Thomas Wailgum - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Thomas Wailgum

Article | 20/11/2010 Retailers Going Green, But Customers Remain Apathetic

You have to feel bad for most retailers: The global economy tanked in 2008, sales plummeted and many well-known chains went out of business. Today, sh...

Article | 23/10/2010 The trouble with supply-chain best practices

Best Practices: It's an often overused term that can apply to literally any decision-making process: parenting quandaries, personal finance questions,...

Article | 19/10/2010 In-flight Wi-Fi turbulence: Travellers reluctant to pay

In 2008, the number of commercial aircraft that offered in-flight Wi-Fi service totaled just 25, according to market researcher In-Stat. By the end of...

Article | 17/09/2010 10 Ways To Know You're in the Twitter Twilight Zone

All too often, it seems like there's a full moon out when it comes to Twitter: People who use the microblogging service do some very strange things.

Article | 13/07/2010 Why People Love to Hate Their Office Printers

Who hasn't wanted to take a bat to their office printer? From confusing error messages to unfixable paper jams, today's office printer is a source of ...

Article | 16/06/2010 Starbucks CIO Brewing Up Much More than Free Wi-Fi

Yesterday, coffee-purveyor Starbucks reversed course on its long-standing in-store Wi-Fi policy by announcing that starting July 1, Wi-Fi would be fre...

Article | 10/06/2010 Taming the ERP Integration Beast: A Work in Progress

CIOs have been talking about enterprise application integration for as long as they've been talking about business-IT alignment or proving the value o...

Article | 21/05/2010 SAP Sapphire 2010: Observations, News and Tweets

SAP's annual Sapphire conference is over, and here's a round-up of some of the important news, announcements and high-tech happenings that came out of...

Article | 17/04/2010 Data everywhere, but not enough smart management

Today, most enterprises are finally facing up to the "data, data everywhere" phenomenon-an awe-inspiring and unprecedented push and pull of data and i...

Article | 15/04/2010 Larry Ellison in Pictures: It's Good to Be The King

The charmed life of Larry Ellison wasn't always caviar and megayachts.

Article | 5/03/2010 5 Reasons Businesses Still Hate Enterprise Software

Got Issues? Enterprise software sure does.

Article | 30/09/2009 Xerox buys ACS, tosses 'paperless office' vision

It's a pretty slow business week when Xerox's $6.4 billion proposed acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services dominates the news.

Article | 6/08/2009 A brief history of geeks

No so long ago, the computer geek was confined to the back rooms and basements of companies everywhere.

Article | 22/07/2009 Tech vendors: ignore those dollar signs behind the curtain

As is the case with selling McMansions, Mercedes SUVs and 63-inch HDTVs, pushing expensive technology products and services during a global recession ...

Article | 30/05/2009 Apple, Dell, IBM among top global supply chains

AMR Research released its annual "Supply Chain Top 25" list, and the top dog leading the supply chain pack this year -as it did last year - is Apple.