Ben Ames - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Ben Ames

Article | 8/08/2007 IDC: PDA shipments drop 43 percent in Q2

Sales of PDAs continued a steep decline in the second quarter, as struggling vendors shipped 719,000 units worldwide, down from 1.26 million last year...

Article | 7/08/2007 Industry watchers say Apple plans desktop upgrade

Apple plans to upgrade its iMac desktop PC line this week with a flashier design and thinner keyboard, according to comments and photos on industry bl...

Article | 3/08/2007 Nokia maintains top spot in mobile phone market

Nokia held onto its dominant share of the global mobile phone market during the second quarter as Motorola tumbled from second to third place despite ...

Article | 3/08/2007 Report: Google shows phone prototype to manufacturers

Google has developed a prototype cell phone that could reach markets within a year, and plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advert...

Article | 1/08/2007 Apple faces mounting complaints on iPhone battery

Officials in New York state asked Apple on Monday to change its iPhone design to allow consumers to replace their own batteries, just days after lawye...

Article | 19/07/2007 PC shipments rise in Q2 for all vendors but Dell

PC vendors reported global shipment growth of 12.5 per cent in the second quarter, as every major vendor except Dell posted a double-digit percentage ...

Article | 18/07/2007 Intel profit jumps 44 percent despite price war

Intel has announced its quarterly profit rose 44 per cent over last year, reaching $US1.3 billion as low selling prices for its microprocessors were o...

Article | 18/07/2007 DRAM market pauses in price drop, analyst says

Struggling memory chip vendors may see a ray of hope in the near future, as prices for DRAM (dynamic RAM) chips stopped their long slide during the fi...

Article | 17/07/2007 Intel improves dual-core chip to protect its notebook share

Intel Corp. launched a dual-core notebook chip for high-end users on Monday, continuing an effort to defend its share of the fast-growing notebook PC ...

Article | 12/07/2007 Vendors push quad-core desktops on wary users

PC vendors are launching more and more computers with dual-core and quad-core processors, promising users that the expensive machines can juggle more ...

Article | 11/07/2007 Former CEO of ATI quits AMD

The former chief executive of ATI Technologies has resigned from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) just nine months after the two companies combined in a U...

Article | 27/06/2007 Apple rivals dread iPhone

When Apple launches the iPhone in the US on Friday, it is set to get a jump on its competitors and spark a flurry of new phone designs, regardless of ...

Article | 25/06/2007 IBM pushes 32-nanometer chips with BASF deal

IBM will work with the German chemical company BASF Group to produce a new generation of chips with feature sizes of 32 nanometers, the companies said...

Article | 22/06/2007 Dell lets users avoid 'bloatware'

Dell is allowing its customers to decline the unwanted software applications loaded on new PCs, after hundreds of users complained about such "bloatwa...

Article | 22/06/2007 IBM pushes z9 mainframe for small business

IBM unveiled a website and IT security software application Thursday as part of its effort to compete with HP and Sun Microsystems for customers in th...