Heather Havenstein - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Heather Havenstein

Article | 28/02/2007 New 'CrackBerry' rehab site aimed at BlackBerry addicts

In a nod toward the ubiquitous nature of BlackBerry mobile devices, CrackBerry.com was launched Tuesday to provide a new way for addicts of the system...

Article | 27/02/2007 Startup targets Yahoo, Google with Web page tools

Pageflakes, which lets communities of users create personalized Internet home pages, next month plans to begin offering a directory of 10,000 "widgets...

Article | 27/02/2007 RFID meets robotics: a twist in mobile supply tracking

Aethon Monday announced a system that uses robots to monitor the movement of medical equipment tagged with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips...

Article | 21/02/2007 New search engine provides live answers from experts

Jyve on Tuesday launched a new search site that links users directly with people who can answer their questions.

Article | 15/02/2007 MySpace for grown-ups

Portland Trailblazers fans are using a new social networking Web site set up last week by the team to join together and lobby the National Basketball ...

Article | 13/02/2007 3GSM - Microsoft launches 'mashup' contest for developers

Microsoft and British Telecommunications Monday launched a competition to encourage developers to create "network mashups" that merge telecommunicatio...

Article | 23/08/2006 Aggregation tool cuts wait for BI data at publisher

Until a few months ago, users at publisher Simon & Schuster had to wait as long as a half-hour for results from business intelligence queries about sa...

Article | 7/06/2006 Microsoft to release BizTalk Server 2006 R2

Microsoft announced plans Tuesday for a new version of BizTalk Server 2006 designed to help companies extend the reach of their business processes to ...

Article | 12/04/2006 Compuware rolls out testing tool

Compuware unveiled a testing tool Tuesday designed to allow developers and testers -- especially those using Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 - to ident...

Article | 7/02/2006 Vendors spread the AJAX gospel

Users who helped spur the growth of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) programming techniques through grass-roots efforts welcomed last week's new...

Article | 13/01/2006 Los Angeles police use data analysis to fight terrorism

The Los Angeles Police Department's counterterrorism unit next month will begin using a new data analysis system designed to identify and connect rela...

Article | 22/03/2005 Microsoft alters Visual Studio, SQL Svr shipping plans

Microsoft this week gave itself more wiggle room for shipping the Visual Studio 2005 development tools and SQL Server 2005 database lineup.

Article | 16/02/2005 Users seek answers on Indigo

Microsoft last week vowed to dramatically boost developer productivity with its forthcoming Indigo communications technology for building Web services...

Article | 17/01/2003 SAP weaves new net

SAP AG is taking the high road in the enterprise computing platform battle raging between Microsoft Corp.'s .Net and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s J2EE (Jav...