TECHNOLOGY

Australian retailer Myer is spending $9 million on a new website aimed at making the store the country's largest online department store. Myer targets to generate up to $40 million in annual sales from the new portal.

Facebook is postponing its initial public offering (IPO) planned in October or November and will go public late next year instead.

Rumors on the possible specs and features of iPhone 5 spread like wildfire, Apple yet to confirm.

Apple is reportedly planning an upgrade to its MacBook Pro notebooks with a marginal speed bump in time for the holiday season.

Optus the second biggest telecommunications provider in Australia will start providing 4G mobile services next year as it will also begin 4G services on a new spectrum previously used by analog television.

Deep Silver has announced that the first title update for Dead Island, its widely popular zombie infestation, action-RPG game. The game publisher said the patch is now available for download via Xbox LIVE. But the patch for PlayStation3 and PC is still in the works.

Sleek, stylish and modern are some of the words apt to describe the new Windows 8 courtesy of Bill Gates’ Microsoft.

The National Transportations Safety Board has called for a ban on cell phone use for commercial drivers across the United States.

More youth gangs in different Australian cities are using the Taser or electronic stun gun to commit petty crimes.

Reuters reported Wednesday Danish retailer Aesir hopes to sell its $57,400, limited-edition 18-carat gold phones to Moscow's elite market. The took three years to develop but it does not have special apps or camera. Manufacturer Aesir hopes to sell the solid gold phone as a collector's item.

Innovative polymer gel batteries promise a safer alternative to traditional lithium batteries.

Major fast food chain KFC has removed claims that it sources chickens that are 'free to roam' from its Australian website.

The billions of dollars in Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's bank account must have inspired so many young technology geeks in the U.S. that they are following the footsteps the Internet mogul took when he was in university.

Friday evening, after retailers began showing $99 liquidation prices for the discontinued HP TouchPad, Hewlett-Packard sent a missive to its registered WebOS developers, vaguely outlining the changes that will take place after the company shutters its WebOS hardware division and considers alternatives for the mobile operating system.

Microsoft has expressed optimism on Wednesday that despite the worldwide slide on sales of personal computers, Windows will remain relevant in the tech world that has largely been transformed by mobile computing.

Minecraft 1.8, the latest adventure update to the hugely popular sandbox building indie video game written in Java by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson, is now officially live.

In a press conference, Sony Corp said it is set to kick off the global rollout of its new PlayStation Vita on Dec. 17 in Japan. NTT Docomo, Japan's biggest mobile carrier, will provide prepaid 3G plans for PS Vita users. Although criticized for setting a high price, Sony said in August there was no need to cut the price of the PS Vita from the announced figure of 24,980 yen ($325) for a Wi-fi only model and 29,980 yen ($390) for a 3G plus Wi-fi version.

Can a computer tell when it hurts? It can if you train it, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

Australian gamers will have a reason to celebrate this season as Microsoft announced that it has slashed the price on its Xbox 360 and Kinect bundles by AU$50 in time for the Christmas season.

Federal investigation has begun to find out whether eBay misappropriated confidential information from Craigslist, according to a Reuters report.

Giant internet company Google showed its resolve of finalising its purchase of Motorola Mobility when it raised by 33 percent to $12.5 billion its original bid of taking over the American firm largely credited for inventing the first mobile phone.

Sony announced that it will launch its next generation handheld device, the PlayStation Vita on December 17 in Japan but insisted that it will not reduce the price of the device despite its rival Nintendo slashing the price of its console.

Buggy or not, due to popular demand, we're giving a quick guide on how to install Minecraft 1.8:

Audi studies the urban future and sees increasingly crowded cities housing a majority of the world's people. No wonder the company is showing off electric pod cars suitable for the brave new roads of 2020.

Microsoft gave developers a taste of its new OS at the company's Build conference on Tuesday in California when Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows team, offered a full preview of its upcoming Windows 8.

Microsoft Corp. is unleashing next year Windows 8, its first operating system designed to work for personal computers, tablets and smartphones. But before the Redmond, Washington-based firm could extend its market dominance to mobile devices, it's possible that Google will launch a serious attack at Microsoft's forte: the desktop and laptops. Google, developer of the world's top-selling smartphone platform, will likely be an "Android" to PCs. It's not a question of if but ra...

By disregarding posture and overusing gadgets, people are at greater risk of eye strain, tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome, to name a few conditions. The hands, shoulders, neck and back are most prone to muscle aches resulting from misuse and abuse of electronic devices at improper posture.

Now, Nintendo President Satoru said in a briefing in Tokyo on Tuesday that Nintendo is hoping to woo female customers by unveiling a misty pink version of the Nintendo 3DS. Iwata also said that more features will be added, including a function that allows users to record movies in 3-D, changes to Street Pas Mii Plaza and eShop, and a 1,500-yen expansion slide pad.

HTC execs told Taiwan's Central News Agency that it has had internal discussions about purchasing a new OS. The likely candidate would be Hewlett-Packard's webOS, according to reports.