Larry Borsato - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Larry Borsato

Article | 18/07/2008 Which platform: Cathedral or open source?

Have you ever experienced a software bug and thought to yourself, "I could fix that"? If you could, would you? How could that even be possible?

Article | 9/07/2008 How does a developer decide on a mobile platform?

I'm developing mobile applications -- for the iPhone. Considering all of the mobile platforms available to programmers, why would I select the develop...

Article | 29/05/2008 Nine lessons from the first Internet bubble

A decade ago I was working for Bay Networks in Santa Clara, California. Bay Networks was number two in the internetworking hardware market, with annua...

Article | 29/05/2008 What if Microsoft bought Facebook?

Microsoft has decided it doesn't want Yahoo anymore. It apparently just wants to make a deal for the profitable part -- search advertising. After all,...

Article | 23/05/2008 How does a developer choose the right platform?

There are social networks like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and OpenSocial. There is the iPhone SDK, Google's Android, and RIM's BlackBerry. There are...

Article | 15/05/2008 A year in the life of the Facebook platform

Almost one year ago Facebook announced the Facebook Platform, unleashing an assault of applications on unsuspecting users. At first those applications...

Article | 12/05/2008 Who owns 'public' content?

Every day people put virtual truckloads of information into the public domain. Books are published. Newspapers printed. A lot of that ends up on the I...

Article | 1/05/2008 'Free' can disrupt your business

The other day the Encyclopedia Britannica announced that it would now be free for Web publishers -- bloggers, webmasters, or writers. You could pay US...