Marc Ferranti - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Marc Ferranti

Article | 22/07/2003 US cable operators to trial Microsoft TV software

After throwing its marketing might, development resources and billions of investment dollars trying -- and failing -- to gain traction in the market f...

Article | 7/05/2003 Magix debuts music software upgrades

Music novices and home-studio pros alike have new song-creation tools at their disposal with the Monday launch of Magix's new versions of its Music Ma...

Article | 5/05/2003 Sony to buy Sonic Foundry desktop software line

Faced with losses and tough competition from much larger companies, Sonic Foundry has agreed to sell its desktop audio and music production product fa...

Article | 30/04/2003 Developers look to expand mobile games market

A number of technical and business hurdles need to be overcome before gamers see a wider variety of titles on mobile devices, according to developers ...

Article | 4/03/2003 Digital music: Now's the time, what's the platform?

Now that major music companies are starting to go beyond timid first attempts at offering their wares over the Internet, industry insiders are struggl...

Article | 18/11/2002 Dataquest: Economy curbs PC recovery

Worldwide PC shipments for 2002 and 2003 will rise, but lack of compelling technologies and worries about the economy are causing users to hang on to ...

Article | 8/05/2002 NetWorld+Interop - Microsoft Project aims at the enterprise

Microsoft's Project, long known as essentially a desktop productivity tool, will make its debut next month as a full-fledged corporate project and res...

Article | 5/11/2001 MS/DOJ - Settlement reached in Microsoft antitrust case

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it has reached a settlement with Microsoft Corp. in the government's historic antitrust cas...

Article | 26/10/2001 IT CEOs turn out, speak up for XP

To kick off the official launch of Windows XP here Thursday, Microsoft Corp. marshalled some of the biggest names in computing to participate in an in...

Article | 5/10/2000 Equipment Failure Knocks Napster Offline

Technology achieved what the largest music companies have failed to do -- knock controversial music-sharing site Napster.com off the Web, at least for...

Article | 25/07/2000 Searching for Revenue, Napster Signs Promo Deal

In a move that may presage a variety of new initiatives by Napster, the music file sharing site currently being sued by major music labels has announc...

Article | 25/07/2000 Time Exec Blasts Napster, Concedes Labels Are missing in action

Devil! Hijacker! Pirate! These are just some of the terms that Time Warner President Richard Parsons associated with Napster -- albeit at times somewh...

Article | 25/07/2000 Jupiter: Subscriptions to Drive Net Music

Another day, another Jupiter forecast that the online purchase and delivery of music will account for $US1.5 billion of the worldwide music market. Wh...

Article | 20/07/2000 Jobs Announces New Power Macs, iMacs, G4 Cubes

Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs on Wednesday announced that the company is releasing dual-processor Power Mac G4s and a new ser...

Article | 29/06/2000 Bezos: Up close and personal

What technology has taken away from business - the personal touch - it can bring back in the era of the internet, according to Amazon.com founder and ...