David Legard - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by David Legard

Article | 25/09/2002 BlackBerry drops into Australia

National carrier Telstra has begun offering a commercial wireless e-mail service based on the Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) BlackBerry device.

Article | 17/09/2002 Singapore to launch DRAM futures market in early 2003

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) will offer futures contracts for DRAM (dynamic RAM) chips by the first quarter of 2003, the exchange said in a statement ...

Article | 16/09/2002 Serious new worm targets Linux/Apache servers

A new worm with distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities and the ability to grant hackers backdoor access to remote systems is being actively...

Article | 13/09/2002 Researchers close in on atomic storage target

A group of physics researchers have created a device which is able to store one bit of data in one atom, according to published data from one of the r...

Article | 11/09/2002 AMD fabricates first 10-nanometer transistor

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has fabricated a standard CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) transistor with a gate length of 10 nanomet...

Article | 6/09/2002 Judge rules in RIAA's favor in Aimster case

A number of record companies who are members of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have been granted a preliminary injunction agains...

Article | 9/08/2002 IDC: Slowdown slams A-P handheld market into reverse

Sales of handheld devices such as PDAs (personal digital assistants) in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) in the first half of 2002 were 19 percent lower...

Article | 5/08/2002 MMS breaks out across Asia-Pacific

Mobile operators in Australia and Singapore have moved ahead with offering multimedia messaging service (MMS), looking to maximise data revenues while...

Article | 25/07/2002 Study: DSL stalks cable as broadband figures rise

The number of broadband subscribers will rise 53 percent worldwide this year to 46 million from the 30 million there were at the beginning of 2002, ac...

Article | 24/07/2002 Australia slips in Asia-Pacific PC market

Australia is no longer the region's third biggest PC market due to flat growth for the past year, according to research group IDC.

Article | 16/07/2002 AMD launches fastest mobile Athlon yet

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) on Monday launched its fastest mobile processor to date, the AMD Athlon XP 1800+, the company said in a statement. T...

Article | 16/07/2002 Three more Australian high-tech flyers close down

Australia's dot-com and telecommunications sector endured a grisly week with the failures of three high-profile companies towards the end of last week...

Article | 12/07/2002 DVI deal to bring 3D to the desktop

Korean company GTT Co. Ltd. will be the first manufacturer of desktop monitors which use Deep Video Imaging Ltd.'s (DVI) Multi-Layer Display (MLD) tec...

Article | 11/07/2002 Researchers reveal new IE, Outlook security flaw

Researchers have identified a fresh security flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser and Outlook e-mail client which can leave sy...

Article | 5/07/2002 Semiconductor sales continue climb from low levels

Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$11.37 billion in May, 2.8 percent higher than the $11.07 billion reached in April, according to figures r...