Published on December 12, 2010 by Technology Slice
Mortgage Exit Fees Banned – Treasurer Wayne Swan will announce today plans to ban mortgage exit fees – blamed for dampening competition by making it prohibitively expensive for customers to switch to cheaper loans – from July 1 next year. The Sunday Age believes the much-anticipated banking competition package also includes a plan to give [...]
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Posted in Money
Published on October 27, 2010 by Technology Slice
NAB Profit Over $4 Billion – NAB shares rose in early trading, gaining as much as 2.8 per cent, or 70 cents, to $25.45. By late afternoon, though, the shares had trimmed their advance to be up 47 cents, or 1.9 per cent, to $25.22, while the overall market was off about 0.9 per cent. [...]
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Posted in Money
Published on August 26, 2010 by Technology Slice
Qantas To Boost Domestic Flights – Qantas said it would expand its capacity by 9.6 per cent, while Jetstar would swell by up to 30 per cent this year when all the extra flights were operating. The Qantas expansion is being viewed by some industry watchers as an opportunistic move against domestic rivals Virgin Blue [...]
Tags: Additional Services, Adelaide, Airline Group, Alan Joyce, cairns, Chief Executive, Domestic Flights, East Coast, Global Financial Crisis, jetstar, Nine Months, Profit Outlook, Qantas Domestic, Qantas Flights, Qantas Group, Return Flights, Rivals, State Of Western Australia, Tiger Airways, virgin blue
Posted in Travel
Published on August 6, 2010 by Technology Slice
All New Blackberry Torch – I love my BlackBerry Bold, but over the past year I have become acutely aware that Research in Motion, the Canadian manufacturer of the BlackBerry, needed to touch-enable its handsets and revamp the BlackBerry browser if it wanted to remain relevant in the cut-throat smartphone market. This week RIM delivered [...]
Tags: blackberry, Canadian Manufacturer, Chief Executive, Cut Throat, droid, google, Handsets, High Resolution Retina, iphone, Iphone 4, Launch, Mike Lazaridis, Product Introductions, Research In Motion, Respects, Rim, Rivals, Slider, Torch, Touchscreen
Posted in Mobile Phones
Published on August 2, 2010 by Technology Slice
Ford’s New RS Focus – Ford’s hot-hatch will be priced from $59,990 (plus on-road costs) and numbers will be limited to 315. It is based on the current Focus that will be replaced by a new-generation model in 2011. The RS uses a heavily modified version of the Focus XR5 Turbo’s (Volvo-sourced) 2.5-litre turbo petrol [...]
Tags: Exhaust System, Focus Ford, Focus Rs, Ford Focus, Four Wheels, Front Suspension, Gearbox, Generation Model, Hot Hatch, Limited Slip Differential, Manual Gearbox, New Generation, Performance Enhancements, Petrol Engine, Rivals, Sourced, steering wheel, torque, Tyre, Tyre Grip
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