Stephen Lawson - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Stephen Lawson

Article | 3/11/2005 Hacker publishes Oracle proof-of-concept worm

A worm that can attack Oracle databases has been posted to a security-related Internet mailing list, raising the specter of possible future worms with...

Article | 28/10/2005 Motorola, Intel to drive mobile WiMax

With the IEEE 802.16e specification for mobile WiMax slowly moving toward approval, Motorola and Intel are now teaming up to help lay the groundwork f...

Article | 26/10/2005 SBC, others see new breed of TV

SBC Communications on Tuesday gave a few glimpses of what it may do with the ability to deliver IP (Internet Protocol) services across several devices...

Article | 20/10/2005 Google's Wi-Fi plan envisions testing ground

Google wrote grandly of the importance of Wi-Fi in a proposal for free wireless in San Francisco that was made public on the Web Monday, but the searc...

Article | 29/09/2005 Mobile world just opening up, media execs say

Mobile content and entertainment providers took the keynote stage at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment on Wednesday and described a sunny future for mu...

Article | 28/09/2005 SanDisk puts DRM on flash cards

SanDisk took a step it hopes will transform the mobile media business, unveiling a storage technology called TrustedFlash that integrates digital righ...

Article | 22/09/2005 IPdrum's Skype-to-cell product ships

A product that lets consumers use an extra cell phone as a gateway to Skype Technologies SA's VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) system is now availa...

Article | 2/09/2005 Motorola heads straight for mobile WiMax

Motorola is moving aggressively toward the next generation of WiMax wireless broadband, gearing up to introduce two product lines without waiting for ...

Article | 31/08/2005 ITunes phone launch expected in US next week

Apple Computer and Motorola are expected to team up with Cingular Wireless next week to introduce an iTunes mobile phone in the US that can store and ...

Article | 26/08/2005 Distance detection may help secure Wi-Fi

Intel is developing a way to locate a Wi-Fi user by timing how long it takes for packets to travel to and from a wireless access point, which could pr...

Article | 16/08/2005 McAfee readies home Wi-Fi security tool

All home Wi-Fi gear comes with the bricks and mortar to put up at least a basic security wall against intruders and eavesdroppers, but McAfee wants to...

Article | 15/08/2005 Qualcomm-Flarion deal may rock wireless world

Qualcomm's planned acquisition of mobile broadband vendor Flarion Techologies sets up a powerful competitor to the emerging mobile WiMax technology an...

Article | 5/08/2005 Microsoft taps Wal-Mart executive as new COO

Microsoft has hired Wal-Mart Stores executive Kevin Turner as its first chief operating officer (COO) since the departure of Rick Belluzzo in 2002, th...

Article | 27/07/2005 Amazon.com worldwide revenue grows in Q2

Amazon.com's revenue surged ahead in the second quarter both inside and outside the US as electronics and other merchandise made up more of its busine...

Article | 26/07/2005 3G - Flexible chips to let phones do it all

A startup claims it has a programmable cellular phone chip that can handle the communications processing for a wide range of protocols, as well as mul...