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Apple co-founder and innovator, Steve Jobs, died of respiratory arrest caused by pancreatic cancer, according to the official death certificate.

Nine out of ten Australian households own a device for playing games, and nearly one in five gamers play social network games, new research into how Australians are playing video games has revealed.

Motorola is entering its ET 1 in the tablet wars. Does it stand a chance against Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab?

Australian small businesses are slow to follow consumers online and are potentially missing out on a raft of opportunities, according to the annual Sensis e-Business Report released today.

Unlike other post offices which refuse to adapt to information technology, Australia Post is instead riding on the online shopping trend to boost its income.

Steve Jobs fought a losing battle with cancer but his death certificate, released Monday by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department in San Francisco, California, revealed that the Apple co-founder’s actual demise was caused by respiratory arrest.

Apple Inc. is launching the iMessage on Wednesday that will allow users of devices running on the company's mobile operating system to chat SMS-style for free and without limit.

If reports are to be believed Amazon's new Kindle Fire is just flying off the shelves. Amazon is reportedly taking in 50,000 pre-orders of the tablet every day. Analysts estimate that Amazon is on track to sell 2.5 million Kindle Fire units by November. It seems that the Kindle Fire is living up to expectations as Apple's biggest competitor in the tablet market.

Spurred by the death of its founder five days ago, Apple's yet to be launched iPhone 4S is practically off the shelves and sold off the Australian market as consumers take aim of the gadget more as a last hold on the memory of Steve Jobs.

The electronics giant, Samsung, has announced a slight delay in launching their new Nexus Prime smartphone. The company said that it was a gesture of respect on the deceased Apple founder Steve Jobs.

BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India could not email, send instant message and surf the web on Monday.

Pre-orders for the iPhone 4S reached one million on Friday breaking the record first-day sale set by the iPhone 4 last year.

The official Facebook app was said to have features that users can experience high-res photos, games, chat and better navigation using iPad's touch gestures. The release did not contain Facebook's timeline feature which Mark Zuckerburg introduced inn the f8 conference.

Samsung Electronics Co., the biggest rival to Apple Inc. in the mobile devices and which is involved in a number of expensive courtroom battles with the Steve Jobs-founded company, scheduled an Oct. 11 launch for the Samsung Nexus Prime, the first smartphone powered by the Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

Apple concept store will open at the heart of Wellington.

Max Payne has undergone a makeover in the years since Max Payne 2. He's shaved his head, ditched his trademark trench coat in favor of a wife beater and he's changed locations to Brazil. But underneath the cosmetic changes, Payne is still the same tortured noir hero gamers have played in two previous iterations and new developer Rockstar Games has kept the same fluid bullet-time combat that made the series a landmark in gaming.

Sony Pictures is reportedly securing the rights to an upcoming biography of the late Apple co-founder and icon Steve Jobs. The authorized bio by the Time managing editor Walter Isaacson is perhaps the most definitive bio on the legendary Apple founder with almost 40 interviews with Jobs himself and over 100 conversations with Jobs' friends, family and colleagues.

Sometimes a small bug can be hours of fun. That is what happened to Bethesda when they were figuring out why somebody in their game Skyrim is reporting thievery on them. Turns out the feathered animals there is not so keen on giving up their eggs.

Scam artists have exploited the recent demise of the iconic co-founder of Apple. Promises of 500 free iPads had lured in Facebook and Twitter users to click links that direct to websites unrelated to the fake promotion.

Apple’s online store said that new iPhone 4S is already sold-out. The handset will hit the market on Friday.

Gold Coast start-up IT firm Cake Media launched on Monday an Australian social networking site named Family HQ. The portal, which used Microsoft's Azure software platform, promises more user privacy compared to current top social networking site Facebook.

Australian carriers revealed iPhone 4S prices as many people want to get their hands on the newest iPhone.

I'm a bit unconventional in my background. I did some different things before I moved to HR. I come from a TV background - I spent five years in tv, working with SBS and moving around various production departments there, but not in HR. I then moved into HR and spent some time at Vodafone setting up their greenfields site in Tasmania, a 600 seat call centre.

China and Vietnam maybe at odds over claims in the South China Sea, particularly the Paracel and Spratly Islands, but they seem to be agreeing on one thing: taking control of its internet users.

Until Steve Jobs came along, apple was the name of a popular fruit often portrayed as the fruit that Biblical character Eve offered to Adam, which resulted in the two being banished by God from the Garden of Eden.

Following the critical and commercial success of its tech-based biopic ‘The Social Network’, Sony Pictures is reportedly approaching the last leg of securing the exclusive rights to produce a movie on the life of tech icon Steve Jobs.

For those frustrated with failure's to announce the iPhone 5 last at the "Let's Talk iPhone" event week, the 15-month wait for the fifth generation iPhone will get longer, by four to twelve months.

Siri is the new function for the iPhone 4s that is said to be an intelligent A.I. An old version of the Siri available is no longer available for free in the Apple App Store.

If there is one person who can be compared to Steve Jobs, it is the Facebook’s creator Mark Zuckerberg.