Fred O'Connor - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Fred O'Connor

Article | 31/07/2010 Mobile health requires grasping smartphone, user connection

Health-care providers looking to implement a mobile strategy need to understand the strong bond people have with their smartphones, said panelists Fri...

Article | 30/07/2010 Smartphones, tablets seen boosting mobile health

Smartphones, tablet PCs and other wireless devices are poised to play a greater role in health care as doctors and patients embrace the mobile Interne...

Article | 12/07/2010 Scientist: Technology can solve problems, introduce new ones

Technology holds the ability to solve some of society's problems, but can generate new issues or require measures that people are unwilling to take, s...

Article | 10/07/2010 Era of robots, tech-enhanced humans not here yet

Advocates of the concept called singularity envision a future in which humans and technology fully converge, but a keynote speaker at the World Future...

Article | 11/07/2010 Technologist: Full immersion in the cyberworld is coming

Although many people already are engrossed in cyberspace, judging by the amount of communicating, socializing and commerce conducted online, we're at ...

Article | 10/07/2010 Cloud computing will surpass the Internet in importance

Cloud computing will top the Internet in importance as development of the Web continues, according to a university professor who spoke on Friday at th...

Article | 19/06/2010 Twitter, Apple, AT&T irk customers

User frustration ran high in IT news this week. People cursed Apple and AT&T after both companies' Web sites crashed from the crush of iPhone 4 pre-or...

Article | 30/04/2010 Panelists: Democracy would suffer if Google left China

Analyzing the quarrel between Google and China raises questions of how the Web helps an oppressed country develop democracy, according to a Massachuse...

Article | 20/05/2009 Nokia sees mobile users wanting services over phones

Services, such as maps and music downloads, will dictate how consumers select their mobile phones, and hardware will adapt to meet this trend, said Te...

Article | 20/04/2009 Consumers want useful robots, executive says

Hollywood movies may offer entertainment, but looking to the big screen for consumer robot ideas most likely won't produce profitable devices, a robot...

Article | 16/03/2009 Foreign Web attacks change security paradigm

Traditional security systems may be ineffective and become obsolete in warding off Web attacks launched by countries, according to Val Smith, founder ...

Article | 16/03/2009 Business process flaws seen posing security risks

Running a secure Web site means more than just guarding against cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks. Flaws in the business processes that u...

Article | 13/03/2009 Political cyberattacks to militarize the Web

Governments looking to silence critics and stymie opposition have added DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks to their censoring methods, accor...

Article | 16/04/2008 Technology, biology turn thought into action

Using computers for checking e-mail, drawing images and playing games seem like common tasks for most people. For the severely paralyzed, however, the...

Article | 18/10/2007 WORLDBEAT - Robots will become part of daily life

Caring for an aging population, giving manual-labor jobs to illegal immigrants and keeping production costs down as worker wages rise sound like issue...