Jamelle Agbuis

Today, quite unexpectedly, LulzSec Security announced its retirement. "This is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us.

Gold and oil ended mixed to weaker on Friday in the wake of the move by the International Energy Agency to drop 60 million barrels of oil onto the world market in the next few weeks.

It's the end of the Australian financial year this week, as well as the end of the month, quarter and end of the June half year here and offshore.

So was the solid week in Asia a one-off bounce, or a sign that investors have figured out that the region is once again a 'safe haven' while Europe and the US struggle with their respective crises?

The US government revised its final figure for first-quarter economic growth to 1.9% Friday night, our time, up from its earlier estimate of 1.8%, but the improvement provided no joy to the markets.

A day of confusion in trading in bank shares on the Italian stockmarket on Friday has raised concerns that the euro crisis is taking a new direction.

BIS Shrapnel has disputed the idea of a property market crash, and has forecast that house price growth will begin to accelerate within the next two years.

My overall first impression of Galaxy Tab 10.1 was quiet favorable.

The Australian share market rose slightly in mixed trading before the weekend, with gains in financials, consumer staples and materials offsetting falls in telco, utilities, industrials and energy stocks.

The Australian share market rose slightly in mixed trading before the weekend, with gains in financials, consumer staples and materials offsetting falls in telco, utilities, industrials and energy stocks.

US durable goods orders rose by 1.9pct in May, above forecasts centred on a 1.5pct gain. The US economy grew at a 1.9pct annual pace in the March quarter, above the previous estimate of 1.8pct.

France will use talks with other G20 nations to argue for tougher rules on global food commodities trading, as surging prices pose a risk to businesses and consumers.

Telstra, Optus and the federal government have done the long awaited deals to get the NBN going.

Mozilla and the community of developers behind the SeaMonkey Internet application suite have released the first beta of SeaMonkey 2.2 just over a week after issuing a major update with SeaMonkey 2.1.

Cloud Engines Inc. announced a new aspect to the Pogoplug media server solution, the software-only Pogoplug that gives users mobile access to photos, music, and movies that they have stored on their home computer.

The AMP's chief economist and strategist, Dr Shane Oliver updates his Wall of Worry report from may, which was pushed a little higher yesterday with the US Federal Reserve cutting its 2011 and 2012 growth forecast for the US and lifting its estimates for inflation and unemployment.

Filesharing software company BitTorrent on Thursday released two new pieces of software: µTorrent 3.0, a new stable release to the popular freeware BitTorrent client, and µChat beta, a new distributed chat app for µTorrent and BitTorrent Chrysalis.

Now we have the US and Chinese economies definitely slowing.

It may be the worst thing to tell a crowd: "put away your cameras." But that is exactly what Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said speaking to a meeting of company employees this week in debuting a "super confidential product:" Nokia's first Windows Phone 7 device.

The Credit Ombudsman has encouraged lenders and credit providers to improve their internal dispute resolution schemes to avoid the "reputational implications" of having a complaint taken to an EDR.

Traders were content to play the ranges once again during yesterday's local session with buyers of the Aussie emerging down at 1.0530 - not far from the key support level around the 1.0480 region.

The Australian share market closed weaker, in line with a global sell-off following a downbeat assessment of US growth by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.

US new home sales fell 2.1pct to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 319,000 in May.

The arguing, or rather debating, over the value of Foster's is now underway in the wake of the $4.90 a share offer from SABMiller.

While I was busy working and not paying attention to nag mail, my Skype number expired this week. I could reactivate and get another three months service for about 12 bucks after a 33-percent discount. But it's Whopper Wednesday. That $12 would feed the family, with enough change left over for some cool vanilla cones at the Rite Aid.

Sony Erricsson debuted two new mid-range Android smartphones at CommunicAsia 2011 in Singapore on Wednesday, the Xperia Ray and Xperia Active.

The idea is a simple one. Just point the program at your website, it'll scan it and then report on any security holes, so hopefully you can fix them before they're noticed by someone else.

Microsoft's Kinect 3D motion controller has hit a harmonious chord among both game consumers and interface developers, selling over 10 million units since it launched last November, and inspiring a whole movement of amateur developers to devise innovative new uses for the peripheral.

Property developer Stockland is continuing with its reweighting of its assets, selling some non-housing investments and moving deeper into residential and retail.