Matt Hamblen - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Matt Hamblen

Article | 9/11/2007 Couple sues Verizon over flaming fiber optic service install

Verizon Communications is being sued by a US couple after the company's installers accidentally set their apartment on fire while installing fiber opt...

Article | 7/11/2007 Financial exchange cuts fail-overs with Cisco technology

CME Group in Chicago plans to deploy new virtual switching technology from Cisco Systems to minimize downtime and improve response times in its electr...

Article | 7/11/2007 Google's Android seen as leading to market fragmentation

This week's announcement of the Android open mobile platform by Google and dozens of other companies could provoke the kinds of industry battles seen ...

Article | 6/11/2007 Three Wireless products unveiled, including SMB BlackBerry app

Research In Motion (RIM) Monday released software designed to help businesses with up to 30 users get the same core wireless e-mail and related functi...

Article | 6/11/2007 Google offers up 'Android' as its new open mobile platform

Google and several other technology companies plan to unveil a new mobile platform called Android on Monday, according to a statement from the company...

Article | 31/10/2007 The Google phone: Has a wireless upheaval begun?

The Google phone is inching closer to reality, with wireless handhelds running Google applications and operating software expected in the first half o...

Article | 25/10/2007 Facebook co-founder urges open approach to mobile Web development

Dustin Moskovitz took center stage at the CTIA conference in San Francisco and marveled at how Facebook, which he co-founded only four years ago, has ...

Article | 25/10/2007 New Gobi chip set: A Xohm killer?

Qualcomm has quietly announced a new embedded chip set named Gobi for laptops. The goal is to provide WAN wireless data connections globally without l...

Article | 25/10/2007 CTIA - Microsoft's Ballmer makes a pitch for unifying devices

Everybody's seen That Guy on an airplane: He's got an MP3 player for music, a BlackBerry for e-mail, and a slick multimedia laptop for creating spread...

Article | 24/10/2007 CTIA - Ballmer: Microsoft won't join US spectrum auction

Microsoft won't be participating in the 700 MHz spectrum auction planned by the US Federal Communications Commission for January, CEO Steve Ballmer sa...

Article | 18/10/2007 Police describe scheme to evade taxes on networking gear

Brazilian police dubbed their crackdown "Operation Persona," which led to raids and temporary arrests this week of 41 members of an organization that ...

Article | 15/10/2007 HSPA still a player despite WiMax hoopla

High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) wireless technology is here today in some markets and getting faster, and may end up being more popular than WiMax and...

Article | 15/10/2007 WiMax's bright future and five hurdles to overcome

Last month's WiMax World 2007 conference in Chicago was filled with old-fashioned technology optimism, featuring twice as many vendors and visitors as...

Article | 10/10/2007 Could Sprint CEO's departure jeopardize its WiMax plans?

The biggest long-term impact of Gary Forsee's departure as CEO and chairman of Sprint Nextel could be on the company's huge WiMax wireless broadband i...

Article | 2/10/2007 Cisco may buy WiMAX player

Cisco Systems is close to buying a company that makes WiMAX base stations, according to an industry report. The move would be Cisco's first foray into...