Grant Gross - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Grant Gross

Article | 20/02/2013 Petition asks Obama to legalize unlocking of mobile phones

More than 85,000 people have signed a Whitehouse.gov petition asking U.S. President Barack Obama to reverse a decision by the Library of Congress maki...

Article | 19/02/2013 Cisco puts a huge value on the 'Internet of everything'

The so-called "Internet of everything," the rapidly approaching world where objects from refrigerators to factory robots can talk to people and other ...

Article | 15/02/2013 FCC: US broadband providers deliver close to advertised speeds

U.S. broadband providers deliver nearly the residential broadband speeds they advertise, with a handful of large providers exceeding the promised serv...

Article | 14/02/2013 Online sales tax bills gather major congressional support

A large group of U.S. lawmakers has reintroduced legislation that would require online retailers to collect sales tax for state and local governments,...

Article | 14/02/2013 Lawmakers, business execs defend privacy in CISPA

Privacy and digital rights groups are overstating the privacy concerns in a controversial cyberthreat information bill introduced this week in the U.S...

Article | 13/02/2013 Lawmakers reintroduce cyberthreat information-sharing bill

Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital ri...

Article | 13/02/2013 Obama signs cybersecurity order

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to share cyberthreat information with private companies and to cr...

Article | 12/02/2013 ITIF: US broadband service competitive with other nations

The U.S. has better broadband service than some critics give it credit for, with speeds, availability and prices that are competitive with many other ...

Article | 11/02/2013 Lawmakers to reintroduce controversial information-sharing bill

Two U.S. lawmakers plan to reintroduce a controversial cybersecurity bill that allows private companies to share customers' personal information relat...

Article | 8/02/2013 Appeals court considers software patents

U.S. companies shouldn't be able to get patents on abstract ideas when they combine those ideas with a computer process, a lawyer argued in an appeals...

Article | 7/02/2013 Judge invalidates 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims in Microsoft case

A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought ...

Article | 7/02/2013 US appeals court asks whether to limit software patents

Should an abstract idea written into software and run on a computer be patentable? That's one question a U.S. appeals court will consider Friday when ...

Article | 6/02/2013 Four charged with selling bleach online as miracle cure

Four people who allegedly used a website to market industrial bleach as a cure for arthritis, cancer and other illnesses are facing numerous criminal ...

Article | 6/02/2013 Microsoft: International cyber-pacts can lead to less malware

Countries that have signed on to international cybersecurity agreements tend to have fewer malware infections among their citizens, according to new r...

Article | 6/02/2013 Ovum: Big data collection colliding with privacy concerns

A recent push in the IT industry to collect and monetize big data is headed for a clash with privacy concerns from Internet users and potential regula...