Stephen Lawson - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Stephen Lawson

Article | 17/08/2007 Service hasn't crashed, Skype says

Skype's Internet voice service "has not crashed or been victim of a cyber attack," the eBay subsidiary said late Thursday after some users were unable...

Article | 9/08/2007 LINUXWORLD SF - Motorola sees Linux as its mobile mainstay

Motorola is betting big on Linux for its mobile phones, planning to install the OS on 60 percent of its handsets within two years.

Article | 8/08/2007 Qualcomm can't enforce patents, judge rules

Qualcomm can't enforce two patents involved in the H.264 video compression standard because it hid them from the standards body that developed H.264, ...

Article | 7/08/2007 Judge reverses Microsoft patent award

A federal judge Monday effectively reversed a US$1.5 billion patent-infringement award against Microsoft in a case involving MP3 technology.

Article | 31/07/2007 Cisco muffles Linksys death knell

The saga of Cisco Systems and its Linksys consumer and small-business division continued last week as Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers hinted at t...

Article | 27/07/2007 Aruba, Alcatel-Lucent deepen mobility partnership

Alcatel-Lucent plans to extend enterprise security into cellular networks through its own fixed-mobile convergence systems and Aruba Networks's "follo...

Article | 25/07/2007 IEEE group settles on faster Ethernet plans

A technical group working on the next generation of Ethernet has agreed to disagree and will now work on a single standard that covers both 40G bps (b...

Article | 24/07/2007 Intel network chips get up to speed

Intel later this year will help server network interfaces take advantage of the major recent advances in data centers: multiprocessor systems, multico...

Article | 23/07/2007 Google invests in mobile base station vendor

Femtocells, an emerging technology for improving cellular coverage in homes and enterprises, have attracted the interest of none other than Google.

Article | 20/07/2007 IEEE 802.20 changes rules to prevent steamrolling

The working group for the emerging IEEE 802.20 mobile broadband standard, which was suspended last year after a fight over members' real company affil...

Article | 18/07/2007 Devicescape takes on Wi-Fi guest access problem

A maker of software that simplifies getting onto public Wi-Fi hotspots is now tackling the complexity of using the network in your own home or at a fr...

Article | 17/07/2007 Vodafone denies plan to buy Verizon

Vodafone Group has denied a Monday report by the Financial Times that it was considering buying Verizon Communications in a huge US$160 billion deal.

Article | 11/07/2007 Nokia adds Skype to N800 tablet

Nokia Corp. introduced Skype Internet-calling software for its N800 Wi-Fi tablet on Wednesday, providing another alternative to using a cell phone, wh...

Article | 11/07/2007 Motorola to buy quad-play service delivery vendor

Motorola has agreed to acquire Leapstone Systems, which makes software that helps carriers create and deliver services for wired and wireless networks...

Article | 26/06/2007 Wi-Fi Alliance starts testing draft 802.11n gear

The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched the action phase of its plan to get faster wireless networking products into the market, kicking off certification tes...