Todd R. Weiss - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Todd R. Weiss

Article | 4/04/2003 Old technology offers new answers in Columbia crash probe

An old-fashioned magnetic tape recorder on board the doomed space shuttle Columbia is helping U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA...

Article | 7/03/2003 New WordPerfect Office 11 suite slated for April

The latest version of Corel's WordPerfect Office productivity software suite will debut in late April with deeper XML integration and other features. ...

Article | 6/03/2003 AOL's ramped-up antispam program stops 1 billion spams

Two weeks after beefing up its antispam efforts on behalf of its members, America Online said today it has blocked as many as 1 billion spam e-mails i...

Article | 26/02/2003 HP earnings dip for Q1 of 2003

Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday reported revenue of US$17.9 billion for its first quarter of fiscal 2003, down 1 percent from US$18 billion in revenue in ...

Article | 12/02/2003 Online newspapers settle lawsuit with Gator ad service

A lawsuit filed last July by seven major news organizations to stop pop-up online advertising company The Gator from displaying its ads on their Web s...

Article | 7/02/2003 Group to push Linux for desktop computing

The widespread use of Linux on the desktop hasn't caught on so far. But don't count it out quite yet: A new group, the Linux Desktop Consortium, is be...

Article | 2/12/2002 Fees for online content proliferating, but will users buy?

As the Internet matures, businesses continue to try and entice new users to visit their Web sites while also devising ways to generate revenues to pay...

Article | 14/11/2002 AT&T, Yahoo bring real-time IM to cell phone users

For the first time, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. telephone users can receive text messages sent directly to their phones from users of Yahoo Inc.'s ins...

Article | 31/10/2002 Lotus co-founder looking to build open-source apps

The co-founder of the former Lotus Development and creator of Lotus 1-2-3, the first must-have software spreadsheet application for business computing...

Article | 22/10/2002 Chrysler adopts Linux for vehicle crash testing

Chrysler Group is using a new Linux cluster computer for crash simulation testing and analysis in an effort to make safer cars and trucks.

Article | 10/10/2002 IT administrators see benefits to Outlook 11

New features in the upcoming version of Microsoft Outlook are being lauded by IT administrators who say the features answer some of the most pressing ...

Article | 28/08/2002 HP signs up Corel WordPerfect for Pavilion PCs

The overall sales war with Microsoft Corp. Office was lost long ago, but the skirmishes continue for Corel Corp. as it steps up the fight to find new ...

Article | 25/07/2002 IBM and Opera to develop multimodal Web browser

A Web browser that will allow a single mobile device to provide Internet and voice information access is being developed in a venture between IBM and ...

Article | 16/07/2002 New specs released for wireless speech, text delivery

The continuing development of text-to-speech capabilities for wireless devices received a promising boost Monday with the release of the first specif...

Article | 15/07/2002 Dell boosts Q2 revenue and earnings expectations

Increasing market share in the server marketplace has helped Dell Computer Corp. boost its earnings estimates for its second fiscal quarter of 2003, w...