George A. Chidi Jr - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by George A. Chidi Jr

Article | 15/05/2002 AMD unveils flash memory based on MirrorBit

Mobile phones should be able to hold twice as many rings, MP3 players twice as many songs, and cameras twice as many photos at the same price, using f...

Article | 24/04/2002 Toshiba, Dell debut new laptops

Dell Computer and Toshiba unveiled new laptops on Tuesday, with Dell announcing high-end and budget laptops and Toshiba releasing a machine with built...

Article | 18/04/2002 WorldCom expands global remote access capabilities

WorldCom unveiled a universal remote access tool Wednesday designed to ease secure Internet communication over any access method. WorldCom also said i...

Article | 5/04/2002 Apple acquires Zayante

Apple Computer on Thursday announced it bought Zayante, a privately held FireWire technology design company, for an undisclosed sum.

Article | 4/04/2002 Grid-computing software hitchhikes on Kazaa

Software that will set up a network built from users' hard drives and bandwidth has been quietly bundled into the Kazaa file-sharing program owned by ...

Article | 28/03/2002 Companies form MPEG venture in Japan

Seven companies will pour some of their broadcasting and technology abilities into a new joint venture to bring MPEG-4 interactive television technolo...

Article | 13/03/2002 CEBIT - Intel launches Xeon MP

Intel Corp. launched the Xeon MP processor on Tuesday at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany, unveiling the long-awaited design for low-end multi...

Article | 4/03/2002 Mobster nailed by FBI keystroke logger pleads guilty

Ending the possibility for a showdown in higher courts between the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and privacy advocates, accused loan shar...

Article | 22/02/2002 Microsoft opts to share more code

Microsoft Corp. will uncloak more of the source code powering its Windows operating system, ostensibly to give system integrators better ability to pe...

Article | 30/01/2002 Prototype phone boosts speech recognition quality

Motorola and speech recognition software maker SpeechWorks International Inc. have developed a prototype phone that they say will help computers bette...

Article | 7/01/2002 Euro conversion goes smoothly, but tests for IT remain

A federal judge in New Jersey rejected a defense motion last week to suppress computer evidence gained in a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

Article | 7/01/2002 Keyboard stroke capture okay, judge says

A federal judge in New Jersey rejected a defense motion last week to suppress computer evidence gained in a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

Article | 17/12/2001 Vivendi in US$1.5B interactive TV deal with Echostar

Vivendi Universal SA Friday announced it would make a US$1.5 billion equity investment in satellite television provider EchoStar Communications Corp.,...

Article | 12/12/2001 Excite@Home walking its last mile

In a San Francisco bankruptcy court Tuesday, a judge will likely ease Excite@Home Inc.'s way to an orderly shutdown.

Article | 10/12/2001 AT&T finishes moving Excite@Home customers

AT&T's broadband unit announced Friday it has finished transferring 850,000 of its Internet service customers to its own network, six days after Inter...