Cloud computing is said to be the newest trend in information technology that most companies such as Apple, Amazon and Google had been incorporating into their services.
Google announced Wednesday Nov. 16, 2011 its newest service, the Google Music, a cloud based service that enables you to store and stream music.
Multi commodity explorer and miner Alkane Resources is edging closer toward development approval for its Tomingley Gold Project.
Samsung is now the No. 1 smartphone manufacturer worldwide, based on research by Gartner. The report also said the growth of mobile devices worldwide totaled 440.5 million units sold during the third quarter.
Details of the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SL-Cass have been revealed in Germany, including some interesting images of the new aluminium body and chassis.
The Australia Statistics Bureau showed that during the period 2000 to 2011, renting outpaced home ownership in the country.
Fresh from its record earnings for the first half of 2011, global mining firm BHP Billiton stepped on the gas for the realisation its expansion projects in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, signalling the construction start of a power plant and an additional iron ore mining site.
Santos Mine informed a Parliamentary inquiry that it will back out of a planned coal seam gas (CSG) pipeline pipeline project in New South Wales's (NSW) central west.
Samsung Electronics has adopted design tweaks on its flagship tablet computer, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, in hopes of circumventing a court-induced ban for the product to be marketed in Germany, reports said.
Anittel Limited (ASX: AYG), a Sydney-based IT and telecom solutions and service provider, topped the Deloitte 2011 Technology Fast 50 Australian list released on Friday.
The backlash over excessive executive compensation continues in Australia when a seventh company had its remuneration report rejected by shareholders.
Cloud computing has ceased being an upcoming trend that techies talked about to becoming a reality that everyone uses in some capacity. Major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple offer cloud computing services for users. The cloud is becoming the new front in the ongoing battle among these tech giants. So what is cloud computing? How do the cloud computing services of Google, Microsoft and Apple differ from one another?
. Both tablets are due to be released before the holidays with Amazon selling the Kindle Fire on November 15 and Barnes and Noble set to put its Nook Tablet on sale on November 17. So now consumers will have to make a difficult decision of what tablet to buy. Here are some of the strengths and weaknesses of each tablet that could make your decision easier.
Passengers of an Austrian airline were forced to pay $30,000 for the refueling of their flight in Vienna to get to their final destination in the U.K.
Buoyed by the success of its Kindle and Kindle Fire, giant online retailer Amazon may dip its finger further to the lucrative smartphone market as report emerges that another Kindle handset will be introduced to consumers as early as next year.
Local stocks are being heavily sold off in early trade, after US and European markets again slid into negative territory overnight on continued concerns about the Eurozone debt crisis. A headline suggesting Italy may not be able to receive bailout funds if needed also exacerbated the selling.
Maintenance workers have found a live carpet shark inside the seawater intake tank of the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant in Binningup, according to Water Corporation, operator of the plant.
Despite all the claims and counter claims about global warming, carbon taxes, and new sources of 'green' energy, one thing continues to standout when you look at the global energy scene: Australia is sitting pretty.
We had two very different outlooks from companies at opposite ends of the current corporate ladder in Australia.
There was a clear sense of 'flight' by some of the world's biggest investors in the November Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey of global fund managers.
By Kathleen Brooks, Research Director UK EMEA, FOREX.comThings have got a lot worse for Europe in the last week, not only are Italian bond yields back above 7% but this morning's Spanish debt auction was poorly received.
By Greg PeelThe Dow fell 134 points or 1.1% while the S&P lost 1.7% to 1216 and the Nasdaq dropped 2.0%.
As a cost-cutting measure, New York-based Citigroup Inc. recently revealed plans to lay off some 3000 or more employees from their global workforce.
Rio Tinto Alcan intends to close the Lynemouth aluminium smelter, subject to the completion of a 90-day consultation process with employee and union representatives. The company is also in exclusive discussions regarding the potential sale of the power station at the site.
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson will unveil the full version of the sandbox construction game originally written in Java, at the MineCon convention in Las Vegas over the weekend.
Apple Inc. is the world's most valuable tech company, it's the world's second largest company by market capitalization, it reported record revenue of $108.2 billion in fiscal year ended Sept. 24, and it had record net profit of $25.9 billion in fiscal 2011.
With the release of the iTunes 10.5.1, comes the debut of iTunes Match. It is the newest feature of iTunes that is a cloud-based music matching service that makes your music available on all your authorized devices with the use of an active internet connection.
Commodity explorer and miner, Alkane Resources (ASX: ALK), has upgraded its resource of zirconia and rare earths at Dubbo in the central west of NSW.
BHP Billiton will stay the course despite prevailing challenges in the short term and will even ramp up its expansion path, which runs in counter with shareholders’ rumbling of a lull in acquisition moves.
The National Australia Bank says the outlook for Australia's manufacturing industry is bleak with output falling by almost 1% in the September quarter.
