Dan Nystedt - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Dan Nystedt

Article | 30/05/2005 Acer unwraps Ferrari 4000 notebook PC

Acer announced its Ferrari 4000 notebook computer last week, with a sleek black and red casing made from what it says is the same carbon fiber technol...

Article | 26/05/2005 GNU guru asks Taiwan PC makers to free their drivers

Richard Stallman, one of the main forces behind the GNU/Linux operating system and the free software movement, is in Taiwan fighting on a new front --...

Article | 24/05/2005 DRAM contract prices rise for first time this year

Prices of computer memory chips, or DRAM (dynamic RAM), negotiated between computer companies and chip makers rose for the first time in seven months,...

Article | 28/04/2005 UMC predicts recovery after Q1 earnings fall

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), the world's second biggest contract chipmaker, has reported that its first quarter earnings fell due to wid...

Article | 18/04/2005 Taiwan prods China to drop ban on two news Web sites

Taiwan has expelled journalists from two Chinese news agencies and won't consider letting them return until China lifts a ban on the Web sites of two ...

Article | 15/04/2005 Taiwanese chip makers step up Linux support

Two Taiwanese makers of graphics chips stepped up their support for Linux-based PCs this week by releasing the source code for some of their drivers t...

Article | 14/04/2005 Intel buying - not making - some flash chips

Intel is procuring NAND flash memory from third-party suppliers to include in its chip packages, a company executive said Tuesday, a sign of how the c...

Article | 12/04/2005 Top memory chip makers see early 2007 launch for DDR3

The next generation of computer memory chips, DDR3, could be ready for market in early 2007, two of the world's biggest memory chip makers said Monday...