Australian media group, Yahoo!7,  has boosted its management team with the appointment of former E*TRADE managing director, Stuart Sayer, in a newly created role of chief operating officer.

Australian-listed satellite company, NewSat (ASX:NWT) has signed a new strategic satellite capacity contract with Asia’s Malaysian-based MEASAT Satellite Systems, which boosts the total value of all contracts NewSat has secured for its next-generation Jabiru-1 satellite to US$526 million.

Australian-listed integrated mobile and digital communications company, Mobile Embrace, has raised $1.1 million in a private placement.

The Russians were forced to delay the next manned flight to the International Space Station when the descent module for its Soyuz spacecraft was accidently over-pressurized during its testing phase. Thus, three of the current crew members onboard the ISS will get to stay in space a month and half longer.

The Spark, an open tablet which will be available for purchase by May this year, will run the Mer operating system, the community continuation of the Linux-based MeeGo project which is hosted by the Linux Foundation.

One in three Aussie school kids are returning to school this year with a smartphone, and almost eight in ten own a phone by the age of 13, according to new research from Telstra.



Cloud services providers, Australian Cloud and Kiwi Cloud have selected cloud workspace solutions company, independenceIT, to deliver services to meet the expanding cloud needs of their customers.

Yep, it is a bit of a phenomenon that nobody really predicted.  Skylanders is the latest craze combining collectable figurines that come to life in the linked video game of the same name.  Here are the bio’s on the next  set of characters due this month.

Optus has moved to play down the implications of the copyright ruling on its 'TV Now' service for lucrative deals covering exclusive rights to deliver popular free-to-air content to mobile devices

Analysts say it is reassuring that Facebook has been able to convert its 845 million active users into revenue and profits, with both the company’s operating income and revenue growing strongly over the past two years.