Brennon Slattery - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Brennon Slattery

Article | 6/11/2010 Dell ditches RIM: BlackBerry's bad year just got worse

Dell dumped RIM's BlackBerry as its business smartphone and announced that it would be supplying 25,000 of its employees with the Windows 7-powered De...

Article | 5/11/2010 Report: Apple working on fix for MacBook Air screens

Some of Apple's new 11- and 13-inch MacBook Air notebooks have been suffering from screen problems, including horizontal and vertical lines appearing ...

Article | 4/11/2010 Facebook tightens control of social Web with Bing, EA Deals

Facebook and EA Games inked a five-year "strategic relationship" that makes Facebook Credits the sole payment method for microtransactions in EA's Fac...

Article | 1/11/2010 Climb Everest, make 3G calls

Scaling Mount Everest is a great accomplishment, a feat of human endurance. And now, thanks to the Nepalese telecom firm, Ncell, you can brag about yo...

Article | 28/10/2010 10 reasons why revamped Myspace will fail

Remember MySpace? Me neither.

Article | 26/10/2010 Windows 8 coming in 2012?

Just as you were getting comfortable with Windows 7, it looks like Windows 8 is coming in the next two years. In a post celebrating the one-year anniv...

Article | 21/10/2010 More Android 3.0 'Gingerbread' details revealed

Mere months after the launch of Android 2.2, discussions about the impending release of Android 3.0, or "Gingerbread," are gushing. Android 3.0 is rum...

Article | 9/10/2010 Firefox 4 for Android greeted with cheers and jeers

Mozilla's release of Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Android (and Maemo) phones brought with it some cheers -- and some jeers. Though Firefox 4 Beta 1 showed imp...

Article | 22/09/2010 The five pros and cons of a Facebook phone

Is Facebook building a phone? The company won't say for sure, but for some the idea of a Facebook phone is social networking overkill. To social butte...

Article | 21/09/2010 UK pricing of Galaxy Tab hints at high price In US

Are consumers ready to dig deep into their wallets for Samsung's Galaxy Tab as the economy struggles and more affordable tablets, namely Apple's iPad,...

Article | 16/09/2010 Google gets serious about social networking

After purchasing handfuls of social networking-centric companies -- including socialDeck for online games and Jambool for virtual currency -- Google C...

Article | 15/09/2010 Verizon V CAST app store to compete against Google

Verizon has been accepting submissions for its forthcoming V CAST Android app store, which is rumored to be unveiled at the VCD Conference on 21 Septe...

Article | 1/09/2010 Has Digg dug its own grave?

Some people just don't like change. Less than a week after Digg released version 4 of its social news-sharing site, fans have rebelled, flooding Digg ...

Article | 25/08/2010 The next Facebook: Scoop?

Imagine a social networking site geared specifically toward connecting college students with their on-campus academic and social communities. Sound fa...

Article | 18/08/2010 Google CEO: Change Your Name to Escape Our Watchful Eye

Google is often accused of behaving like Big Brother, and Google's CEO Eric Schmidt isn't doing much to dispel those perceptions.