Jamelle Agbuis

In case you haven't noticed - and, in lieu of the press generated by the recent battle royal over how much to increase the U.S. national debt, most of you probably haven't - Europe is on the brink of financial collapse. But before you shed too many tears for the Mother Continent, save a few for America because at the pace we're going, we're next.

Sprint and Samsung have announced the seventh 4G WiMAX phone, The Samsung Conquer 4G, which differentiates itself by being the first to launch with a sub-$100 pricetag.

IDC's quarterly survey of mobile developers couldn't have come at a better time for Google, soon after its Plus service opened on an invite-only beta basis. Developers -- 2,012 surveyed from July 20-22 -- are enthusiastic about Google+. "Two-thirds of respondents believe that Google can catch up to Facebook in social with Google+", according to the report.

CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development Co has announced the immediate release of EaseUS Partition Master 9. Available in both free (Home) and various paid-for (including Professional and Server) editions, EaseUS Partition Master provides non-destructive tools for partitioning Windows PCs that go beyond the basic functionality offered by Windows' own Disk Management tool.

Perhaps all those doomers and gloomers in Australia moaning about how tough times are here, will lift their blinkers and have a quick look at Australia's AAA credit rating and compare that to the US after Standard & Poor's cut on Saturday, our time.

So the biggest questions about the impact of the S&P downgrade of America's credit rating are: the impact on the share market here and offshore today and tonight, and how many dominoes will fall as the rating cut impacts on the emerging crisis of confidence.

One of Android's great benefits is the ability to receive over-the-air updates, a facility iOS users finally will get when v5 releases sometime later this year. No connection to personal computer is required.

The Australian mountain bike series has been revamped with two new formats introduced to favour riders and spectators alike.

Australia's BMX riders have retained their high position on the world rankings in the latest update released in the wake of the UCI BMX World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Alternative cancer treatment has grown into a powerful movement that is catching on quickly all over the world -- a movement which will finally reveal the ignorance of conventional treatments by showing how cancer is ALREADY curable right now: not with medicine or drugs, but with knowledge.

The raid on Rawesome Foods by a combined force of agents from the FDA, LA County Dept of Agriculture, CDC and the LA County Sheriff's office wasn't the only SWAT-style armed raid that took place today. Sharon Palmer, a mom and owner of Healthy Family Farms was also arrested and taken to jail.

As promised, a massive public protest is now being announced to give the members of the public an opportunity to voice their outrage against today's arrest of three raw foods advocates who are all being charged with conspiracy.

The recent act of government-sponsored terrorism against Rawesome Foods in Venice, California was authorized by a woman named Michelle LeCavalier.

We are all aware, or at least we should be aware, that our meat production industries are not helpful to our environment. Now we have more information about exactly how bad it is and it isn't going to make the meat eaters amoungst us happy to see this!

In the matter of a few short hours on Wednesday night, Google's seemingly well-intentioned and cogent argument against its competitors vis a vis Android blew up in its face. In the fallout, the search giant now appears to be speaking out of both sides of its mouth and may have strengthened its competitors' claims against it.

In the matter of a few short hours on Wednesday night, Google's seemingly well-intentioned and cogent argument against its competitors vis a vis Android blew up in its face. In the fallout, the search giant now appears to be speaking out of both sides of its mouth and may have strengthened its competitors' claims against it.

Australians are sick of sub-par customer service, according to a recent survey released by American Express.

Managers should be warned of burning out employees by excessive use of mobile devices outside work hours, consultancy firm Kelly Executive has said.

The market had been looking for an interim profit of just over $US8 billion for the six months to June from Rio Tinto.

The Dow fell 500 points, with a whack of that happening in the final minutes to make it the worst day since the dark times of late 2008 after Lehman Brothers collapsed.

"Patents were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a weapon to stop it", David Drummond, Google chief legal officer, writes in a blog post late yesterday afternoon. He's absolutely right.

Sony admitted Thursday that its upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld console would miss the holidays in both the US and European markets, although it still would be on track to release by the end of the year in Japan.

Website analytics company KISSMetrics licensed out a technology to dozens of companies, including streaming media companies Hulu and Spotify, that let them implant a tracking tag in a user's browser history that could "respawn" if deleted. Now, the company and its licensees are being sued.

Broker businesses that do not harness the growing power of internet lead generation are likely to suffer in an increasingly cluttered market, according to Money Quest.

Every two months, Travellerspoint holds a photo competition for our members. The photos below are the best photos from the Adventure Photo Competition.

From the SWAT-style armed raid on the raw milk buying club known as Rawesome Foods, clandestine video footage is starting to emerge. Although the footage is shaky and low quality (from a cell phone), it shows law enforcement thugs stealing raw milk, cheese, vegetables and even mangos from the Rawesome Foods store and loading them up into a large truck.

Domain last week released it’s first entry into the realm of iPad apps and it appears to be an awesome app at that!

As a keen observer of social and regulatory change, it has not escaped me or many of our readers that a revolution is occurring in the ways that business is being conducted. New usages of the internet, social media and smartphone technology are the impetus for a huge structural shift in the economy.

The notion of having the same job for life and a high sense of loyalty towards employers is a quaint concept that is long gone, according to workplace experts.