Mike Elgan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Mike Elgan

Article | 11/07/2009 Elgan: How to become an iPhone Vulcan

Star Trek's Mr. Spock is one of the most compelling characters in all of science fiction. The attributes that made him indispensible to the captain an...

Article | 22/06/2009 Elgan: Why the iPhone doesn't matter

The new iPhone 3G S is here! The new iPhone 3G S is here!

Article | 15/06/2009 Why Dell should buy Palm

Palm Inc. needs money to survive. Dell Inc. needs a handset business to compete. I think Dell should acquire Palm immediately. The union would benefit...

Article | 1/06/2009 Bashing Bing, whacking Wave

Industry titans Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are getting rave reviews this week about innovative new approaches to Internet search and communicatio...

Article | 25/05/2009 Sleep: Gadgets giveth, gadgets taketh away

It's hard to imagine now, but 100 years ago people used to sleep at night. Nighttime was generally dark, quiet and boring. Must have been nice.

Article | 3/03/2009 Paperless office? Ha! How about a paperless life?

The invention of the PC was supposed to usher in the "paperless office," a completely digital workplace without paper memos, forms, files or records. ...

Article | 24/02/2009 Legalise mobile phone jammers?

Jamming a mobile phone is illegal in the US. Very illegal. And not just by ordinary citizens. It's illegal for theatre and restaurant owners to jam ca...

Article | 17/02/2009 Don't be fooled by Google's phony 'beta' label

A typical release cycle for software development includes something called the beta-testing phase. The idea is to improve the product by enabling user...

Article | 20/01/2009 Elgan: 'Getting Things Done' to go

I'll admit it. I'm one of those annoying "Getting Things Done" fanboys. I love David Allen's productivity system, which he lays out in three books: Ge...

Article | 5/01/2009 Why products fail

Why do some people prefer Windows XP and Mac OS X over Windows Vista? After all, Vista is pretty and sleek and much more advanced than XP, and, in man...

Article | 24/12/2008 10 things that won't survive the recession

The government says we've been in a recession for the past year. Experts say it'll be at least another year before it's over. And everybody says it's ...

Article | 15/12/2008 Why you'll never see a real 'Zune phone'

A rumor circulating says Microsoft will unveil a Zune phone at CES. Most columnists and bloggers who mentioned it said Microsoft should not build a Zu...

Article | 12/12/2008 How a flash drive could be the solution to laptop security

Why is Sony bothering with entertainment when it could be using flash drives to dramatically improve laptop data security?

Article | 8/12/2008 We need a mobile broadband space race

On October 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik, the world's first-ever man-made satellite, into Earth orbit.

Article | 27/11/2008 Why you can't trust 'friends' on Facebook

Every form of communication, from snail-mail to e-mail, chat and others, is subject to fraud and scams. But social networks like Facebook are subject ...