Patrick Thibodeau - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Patrick Thibodeau

Article | 23/08/2002 DC area to use wireless network for emergencies

Police, fire and other emergency personnel in the Washington area are turning to open standards and instant messaging to overcome their inability to c...

Article | 15/05/2002 MS/DOJ States want MS memo admitted in remedy case

A top Microsoft Corp. executive two years ago urged the company to take retaliatory action against PC makers developing devices that support Linux, ac...

Article | 24/04/2002 Gates: Remedy could delay software updates

Testifying for the second day in his company's antitrust case, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates warned that remedies sought by the nonsettling stat...

Article | 26/03/2002 Red Hat exec back on stand at remedy hearing

If Linux is a true threat to Microsoft's desktop Windows monopoly, then Red Hat's chief technical officer, Michael Tiemann, is one the nonsettling sta...

Article | 14/02/2002 Official: Terrorists used Web to get info on targets

The Bush administration's top cyberdefense official said today there is evidence that the terrorist group al-Qaeda was using the Internet to gather in...

Article | 12/11/2001 States, users still worried about Microsoft

California, home to Microsoft Corp.'s most ardent business rivals, has emerged as the leader among the nine states that rejected the federal governmen...

Article | 23/10/2001 Senate hearings on XP delayed, but not abandoned

Plans by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a series of hearings on Internet-related competition issues and Windows XP, the new operating sys...

Article | 21/09/2001 Next phase of antitrust case could be a long one

The next phase of the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case -- deciding what remedies to impose on the software giant -- has the potential of being as protra...

Article | 10/09/2001 Justice drops breakup effort against Microsoft

The U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday that it will not seek a breakup of Microsoft Corp. in the new remedy phase of the case, and, instead, wil...

Article | 5/09/2001 HP/Compaq deal likely to get close legal scrutiny

The pending merger of Compaq Computer Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. is expected to face intense scrutiny here and in Europe and involve an examination...

Article | 20/08/2001 No area code crisis looms, expert says

A U.S. House subcommittee intends to look at the issue of "area code exhaustion" at a hearing next month. While telephone numbers longer than 10 digit...

Article | 3/08/2001 Appeals court rejects Microsoft rehearing bid

In a terse, two-sentence statement, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington Thursday rejected Microsoft Corp.'s request for a rehearing on part of the...

Article | 22/06/2001 CIA official warns Congress of cyberattack danger

US businesses will "increasingly become the point of attack for enemies of [the] United States" by hackers and national governments using sophisticate...

Article | 27/09/2000 Supreme Court decision good news for Microsoft

The US Supreme Court Tuesday decided not to hear the Microsoft antitrust case until the breakup order against the company is first reviewed by the US ...

Article | 22/05/2000 Microsoft, DOJ to appear before Judge this week

Microsoft's remedy plan won no respect last week from the government, which called the self-imposed restrictions "cosmetic" and incapable of undoing t...