TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft will be releasing a new range of Windows Phone 7 smartphones.

Ecotality, a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, has been chosen as the partner for the government of Victoria in a test project for installing and monitoring Blink electric vehicle charging stations.

An Australian company is currently developing a flying saucer capable of carrying whole buildings for long distances, possibly anywhere in the world.

Multinational financial services company Westpac revealed its massive timetable for its IT services revamp.

The next time a user in Australia types in a search expression, Google's search engine will display results that may match. It takes the existing search suggestion feature and provides users with instant search results based on the search expressions entered.

Weak share market sentiment for the nation's largest telecommunications provider becomes the impetus to retain customer confidence.

In keeping with its efforts to bring Firefox to mobile devices, Mozilla releases Firefox 4 beta for Maemo and Android.

Among Australian mobile phone users, 21 percent own an Apple iPhone, a meteoric rise since it was first introduced in 2008. Nokia maintains its lead in the market with 41 percent, while BlackBerry dropped to third place at 3 percent, according to the Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index.

In hesitating to follow Tasmania's lead in legislating for all homes to be connected to the National Broadband Network, NSW and Victoria may induce the federal government to conduct a review of the NBN's rollout schedule.

Speaking at the annual American Magazine Conference in Chicago, Oprah Winfrey credited her iPad for keeping her abreast with the latest news

Google announced the release of its Goggles service on the iPhone 4 and 3GS. Google Goggles, which became available to Android phone users last December, took almost a year before being launched on the iOS.

Android users can now access the eToro's financial trading platform and OpenBook, as its new social trading network.

The Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) 70 percent royalty option is now available in the United Kingdom, according to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).

NBA video games fans can now play against basketball living legend Michael Jordan in the just released NBA 2K11 video game.

Photos of roads with two dead bodies have been taken out days after the Google launched its Street View service in crime-hit Brazil.

Telstra has flagged plans to release a tablet device based on Google Android to compete against devices from Apple, Dell and Samsung.

Malcolm Turnbull, the opposition spokesman on communications, said that the "extraordinary" cost of gaining access to the NBN will limit its number of users.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) launched the Beta Version of Amazon's Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign(R). It is a new tool that allows publishers to easily make titles available for Amazon Kindle by converting Adobe InDesign(R) files directly into Amazon Kindle books.

Internet marketing research company comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) announces the availability of mobile-optimized tagging for publishers, set to provide significantly enhanced measurement of mobile audiences across the world.

A mobile phone application has been considered a threat to airline security because of its ability to track the progress of aircraft.

French videogame maker Ubisoft has made its popular "Assassin's Creed" title available to Facebook, further blurring the line between playing on consoles and the social networking Web site.

Google, which has been the subject of privacy concerns due to its "Street View" service that shows street level pictures of cities around the world, announced that it now covers all seven continents with its inclusion of images taken in Antartica.

AmazonEncore will introduce eight new books this spring, according to the latest announcement from Amazon Inc, AmazonEncore also announced four additions to their 2010 fall publishing list,

Apple's flagship tablet, the iPad, will be sold through another American retailer in addition to the company's own stores. Target will join Best Buy as one of two non-Apple stores that sell the tablet device.

After announcing the Japanese launch date for its 3DS handheld, Nintendo has released the list of video game titles that will accompany the new gaming platform. The 3DS, which is the first gaming device to offer a three dimensional experience without the use of 3D glasses, will be available in the country on February 26, 2011.

Cisco's Security blog reports that LinkedIn was responsible for over a quarter of all the spam caught by the company's systems for a span of 15-minute last Monday. Spam from the Web site also accounted for about 15% of all spam messages for the day.

Google unveils a new image format for the Web that the company claims would save large amounts of bandwidth. The format, which has been named WebP (pronounced 'weppy'), has been said to drastically reduce the file sizes of images.

Optus has made more than 50 positions redundant for Alphawest, its business and service provider division.

The nation's largest telecommunications firm is expected to find ways to motivate employees following its announcement of slashing 6,000 of its more than 43 thousand jobs.