James Niccolai - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by James Niccolai

Article | 10/02/2000 ETrade, ZDNN confirm hack attacks

Online brokerage ETrade Group and Ziff-Davis' technology news site ZDNet have become the latest victims today of a string of hacker attacks aimed at p...

Article | 7/02/2000 Intel to acquire DSL chip maker for $US150m

Intel has agreed to acquire Ambient Technologies, which makes semiconductor chips for use in DSL (digital subscriber line) and analog modems, for appr...

Article | 2/02/2000 Judge reinstates Java ruling against Microsoft

A California district court last week reinstated a preliminary injunction against Microsoft in its long-standing legal battle with Sun Microsystems, l...

Article | 1/02/2000 Startup looks to reinvent surfing the Web

Software startup SpotOn will launch a free browser add-on today that aims to make surfing the Web faster and more efficient. In addition to the existi...

Article | 24/01/2000 Intel slashes prices up to 54 per cent on mobile chips

Intel quietly axed prices last week on its mobile Pentium III and mobile Celeron processors, a move one analyst said could result in cheaper notebooks...

Article | 24/01/2000 Recording Industry Sues MP3.com

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sued MP3.com, claiming that the company's online digital music service infringes on valuable ...

Article | 21/01/2000 Analysts: too early to assess Crusoe's impact

The new Crusoe processors unveiled yesterday by secretive startup Transmeta could spawn a host of high-performance notebooks that weigh only a few pou...

Article | 13/01/2000 Celerons as cheap as chips

Intel has lowered the price of its Celeron processors by between 5 and 10 per cent as the chip maker tries to maintain a strong presence in the budget...

Article | 7/01/2000 Barnes & Noble, Microsoft promote digital books

Microsoft has announced a partnership with book retailer Barnes & Noble that the companies said will greatly increase the use of electronic books.

Article | 6/01/2000 Intel to offer 'Net appliances by mid-year

Intel will enter the home-appliance market later this year when it plans to release a simplified computer that allows consumers to make telephone call...

Article | 4/01/2000 Lycos buys stake in e-commerce applications firm

Lycos has agreed to buy a 14 per cent stake in privately-held Internet Commerce Services (iComs), which provides outsourced applications services to ...

Article | 24/12/1999 Microsoft fixes security bug in Mac Outlook Express

Microsoft has issued a software patch designed to fix a security glitch in the Macintosh version of its Outlook Express 5.0 email client.

Article | 24/12/1999 Nintendo claims victory in game piracy case

A US federal court has awarded Nintendo of America $US7 million in damages from two firms accused of selling products used to make and play pirated co...

Article | 8/12/1999 Gates sees the future in moving pictures

Just as its Windows operating system brought the PC to millions of users, Microsoft is developing new software that will make multimedia content deliv...

Article | 2/12/1999 IBM to unveil cutting-edge chip design

IBM will introduce a new chip design that combines two cutting-edge semiconductor technologies in a single product. The result: a versatile, high-perf...