Jamelle Agbuis

Foreign investors are not letting Japan's rough trot upset them, or the fear of a credit rating downgrade worry them; they are continuing to load up on Japanese securities, according to figures released yesterday.

DigiTimes reports that Microsoft is "considering to launch an own-brand tablet PC that features Windows 8 by the end of 2012 with cooperation from Texas Instruments and Taiwan-based OEMs/ODMs." Companies like Microsoft are "considering" all kinds of things.

One year ago, we took a look at CounterPath's Bria softphone clients for PCs and mobile devices. Today, CounterPath has released Bria iPad Edition 1.0, which the company believes is a perfect example of effective IT consumerization because it strikes a balance between the feature-heavy, yet immobile desk phone and the versatile, yet feature-light consumer smartphone-based VoIP.

Berlin-based O&O Software GmbH has released O&O Defrag 14.5. Available as a free update to version 14 users, O&O Defrag 14.5, which is also available as a separate 64-bit build, offers a powerful and fast alternative to the basic Windows defragmentation tool, promising to keep hard drive performance running at optimum by keeping fragmentation at bay.

The growth of Twitter has far exceeded the expectations of many people, both in terms of scale and speed.

The Google Maps team on Wednesday announced an update to both Google Maps for Android 1.6+ and Google Maps for desktop that incorporates real-time mass transit data, letting users not only plot their bus and train routes, but also track them in real time.

Software Assurance benefits are so complex that it takes a three-dimensional matrix to describe them. The PDF file that Microsoft gives customers has various benefits down the left column and various licensing programs along the top.

I just called the Best Buy Union Square, which is selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 nine days before the official launch.

Apple is bringing us a laughably monikered upgrade to MobileMe called iCloud, and when you strip away the hype and Steve Jobs reality distortion field, iCloud is a proprietary, convoluted and highly restrictive sync-backup service.

The higher yielding currencies were generally lower overnight as investor nervousness spurred a return to the relative “safe-haven” of the USD.

Cadbury has apologised to Naomi Campbell after its Dairy Milk Bliss adverts "upset" the supermodel.

Packaging and labelling company ProScales has announced the launch of its new deli labelling system, AdPro, which prints shopper-marketing directed ads on deli labels.

No rate rise from the Reserve Bank, in fact it was a bit more of the same according to yesterday's post meeting statement from Governor Glenn Stevens.

Virgin Australia continues to construct a strategy to take on Qantas with the news that it has entered into a partnership with the powerful Singapore Airlines.

Over the last few years, tax compliance risks related to global employee mobility have grown rapidly.

Many organisations conduct surveys to find out what their people think and feel. Whilst such initiatives ostensibly exist to improve performance, the truth is that lip service is often paid to them.

BitSum Technologies has updated its process automation and optimization utility, Process Lasso, to version 5.0.0.25.

Even though Windows Phone has been leading the innovation curve for the next generation of all of Microsoft's graphical interfaces --everything from Windows 8 to Xbox Live is expected to adopt the mobile OS' "live tile" system-- Windows Phone seemed to have been lost in the shuffle in Microsoft's E3 keynote yesterday.

Russian security company Kaspersky has dropped the beta tag from Anti-Virus 2012 and Internet Security 2012 products, launching both today.

A portion of Skype users found themselves without service Tuesday after a configuration problem caused the VoIP provider's systems to crash.

Wednesday, June 8 is World IPv6 Day, a day when we're all supposed to check our readiness for the next version of IP, or Internet Protocol, the Internet Layer protocol of the Internet and almost all networks these days. IPv6, of course, is an old story, since it was long ago that we recognized the address space of IPv4 would run out, and we're almost there.

Nintendo debuted its newest piece of gaming hardware, Wii U, a touchscreen tablet and game controller that takes the dual-screen gaming concept of the DS and applies it to the television.

Google has updated its popular open-source browser Chrome to version 12, introducing a number of notable features. Of most importance is a new extension to the Safe Browsing feature, which now screens downloaded files for known malware in addition to warning against potentially malicious or phishing websites.

The Australian dollar has opened at 1.0710 this morning following a choppy session yesterday afternoon with the RBA’s “no change” announcement.

I can answer that question for you. Apple locks up your past purchases for 90 days, and you can forget that Monopoly game get-out-of-jail free card. But that's OK.

Mortgage Ezy CEO Garry Driscoll said careful modelling of its current and expected mortgage book show it will be able to maintain its 'no clawback' stand for brokers, bar any unforseen changes in the market.

HP Financial Services, a subsidiary of leading information tech hardware company Hewlett-Packard, announced it will be making up to $2 billion available to "help clients finance their way into the cloud."

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia left the cash rate unchanged at 4.75 per cent. At yesterday's meeting, the Board judged that the "current mildly restrictive stance of monetary policy remained appropriate" and it will continue to monitor the "outlook for growth and inflation".

The Australian share market closed flat despite investors being buoyed by the central bank's largely unchanged outlook for the domestic economy.