Erik Pineda

The smartphone market will continue to grow, analysts said, but at a slower pace compared to previous years when the gadget’s introduction reaped billions of revenue to key global players.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Labor got a slight bump in the weekend polls as Nielsen showed the government’s primary votes gained traction by attracting anew 30 per cent of the 1400 participants queried by pollsters.

Former Howard Minister Mal Brough secured over the weekend the Liberal National Party’s pre-selection process in Fisher, positioning a close-ally of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott for a likely comeback to federal politics following half-a-decade of absence.

The Australian government’s indiscriminate policies against human smuggling led to the unlawful incarceration of minor asylum seekers over the past four years, according to a new report issued on Friday by the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Australian women were more inclined to stay and excel in school as compared to their male counterparts, according to results of a new study released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Telstra Corporation said on Friday that upward adjustments on its home and mobile communication will be implemented effective at the start of October 2012, according to a blog post by the country’s premier telco.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman insisted on Friday that he was not blocking funds intended for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) but instead pushing for federal funding closely moulded after the Medicare system.

Samsung disclosed on Friday that its overall operations in the three months leading to end of June netted $US5.9 billion, 70 per cent of which contributed by its Galaxy smartphone product lines.

High-profile Spanish lawyer Baltasar Garzon said on Wednesday that his main focus in defending WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was for the Australian national to get a fair trial on whichever country court that he would be haled to.

Again, Apple created the same amount of market buzz that normally accompanies its quarterly results but this time around, apprehensions ruled investors’ sentiments instead of the usual excitement that had marked the tech titan’s previous financial reports.

Union leaders launched on Wednesday a concerted campaign that would counter what they claimed as emerging hostile environment in the workplace area, which they fear could be worsened by a likely Coalition win on 2013.

The iPhone first released in 2007 was based on a personal digital assistant units produced by Sony in the prior years, according to a new court filing by Samsung in reply to Apple’s allegations that Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones designs were made to look and feel like the million-selling Apple mobile phone.

Qantas Airways is currently in discussions with Dubai-based Emirates, according to reports, which could soon allow Australia’s flag carrier to set up a hub in the key Middle East city to be used as springboard for its European flights.

Australian troops could soon be deployed in the Philippines for ‘quick stops’ with the approval on Tuesday of the defence pact between Canberra and Manila, which outlines the rules that will govern the Diggers’ visit in the island republic.

The South Australian police busted the illegal operation of a group believed to be responsible for the $2 million theft of car parts owned by GM Holden, which were pilfered from the carmaker’s Salisbury East assembly facilities in Elizabeth.

Contrary to government claims, suicide rate in Australia could be in the upswing, at least in the past few years, according to a number of mental health experts.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has insisted that opinion polls were not the central focus of her government, reasserting too her earlier declaration that the Australian Labor Party will be led to the general election in 2013 by the incumbent Labor leader.

Apple practically confirmed Samsung’s stature as currently the biggest smartphone maker in the world but that reputation was tarnished, the tech giant insisted, when the South Korean firm “chose to compete by copying Apple.”

Could it be that investments to roll out faster cellular networks like 3G and LTE would only be wasted in the future as a new report predicted that tablets deployed with high-speed cellular connectivity will hardly be the must-have devices over the next four years?

The fight is over between the Australian government and former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks because the office of the public prosecution director dropped off the case against the self-confessed al Qaeda trainee.

Hacking activist group Anonymous admitted on Tuesday that it was responsible for the attacks that took down at least 10 websites being maintained by the Queensland state government over the weekend.

The cash handouts delivered by Labor starting this July failed to hit the mark as the party continues to lag behind the Coalition in the latest Newspoll survey, its primary vote sinking deeper at 28 per cent.

There is no stopping Apple and Samsung from waging their legal battles as top executives by both firms failed anew to seal a deal that could end their year-long conflict, according to reports by Reuters.

Problems on its supply chain and early screen complaints apparently overwhelmed the normally cool internet giant as Google announced on Monday that will stop taking online orders for the hit Nexus 7 tablet.

The Gillard Government remains adamant that it will realise a budget surplus by 2013 despite a new report that suggested a likely cooling down of the Australian economy in the immediate aftermath of the ongoing mining boom.

Virgin Australia admitted on Monday that its local operations have been performing beyond expectations but not to the point that could push Qantas Airways into near-extinction.

A Labor win in Melbourne and the national police clearing her office of any involvement over the leaked Kevin Rudd video clip were definitely good kicks to start a new week for Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Samsung predicted right about the new Galaxy S3 – that it will push out at least 10 million units worldwide in the initial months of its global debut.

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's newly-installed CEO, could earn as much as $US100 million over the next five years, that is if she managed to stay that long in a chair that has seen five bosses in the same number of years.