Jay Alabaster - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jay Alabaster

Article | 10/01/2013 IDC: Total PS3 sales top Xbox 360

Sony's PlayStation 3 game console passed Microsoft's Xbox 360 in total sales in December, according to a report from research firm IDC.

Article | 9/01/2013 Panasonic teams with IBM on smart appliances, and GM for car app platform

Panasonic has grabbed headlines this week with impressive 4K TV and tablet demos, but the company is also stressing expansion beyond its struggling co...

Article | 9/01/2013 Amazon dominating Japan e-book rivals months after launch

Amazon.com's Kindle Store is dominating domestic rivals in Japan just months after its launch in October, according to a survey by a local research fi...

Article | 8/01/2013 US Library of Congress saving 500 million tweets per day in archives

The U.S. Library of Congress is now storing 500 million tweets per day as part of its efforts to build a Twitter archive, and has added a total of abo...

Article | 8/01/2013 First 1TB USB flash drive coming soon

Kingston Technology will soon launch the world's first 1TB flash drive, a USB 3.0 device that is likely to cost more than most computers do.

Article | 4/01/2013 Internet piracy group leader sentenced to five years in prison

The leader of a U.S. online piracy group that covertly recorded movies showing in theaters and offered them online has been sentenced to five years in...

Article | 28/12/2012 Japanese mobile carriers beg users to limit New Year's texts, calls

Japan's mobile operators are asking users to postpone their New Year's greetings this year.

Article | 28/12/2012 Toshiba developing Lytro-like phone camera with over 30,000 mini-lenses

Toshiba is developing a tiny digital camera module similar to the Lytro camera, which shoots tens of thousands of individual photos and then allows th...

Article | 27/12/2012 Toshiba to launch 20-megapixel image chip for digital cameras

Toshiba is preparing a 20-megapixel image sensor for digital cameras that it says will be the highest resolution of its kind.

Article | 26/12/2012 Instagram faces class action lawsuit for updated terms of service

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Instagram over the company's controversial update to its terms of service last week.

Article | 26/12/2012 Netflix restores streaming video after Christmas outages

Netflix has restored its streaming video services, after Christmas outages related to problems with Amazon's online computing platform.

Article | 20/12/2012 Japan's Gree quietly launches new mobile chat app

Japan's Gree, which runs a large mobile gaming platform, is quietly rolling out a test version of a new chat app called Gree Messenger.

Article | 20/12/2012 Google offers free Quickoffice app to Google Apps subscribers

Google has launched a free iPad app to allow its paying business customers to edit Microsoft Office documents.

Article | 19/12/2012 New NEC server has built-in batteries for backup power

NEC's new high-end server contains swappable battery packs, intended to provide backup power without the need for an external uninterruptible power su...

Article | 19/12/2012 Apple continues to dominate Samsung, locals in Japan smartphone market

Apple has continued to dominate the Japanese smartphone market in recent months, new data shows, and analysts say it is likely to stay strong through ...