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No automatic increase despite fare hike petition 12/09/2009 09:05 AM There will be no automatic jeep fare hike, at least until next week, even if transport groups file a petition to restore a 50-centavo provisional fare hike. Wednesday, saying that...

Price said the decision came as he decided to pursue new challenges. "After 22 years with Southern Cross Broadcasting/Fairfax Media, originally with 3AW and over the past 8 years with 2UE, I feel now is the right time to explore...

Gadget fetishists have long known the virtues of packing a notebook PC when travelling. Thanks to increasingly tough luggage weight restrictions, more folks are choosing not to cram already bulging cabin baggage with portable DVD players, e-book readers, iPods, cell...

When novices play videogames with hard-core players, the newbies can end up humiliated and the pros can end up bored. But, now, game makers are unveiling new features that make it easier—and more fun—for the two groups of users to...

Topher Morrison, a motivational speaker in Tampa, Fla., bought a Mindflex several weeks ago and raves about it, even though his 11-year-old daughter beat him at it. "It is like a science project and game in one," he says. Mattel...

On the downside, finding a man could be tougher, with the nation's gender ratio on the decline, Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows...The rise was attributed to the ageing of the population, but the median age differed by more than...

The new competition, while nascent, comes during a critical holiday season for eBay, which has been working to turn around its struggling marketplace. The number of unique visitors to eBay.com in the last week of November declined 4% from a...

The electronic system should reduce administration costs and improve compliance in the transport industry.  “It should not only help operators be accurate with distances travelled, but we believe it will also make it easier for them to register weight changes.”...

The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the Big Bang. Hubble Space Telescope has peered about 13 billion years into the universe's past and captured an image of the earliest galaxies...

College has launched a gift programme allowing Christmas shoppers to buy a course to give as a present. The Courses for Christmas initiative, which won a Perthshire Chamber of Commerce award in November, enables shoppers to purchase a course starting...