Rick Perera - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Rick Perera

Article | 19/03/2002 CEBIT - Microsoft, Sony quarrel over game displays

It was a battle of the giants at the huge CeBIT trade show, as Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment faced off over displays of their game console...

Article | 15/03/2002 Seagate plans new PC, server tape drives

Seagate Technology will introduce new internal tape drives for PC and workstation users or entry-level server operators to back up their systems, the ...

Article | 15/03/2002 Via's DDR333 chipset improves memory bandwidth

Via Technologies Inc., the Taipei-based chip maker, announced Thursday its Apollo P4X333 chipset for Intel Corp.'s Pentium 4 processor, which Via said...

Article | 11/03/2002 CEBIT: SuSE Linux to release Version 8.0 after CeBIT

German software vendor SuSE Linux AG will ship SuSE Linux 8.0, its latest version of the open-source Linux operating system, worldwide in the second h...

Article | 7/02/2002 Microsoft fights Bundestag Linux switch

Microsoft Corp. is striking back at a growing movement seeking to switch computers in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of Parliament, over to the ...

Article | 4/02/2002 IBM faces new Nazi lawsuit

A group representing Gypsy victims of the Holocaust has filed suit against IBM, accusing it of complicity in Nazi atrocities.

Article | 1/02/2002 LINUXWORLD: IBM, SuSE expand Linux cooperation

IBM and German software vendor SuSE Linux AG are expanding their cooperation on the open-source Linux OS (operating system), SuSE said in a statement ...

Article | 22/01/2002 Fugitive hacker-investor arrested in Thailand

A flamboyant former hacker and self-styled high-tech investment guru is under arrest in Thailand, after announcing with great fanfare that he would le...

Article | 22/01/2002 Report: AOL in talks to acquire Red Hat

AOL Time Warner Inc. (AOLTW) is in talks over a potential acquisition of Red Hat Inc., a major distributor of the open-source Linux operating system, ...

Article | 22/01/2002 Infineon slides in fiscal first quarter

Semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG is blaming poor market conditions, especially in the wireline communication and chip-card sectors, for th...

Article | 10/01/2002 Hey sports fans: Paperless tickets via wireless

Visitors to soccer games and other stadium events could soon be able to order tickets online and receive them instantly via their mobile phones, thank...

Article | 21/12/2001 2001: He said, she said - the year in quotes

"May you live in interesting times," says the curse (often said to be of ancient Chinese origin, though scholars dispute that). With all its horror, h...

Article | 20/12/2001 Disk drives from World Trade Center could yield clues

A new data-recovery technique could help trace suspicious financial transactions made shortly before the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on Sept. 11.

Article | 14/12/2001 ICQ offers Web-browser based, Mac versions

ICQ, a subsidiary of America Online Inc. (AOL), is offering a new version of its instant messaging service that allows users to send messages from any...

Article | 11/12/2001 Report: Israeli youths admit to creating 'Goner' worm

Four Israeli secondary-school students have admitted to creating the "Goner" e-mail worm, which started spreading rapidly last week.