Mike Elgan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Mike Elgan

Article | 19/03/2007 Freedom from the office -- the Bedouin way

No matter who you are, you can embrace the new Bedouinism. You don't have to live in the Bay Area or the desert or work for a start-up. You don't even...

Article | 13/03/2007 You can't hide; 'geotagging' will find you

Mobile phones have become the mother of all convergence devices, combining dozens of functions formerly found separately or on PCs.

Article | 5/03/2007 Why 'smartphone' is a dumb label

ABI Research analysts ruffled gadget-enthusiast feathers recently by suggesting that Apple's upcoming iPhone, though "clever and capable" cannot be co...

Article | 26/02/2007 The decline and fall of the Palm empire

The once-mighty Palm, still successful on paper from the momentum of past glories, is doomed to decline and failure. It wasn't always thus. Here's my ...

Article | 19/02/2007 Why the iPhone will change the (PC) world

Steve Jobs' iPhone demo at Macworld Jan. 9 rocked the house, stopped the presses and upset the smart-phone status quo. Yes, Jobs changed the world. Ag...

Article | 15/12/2006 BlackBerry Pearl is the smartphone of the future

Like today's best smart phones, the pocket communication gadget of the future will be an "everything device." At a minimum, it will function as a lapt...

Article | 12/02/2007 Saving the planet, the easy way

Environmentalists have been urging consumers for decades to wake up to impending disaster and change their buying, driving and living habits to reduce...

Article | 5/02/2007 Windows Vista: The 'huh?' starts now

Microsoft is losing consumer operating system market share to Apple for many reasons, but most of those reasons can be oversimplified thus: Mac OS is ...

Article | 2/02/2007 Wait! Don't buy Windows Vista!

Unless you've recently emerged from a coma, you know the consumer versions of Microsoft's new Vista operating system have already shipped to the publi...

Article | 19/01/2007 How Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote

Steve Jobs' blockbuster keynote at last week's Macworld was brilliantly and powerfully delivered -- one of his best ever. It was also a colossal mista...

Article | 12/01/2007 Moving beyond hope as a backup strategy

You can find volumes of information about mobile data security -- everyone knows that data on mobile devices, especially laptops, is at risk. But almo...

Article | 12/01/2007 20 things we don't know about the iPhone

Steve Jobs unveiled his breathtaking iPhone vision Tuesday, calling it a "magical" device that would "change the world" when it ships in June. Jobs' u...

Article | 3/01/2007 The new hotness: Personal tech in 2007

As Moore's Law, or something like it, continues to drive down the cost and size of electronics, increasingly sophisticated technology will find its wa...

Article | 27/11/2006 Zune: So you want to be an iPod killer

Microsoft's Zune finally shipped, and everyone agrees: It's nice but definitely no "iPod killer." But it could be. And should be. I'll tell you how in...

Article | 17/11/2006 The myth of maximum megapixels

Pixel count has become unimportant almost to the point of irrelevance. Megapixels don't matter anymore.