Marc Ferranti - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Marc Ferranti

Article | 30/01/2013 BlackBerry delivers, but tough battle looms

The newly rechristened BlackBerry has delivered on its promise to breathe new life into its aging, iconic product line for diehard fans, but faces an ...

Article | 25/01/2013 Wall Street Beat: Despite Apple's fall, Microsoft profit drop, tech sales do well

Despite Microsoft's quarterly profit decline and Apple's fall Friday from its position as the world's most highly valued company, this week's wave of ...

Article | 11/01/2013 Wall Street Beat: PCs flag as smartphones provide sparks

Vendor earnings, market research reports and the International CES in Las Vegas this week highlighted the hardware arena, which appears to be a tale o...

Article | 4/01/2013 Wall Street Beat: 2013 IT spending forecasts look upbeat

As the economy improves and at least some of the concerns about the so-called U.S. "fiscal cliff" are resolved, desire for new mobile, analytics and s...

Article | 29/12/2012 ITC judge recommends ban on Samsung products

A U.S. International Trade Comission judge is recommending sanctions against Samsung that include an import and sales ban on products found to infring...

Article | 10/12/2012 Top 10 tech stories of 2012: a busted IPO, spotlight on workers, titans in transition

Change in any industry involves conflict. Evolution and revolution in tech this year took place not only in the marketplace but also in the courtroom,...

Article | 7/12/2012 Wall Street Beat: Chips, mobile devices in spotlight as tech slumps

Even though sales of some mobile devices are booming, overall confidence in the tech sector continues to erode as economic weakness puts downward pres...

Article | 1/12/2012 Syrian Internet appears to be largely restored

After a two-day outage, Internet access in war-torn Syria appears to be for the most part restored on Saturday, according to reports from several sour...

Article | 30/11/2012 Wall Street Beat: Tech treads water as confidence wanes

News of weak server sales, continuing turmoil at Hewlett-Packard and the ongoing U.S. political impasse over the so-called "fiscal cliff" have not giv...

Article | 20/11/2012 HP takes $US8.8 billion charge on Autonomy accounting improprieties

Hewlett-Packard is taking an $US8.8 billion charge as a result of what it called serious accounting improprieties that occurred at UK software company...

Article | 16/11/2012 Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks in doldrums

Though U.S. political leaders managed to spark some good news for the economy Friday, technology stocks are down for the week, showing a continued lac...

Article | 9/11/2012 Wall Street Beat: Tech M&A flattens as economic uncertainty reigns, report says

The number and value of technology mergers and acquisitions is flattening out, mainly as a result of economic uncertainty, according to a Pricewaterho...

Article | 26/10/2012 Wall Street Beat: Tech shares tread water in wake of mixed earnings

Tech stocks were flat Friday afternoon after earnings announcements from IT vendors this week and a government economic report offered glimpses of goo...

Article | 19/10/2012 Wall Street Beat: Earnings point to tough quarter for tech

Some of the biggest names in tech reported quarterly earnings this week, and the resulting picture is not pretty. The main culprit for the weak earnin...

Article | 12/10/2012 Wall Street Beat: Picture looks bleak for hardware, chips

Reports of weakness in the hardware and components sectors rolled in this week from market researchers and vendors, contributing to an overall decline...