and Honda, saying defective parts must be replaced or repaired to avert the occurrence of accidents or fire, reports said.

There was nothing unconstitutional in the tobacco plain packaging laws that the Australian government will start implementing December 2012, a summary of the High Court ruling on the matter released on Friday said.

Australia is now home to the world’s fastest radio telescope with the launch Friday of the $152-million Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), which experts said would allow a more expansive survey of the universe – both known and what remains for scientists to discover.

A new book on the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is slated for publication on 2013 and will be written by his high school love interest, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

Labor is fighting back, according to the latest Newspoll analysis, and is at best would give a slim chance for Prime Minister Julia Gillard to keep her job in the aftermath of the scheduled federal election in late 2013.

Samsung Electronics is expected to hit an operating profit of $US6.8 billion for the September 2012 quarter, likely boosting its income by about 77 per cent in the past 12 months ending in the period.

Pitting the Nokia Lumia 920 against Motorola’s Droid RAZR HD will practically lead into a fierce combat, actually a proxy war for two tech giants that have been at each other’s neck for the longest time.

Tony Abbott was his usual self when the Opposition leader said that Australia could easily go down the drain, in the same way key economies in Europe did, Treasurer Wayne Swan said on Thursday.

An English court will decide in the next few days if the surety bond of 140,000 euros or $220,000 for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be forfeited following his adamant refusal to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

It appears Samsung’s Galaxy S3 is well on its way to record sales figures before 2012 ends, based on a new report recently issued by global marketing and research firm Localytics.

Experts have been claiming that mobile phones carry with them health-risk chemicals but a new study now indicates that the hazardous materials inside the ubiquitous devices have whittled down considerably.

Oracle big boss Larry Ellison is not only embracing cloud computing, he’s making it as the core business of his software firm, which Forbes said was mainly responsible for building up his estimated net worth of $41 billion.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been silent on the Alan Jones controversy and she intends to keep it that way.

How do you zero in on the best that Android can offer? Take for instance Sony’s Xperia Acro S and Motorola’s Droid RAZR HD, which are slated to hit the global market in full force just in time when people are in the mood for spending – the holiday season.

Snappy and responsive! These words were directly from Paul Allen, one of Microsoft’s co-founders, and which mostly described his experience while immersing himself in the new Windows 8 environment.

More electricity-powered Holden cars could be made in the near future should a deal between GM Holden and EV Engineering pushes through, reports said.

Samsung is given the go signal to resume selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 following a U.S. court decision on late Monday to lift the preliminary injunction slapped on the tablet computer in June 2012.

Are ultrabooks anywhere on your must-buy list for Christmas? According to market research firm IHS iSuppli, consumers will likely not rush to grab a unit of the lightweight but powerful laptop computer this holiday season.

We can call this a battle of enemies within, that is inside the Android platform that hosts clashing technologies, which in the case of Samsung’s Galaxy S3 against Sony’s Xperia Acro S were from South Korea and Japan.

More corporate sponsors have pulled out or were planning to cease their partnership with popular 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones, who created a firestorm over the weekend for his offensive comments involving the late father of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

The buzz on the recently rolled out iPhone 5 has yet to die down and now reports are out that another Apple gadget, the iPad Mini, will hit the market very soon, likely late October or early November.

The Australian government has secured an out-of-court settlement on the case filed by James Ashby, a former staff of House Speaker Peter Slipper who sued his erstwhile boss earlier this year for sexual harassment.

Everything is almost fresh on Nokia Lumia 920 – the operating system, the spritely bright shells and the wide-array of connectivity options – all attractive features that would convince buyers to go grab the new smartphone from Finland.

China’s attempts to breach the online security protocol of the U.S. government hasn’t ceased at all, and of specific and perennial target is the Defence establishment, a U.S. intelligence official said on Thursday.

Microsoft’s Windows 8 won the nod of the man chiefly responsible in building up the vast Windows global market – Bill Gates.

Unfazed by the prevailing bleak prospect for the global PC market, Intel paraded on Thursday new mobile devices that draw power from its newly-designed tablet chip – the dual-core Atom Z2760.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Thursday that freedom of speech for the U.S. government is mere lip service and is being employed by U.S. President Barack Obama to gain political traction.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, painting in her initial speech before the world body a nation she leads that is more than willing to contribute on global humanitarian efforts.

Rovio Entertainment, maker of the popular Angry Birds game series, aims to sustain its profitability by ‘killing’ the aggressive winged creature this time around.