Stephen Lawson - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Stephen Lawson

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...

Article | 20/06/2005 Third-party technologies enhance Skype

Skype Technologies' strategy of welcoming third-party vendors is spawning numerous extensions to its popular Internet telephony service, which is begi...

Article | 15/06/2005 In-flight cell phone systems gain altitude

The possibility of cell phone calls on airliners, for better or worse, took a few steps closer to reality this week with the announcement of two on-bo...

Article | 8/06/2005 Vendors ready WiMax gear for testing

Broadband wireless is blowing into Supercomm in Chicago this week just as certification tests are about to begin based on the WiMax fixed-wireless spe...

Article | 8/06/2005 Microsoft to pay US$9 million in patent case

A jury on Monday awarded US$8.96 million to a Guatemalan inventor who sued Microsoft for patent infringement.

Article | 25/05/2005 Wireless USB group finishes 1.0 specification

A cable-free version of USB (Universal Serial Bus) took a big step forward on Tuesday with the completion of the Wireless USB 1.0 specification, but t...

Article | 12/05/2005 Microsoft offers WPA2 Wi-Fi security

Microsoft has added a key wireless LAN security specification to Windows XP, the company announced Thursday.