TECHNOLOGY

BlackBerry users in India will continue to receive service for the smartphone after the government gave Research in Motion a reprieve on its threat to ban its messaging services for the next two months.

Philadelphia-based startup Stream TV is launching its Android-based tablet computer with Amazon.com accepting pre-orders starting on Wednesday.

Nokia Corp. will put up a server in India for its push e-mail service to comply with local regulations that security agencies get access to such data to check if users are violating any law.

Gmail users can now easily find and read important e-mails first before the not-so-important ones filling up their inbox with the introduction of a new feature that automatically highlights priority messages.

The Australian Communications & Media Authority (ACMA), the communications watchdog, is waiting for an SBS report on the impact of 3D TV trial broadcasts of rugby league and football games from last May.

Proloquo2Go has captured the hearts of the special needs community as the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device is affordable and user-friendly in supplementing or replacing speech of children with autism, apraxia, and other disabilities.

To comply with government regulations, Nokia, the mobile phone maker, will be setting up servers in India by November for its push e-mail service in the country.

You could be an online narcissist if you keep updating your status and posting pouty profile pictures on Facebook.

Sony has obtained a court order temporarily stopping Australian retailers from importing and selling a device that allows gamers to play pirated games on PlayStation 3 game consoles.

Youtube, the online video Web site, will be posting video installations in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

ATI, the graphics chip manufacturer, is set for a re-branding as AMD. The initial offering under the new set-up, which will be named AMD Radeon, is expected to be released later this year.

David Bartlett, the Tasmanian premier and former IT industry staffer, has arranged a roundtable meeting that includes Tony King, the reclusive chief executive of Apple Australia.

Facebook, the social networking Web site, is suing "Teachbook, " a Web site for teachers that has not even been launched yet.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is rethinking its method of regulating service providers and managing user identities as it faces pressure from the influx of new internet access technologies and accompanying devices.

Apple unveils a new patent application that aims to remove more components from its minimalist devices.

In spite of failing to secure the necessary legal requirements, Channel Nine still hopes to screen this year's National Rugby League grand final in 3D.

Sony has won an injunction to keep three Australian distributors from selling a solution that allows PlayStation 3 owners to run pirated games.

The research business of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is seeking compensation from eleven companies for its "groundbreaking" contributions to the internet economy.

Research shows that tweens are more technologically savvy and count the internet as a source of happiness.

Apple iPhone 4 users are complaining over the delay for a fix for a problem that Steve Jobs pledged to remedy in the company's next software update.

VHA increases the amount of data included in its mobile phone cap plans as the company aims to gain ground in the increasingly price-competitive mobile services market.

Julia Gillard, the Australian Prime Minister, has extended an invite to the group of three returning independent MPs for a meeting with NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley.

Telstra, the telecommunications company, has issued a warning to its customers to alert them of a credit card scam.

Experts are saying that Google's new Internet-calling service must add more mobile capabilities and support for business customers to compete with Skype and rival Web-phone providers.

NewSat, the satellite operator, has spoken out against the National Broadband Network (NBN) as it urges three independent MPs to look into alternative solutions to the $43 billion project.

Microsoft, the technology company, hopes to gain ground in the mobile market with Windows Phone 7 as it courts 2700 IT professionals and software developers in the Tech.Ed event on the Gold Coast.

the nation going web 2.0 inevitably raises a LOT of eyebrows

a new app that promises to be easy to use with hardly as much red tape on it

if you base this entirely on statistics regarding sales and potential competitors, the ipad seems to me more than capable of matching the success of the ipod.