Jamelle Agbuis

LightSquared, the Virginia-based company building a wholesale LTE/Satellite mobile broadband network, submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) its three-part solution for resolving GPS interference issues revealed in recent tests by the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems Engineering Forum (NPEF).

A union appeal has put the decision to halve the minimum shift length for high school retail workers on hold for now.

Now operating under the #AntiSec banner, the LulzSec hackers are still busy causing trouble. The latest data dump posted to torrent sites goes after several governments worldwide as well as both Viacom and Universal Music Group.

Employer confidence is remaining upbeat, with just under a third of employers planning to grow staff numbers during the next quarter, according to a new report.

There's one nasty fact about the US economy that has been obscured by the very public argument about America's debt ceiling, the threat of a default and the tooing and froing ahead of next year's election.

Kraft Foods is encouraging the Indian government to develop a comprehensive cocoa production development policy, claiming domestic supplies are too poor and scant to fuel its growing needs.

Homeloans has begun piloting a new 'Elite Broker Circle' offering, which the non-bank has said will provide premium service for selected brokers.

A recent study of more than 600 Australian owners and decision makers of small to medium enterprises found that almost four in 10 businesses believe that they are performing better now compared to this time 12 months ago.

Key Media, publishers of Human Capital magazine, is pleased to announce it will hold the Australian HR Awards in October 2011.

Macquarie has expanded its previously financial planning-focused Macquarie Practice Consulting into the mortgage broking market.

Australian workers are more confident than their global counterparts about finding work, according to a new report.

A number of changes are due to take place tomorrow (1 July) which will affect employers, including changes to the national minimum wage and paid parental leave scheme.

Virgin America is maintaining its reputation as the darling airline of the tech sector, and today it announced a new partnership with Google that will give travelers the option to test Google's Chromebooks in their flight beginning tomorrow.

The MPA Brokers on Non-Banks survey, proudly sponsored by Advantedge Financial Services, closes next Monday 4th July and this year's prize could provide a welcome fillip to your business.

The Australian Dollar opens higher against the greenback today at 1.0670. During yesterday's domestic session, the Aussie traded in another narrow range between 1.0515 and 1.0550 but came to life once the Greek parliament passed the much-talked-about budget cuts worth EUR78-billion over the next five years.

U.S. stocks advanced, as investors cheered a Greek austerity package and financial stocks jumped following a major settlement on mortgage backed securities.

The Greek parliament has approved an austerity package that opens the door for an injection of emergency bail-out funds from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.

The Australian dollar has risen overnight, trading to a high of US$1.0685 following the news that the Greek Parliament had passed the much needed austerity package.

Unilever CEO Paul Polman last week outlined the manufacturer's strategic shift towards emerging markets to take advantage of their rapidly-growing populations.

Transpacific Industries justified its ranking as one of the worst performing big stocks of the June half yesterday with a huge and surprising write-down that could reach a quarter of a billion dollars.

Good and bad news for Japan's recovery in the industrial production and retail sales data for May, released this week.

Windows Phone 7 is about to receive its first major update with "Mango," also known as Windows Phone OS 7.1. In anticipation of the release of Mango, Microsoft has rolled out Beta 2 of the Windows Phone developer toolkit which takes advantage of the new features included in the soon-to-be-released Windows Phone 7.1.

Amid rising public protest and violence in the streets of Athens, Greece's parliament overnight approved a deeply unpopular 28 billion euro austerity package that will, for the time being see the country avoid default.

Yahoo Messenger 11 has finally left beta after seven months and been given a final release by Yahoo. Version 11 sees a number of new features, including support for Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks.

Taiwanese motherboard and video card maker MSI will soon release a free Android app that lets users wirelessly control their Afterburner GPU overclocking utility from their smartphone.

Australian First Mortgage has appointed a former PLAN Australia state manager as its national head of sales.

Smartphone maker HTC on Wednesday finally announced AT&T and Telus will be the first two carrier partners for the long-rumored "Facebook Phone," known as the HTC Status.

There's no question that I like what I see in the demos of Office 365. A little research makes me want it even more. But I'm cheap, and so are a lot of the small businesses it supposedly targets.

A day after rumors surfaced about News Corp's attempts to quickly sell off MySpace, a deal has been struck to let the site go for an rumored $35 million. Ad firm Specific Media announced the purchase on Wednesday, of which News Corp would retain a five percent stake.