Grant Gross - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Grant Gross

Article | 9/08/2007 Study: Search engine privacy policies improving

Search-engine providers have begun to compete with each other on privacy protections, but the U.S. still needs to adopt a national privacy law, says a...

Article | 9/08/2007 US panel approves supercomputer funding

The U.S. National Science Board has authorized funding for two of the world's most powerful supercomputers, one of them capable of petaflop-speed oper...

Article | 1/08/2007 FCC embraces open access for 700MHz auction

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday set the conditions on a chunk of valuable wireless spectrum to be auctioned by early next year, ...

Article | 31/07/2007 Judge says eBay can keep using 'buy it now'

A U.S. district court judge has ruled that eBay Inc. can continue to use its "buy it now" feature even though a patent infringement ruling against the...

Article | 10/07/2007 Samsung, Ericsson agree to cross-license mobile patents

Telefonaktiebolaget Ericsson and Samsung Electronics have reached a cross-license agreement for their mobile telephony patents, ending recent lawsuits...

Article | 2/07/2007 Music service changes business model for FTC

A digital music service accused by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission of running an illegal pyramid scheme has changed its business model and has worke...

Article | 27/06/2007 Judge favours Microsoft search agreement

A US judge has said she will probably defer to an agreement on desktop search forged between Microsoft and the plaintiffs in the US government's antit...

Article | 26/06/2007 Two plead to selling counterfeit software on eBay

Two more defendants have pleaded guilty to charges of criminal copyright infringement for selling counterfeit software with a retail value of nearly U...

Article | 23/06/2007 Australian software pirate to serve 4 years in US jail, court rules

The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognized Internet software piracy groups was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison on one count of...

Article | 21/06/2007 Microsoft to change Vista desktop search by year end

Microsoft will change how desktop search works in its Vista operating system by the end of the year, in response to an antitrust complaint by rival, G...

Article | 18/06/2007 Web-based business charged with distributing obscenity

Two people operating the Internet business Movies by Mail have been charged with one count of selling obscene material, including movies showing sexua...

Article | 15/05/2007 US piracy crackdown nets 50th conviction

A U.S. Department of Justice crackdown on online piracy has recorded its 50th felony conviction, the agency announced.

Article | 18/04/2007 Telecom veteran questions Verizon VOIP patents

Two patents owned by Verizon Communications in its infringement lawsuit against Vonage Holdings are invalid, and if allowed to stand, could threaten a...

Article | 11/04/2007 Visuals of Darfur tragedy now on Google Earth

Stark visuals of the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan -- including maps showing where millions of refugees have gone -- are now availabl...

Article | 10/04/2007 US to file trade complaint against China

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will file two complaints against China with the World Trade Organization, including one accusing the count...