Grant Gross - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Grant Gross

Article | 7/05/2013 Megaupload's lawyers: DOJ's charges have no basis in law

The U.S. Department of Justice's copyright infringement case against file storage service Megaupload is "prosecutorial overreach" based on a misreadin...

Article | 6/05/2013 US Senate approves Internet sales tax

The U.S. Senate has voted to allow states to collect sales tax from online retailers, making it more difficult to buy tax-free products online.

Article | 3/05/2013 Accused SpyEye creator extradited to the US

An Algerian man accused of helping to develop and distribute the SpyEye computer virus has been extradited from Thailand to the U.S. to face criminal ...

Article | 3/05/2013 Dell investigates report of computers sold to Syria

Dell is investigating a report that a Middle East reseller has sold large numbers of computers to a Syrian company with ties to the embattled governme...

Article | 3/05/2013 Veteran tech workers see themselves locked out of job market

Many tech companies have called for the U.S. Congress to ease restrictions on high-skill immigration because they can't find qualified tech workers to...

Article | 3/05/2013 H-1B reform debate pits tech firms against veteran IT workers

Many U.S. tech companies are pushing hard this year for an increase in the number of high-skill immigrants allowed into the country, but many veteran ...

Article | 2/05/2013 Hedge fund manager sentenced in Dell insider trading case

A former portfolio manager at the now defunct Diamondback Capital Management has been sentenced to 54 months in prison for crimes related to a multimi...

Article | 1/05/2013 Senator introduces legislation targeting patent trolls

A U.S. senator has introduced legislation allowing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to review and invalidate controversial patents challenged by t...

Article | 1/05/2013 Obama nominates Wheeler as new FCC chairman

U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated telecom trade group veteran Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commissio...

Article | 30/04/2013 Limiting bidding on spectrum auctions could be costly, study says

If the U.S. Federal Communications Commission limits the participation of the largest mobile carriers in upcoming spectrum auctions, it could cost the...

Article | 29/04/2013 AU Optronics executive sentenced for LCD price-fixing

A former executive with AU Optronics was sentenced Monday to serve two years in prison and pay a US$50,000 fine for participating in a worldwide LCD s...

Article | 26/04/2013 Senate delays vote on Internet sales tax until May

The U.S. Senate has delayed a vote on an Internet sales tax until May, after a handful of senators blocked lawmakers from voting on the legislation th...

Article | 25/04/2013 Senators stall vote on Internet sales tax for now

A handful of lawmakers have stalled the U.S. Senate from voting on legislation that would require large Internet and catalog sellers to collect state ...

Article | 25/04/2013 Senate committee limits government electronic surveillance

A U.S. Senate committee has approved legislation that would give more privacy protection from government surveillance for data stored in the cloud.

Article | 24/04/2013 Senator rips self-regulatory do-not-track efforts

The U.S. online advertising industry has not lived up to a promise to stop the online tracking of Internet users who ask advertisers to do so, a senio...