Marc Ferranti - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Marc Ferranti

Article | 28/09/2007 Wall Street Beat: Tech looks good to investors

Amid uncertainty about the greater economy, technology companies are looking good to investors. Strong earnings from Red Hat this week and Oracle last...

Article | 7/09/2007 Wall Street Beat: M&A, VC funding stay hot

Merger and acquisition news from companies as diverse as Yahoo Inc., Cognos Inc., and MetroPCS Communications Inc. heated up IT investor interest this...

Article | 21/02/2007 Wall Street Beat: BEA offers peek into market psyche

Market reaction to BEA Systems' stock options backdating inquiry this week provided a clue to investor psychology, while RealNetworks and Microsoft of...

Article | 15/01/2007 (CES) Bill Gates interview

The effects of home entertainment on the computer industry

Article | 10/01/2007 CES - Vendors push multimedia connectivity for the masses

Facing an explosion of content for PCs and handhelds via Internet, cable and wireless technologies, vendors at CES are spotlighting products designed ...

Article | 22/09/2006 Samsung executive pleads guilty in DRAM case

An executive at Samsung Electronics, the world's largest manufacturer of dynamic RAM (DRAM), has agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time for partic...

Article | 7/06/2006 M-Audio sweetens products with free music software

Home-recording enthusiasts and consumers looking for a quick way to get into music creation on their PCs have yet another application to check out: Se...

Article | 13/02/2006 Avanquest jumps on iPod accessory bandwagon

Avanquest Software is adding fuel to the burgeoning iPod accessory market with the launch of six new software titles designed to provide multimedia ed...

Article | 9/01/2006 Show fuels digital media revolution

Judging from products and services announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and comments from industry movers and ...

Article | 28/12/2005 The top 10 stories of 2005

Midway through the decade, new pricing and business models championed by relative upstarts such as Google and Salesforce.com are forcing established p...

Article | 12/08/2005 Ex WorldCom CFO Sullivan gets 5 years in jail

Former WorldCom Chief Financial Officer Scott Sullivan was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for his role in engineering the US$11 billion ac...

Article | 10/06/2005 Wall Street: Apple, Google make history

Tech-company investors this week faced a mixed bag of news, including some historic events, as Apple Computer and Intel joined forces, Texas Instrumen...

Article | 2/08/2004 Apple, RealNetworks clash fuels industry debate

The increasingly rancorous feud between Apple Computer and RealNetworks over technology that lets tunes from the RealPlayer Music Store play on the ma...

Article | 27/07/2004 RealNetworks offers Harmony for music devices

Hailing the move as one that brings choice to online music services users, RealNetworks has introduced software that lets songs downloaded from its ow...

Article | 1/08/2003 Conference shows doubts still plague online music

Despite the fact that major music companies have finally joined Internet services to offer a much greater variety of authorized online music, market g...