Katherine Noyes - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Katherine Noyes

Article | 23/02/2011 Why there's no stopping the Android train

It's a rare week indeed that doesn't see the emergence of some fresh news of Android's ascendance, but lately the evidence has been coming particularl...

Article | 19/02/2011 Fedora and openSUSE Linux drop Unity efforts

Canonical made quite a splash last fall when it announced that the Unity interface used in its Ubuntu Netbook Edition would become the default interfa...

Article | 12/02/2011 Why you need to have a Linux LiveCD

As a longtime fan of Linux, I'm a big believer that most business users would benefit greatly by dumping Windows and switching over to the open source...

Article | 18/02/2011 Three reasons why your business should avoid Facebook

For small businesses, the conventional wisdom today is that social media have become the best way to reach out to potential and current customers, and...

Article | 11/02/2011 Canonical opens up catalog of Linux-friendly components

Though hardware compatibility with Linux improves with each passing day, users of the free and open source operating system can still encounter proble...

Article | 9/02/2011 Competitive benefits drive businesses to open source

Vendors of proprietary software are fond of warning potential customers thatopen source software isn't ready for business, typically citing subpar fea...

Article | 8/02/2011 Debian 6.0 breaks free of restrictive licenses

Following a full two years of development, the Debian Project on Sunday released version 6.0 of its namesake Linux distribution, code-named "Squeeze."

Article | 3/02/2011 Myriad updates come to open source software

January was a busy month for open source software, with numerous packages receiving key updates and improvements. Since so many have been released in ...

Article | 1/02/2011 Firefox 4 add-on takes browsing outside the browser

A new, experimental add-on from Mozilla Labs' Prospector project removes the standard browser interface from Firefox 4 and instead gives full priority...

Article | 28/01/2011 Linux vendors teaming up for an app store

There seems to be no end to the momentum propelling Linux into the mainstream these days, and this week news came out that's surely among the most exc...

Article | 26/01/2011 Tiny patch cuts Firefox 4's startup time in half

While all the world scrutinized the proposed "Do Not Track" feature for Mozilla's Firefox 4 on Monday, a tiny patch quietly emerged that promises to c...

Article | 27/01/2011 Switching to desktop Linux? 6 ways to ease the migration

With all the many compelling reasons for a company to switch to Linux on the desktop, it's no wonder that businesses large and small are increasingly ...

Article | 25/01/2011 Linux skills are hot on improving IT hiring front

IT professionals enjoyed a dramatically improved hiring landscape in 2010, marked in particular by the fewest job cuts in a year since 2000.

Article | 21/01/2011 How Quora could help your business

Question-and-answer sites like Yahoo Answers may offer a quick way to ask questions and get answers, but they tend to be plagued by wisecracks, poor s...

Article | 20/01/2011 Why Android users are such a happy lot

Smartphone users tend to hold strong opinions about the various mobile platforms out there, often displaying feverish loyalty to the one they use and ...