Australia

Homeopathy has long attracted criticism and ridicule from serious scientific and medical circles. Australia's official medical group has now chimed in, stating that homeopathy is essentially 'useless.'

Bees have undergone a radical decrease in their global population over the recent years. A group of Australian scientists have now decided to put sensors on bees to investigate the possible causes of the extinction of bee colonies.

Apple takes pride in the fact that it ships out top-quality smartphones and tablets. Nonetheless, even the top-of-the-range stuff may sometime run into trouble. According to reports, an iPad Air recently exploded due to overheating while being charged in an Australian phone store.

For many long months, Julian Assange, the creator of WikiLeaks, has been confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London. However, apparently that hasn't dimmed his fervor as reports suggest that Assange is planning to run for Senate in the state of Victoria.

Apple's Maps app has been lambasted enough in the past. The main problem with it is the incorrect positioning of different locations, rendering it nearly unusable. Australian police has now warned the users not to use the app since it can give them wrong directions.

This is what the new ad used by Samsung to sell it's tablet, Galaxy Tab reads. Samsung is selling the devices in Australia after Apple having failed in a case against the tablet. And now, with a tinge of wit, Samsung is using the publicity it gathered through this case to sell its tablets in the market. So far, the strategy seems a big success!

A number of reports floating on the internet are claiming that Apple had accidentally launched iTunes Match internationally. One particular report, citing a snapshot of response from Apple, states that the launch is not working for Apple users outsides of US and Brazil. And that customers in other parts of the world who have been charged for the…

Samsung has finally secured a win for it's devices in Australia. Earlier a court had banned the devices and Samsung had appealed against it and won it. Apple vowed to file yet another appeal against this decision. But Apple has been denied an appeal and this means Samsung will be able to sell it's devices during the holiday season, something really…

Australian Giant Mobile and Telephone Operator TELSTRA, has opened Australia's First Android Store named 'Androidland' in Telstra's Bourke Street, Melbourne, on Dec 2. Actually this the World's First Dedicated Android Store in the History of World.

Ever since this April, Apple has been doggedly pursuing Samsung worldwide, accusing that the South Korean company copied the designs of iPad and iPhone. Samsung, of course, has resorted with counter-cases. We reported a while ago that an appeals court in Australia overturned the ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab. However, the court has allowed, on…