Stephen Lawson - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Stephen Lawson

Article | 22/11/2007 Engineers tackle big waits for big files

Storing large project files separately in its 20 offices worked fine for environmental engineering firm GEI Consultants until employees with different...

Article | 8/11/2007 Fast mobile on track but faces curves

An emerging mobile technology that would give on-the-go users several megabits per second is working as planned so far, but that doesn't guarantee you...

Article | 7/11/2007 Intel brings EMC to small-business storage

Intel has added processing brawn and big-name brains in its second shot at home and small-business storage.

Article | 7/11/2007 Cisco upgrades switches for multimedia

Cisco is stepping up its enterprise switch game to support the collaboration and multimedia it's been pushing as the next generation of work.

Article | 30/10/2007 Cisco cautious on Brazil case

Cisco Systems appeared to further distance itself from a tax scandal in Brazil, saying it can't vouch for everything its channel partners do.

Article | 26/10/2007 CTIA - Never mind that '4G' stuff, Sprint now says

Now that WiMax has been certified as a form of 3G (third-generation) mobile data infrastructure, Sprint Nextel is changing its tune about the WiMax ne...

Article | 24/10/2007 CTIA - I-mate phones may stir up enterprise mobile

A vendor based in Dubai pounced on the enterprise mobility market Tuesday evening with a set of Windows Mobile 6 phones that come with built-in securi...

Article | 22/10/2007 WiMax counts as 3G, ITU says

WiMax earned an important seal of approval last week when the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union certified it as a...

Article | 15/10/2007 IT a culprit, savior in climate change

Climate change is both a large-scale crisis and a huge opportunity, and IT has a role in both, industry executives said at a panel discussion this wee...

Article | 10/10/2007 UWB group certifies first products

The industry group behind UWB (ultrawideband) high-speed wireless has certified the first UWB chipsets, a move that helps usher in technologies includ...

Article | 5/10/2007 Fon's shared UK Wi-Fi network goes mainstream with BT

BT Group is turning to its own broadband subscribers to help crack a nut that many governments and service providers have struggled with: Widespread W...

Article | 3/10/2007 WLAN patent threat may be resolved

A roadblock that reportedly could have held up a key wireless LAN standard seems to have been cleared now that the CSIRO has responded to the IEEE sta...

Article | 2/10/2007 Nokia Siemens outsources some R&D to IBM

Nokia Siemens Networks will hand over parts of some research and development teams to IBM, unloading some of its workforce while continuing to gain th...

Article | 29/09/2007 Powerline networking groups connect their standards

Fast in-home networks over electrical wires got a boost on Friday as proponents of two rival technologies merged their approaches and said products al...

Article | 29/09/2007 EFF sues to uncover alleged telco lobbying

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) believes telecommunications carriers are pushing for an amnesty to protect them from lawsuits over alleged il...