Edward N. Albro - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Edward N. Albro

Article | 10/07/2008 First Reviews: iPhone 3G Improved, but Still Flawed

Is the iPhone 3G worth waiting in line for? Early reviewers of Apple's new smart phone are mostly positive, but they share some common gripes about ba...

Article | 27/05/2008 5 things you'll love about Firefox 3

A couple of months ago, I downloaded a beta version of Firefox 3 just to look at the new ideas Mozilla was working on. My intention was to try it for ...

Article | 8/02/2008 Sonos ZoneBridge 100

The Sonos Digital Music System, introduced in 2004, is a well-designed, generally reliable way to stream music from devices

Article | 10/01/2008 CES - Wi-Fi maturing as other networking options emerge

After a rocky start, the latest flavor of wi-fi, 802.11n, should come into its own this year, with prices for new equipment coming down significantly ...

Article | 8/01/2008 CES - Linksys hopes new designs, low prices boost 802.11n sales

With a sleek new antenna-less design and one router selling for less than US$100, Linksys hopes to breathe new life into what they admit have been dis...

Article | 10/11/2007 Eight years later, is Microsoft still a monopoly?

Eight years ago this week, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C., officially declared Microsoft a monopoly. The...

Article | 17/07/2007 SpaceTime

I've seen so many lousy approaches to three-dimensional Web browsing that I had pretty low expectations when I heard about SpaceTime. Surprisingly, th...

Article | 2/07/2007 The iPhone unboxed

Ed Albro takes a first look inside the iPhone box to see just what you get. (Low bandwidth only)

Article | 21/06/2007 Wireless USB: It lives?

Could it be true? A representative of chipmaker Alereon told me recently that products using the long-awaited, much-delayed, oft-embattled Wireless US...

Article | 9/01/2007 CES - Ending the tyranny of the VGA cable

The past few years have seen a clear trend toward ridding desktop PCs of wires. But the VGA cable connecting your system to your monitor has been a st...

Article | 6/12/2006 Sonos, Rhapsody: Beautiful music together

A free firmware update to the Sonos Digital Music System has opened up an innovative new way to use the Rhapsody online music subscription service wit...

Article | 19/10/2006 Webmail service offers easy mobile access

The Zimbra Collaboration Suite is full of clever tricks. The latest version (4.0) of this online e-mail, calendar, and address book system adds the ab...

Article | 6/10/2006 Rhapsody's new version aims to end DRM problems

Rhapsody Thursday morning is releasing a new version of the software used with their internet music streaming service, software based on a Digital Rig...

Article | 22/09/2006 FileMaker Pro adds a window to the Web

More and more, the source for a lot of the data we care about--maps, prices, pictures, definitions--is the Web. The new version of FileMaker Pro gives...

Article | 18/09/2006 Sonos harnesses all of Rhapsody

I got a chance Friday to check out the new Sonos system that gives you access to all 2 million or so songs on Rhapsody without going through a PC. My ...