Alan Kohler is one of Australia’s most experienced commentators and journalists. Alan is the founder of Eureka Report, Australia’s most successful investment newsletter, and Business Spectator, a 24-hour free business news and commentary website. He also hosts Inside Business, a half-hour Sunday programme on the ABC, is the finance presenter on the ABC News - and producer of the nightly graph (or two).
The first shot may have been fired ahead of a potential post-election Labor leadership battle between likely candidates Bill Shorten and Greg Combet – and the battlefront could be climate policy.
Barry O'Farrell's support gives some hope for the Gonski reforms, but Labor’s message is diminished by what's now generally assumed to be its terminal position.
Yahoo's $1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr is more than an attempt to "buy hipsters". In fact, Yahoo needs content platforms to fuel its growth and it seems Tumblr proved to be a prime candidate.
Samsung's latest smartphone is full of tips and tricks to help differentiate it from the sea of other Android-operated devices. Yet these "key features" come off more as marketing gimmicks than advances in smartphone technology.
CEOs outline changing views on corporate spending and profits, their economic expectations and political dissatisfaction, including advice for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
UK-based Zeebox wants to be the intermediary for all social media-television interactions. It will not only have to lure viewers, but the networks themselves.
The Blackberry Z10 is a nice phone, but nice just isn't going to cut it for BlackBerry at this stage, with none of the features standing out as world beaters and some still sub-standard compared to iPhone and Android.
Move comes on the back of pleas from media advocacy groups and news organisations that Apple's testimonies in the patent fight with Samsung are in public interest.
Long running fight over the Xbox console related to the larger smartphone patent war between Apple, Microsoft and the mobile phone makers who use Google's Android.
China Mobile plans to spend billions in developing 4G technology this year, hoping to tap pent-up demand for Apple smartphones as it gets an iPhone model that will finally run on its network.
BlackBerry will offer technology to separate and make secure both work and personal data on mobile devices powered by Google's Android platform and Apple's iOS operating system.
BlackBerry has gotten its new touchscreen mobile device on store shelves in more than 20 countries and is very encouraged by the traction that the smartphone is gaining, Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said on Thursday.
Business SpectatorNews Corp has taken the wraps off its new tablet computer for the school market, saying the device will use "digital innovation to transform teaching and learning".
