David Legard - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by David Legard

Article | 2/08/2000 China overtakes Australia in Web audience size: IDC

The number of Internet users in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) will reach 40 million by the end of this year, 55.7 percent more than the 25...

Article | 26/07/2000 Singapore Enters the Machine Age

Singapore Enters the Machine Age

Article | 25/07/2000 Singapore Reveals Five-Year Plan For Net Dominance

Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) aims to make broadband access to the Internet pervasive by 2005, to give the city-state a competitive...

Article | 7/06/2000 Let the MP3 play

Samsung Electronics' newest mobile phone has a musical side.

Article | 16/03/2000 Telstra signs ASP deals with Lotus, Microsoft

Telstra will offer applications software from Lotus Developmentand Microsoft Corp. on a trial basis under an ASP (application service provider) model,...

Article | 10/03/2000 Hard Times for Disk Drives

Price erosion and over-technology have made profits vanish; manufacturers assess new markets.

Article | 20/01/2000 Will WAP wipe out banner ads?

The content of the Internet is being adapted to fit on your mobile phone. So, too, is the advertising.

Article | 4/01/2000 IDC sees explosion of free 'Net access in 2000

Internet stock corrections, the death of pure-play "dot.coms" and an explosion of free 'Net access services are the main predictions for 2000 made by ...

Article | 20/12/1999 Corel, Creative to bring multimedia to Linux

Corel and multimedia specialist Creative Technology, have signed an agreement that will advance the development of Linux applications for high-quality...

Article | 24/11/1999 Asia Pacific Net users go on shopping spree

Asia Pacific Internet users will spend over $US2.2 billion online this year, more than three times the $723 million they spent last year, according to...

Article | 17/09/1999 Creative brings Sound Blaster to laptops

Multimedia systems manufacturer Creative Technology has announced it will shortly offer its Sound Blaster audio products for laptop computers and hand...

Article | 16/09/1999 Telecom NZ bids for local telecom AAPT

Telecom New Zealand has made a $1.5 billion bid for Australia's third-largest telecommunications provider, AAPT, the company said today.

Article | 2/08/1999 Fujitsu brings its SmartCity card into Asia-Pacific

Fujitsu is bringing its SmartCity smartcard to the Asia-Pacific region to build on the vendor's success with the product in Europe, the company announ...

Article | 28/06/1999 Telstra plans high-speed Australia-Japan cable

Telstra has joined a consortium that will build a fibre optic link between Australian and Japan with a data transfer speed of 640 gigabits per second.

Article | 23/04/1999 AAPT should stay independent, says analyst

Last week's $1.49 billion hostile takeover bid by Cable & Wireless Optus for AAPT would seriously damage competition in Australia's telecommunications...