Vittorio Hernandez

At 9:57 p.m. of Tuesday, April 23, Australia's 23 millionth resident, a male child, will likely be born to a 31-year-old mother and 33-year-old father who are residents of Western Sydney.

After tech experts from CNET picked in March the Surface Pro table as the best high-end Windows 8 tablets in the market, a month after, another tech Web site pointed to the same tablet as best Windows 8 machines you can buy.

Instagram's 100 million users could soon earn money from the images they post on the Web site using its popular photo sharing app.

Monday saw a fairly constructive tone of trade to start a holiday shortened week. Weekend developments helped lift the spirit of investors. There was relief that the Italians had formed a Government at long last. Asian markets specifically were relieved that the G20 Communique presented no obstacles to the ambitions of the Bank of Japan in relation to its quantitative easing program.

It was a big week for apps last week as big tech companies and developers released new ones. Here are the top 7 picked by Web site Mashable, which called these as not-to-be missed apps.

Reports said that Google next-edition Nexus device would be the Nexus 4 made by LG with a newly enlarged standard 32GB internal storage, 4G LTE and possibly be the first smartphone to run on the new Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie OS.

The Australian sharemarket is improving for the second consecutive session, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) up 0.2 per cent. Most major global markets ended higher on Friday night which is helping lift equities this morning. Local shares have just had their second worst week of 2013 however.

The number of Australians who would visit Gallipoli this week for Anzac Day celebration on Thursday, April 25, is expected to be down since many Aussies prefer to celebrate big the event in 2015, the centenary of the commemoration.

Are dolls with wafer-thin and unrealistic body proportions to be blamed for the wrong body image that young girls are suffering from and willing to literally die for?

At $12 off-contract price tag, the Gongkai Phone may appear a steal for consumers. The device features 260 MHz processor, 8MB of RAM and a two-colored OLED screen in a snap-together plastic case.

This is the advertising campaign of a beauty soap that has been behind a move to change women's image of what is beautiful from standard media images to more realistic ones of faces that millions of ordinary females have.The 3-minute commercial, made by Ogilvy and released last week, has more than 15 million hits on YouTube so far. Just days after the roll-out of the ad, a parody produced by newfeelingstime.com, featuring men was released on YouTube, and it has also gone viral with so far mor...

One of the major reasons behind the popularity of tablet computers is that they are smaller and more portable than laptops. But what if there is one that weighs just 1.9 lb and measures 10.77 millimetres? Would you still go for the less powerful tablet or instead buy the Blade 13 Carbon laptop being introduced by Inhon, a Taiwanese tech firm?

Fortescue Metals (ASX: FMG), the third largest iron ore miner in Australia, is forecasting the rise of iron ore prices between $139 and $140 a tonne in the short term due to low iron stocks, particularly in China.

In what appears to be a tragic-comedy, a new Philippine figure of speech is being applied on the country's bachelor president, 53-year-old Benigno Aquino, who is reportedly dating a beauty queen.

The Twitter flirting of Miss Universe 1st runner-up Janine Tugonon, which led to her break up with her ordinary looking Filipino boyfriend Jaypee Santos, has led creative minds to use her name as a figure of speech or buzz word to mean dumping a boyfriend.

Following her admission on national television that she broke up with her ordinary looking boyfriend because of her infatuation for a singer, Miss Universe 2012 1st runner-up Janine Tugonon is attracting bashers on Facebook.

The Australian share market made a modest gain today, in a week in which investor sentiment was impacted by a sharp sell-down in the gold price, worries about Chinese economic growth and a downgrade for global growth from the International Monetary Fund. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) added 0.2% today, but was down 1.9% on the week.

The Australian sharemarket is partly making up for the worst day in a month for local shares yesterday. At the close of business on Thursday, the mining sector was having its worst week since September 2011, with the miners down 9 per cent over just four sessions. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) is up 0.2 per cent or 10.1 pts to 4,921.4.

Blame it on their good looks and voluptuous bodies, but Italians have a history of mixing their politics with the world of entertainment. For instance, in the ongoing Italian presidential elections, there were stray votes for a male porn actor and famous actress.

With Apple's share prices down to less than $400 from a peak of $700 more than a year ago, it appears that South Korean tech giant has written off the California-based firm as its main competitor. It appears that the Samsung vs Apple rivalry, which has reached courts in different continents, would soon become history.

The power of creative minds plus the benefits of Photoshop led to the creation of this picture that appears to depict Apple's sorry state 18 months after co-founder Steve Jobs succumbed to pancreatic cancer.

The QWERTY keyboard uses in mobile phones and computers was an adaptation from the typewriter, which assumes the use of the 10 digits on both left and right hands to type words and numbers.

A photo leaked by case manufacturer Tactus, published by NetworkWorld, further fueled speculations of a low-cost iPhone. It showed a plastic shell, which is consistent with previous rumours about the upcoming device.

For a country notorious for cheap but fake imitations, it is not surprising to hear that some Chinese are taking advantage of Apple's warranty to create real iPhone 4S units with fake ones.

Will Nokia join the bandwagon and make its own phablet? Old rumours that have been started a few months back, partly backed by a remark of Nokia Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop that he is studying the tablet market, may resurface as one strategy for the Finnish tech firm to recover lost ground.

BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) heeded the call of its global shareholders to put in place austerity measures for executive remuneration. Unfortunately for incoming Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie, it would be during his term beginning May 2013 that the pay cuts would start.

An afternoon of accelerated selling on rising volumes saw local stocks end with a substantial loss. Investors remain concerned about the outlook for commodity prices in the face of rising supply and falling demand against a backdrop of a weakening global growth pulse. Bringing a sharper focus to these concerns in the last 24 hours has been the head of the German central bank who warned that the European recovery may take up to a decade. These themes drove the aggressive selling seen for mining s...

One in five scams in Facebook involves the offer to view an alleged sex tape involving sultry singer Rihanna, but in reality it is an online scam with the aim to steal private data and install malware.

Chocolate manufacturers, it seems, are following the model of smartphone, tablet and TV makers by coming up with larger models of their products.