Grant Gross - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Grant Gross

Article | 17/12/2007 Iomega to buy China-gov't owned storage maker

Storage hardware vendor Iomega has signed a deal to buy sister hardware vendors indirectly owned by the Chinese government, in an effort to expand the...

Article | 11/12/2007 The Internet as an aid to anticonsumerism

During this holiday shopping season, a heck of a lot of people are using the Internet to indulge their consumer tendencies. Some others, including my ...

Article | 7/12/2007 IBM files trade complaint against Asustek

IBM has filed a trade complaint in the US against Taiwanese hardware vendor Asustek Computer, alleging that the company has infringed IBM patents.

Article | 4/12/2007 700MHz filing deadline: What's next?

Companies wishing to bid in the upcoming 700MHz auctions at the US Federal Communications Commission were largely silent about their plans Monday, the...

Article | 3/12/2007 Google to bid for 700MHz spectrum

Google intends to bid on wireless spectrum in the 700MHz band when the US Federal Communications Commission begins auctioning that resource in late Ja...

Article | 3/12/2007 EFF: US ISP continues to block P-to-P

Comcast continues to slow down customers' connections to some P-to-P (peer-to-peer) applications, using hacker-like techniques against its own subscri...

Article | 30/11/2007 Photo-sharing lawsuit targets Australian Virgin Mobile

A Texas family has dropped its lawsuit against the nonprofit Creative Commons copyright licensing organization, after an apparent misunderstanding ove...

Article | 29/11/2007 OLPC sued for patent infringement

A Massachusetts company has sued the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association for patent infringement, charging the project with stealing its designs f...

Article | 28/11/2007 FTC: 8.3 million US victims of ID theft in 2005

About 8.3 million US residents -- nearly 4 percent of the nation's population -- were victims of identity theft in 2005, but few victims identified co...

Article | 21/11/2007 Free software group files copyright lawsuits

The Software Freedom Law Center, an organization focused on protecting open-source and free software, has filed copyright lawsuits against two US comp...

Article | 20/11/2007 Amazon launches Kindle e-book reader

Amazon.com has unveiled its portable e-book reader, which allows people to wirelessly download books, blogs, newspapers and magazines, the company ann...

Article | 19/11/2007 US Senate passes cybercrime bill aimed at restitution

The US Senate has passed a bill that would allow victims of online identity theft schemes to seek restitution from criminals and expands the definitio...

Article | 14/11/2007 US passes bill to streamline VOIP 911 service

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill designed to streamline VOIP providers' connections to emergency dialing 911 networks.

Article | 14/11/2007 Former FBI, CIA employee pleads guilty to computer crime

A former employee of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency has pleaded guilty to charges of fraudulently obtaining US...

Article | 12/11/2007 MS/DOJ - DOJ details opposition to judgment extension

A five-year extension of large portions of the US antitrust judgment against Microsoft isn't needed and the reasons a group of states have given for c...