Erik Pineda

Without flexing a muscle, Kevin Rudd hits the news again and his increasing media mileage lately seems to translate into higher support within Labor caucus, which could signal his return as party leader and prime minister.

Australian regulators simply handed down a huge financial windfall to SingTel Optus in green lighting the telco's $800-million deal with NBN Co, which will soon lead to the progressive retirement of Optus' hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) network in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

Google came out Thursday blazing with impressive numbers as the internet giant reported a general profit of $US2.79 billion in the second quarter, which was backed by an overall revenue of $US12.21 billion.

The sentiments aired by the late Steve Jobs about Apple's rival operating system, Android, will not be considered once the Apple-Samsung patent contest begins at the end of the month.

The fate of Julia Gillard as Labor leader was discussed in passing during the Tuesday meeting of union leaders in Melbourne this week, according to a report by Fairfax Media today.

More home brands are expected to hit the local supermarket shelves over the next five years, a new report said, sustaining the latest trend in the grocery sector that benefits both retailers and consumers.

Goggle is taking on organised crime this time, convinced that crime fighting will have a bigger chance of neutralising the enemy with ample help from technology.

The new Metro user interface will indeed light up computer screens in late October as Microsoft confirmed in a blog post on Wednesday that Windows 8 will roll out starting the 26th of July, likely reinvigorating the world's flagging interest on personal computers.

Ms Gillard said on Wednesday she was surprised that there "is a new low in negativity even for Mr Abbott."

Dell is unfazed by projections that the global PC market will continue to shrink as consumers jump over to smartphones and tablet computers, according to company founder and chief executive Michael Dell.

More than 3,000 languages currently in use around the world are projected to vanish before the turn of the century, a spectre that Google said its aims to prevent from happening by launching its new culture-protection project.

Global tech retailers sell their products in Australia with unjustifiable higher price tags when compared to other key markets, according to consumer advocate group Choice.

Qantas Airways is set to become an Apple world, in large part, as the national carrier disclosed plans to replace the mobile handsets that were being used by company employees with iPhones, which emerged as the preferred smartphone in a recent Qantas internal survey.

Major economic indicators showed that the country's current cash rate of 3.5 percent will hold in the aftermath of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) board meet next month.

They're selling like hotcakes, media reports said, as U.S. retailers, both online and physical stores, reported running out of stocks for the newly-shipped Google Nexus 7, indicating a rousing reception for the mini-tablet.

Is Julia Gillard facing a revolt anew? The prime minister herself dismissed the restiveness within Labor, firmly declaring that whatever challenges there were in the party had been resolved when Kevin Rudd was vanquished earlier this year.

Microsoft will soon retail its in-house tablet computer Surface and the company is making sure that the brick will be supported by its internal product lines, foremost of which is the hugely successful Microsoft Office productivity suit.

Yahoo is betting its fortunes on the proven talent of a former Google executive, Marissa Mayer, who for more than a decade has steered the internet giant's search division into the most successful web-based business in the world.

Chinese tech firms are on the roll as Lenovo is set to take the top spot in the personal computer market by the year-end, reports said, likely toppling perennial leader Hewlett-Packard (HP).

MSNBC is no more as Microsoft and American network NBC News formally severed their business ties, which more than a decade ago cost the software giant $US220 million for a 50 percent stake on the online news site.

The Sri Lankan government has arrested more than 200 boat people that said to be on their way to Australia over the weekend.

Beyond the mining boom, Australia needs to train its eyes on a burgeoning economic activity that has been growing by the millions each year, according to Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan.

Nokia downgraded the retail price of its Lumia 900 smartphone over the weekend, a few months prior to the expected debut of Windows 8 operating system that Microsoft said would leave behind current crops of Windows phones.

Virgin Australia owner Richard Branson revealed on Friday that his space tourism program, Virgin Galactic, will lift off as planned in the last quarter of 2013, with him and his family as among the first passengers.

Australians were at the mercy of global online retailers for now, which is the main reason that digital contents and products marketed locally carry more premium price when compared to offshore online stores, a new government submission said.

Some few months prior to the launch of its new operating system, Microsoft confirmed on Thursday that it has implemented re-adjustments intended to fine tune the core function of the tech giant's marketing and advertising divisions.

The federal government on Friday warned businesses to refrain from applying the GST on top of the fixed-priced carbon tax following news reports that the goods and services charges would be included on customer bills.

No thanks to the premium price of Apple's iPhone, Android smartphones have become the preferred device in most developed economies, according to the new figures issued recently by Kantar WorldPanel ComTech.

The United States strongly urged China to seriously consider a code of conduct in the South China Sea, purportedly to ease the deepening dispute among claimants of the area, which is believe to hold vast amount of oil and natural gas reserves.