Jamelle Agbuis

Well-publicised efforts to see borrowers jump ship on their home loans have gained little traction, according to a new survey.

Jun 28, 2011

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei and Norwegian network operator Telenor have erected the world's northernmost LTE tower in Longyearbyen on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Circle.

Jun 28, 2011

Five to six votes, maybe 10 is all that stands between Greece agreeing to the latest austerity package and a temporary bailout and the country lurching towards default and a possible return of the GFC.

Jun 28, 2011

A couple of times this year we have carried reports of comments from senior Reserve Bank officials which have questioned the sustainability of Australian bank earnings.

Jun 28, 2011

The N9 and N950 clearly show that Nokia had good smartphones already in the development pipeline, but new CEO Stephen Elop never gave them a chance. He bet the company on Windows phone, which will be good for Microsoft but not so great for Nokia.

Jun 28, 2011

The future of specialised lenders is in question with the advent of NCCP requirements, it has been claimed.

Jun 28, 2011

"What is unique about Honest to Goodness is our ethics, ideals and principles behind the products we choose to sell and the way we do business, so seeing Honest to Goodness plastered all over Woolworths was devastating for us and our customers and we were left with little choice".

Jun 28, 2011

Senior managers aren’t doing enough to create a sustainable workplace, according to a new survey.

Jun 28, 2011

Not all consumers share the same attitudes toward animal cloning, but the latest research from Professor Sean Fox of Kansas State University, a professor of agricultural economics, shows that Americans may be more accepting of consuming cloned animal products than Europeans.

Jun 28, 2011

Tomorrow morning, in New York City, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will break out the band and play tribute to Office 365 -- the company's hosted app companion to its PC productivity suite. It's not rocket science understanding Microsoft's motivations, fending off competition from Google Apps among small businesses and enterprises and providing customers with what they really need -- anytime, anywhere access to their stuff on anything.

Jun 28, 2011

Six years ago, California adopted a state law that criminalized the sale of violent video games to children under 18, and called for stricter regulation of video game labeling.

Jun 28, 2011

Apple is set to begin manufacturing of the next-generation iPhone in late August, claims one analyst, with a release date sometime in late September.

Jun 28, 2011

The ebook reader market is beginning to pick up -- and why not with Amazon and Barnes & Nobile offering good devices and marketing the Holy Hell about them.

Jun 28, 2011

The Aussie finally gave way to selling pressure yesterday and hit a 10-week low of 1.0410 against the U.S. Dollar as concerns over the debt situation in Europe continue.

Jun 28, 2011

The Australian share market fell more than one per cent as investors nervously await for a vote by the Greek Parliament on measures to reduce that country's high debt.

Jun 28, 2011

US personal income rose by 0.3pct in May while spending was unchanged. Both readings were slightly weaker than market expectations.

Jun 28, 2011

Australia's annual population growth rate slowed to 1.5% in 2010, down from the 2008 high of 2.2%.

Jun 27, 2011

If you use online banking, chances are good that you see the same things in your account that I see when I log into mine (albeit with different numbers): a lot of transaction data, and maybe some basic budgeting tools or low-level personalization.

Jun 27, 2011

Opera Software co-founder and former CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner announced he is leaving the browser company in one week's time, giving no word as to what his next move will be.

Jun 27, 2011

The Australian dollar has opened below 1.0500 this morning as Greece and it’s sovereign debt issues continue to attract attention of the financial world.

Jun 27, 2011

Politicians, taxi-drivers and journalists are among the least trusted professionals in Australian society, according to a new survey. Australians even trust sex workers more than these professionals.

Jun 27, 2011

The Senate has passed an amendment to the Food Act requiring that products containing palm oil be explicitly labelled, rather than described as 'vegetable oil'.

Jun 27, 2011

Politicians and celebrities are used to being mocked during late-night talk show monologues or skits.

Jun 27, 2011

Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 3 is designed to simplify the process of improving your photos by providing a number of one-click tools that can quickly improve individual photos or entire albums up to scratch.

Jun 27, 2011

LulzSec's theft and disclosure of "law enforcement sensitive" documents and personal information from the Arizona Dept. of Public Safety has caused quite an uproar over privacy and security, but it has also provided a glimpse into crime in the American Southwest, where cross-border drug trafficking is a major concern.

Jun 27, 2011

That number might not seem like much compared to the gazillion apps at Android Market or Apple's App Store, but those 20,000 apps answer a question on many techies' lips this week: Why didn't Nokia pick MeeGo? Windows Phone Marketplace passed the 20k threshold about a month ago.

Jun 27, 2011

I was a late-comer to covering Microsoft's antitrust troubles in the United States.

Jun 27, 2011

Commonwealth Bank has swept the board in MPA's ninth annual Brokers on Banks survey.

Jun 27, 2011

You can ask the program to automatically optimize your connection, for instance: just click "Auto Optimization", then the Analyze button. Unlike most of the competition, it doesn't just give you some magic "Speedup" button, leaving you with no idea of what the program going to do. Instead you'll see every single recommended change, allowing you to decide exactly which setting should be tweaked, and which you'd like to keep.

Jun 27, 2011