Jamelle Agbuis

Finding your way around online as quickly as you can is becoming more and more important.

Proficient use of keyboard shortcuts is a hallmark of the diehard PC user. By using these commands, the hands don't have to ever leave their position on the keyboard, and general PC use becomes much faster.

What legacy will Vivek Kundra, the first Federal Government CIO, leave when he goes to academia?

The Australian Dollar drifted lower throughout the Asian Session yesterday against a broadly stronger Greenback. Following a positive close on Friday the Aussie Dollar traded as low as 1.0495 during the afternoon as losses in Asian Equities and softer commodities contributed to the currency's weakness.

Australian shares held on to early gains to put in their best performance in about a week on the back of firm offshore leads.

US existing home sales fell by a less than expected 3.8pct to an annual rate of 4.81 million units in May.

Bankwest has informed broker partners it will maintain its existing clawback structure following 1 July.

A major international report has predicted that average food commodity prices will be much higher this decade than the last.

Late during our trading session yesterday the AUD once again tested USD1.0500, but has since rebounded after developments out of Greece helped reassure markets.

Two thirds of Australian employees believe organisations are not doing enough to help women attain roles in senior management.

Adobe quietly released an update to its Flash Builder and Flex framework on Monday that lets developers create and deploy apps for Apple's iOS and RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook OS in addition to Android, which it has supported since April.

Anonymous, the hacker collective famous for performing cyber attacks as public retribution, has reportedly teamed up with LulzSec, the hacker group that attacks mostly for entertainment, for a mission going by the title AntiSec (Anti-Security) which seeks to expose any government-classified information that can be stolen.

Australians are ready to opt for housing types outside the traditional "detached home on a large block" stereotype, according to the Grattan Institute, but the housing market is not supplying dwellings to meet their needs.

The US Food and Drug Administration has found traces of listeria at an Augusta, Georgia, bakery owned and operated by US cereal giant Kellogg.

Patties Foods has announced plants to donate a full day’s production worth of its iconic Four’N Twenty pies - 138,000 pies in total - to Australia’s largest hunger relief organization, Foodbank.

Woolworths has announced plans to source all its own-label fresh milk products from Parmalat in NSW, a move the company said is not related to its 'milk war' with Coles.

It's not officially released until tomorrow, but if you'd like to have an early look at Firefox 5 then the final build is actually available now, and while the "new features" list is a little on the short side, the browser includes some interesting tweaks which are well worth having. Mozilla posted the release candidate just three days ago.

As with tennis elbow overuse will cause you pain. Alas, not just our weary elbows ache after the same activity over and over again but also our weary minds will feel the pain from management speak overuse syndrome.

Sega is the latest video game company to fall prey to hackers, as the Sega Pass network of gaming sites, forums, and customer offers has been taken down and the information connected to 1.3 million accounts stolen.

Could Microsoft be less subtle? A press release issued today proclaims: "Microsoft Office Division to make announcement" -- "detailing the latest on Microsoft Office 365," which if you didn't know is the company's "next-generation cloud service." This is what companies do when there aren't enough rumors or buzz about a forthcoming product release. They desperately try to make some.

A new Windows beta of its Skype's popular instant messaging and voice and video mail client is now available. If you're one of the 92 percent of online social networkers using Facebook (according to Pew Internet), this release could be for you. Skype for Windows 5.5 Beta big new benefit is deeper integration with Facebook.

The company claimed that under a unique measure used only by itself and the oil industry, earnings would fall 39%, but on the measure used by the rest of corporate Australia net profit is forecast to almost double for the six months to June.

The urge to merge in the medium to small end of the Australian gold sector continues with Focus Minerals making a friendly bid for Crescent Gold to create a company with a value of around $350 million.

Another rough day for Woodside Petroleum with the company's shares hitting a new 52 week low of $39.87 as investors continued to sell after Friday's shock cost blow out and delay to its Pluto LNG project in WA.

Japan is pushing towards a radical reworking of its consumption tax as a way of boosting revenues as the country grapples with the cost of rebuilding after the March 11 quake and tsunami, a crippling deficits and rising debt which are being made worse by the costs of the country's rapid ageing.

Suddenly help for Greece is getting tougher, despite the widespread expectation that the 12 billion euros of loans from the IMF and EU would be paid so as to avert a financial crunch.

If your business isn't spending big on cloud computing perhaps it should, or will. Today, IDC forecast that public IT cloud spending would reach $72.9 billion in four years, up from $21.5 billion in 2010.

Mobile network LightSquared today said it has a solution to the problem of interference with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers that will allow the company to proceed with the construction of its new hybrid satellite/cellular data network.

The Australian Dollar drifted lower throughout the Asian Session yesterday against a broadly stronger Greenback. Following a positive close on Friday the Aussie Dollar traded as low as 1.0495 during the afternoon as losses in Asian Equities and softer commodities contributed to the currency's weakness.