Jamelle Agbuis

For the first time in 45 years, Qantas pilots are preparing for industrial action. A ballot of up to 1,700 long-haul pilots will be carried out to determine the type of industrial action the pilots are to take.

Unilever has confirmed the French launch of a version of its Magnum ice cream that contains alcohol.

Do you want the bad news, or the good news about the latest private investment figures? Well, the good news is that the boom is alive and will be bigger than forecast in 2011-12.

A senior Reserve Bank official has once again reminded us that Australian banks are not the vulnerable things that some recent comments have suggested.

There's a strong message for Australia and investors from the latest half yearly review of the world economy from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).

Shares in grain exporter and bulk handler GrainCorp jumped more than 10% at one stage yesterday after it reported a 66% surge in half year profit to $88 million.

The AMP's chief economist, Dr Shane Oliver wonders if we are back in 2010.

Healthcare is an issue again on the floor of the U.S. Senate, but this time it's the well-known, often disparaged, Medicare system.

Sparrow, the minimalist email client for Mac, has been updated to version 1.2. The latest release sees a number of improvements and additions, including the much requested unified inbox.

As expected, Google on Thursday announced Google Wallet, a mobile application for Android that will use near-field communication (NFC) technology to allow users to pay with their mobile phone.

Ellora Assets Corporation has released Freemake Video Converter 2.2, an update it terms "major" due to the fact it promises vastly improved conversion speeds on suitably powerful machines. The improved performance is made possible by integration of DXVA2.0 technology into its code.

Xara has updated both of its flagship vector and bitmap design tools -- Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and Xara Designer Pro -- to version 7.

The House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet met Thursday morning to examine the effects a merger between AT&T and T-Mobile would have on wireless competition.

Mac owners have long been notoriously smug about the lack of viruses for their chosen operating system, but it is far from true to say that viruses do not exist for OS X.

We recently took a look at Soluto, the self-proclaimed "anti-frustration software." The application started off by helping to improve Windows' startup times by analyzing the programs and services that were configured to run automatically and suggesting which were not necessary.

SoftMaker Office 2010 is an interesting productivity suite that delivers much of the power of Microsoft Office, at a considerably lower price.

Two key pieces of data released earlier today suggests that the U.S. economy’s recovery is well off the pace that the Federal Reserve would like to see.

The Mac Defender outbreak has stirred much debate about the state of Mac security and whether or not a malware deluge is headed for Apple computers.

It's been a bad security week for Apple, what with the world of malware finally bothering with Macs.

The dollar consolidated yesterday against the Yen, as a weak Japanese economy and a positive interest rate differential, drew investors to the greenback.

The uncertainties over Greece continue to weigh on market sentiment, driving up periphery yields and CDS prices, with unsubstantiated rumors of a snap election the new catalyst for a pullback in the euro after the Greek PM failed to get consensus on new austerity measures.

Heinz has launched a new campaign for its iconic baked beans, asking Australians what "Beanz Meanz" to them.

A report released by the ABS yesterday confirmed that Private Capital Expenditure expanded in the three months to March 31 by an overall figure of 3.4%.

The Australian stock market posted gains of 1.6 per cent to end a four-day losing streak, led higher by gold, energy and materials after a bounce on commodity markets overnight.

The US economy grew at an unrevised 1.8pct annualised pace in the March quarter. Economists had expected a lift in the growth rate to 2.2pct. And new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 10,000 to 424,000 in the latest week, above forecasts centred on 404,000.

A University of Missouri researcher has found that eating a healthy breakfast, especially one high in protein, increases satiety and reduces hunger throughout the day.

It's well known that Greece is in trouble. Over the past several months, analysts and experts have been cautioning markets that Greece's fiscal problems are too overwhelming, to the point that debt restructuring is inevitable. Recently, officials from Greece and finance ministers from the Eurozone met to discuss their options and (finance ministers, at least) came to the same conclusion.

Silver prices are poised to climb as issues related to the European debt crisis have investors looking for the safe haven status of hard assets such as silver.

Lacie Inc has released a major new version of its online backup and sync client: Wuala "Hottingen," which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux as well as selected smartphones, includes new features, a redesigned user interface and extended functionality.