Jamelle Agbuis

Euro zone ministers have given Greece till July 3 to approve further spending cuts and tax increases in exchange for another €12 billion in emergency funding.

A small sigh of relief on Friday night as US sharemarkets posted their first weekly gain since April, with the S&P 500 and Dow ending moderately higher in the face of worries about Europe's debt crisis and a slowing US economy.

A big week for the US economy, or rather a week when the current gloomy sentiment about the outlook for the US economy will be further tested.

So now for the hard part of 'saving' Greece a second time in 13 months and hopefully making sure it will be the last.

The Australian Dollar has opened this morning at USD1.0600 after the dramas surrounding the Greek sovereign debt crisis eased over the weekend.

Microsoft is preparing the developer channel for release of Internet Explorer 9 Mobile, which is coming with Windows Phone "Mango" sometime in the Fall.

With the public outcry over Facebook's facial recognition feature growing ever louder, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen is now requesting a meeting with the social networking site. In a letter sent to Facebook, he says the company's failure to provide an opt-in "overlooked a critical component of consumer privacy protection."

It's taken a long time. A very, very long time. But, at last, the latest Chrome 13 beta sees the browser finally gain a Print Preview function. And this isn't just some half-finished beta version, either -- it's really quite impressive.

Sometimes the most brilliant moments in marketing are the simplest ideas. In the video above, a youngster dance, dance, dances before Xbox 360. Microsoft smartly uses Kinect to connect with customers. The action takes place at Microsoft Store Bellevue, Wash.

Organisations will need to adopt new ways of attracting OHS talent as a survey shows the majority of OHS professionals are not looking for new opportunities.

More than a thousand of Australia’s corporate heads spent last night in the cold in order to raise funds and awareness for the homeless.

This week, Mozilla's whirlwind release cycle yielded the first release candidate of Firefox 5 in the beta channel, just a matter of a week before the final version is expected to be released.

The days of needing to use Friendly or other third-party applications to access Facebook on the iPad may be soon over.

More jobs were created in the health and aged care sector than the mining industry in the year to May, according to employment figures by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Harmful mineral oils from the printing inks used on cardboard can migrate into food if recycled cardboard is used for food packaging.

Bitcoins have become popular as an alternative to government-controlled currencies, but a new Trojan seems to be specifically targeting Bitcoin wallets in an attempt to steal funds, security firm Symantec warns.

I love Microsoft Outlook. I know a lot of people hate it, but I'm inclined to believe that they don't use Outlook well enough.

Another Father's Day is upon us, and you must be wondering what to give dear old dad. Mom seems to get all the love, while dad suffers with socks, ties and aftershave for Christmas that he doesn't need; he gets not much better on his special day.

It might sound a bit melancholy, but Greece and the US economy will again dominate markets here and overseas in the coming week.

Despite all the gloom and doom from Greece, Europe and the US, as well as the glum tone on sharemarkets here and offshore, there was one unchallenged bit of good news for Australia over the weekend.

Marco Arment's post, "The Android tablet problem, nicely summarized by one review's conclusion", stirred up some fierce debate here at Betanews on Friday.

The Australian Dollar staged a rally back through the 1.0600 level after a lacklustre onshore session on Friday.

The Australian share market ended the week with a flat result as a production downgrade from energy major Woodside put an end to a positive morning session.

US consumer sentiment eased from 74.3 to 71.8 in June, below the consensus forecast of 73.5. The US leading index lifted by 0.8pct in May, well above the consensus forecast of a 0.4pct gain.

Understandably, global investors continued trimming their positions in the past month, remaining defensive, as they tried to work out whether the current Wall of Worry was a repeat of 2010's or more serious.

Figures out this week flesh out the dramatic impact of the floods and cyclones on Australia's minerals sector in the three months to March.

Our market has lurched downwards in sympathy for the rest of the world on Thursday as local investors large and small (and the hedge funds and other short term players) reckoned the bad news from Greece and the US economy was bad news for us.

At first glance an audio encoder called LameXP doesn't look like it'll be the most appealing of products. You might easily assume that it's just going to be an outdated front end for the LAME MP3 library -- too basic to be really useful. But don't be misled. LameXP is far more interesting than its name suggests.

Program bugs, hardware problems, virus attacks, human error -- there are many possible reasons why you might lose valuable data.