Grant Gross - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Grant Gross

Article | 4/01/2007 Kodak, Sony end patent dispute

Eastman Kodak and Sony have ended a 3-year-old patent dispute and entered into a cross-licensing agreement, the two companies announced Wednesday.

Article | 21/12/2006 Poll: Next Bill Gates coming from outside US

Just 21 percent of U.S. residents believe the next Bill Gates will come from their country, according to a new survey on Internet attitudes released W...

Article | 1/12/2006 Commerce Department extends .com contract with VeriSign

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has approved an agreement for VeriSign to continue to operate the .com domain for six more years, despite object...

Article | 29/11/2006 SimCity goes mobile in the US

Electronic Arts (EA) has released a version of its addictive city simulation game for mobile phones, the company announced Tuesday.

Article | 17/11/2006 Former Elpida exec pleads guilty to DRAM price fixing

A former executive at Elpida Memory will serve time in prison and pay a US$250,000 fine for participating in a global conspiracy to fix DRAM (dynamic ...

Article | 16/11/2006 NY authorities charge 30 with illegal online gambling

Twenty-seven people and three corporations face charges related to operating an illegal online gambling operation in indictments announced Wednesday b...

Article | 9/11/2006 Experts debate: Is DRM good or bad for consumers?

DRM (digital rights management) technology may actually be good for consumers because it could give them more choices for downloading or buying copyri...

Article | 26/10/2006 Groups launch Digital Freedom campaign

It's time for consumers, musicians and filmmakers to band together and advocate copyright laws that make sense for them, not for large music labels an...

Article | 19/10/2006 Social-networking site for opinion leaders to launch

A new social-networking Web site, aimed at "opinion leaders" in politics and other issues, will launch Thursday with a roster of members including for...

Article | 19/09/2006 VeriSign, critics gear up for ICANN hearing

A VeriSign official defended its contract to operate the .com domain Monday, after Network Solutions accused the Internet Corporation for Assigned Nam...

Article | 18/09/2006 Social networking sites: The next big thing in politics

Social networking Web sites such as MySpace and YouTube are already having a major impact on the way political campaigns are run, but a group of socia...

Article | 13/09/2006 US man pleads guilty to copyright theft

An Erie, Pennsylvania, man involved in a BitTorrent peer-to-peer network has pleaded guilty to copyright infringement and faces up to five years in pr...

Article | 11/09/2006 Software pirate gets record sentence

A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced the owner and operator of iBackups.net to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence ever given for software piracy, a...

Article | 29/08/2006 Verizon launches do-it-yourself gaming server software

Verizon Communications has released new software that allows PC and console gamers to set up their own servers to host multiplayer games on their own ...

Article | 18/08/2006 Judge: US gov't wiretapping program illegal

A U.S. judge has ruled that a U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) program to wiretap telephone and Internet traffic of U.S. residents is illegal and m...