Jamelle Agbuis

With that as a backdrop, it's easy to see why e-readers and tablets have found a ready market.

A report by the ABC's Four Corners has sparked renewed outrage over the export of live Australian cattle to parts of the world without animal welfare protections.

You're also able to create simple animations, exporting them as GIFs, Flash (SWF) or AVI video files.

For the time being, investor concerns over Eurozone debt appears to have been put on the back burner as a new deal for Greek aid is being seriously considered.

Well, the old saw about selling in May and going away turned out to be pretty accurate after the big sell off in silver on May 7 triggered the market volatility of the past three and a bit weeks.

The enormous value of Australian workers' accumulated annual leave entitlements was the subject of research undertaken by Tourism Australia in the wake of the global financial crisis.

Currently, a mobile tablet is likely to offer on-board storage in one of three sizes: 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB.

Vendor discounting and healthier rental growth should prove enticing to property investors, Mortgage Choice has claimed.

According to Pew Internet, nearly one quarter of American adult Internet users have placed phone calls online. That works out to 19 percent of U.S. adults.

With the Memorial Day weekend which heralds the arrival of summer now a mere memory, market players will refocus their attention on the U.S. economy.

At Computex in Taiwan this week, it seems like every manufacturer is set to jump on the tablet train. By some counts, as many as 50 new tablet devices have already been announced at the show -- and many more previously announced entrants are on display.

The World Health Organization on Tuesday reclassified radio frequency electromagnetic fields generated by radio, television and wireless telecommunications as being possibly carcinogenic to humans.

Adelaide Bank has announced its clawback structure to mortgage managers, but has not yet decided on clawbacks in the broker space.

Now that the World Health Organization and The International Agency for Research on Cancer have classified mobile RF radiation a Class 2B carcinogen, it might be time for Steve Jobs to reconsider his interest in tawkon, the cell phone radiation gauge he personally rejected from the iTunes App store.

We love to report about betas here at Betanews. Opera has released Opera Next 11.50, codenamed "Swordfish." Opera Next, which is the beta version of the renowned Opera browser, installs alongside Opera, allowing users to road test new features without affecting their main Opera installation.

Connective has promised service will be at the core of its white label offering, to be launched early in the new financial year in partnership with National Mortgage Company.

A snap up of riskier assets yesterday morning saw the Aussie break comfortably through resistance at 1.0700 and reach session highs around 1.0750.

U.S. stocks finished the day's session and May on a buoyant note, shrugging off a spate of weak economic data as investors cheered a new bailout plan for Greece.

US consumer confidence fell from 66.0 to 60.8 in May, well short of forecasts centred on 66.5.

An uneventful offshore trading session has seen the AUD track sideways, largely unchanged from the USD1.0700 level seen yesterday.

The technology sector is beginning to percolate and with the recent IPO's of social network companies, a bubble like the technology bubble seen during the late 90′s might just be in the early innings.

Mars Chocolate Australia has announced that it will source enough Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa to cover the production of its iconic Mars Bar.

There have been several revelations over the past few weeks that may bode ill for the Eurozone and the United States. First, it was learned that Spain’s public debt has been significantly under-reported, suggesting that their fiscal problems are far worse than earlier realized.

In spite of the Greek government’s recent assertion that they could avoid debt restructuring through strict adherence of austerity measures, European leaders have, nonetheless, been working to negotiate a deal to aid the fiscally-troubled Eurozone nation.

Shares in truck and trailer equipment supplier and manufacturer Maxitrans were one of the stars yesterday in a dull market.

Swiss food group Nestlé has unveiled "BabyNes", which consists of a range of single-serve capsules to feed infants from birth up to three years of age.

The chances of a slide in the economy in the March quarter increased yesterday.

Suncorp confirmed yesterday that its over-exposure to insurance is still hurting the company.

The NZ dollar hit a new post float high against the greenback yesterday after markets were stunned by a huge rise in the country's trade surplus on April.