With the poor performance of the Dick Smith chain forcing Woolworths Group to post a net profit loss, and the half yearly profit before tax for retailer, Harvey Norman, being down 17.69 per cent over the previous year, one might be forgiven for thinking that all is not right in retail land.

A $300 million restructuring provision for the electronics chain took its toll on Woolworths Group’s financial results.

Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith fears the electronics chain he founded could be sold to foreign owners by retail giant Woolworths.

Woolworths Group is looking to sell off its Dick Smith business preferring to tackle the consumer electronics market through its subsidiary retail chain, Big W.

I've had the opportunity to use an HTC Sensation smartphone for the last several weeks, and even more recently a member of my immediate family has acquired a Huawei Sonic. A consequence is that the way I feel about Android has changed significantly.

Cloud services enablement and desktop virtualisation provider, Parallels, has launched the latest version of Parallels Desktop 7 (PD7) for Mac, software that runs Windows applications on Mac.

Dick Smith customers who bought products online in New Zealand during a glitch that saw products apparently being sold for free, are being offered a 10 per cent discount.

Electronics retailer Dick Smith has taken its New Zealand homepage offline after apparently being hit by a glitch that allowed customers to shop for free.