OneSteel Ltd, Australia's No. 2 steelmaker, reported a halving of half-year net profit on Tuesday but beat forecasts, and said the rest of the year would remain tough as steel demand recovers slowly. Read more

By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetanewsToday, Google Gmail customers are seeing a promised round of software changes whose purpose is to make Google Buzz users more aware of their privacy options, and to give them a more obvious way to back out of Buzz. These changes come a mere nine days after the social... Read more

A Republican lawmaker said on Wednesday he is inviting Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda to meet members of Congress the week of February 22, but the automaker said the executive's travel plans had not been determined yet. Read more

Oh no, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in some trouble as a well known business magazine has aired allegations of him breaking into the email accounts of two journalists. Read more

A UK company has announced a competing product with the name many thought only Apple would use. X2 Computing, which specializes in handheld devices, is calling its new computer the iTablet. Read more

The iPhone is a true lifesaver even during natural disaster. A medical application installed on a US filmmaker's iPhone helped keep him alive when he was trapped in the debris of the Haiti earthquake. Read more

At the CES 2010 press conference, Intel unleashed more than a dozen new processors in its successful Core family, including the i3, i5, and i7 chips. The new Core chips, based on Intel's Arrandale and Clarkdale technology are the first 32nm processors. Read more

More than a month after officially unveiling its own-branded phone, Google on Monday launched a phone support line specifically to answer the questions of Nexus One owners. Read more

The Australian Dollar rallied last night trading comfortably above USD0.9100 following yesterday's strong Australian economic data. Cross rates are very high, with the AUD/GBP rate trading at a 25 year high. Read more

The falls in on line and newspaper job ads for the first time in three months last month is not an end of the world occurrence, or worthy of leading TV or radio news bulletins, as the yarn did for a while yesterday. Read more