Joab Jackson - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 5/05/2010 Video search still a tough nut to crack

While text-based search services such as Google's and Microsoft Bing now come pretty close to consistently serving up what users seek, video search se...

Article | 4/05/2010 Novell, Red Hat prevail in user-interface patent case

A U.S. federal jury has found that Novell and Red Hat were not guilty of infringing on user interface patents held by IP Innovation.

Article | 1/05/2010 Google official reaffirms HTML5 readiness

Despite concerns that it is far from being finished, HTML5 is ready for use, at least for most platforms and for most duties, asserted a Google develo...

Article | 1/05/2010 Twitter: More a news medium than social network

While Twitter tends to get lumped in with other social-networking sites, a group of Korean researchers has analyzed how people use the service and fou...

Article | 30/04/2010 W3C pushes linking Web data

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sees the Web becoming a platform where data can be posted and reused in multiple ad-hoc applications, to judge fro...

Article | 27/04/2010 HP updates Network Mode Manager

Hewlett-Packard has updated its Network Node Manager software, released Monday, to include performance management and virtualization support.

Article | 23/04/2010 Microsoft earnings again buoyed by Windows 7

Windows 7 has once again kept Microsoft's balance sheet healthy. On Thursday, the company announced strong income and revenue growth for its third fis...

Article | 21/04/2010 Red Hat drops Xen from RHEL

With Wednesday's beta release of its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat has added a number of new capabilities that s...

Article | 22/04/2010 Microsoft unleashes long-awaited SQL 2008 update

Microsoft has released to manufacturing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, the new version of its relational database management system software, the compa...

Article | 20/04/2010 Microsoft betas PC management service

Microsoft is beta testing a PC management service aimed at supporting midsized businesses, the company announced Monday.

Article | 20/04/2010 Canonical to update production-ready server Ubuntu

Linux distribution vendor Canonical will soon release an updated version of its production-ready server operating system, the company announced Monday...

Article | 16/04/2010 OpenSolaris leaders unnerved by Oracle silence

Frustrated by Oracle's delay in releasing the latest version of OpenSolaris, the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) is growing uneasy over Oracle's lac...

Article | 15/04/2010 HP expands client consulting services

Hewlett-Packard has expanded its consulting services to help enterprises get a better handle on the range of new client devices and software that have...

Article | 14/04/2010 Google exec worries over 'rudderless' Java

As if Oracle did not have enough work convincing MySQL users of its good intentions, the company also should set its sites on getting the Java platfor...

Article | 13/04/2010 Adobe's Creative Suite addresses changes in design workflow

With the release version 5 of its Creative Suite, a package of multimedia content creation tools, Adobe has made much hay with the latest gains in har...