Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Technology News

  • ABC welcomes multi-million-dollar funding pledge

    The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has welcomed a multi-million-dollar funding announcement from the Federal Government.

    ABC - May 14, 2013, 9:27 pm
  • Age and gender? Dutch develop analyser for Twitter

    THE HAGUE (AFP) - Researchers at a Dutch university have developed an online programme that is able give the age and gender of users purely based on the content they post on the social network Twitter.

    May 14, 2013, 8:22 pm
  • Amazon hit by first strike in Germany

    FRANKFURT (AFP) - German employees of Amazon staged their first-ever walkouts on Tuesday as the US Internet retail giant was hit by a dispute over pay.

    May 14, 2013, 7:59 pm
  • Missing whale skull heads home

    A rare whale skull removed from a southern Tasmanian beach at the weekend has been recovered from a nearby paddock.

    ABC - May 14, 2013, 7:56 pm
  • Nokia unveils new metal-body Lumia smartphone

    By Brenda Goh and Ritsuko Ando LONDON/HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia unveiled a lighter, metal model in its Lumia smartphone range, as it tries to catch the eye of buyers to close the huge ...

    May 14, 2013, 7:25 pm
  • Nokia's market share slumps in first quarter - Gartner

    LONDON (Reuters) - Nokia, battling to keep up with Samsung and Apple in the global phone race, lost almost 5 percentage points of market share in the first quarter, research company Gartner said on Tu...

    May 14, 2013, 6:31 pm
  • Hedge fund billionaire Loeb says Sony reminds him of Yahoo

    By Chikafumi Hodo and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb says Sony Corp reminds him of Yahoo Inc before he waged a bitter proxy fight that triggered ...

    May 14, 2013, 5:58 pm
  • Sony says entertainment businesses not for sale

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp, responding to a shareholder's call for it to spin off its entertainment operations, said its entertainment businesses were important to its growth strategy and "are not fo...

    May 14, 2013, 5:47 pm
  • CVC ends $1.5 billion pursuit of Betfair

    By Anjuli Davies and Keith Weir LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has ended a 1 billion pound ($1.5 billion) attempt to buy online betting exchange Betfair aft...

    May 14, 2013, 4:34 pm
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