Tom Spring - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Tom Spring

Article | 15/04/2002 Napster lays off 30 percent of staff

Copy-protected CDs are the Dick Cheney of the music industry: People know they exist, but music labels say little about their whereabouts.

Article | 15/04/2002 Face the music: Suits pending over copy controls

Copy-protected CDs are the Dick Cheney of the music industry: People know they exist, but music labels say little about their whereabouts.

Article | 15/04/2002 European Parliament says no to Web-site blocking

Copy-protected CDs are the Dick Cheney of the music industry: People know they exist, but music labels say little about their whereabouts.

Article | 15/04/2002 Xerox settles with SEC on accounting irregularities

Copy-protected CDs are the Dick Cheney of the music industry: People know they exist, but music labels say little about their whereabouts.

Article | 10/04/2002 IBM updates copy-protection software

On Monday IBM released a new version of its antipiracy software designed to prevent people from copying and swapping music, video, images, and text on...

Article | 30/01/2002 Palm chief boosts broadband

The United States must find a way to pipe high-speed Internet access into 100 million homes and small businesses by 2010, or risk losing an important ...

Article | 21/12/2001 Is Microsoft's Time Warped?

Does anybody really know what time it is? Apparently Microsoft doesn't.

Article | 11/12/2001 Broadband rivals court @Home users

High-speed cable Internet access was supposed to be the reliable broadband choice. But that's not the case for 850,000 AT&T Broadband customers who we...

Article | 15/11/2001 Sony unveils potpourri of consumer gadgets

Sony Corp. unleashed a blizzard of consumer PC peripherals at Comdex here this week, featuring new digital music players, an ultra-sleek Clie handheld...

Article | 15/11/2001 COMDEX: Virtual keyboards let you type in air

Call it air guitar meets computer keyboard. Two firms here at Comdex, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Senseboard, are showing off gizmos that attach ...

Article | 6/11/2001 News feature: Music labels target CD ripping

Teen pop band 'N Sync may feature vocal harmony, but at least some copies of its latest CD aren't in sync with your PC--in fact, they are incompatible...

Article | 29/10/2001 It's showtime for WinXP

A lot is riding on Windows XP, the much anticipated operating system unveiled by Bill Gates in New York Thursday morning. Touted in dozens of events a...

Article | 17/10/2001 AOL 7.0 ships with broadband-friendly features

The world's leading Internet service company, AOL Time Warner Inc., is unleashing a new version of its America Online front-end to its 31 million memb...

Article | 11/10/2001 ZoneAlarm Pro update blasts ads, cookies

Zone Labs Inc. is tackling Internet irritations with a scheduled November update to its ZoneAlarm Pro firewall and computer security program, which th...

Article | 9/10/2001 Surf the Web and save the Earth

You've heard of environment-friendly paper towels, so why not a "green" Internet service provider? Paul Gerstenberger wants to give it a try.