Katherine Noyes - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 19/03/2011 GNU Free Call: An open source Skype alternative

There's no denying that Skype is by far the most ubiquitous VoIP service today, but a new project launched this week aims to create an open source alt...

Article | 18/03/2011 10 things to drool over in Firefox 4

Mozilla's Firefox 4 is now officially expected to debut on Tuesday March 22, following hard on the heels of Google's Chrome 10 and Microsoft's Interne...

Article | 17/03/2011 Why I won't be using Internet Explorer 9

As is true just about any time Microsoft launches a new product, there's been no shortage of hype about Internet Explorer 9. And indeed, my PCWorld co...

Article | 16/03/2011 Speedy 'wonder patch' debuts in new Linux kernel

Back in November I wrote about the 233-line patch that was expected to bring a huge speed boost to version 2.6.38 of the Linux kernel, and that's just...

Article | 12/03/2011 Five tools to protect you from e-mail slip-ups

It's a rare e-mail user indeed who hasn't experienced the awful moment that can come right after hitting "send." It's the moment when you realize that...

Article | 10/03/2011 Six ways businesses are using tablets

Tablets like Apple's iPad 2 and Motorola's Xoom may be causing paroxysms of excitement among the world's consumers, but many businesses are still tryi...

Article | 8/03/2011 Work begins on Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot'

The final release of "Natty Narwhal," or version 11.04 of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution, may still be more than a month away, but project foun...

Article | 5/03/2011 Android skills outshine iPhone expertise in developer hiring

Developers with Android skills are now in greater demand than those with iPhone expertise, according to a recent report.

Article | 5/03/2011 Three good reasons to buy an open-PC

For many small business users, all the rational arguments for using open source software like Linux make a great deal of sense: It's free, customizabl...

Article | 4/03/2011 Why the iPad 2 leaves me cold

At the risk of offending Apple fans far and wide, I can't for the life of me see what there is to be excited about in Apple's new iPad.

Article | 3/03/2011 Embedded Linux gets a boost in newly unified project

Whatever your opinion of Linux's desktop potential, few would dispute the value of the open source operating system in embedded devices such as mobile...

Article | 1/03/2011 As Firefox 4 beta 12 debuts, Mozilla looks to Firefox 5

Mozilla on Friday rolled out what appears to be the last beta release of its Firefox 4 open source Web browser software.

Article | 26/02/2011 LibreOffice software is here to stay

If there was any doubt as to long-term ability of LibreOffice to sprint ahead of Oracle-backed OpenOffice.org, those concerns pretty much just flew ou...

Article | 25/02/2011 Six dirty SEO tricks you must avoid

The past several months have afforded several high-profile examples of how search engine optimization, or SEO, should not be done. Last fall it was De...

Article | 25/02/2011 Splashtop Linux: A free Chrome OS alternative

Web surfers tired of waiting for the official release of hardware featuring Google's Chrome OS now have a browser-based alternative right at their fin...