Marc Ferranti - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Marc Ferranti

Article | 17/10/2009 Wall Street Beat: IT vendors see return to growth

With quarterly IT sales results pouring in, vendors including IBM, Google, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel appear more confident than ever that the g...

Article | 8/10/2009 Brin, Schmidt eye further Google expansion

Despite Google's phenomenal growth, the Internet search giant does not appear to be worried about taking on too many projects, judging from comments m...

Article | 18/09/2009 Wall Street Beat: Tech leads market optimism

Optimism about IT helped boost stock exchanges to 2009 highs this week as tech-sector mergers and acquisitions and news about improving demand for har...

Article | 2/09/2009 EBay reaches deal to sell Skype

EBay Tuesday announced it has signed an agreement to sell its Skype voice-over-IP service to a group of private investors in a deal that values the bu...

Article | 10/08/2009 Publicis Groupe buys Razorfish from Microsoft

The French media and advertising company Publicis Groupe will acquire the digital marketing agency Razorfish from Microsoft in a deal valued at about ...

Article | 6/04/2009 Comcast e-mail outage sparks Twitter updates galore

Comcast.net e-mail went down for potentially millions of subscribers the better part of the day Saturday as users and observers got running commentary...

Article | 12/01/2009 Windows 7 beta available for public download

Microsoft made the Windows 7 beta available for public download Saturday after its servers were overwhelmed by users trying to download the operating ...

Article | 15/12/2008 The Top 10 stories of 2008: Not business as usual

What started out as a banking crisis became, in 2008, a story for everyone: retailers, consumers, auto workers -- and tech professionals. Though it wa...

Article | 19/09/2008 Wall Street Beat: Confidence buoys tech despite turmoil

Even though a smattering of IT vendors including Dell and Nortel issued earnings warnings this week, industry insiders remain hopeful that tech compan...

Article | 17/01/2008 CES: Interview with Bill Gates

Bill Gates reflects on his 30 years with Microsoft, talks about recent innovations in the consumer market, and looks toward the future for both Micros...

Article | 11/01/2008 CES - Slouching toward Convergence 2.0

Gadgets have always taken center stage at the Consumer Electronics Show, but this year more than ever, even the coolest devices seem to be mere means ...

Article | 8/01/2008 Q&A: Gates' role as innovator, deal-maker, philanthropist

Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates has been giving keynote speeches at Las Vegas conventions, including the Consumer Electronics Show and th...

Article | 24/12/2007 Top 10 stories of 2007: Age of realignment

This year has been a time of realignment and redefinition, as Apple launched its second zeitgeist-defining product of the new century, Dell and Intel ...

Article | 24/10/2007 Rejected by BEA, Oracle sets bid deadline

Oracle said that BEA Systems has officially rejected its offer to acquire the company. BEA had previously said the offer was too low.

Article | 5/10/2007 New household robots

Robots take to the gutters as iRobot unveils new robots at the Digital Life expo