Erik Pineda

More job losses will hit ailing PC maker Hewlett-Packard (HP) in the immediate years ahead, purportedly to realise more savings amid the prevailing soft environment in the global personal computer market.

The federal government’s anti-smoking policy appears to be paying off as a new study showed that Aussies love for cigarette sticks have been declining considerably since 1995, an encouraging trend that is observable in all age brackets.

Fans of BitTorrent downloads beware! A new study suggests that obtaining music, movies and software from file-sharing sites would leave digital footprints that could expose users’ IP addresses under close watch by copyright agents.

Everyone’s waiting for the next iPhone version but Aussie telcos may not be overly excited that Apple’s new smartphone will be rolled out this week, a new report said.

Facebook and other social media sites are likely to jeopardise the operations of Aussie Diggers in Afghanistan, according to a new government review that assessed the impact of popular social networking websites to the country’s Afghan Mission.

Majority of Xstrata investors would vote against the revised merger term with commodities trader Glencore International, which raised its offer by nine per cent to $36 billion Friday last week.

The Afghan government has issued a new army manual that is hoped to narrow the cultural divide between the local security forces and members of NATO troops mentoring them.

The next iPhone version, set to be unwrapped on Sept 12, will have less Samsung imprints compared to the previous editions, with reports indicating that Apple has rolled out a program that would slowly wean away its products from components manufactured by its South Korean rival.

More than half of Australians were into mobile computing as of May this year – social networking and conducting everyday business via smartphones or tablet computers, a new report said.

The fresh Qantas-Emirates code-sharing deal could spell the end of the national carrier’s international career, analysts said, in return for strong semblance of profitability on the domestic front.

U.S.-based China Labor Watch (CLW) has upgraded this week its scathing review on Samsung’s labour practices, highlighting what the activist group called as “illegal and inhumane treatment,” of young Chinese workers tasked to assemble a host of Samsung products.

It’s official. The Galaxy S3, which debuted in May 2012, is the bestselling Samsung and Android smartphone to date as the South Korean tech giant announce on Thursday that over 20 million units have been scooped up by global consumers so far.

She may not be a fan of gay marriage but she won’t be a party too on any forms of gay slur, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has indicated on Thursday, following her decision to withdraw from a speaking duty with the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) set for October.

Julia Assange is just 24 hours away from facing charges in the United States should U.S. authorities finally decide to throw the book on him, the Spanish defender of the WikiLeaks founder said on Wednesday.

A Japanese firm said on Wednesday that it has developed the world’s smallest ceramic capacitor, which is “so small you can barely see it.”

The ongoing re-vetting process of the Afghan security forces has so far led to the firing of hundreds of local soldiers, many of them detained, for alleged links with the Taliban insurgents, a top Afghan official said on Wednesday.

Australian politics is not as pleasing as it was to Malcolm Turnbull, decrying what he described as an arena that routinely ignores truthfulness but applauds behaviour that encourages dishonesty.

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is on his way out of a Phnom Penh prison following an announcement from Cambodian authorities on Tuesday that the Swedish national will be deported soon.

Gina Rinehart railing against the policies of the government was not news item at all, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Wednesday.

Colombia’s notorious ‘Queen of Cocaine’ was killed Monday, according to local news accounts, felled by motorcycle-riding gunmen who reportedly pumped two bullets though the head of Griselda Blanco.

More risks are out there on the net as mobile computing continues to explode, according to a new report by internet security specialist McAfee Labs, with malware authors now training their attention to Android and iOS, currently the dominant platform in the mobile web universe.

A day before it lets loose new Windows-powered devices in New York, Nokia unleashed on Tuesday its free music streaming service, which the mobile phone maker touted as both “enjoyable and easy to use.”

Carbon tax’s floor price has been axed and educational reforms were on their way, courtesy of Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who on Tuesday saw her personal Newspoll numbers soaring to a high of 39 per cent.

Australia’s crime fighting agencies would be greatly aided by the proposed data retention laws, Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said on Tuesday, adding that the government needs to be steps ahead of ordinary and tech-savvy criminals.

The strong Australian economy will underpin the educational reforms that Prime Minister Julia Gillard has unveiled on Monday, requiring a total funding of about $6.5 billion that will be spread over the next decade.

Aussies’ love affair with tablet computers will continue to flourish over the next four years and by which time, more than half of the country’s population would own the hugely popular mobile computing tool, a new report said.

Improvements are now underway on its Chinese production facilities, Samsung disclosed on Monday, following allegations that the Asian tech titan’s manufacturing partners in China were deliberately subjecting product assemblers to inhumane working conditions.

George Bush and Tony Blair, two of the most recognizable world leaders in the past decade, need to face up with the consequences of their previous actions over Iraq, according to South Africa’s Desmond Tutu.

Will Australia benefit from a greying workforce? The Federal Age Discrimination Commission thinks so, stressing that allowing workers aged 55 and up to continue working could prove as “the secret to our future prosperity.”