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Apple Inc. finally made changes to its board of directors in its post-Steve Jobs era. On Tuesday, the Cupertino, California-based company named Arthur D. Levinson, Ph. D. as the Company's non-executive Chairman of the Board. Apple also announced that Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company, will join Apple's board and will serve on the audit committee.

Mozilla, the makers of Firefox and Thunderbird, keeps up with the constant evolution in mobile technology and is developing a standalone operating system for the open web, dubbed as Boot 2 Gecko (B2G).

Amazon's Kindle Fire could topple Apple's iPad lead in the tablet market according to a new survey.

The iPhone 4S' Siri will soon have a rival as Amazon secretly bought Yap - a voice to text and speech Recognition Company based in Charlotte, NC

The death of Steve Jobs is not coincidental to the death of Adobe Flash Mobile Player, as if Jobs pulled Flash, and brought it down with him to his grave. Hating Flash might just be a premonition that it will not last that long in the business.

The release of Super Mario 3D Land did not get all praises since its release on Nov. 13, 2011. In fact the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called the attention of Nintendo as the game sends out a message that wearing fur is a good idea.

During the early part of 2011, Samsung launched a powerful, slim and durable smartphone - the Samsung Galaxy S2.

Qantas will start using biofuel to power its planes next year, the airline's CEO Alan Joyce announced during the Australian Airports Association convention in Brisbane on Monday.

Mobile computing continues to fuel growth in the online search advertising, which according to a latest industry report, has generated some $1.4 billion in total revenues during the 2010-2011 financial year.

As more Australians shift to services offered under the National Broadband Network (NBN), comparison Web site, WhistleOut, pointed to five likely strategies that Internet service providers (ISPs) will put in place to gain a larger share of the market.

Another one of Hewlett Packard's discarded tablets has been discovered. A Chinese site Palmjoy was able to snag a prototype copy of the HP TouchPad Go, a 7-inch tablet that HP had been working on before it decided to discontinue its TouchPad line.

It will be another bleak season for Australia's retail industry this Christmas, according to a study by IBISWorld released on Tuesday.

Woodside Petroleum Limited (ASX: WPL) said its $30-billion proposed Browse liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Western Australia would have a low risk to the environment.

Apple continues to hold sway among the developers community but a latest survey has indicated that its erstwhile dominant rival, Microsoft, may flash noticeable surprises in 2012 and eventually catch up in the now-lucrative mobile computing industry.

Berkshire Hathaway, the investment firm of U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, purchased $10.7 billion shares in technology giant IBM equivalent to 64 million shares.

Highly-touted for its promise of maximum comfort and fuel economy, Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner lured fresh orders from the Middle East region as Oman Air announced on Monday its decision to purchase six aircrafts from the U.S.-based firm.

Nvidia has said that the chip will be replacing previous chips in tablet devices and now there are also reports that the new chip will be coming to mobile phones as well. HTC is said to be making the first smartphone with a quad-core processor in its upcoming HTC Edge. The new Tegra 3 processor will be better than the Tegra 2 processor that most smartphones use today but should this mean that device manufacturers and developers should jump to the quad-core bandwagon?

Asus released Wednesday their newest addition to their tablet line running on quad-core processor. But questions came up as to the need for tablets to run quad-core, when leading tablets such as Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab is currently running on dual-core processors.

The relatively new class of laptops called the ultrabooks isn't as crowded as the laptop or tablet markets but it's still another field that Apple has taken the lead in. Apple's MacBook Air is considered as the leading lightweight, ultraportable laptop but that doesn't mean that it's going to stay that way forever. New competitors from Toshiba, Lenovo and now Asus are taking a crack at the title for best ultraportable laptop.

Apple device owners reported that the Apple iOS 5.0.1 update did not resolve the battery issues as promised during its release Thursday. Apple admits in a report that the update failure is on some apple devices only.

Don't keep your hopes high for the replacements of your 1st generation iPod Nano, because it will be replaced with the same unit, just the good ones though, and not the new Nano as some of the consumers wished to receive.

To help you decide you what smartphone is right for you, here's a breakdown of each smartphones features and how they match up against each other.

Steve Jobs' comment to Walter Isaacson in his biography about Apple's television project has sparked much speculation about how Apple would remake television.

Although the Australian government is apparently battling an uphill fight over carbon tax, renewable energy and similar issues as the debate gets lively, trends support the Labor government position that the country should shift toward renewables and away from coal.

It was a week of foreign investors snapping up Australian start-up firms. On top of the list is the acquisition by U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart of tech start-up Grapple, which just became a part of Walmart Labs.

There are hundreds of different car security systems on the market designed to deter thieves from stealing your car, or at the very least make it significantly harder.

The ongoing price war among major Australian supermarkets may have brought down grocery costs but many families still struggle in stretching their food budget, the big chunk of which being eaten up by other household bills.

Think the Peel P50 is the smallest car in the world? Guess again.

Toyota Motor Corporation announced over the weekend that it is recalling about 550,000 cars from the market due to steering issues. In Australia, affected by the manufacturer recall are 21,792 Camry V6 vehicles made in Toyota's plant in Altona, Australia.