Michael Drexler - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Michael Drexler

Article | 27/09/1999 NEC, Mitsubishi Electric to merge screen operations

Two of Japan's electronic giants, NEC and Mitsubishi Electric said they will merge their worldwide display operations to boost the efficiency of the p...

Article | 6/09/1999 NEC to ship sleek green all-in-one PC

Aiming for hit with twentysomethings and female users, NEC will release a sleek new all-in-one PC in the colour of pastel green.

Article | 25/08/1999 More vendors join online music frenzy

Japanese vendor Sanyo Electric and record company Warner Music Japan have jumped on the Internet music bandwagon this week, announcing plans for a new...

Article | 3/08/1999 64MB SmartMedia card unveiled

Aiming at the booming market for digital devices, Toshiba in Tokyo has unveiled two new flash memory products, a 64MB SmartMedia card and a super-thin...

Article | 2/08/1999 NEC builds world's first mobile MPEG-4 codec

Deeming current audio and video compression technologies too slow and power-hungry for the mobile age, NEC has developed a device that can bring high-...

Article | 17/06/1999 Diamond wins MP3 court victory

A victory has been won for MP3 players this week with a legal win by Diamond Multimedia. A US court has ruled that Diamond's Rio music player does not...

Article | 1/06/1999 Sony, HP push rewritable DVD format

Sony and Hewlett-Packard, in a bid to set a standard for rewritable storage systems, have announced they will begin selling the world's first DVD+RW (...

Article | 21/05/1999 World's first video mobile phone is way of future

The world got its first glimpse of what could be the future of mobile telephony this week when Japanese company Kyocera unveiled the first mobile phon...

Article | 25/03/1999 Japanese electronic pet to help elderly

In Japan, an electronics company has developed a robotic cat designed to be a companion for elderly people. Tama, which acts as a conversation partner...