Lexton Snol - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lexton Snol

Article | 23/05/2009 Mobile consumers want greener phones

The results of a recent consumer survey conducted in North America by ABI Research suggests that nearly half of all mobile consumers are "somewhat lik...

Article | 16/05/2009 Japan forces Google climbdown on Street View

Following reports that Google's Street View camera cars have been banned in Greece and chased out of a village in England it now appears that Japan ha...

Article | 15/05/2009 10 web brands account for half all internet time

The top 10 web brands are getting stronger, despite the proliferation of new sites and services. The 10 web brands on which Britons spend the most tim...

Article | 9/05/2009 iPhone users demand new 32GB version

Over 2,000 iPhone users voting in an online poll have chosen storage as the primary enhancement that they'd like to see in the next version of the App...

Article | 9/05/2009 Apple breaks into UK Top 5 PC makers

While UK PC sales slid by 5.1 percent in the first quarter of 2009, Apple's Mac sales grew 6.6 percent to take the company into the UK top five for th...

Article | 8/05/2009 Mobile internet spending up, overall revenue down

While one of the fastest growing revenue segments for mobile operators is mobile internet, driven by access fees and data traffic, mobile user ARPUs (...

Article | 1/12/2008 1 million Google phones sold by end of year

HTC, maker of the original Google phone, is boasting that demand is so high that sales will reach a million by the end of the year.

Article | 14/11/2008 EA Sports Active: a Wii Fit killer?

Hoping to gymnastically leap onto the phenomenal success of Nintendo's Wii Fit game system, Electronic Arts is to launch its own EA Sports Active game...

Article | 15/10/2008 Happy birthday, mobile phone!

Amidst today's war of the latest Internet-enabled mobile phones (Apple iPhone vs Android Google phone vs Nokia N96 vs BlackBerry Storm) a milestone ha...

Article | 7/08/2008 Solar handbag follows iPod bra chargers

There are all sorts of cases for mobile phones and iPods -- most of them pretty revolting, but some much, much easier on the eye.

Article | 5/08/2008 Grand Theft Auto pulled after teenage murder

A Thai teenager supposedly obsessed with Grand Theft Auto is facing death by lethal injection after robbing and stabbing a taxi driver to death.

Article | 27/06/2008 The hunt for a breast-powered iPod

There are many forms of renewable energy being proposed, especially now that prices of gas and oil-based energy sources have gone through the roof. Ho...

Article | 20/06/2008 Apple accused of iPhone sex discrimination

The LA Times has accused Apple of ignoring the plight of women with its new 3G iPhone, to be launched on July 11.

Article | 1/08/2007 Apple sells 3 billion songs on iTunes

Apple claims that more than three billion songs have been downloaded from its online iTunes Store.