Matt Hamblen - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Matt Hamblen

Article | 8/01/2008 CES - OQO shows off WiMax-enabled ultramobile PC

WiMax high-speed wireless networks and devices will be a major topic of interest at CES, and OQO is demonstrating one the first devices to use the tec...

Article | 8/01/2008 CES - Bluetooth SIG hits a landmark decade

It may seem hard to believe for some wireless aficionados, but the Bluetooth Special Interest Group is 10 years old, something that Bluetooth vendors ...

Article | 14/12/2007 Virtualization for consumers? Cisco sees it down the road

Cisco Systems has a reputation for building massive networks for some of the largest organizations in the world.

Article | 14/12/2007 WiMax plans moving ahead at Cisco

Cisco Systems' US$330 million (AU$376.8 million) acquisition of WiMax wireless provider Navini Networks should be completed in a matter of days, helpi...

Article | 13/12/2007 Cisco creates Entertainment Operating System

Cisco Systems made its biggest foray yet into the entertainment and social networking world by announcing plans late Tuesday for the Cisco Entertainme...

Article | 12/12/2007 Cisco pitches collaboration technologies via videoconference

Using a Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing system to communicate live with IT leaders in other cities, CEO John Chambers kicked off Cisco's annual a...

Article | 6/12/2007 Google combines its services for iPhone users

Google announced a new application for the iPhone Wednesday that allows users to integrate its services into a single interface so they can easily fin...

Article | 3/12/2007 New CEO faces need to set Motorola priorities

Edward Zander's departure as CEO from Motorola, announced Friday, should spark intense examination by incoming CEO Greg Brown into which markets the c...

Article | 29/11/2007 Report: Mobile phone explosion may have killed man

Police in Cheongwon, South Korea, say a worker died Wednesday possibly because a mobile phone battery exploded in his pocket, according to a report fr...

Article | 27/11/2007 Animals to sleep through zoo's big tech upgrade

The 85 tigers and other big cats at the Carnivore Preservation Trust (CPT) in Pittsboro, North Carolina, may scarcely notice the hubbub, but a US$500,...

Article | 21/11/2007 Kindle e-reader ignites trend toward more wireless devices

Even if you never use Amazon.com's new Kindle e-reader to download books wirelessly, the device is the forerunner of a number of limited-purpose wirel...

Article | 21/11/2007 Is e-mail dead? Hardly

A flurry of blogs and news items on the Internet last week suggested that young Internet users are increasingly relying on instant messaging, texting ...

Article | 16/11/2007 Lawsuit accuses Comcast of blocking file-sharing apps

A lawsuit filed this week in a California Superior Court alleges that Comcast intentionally interferes with Internet file sharing and blocks or slows ...

Article | 14/11/2007 You may hate them, but mobile ads are coming

Mobile advertising is still in its infancy, and already it's despised by some users of wireless devices. Nonetheless, it seems destined to become a ma...

Article | 12/11/2007 Breakup lets Clearwire pursue other WiMax partners

After announcing that their formal WiMax partnership agreement was dissolved, both Sprint Nextel and Clearwire said separately that they will continue...