Kathleen Lau - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 4/07/2008 Google holds contest for developers

If calculating the maximum height at which an egg won't break when dropped while sacrificing the least number of eggs sounds like a worthy challenge t...

Article | 1/07/2008 Supercomputer helps with cancer research

The Ontario Cancer Institute in Canada has deployed what it's calling Canada's fastest research supercomputer to help discover more effective cancer t...

Article | 29/05/2008 SOAs may spawn 'Business Process Experts'

The emergence of services-oriented architecture (SOA) from traditional object-oriented programming means that system design now requires a different a...

Article | 28/05/2008 EMC forges ahead with data de-duplication

EMC has announced storage products that executives said respond to the top-most areas of concern for enterprise customers in the data center.

Article | 1/05/2008 NetGear unveils NAS gear for SMBs

NetGear's latest release of its centralized network storage technology for small and medium-sized businesses comes in a compact desktop form factor th...

Article | 18/04/2008 Webfuser dev tool aimed at non-programmers

The latest version of an Ottawa firm's hosted Web development platform lets non-developers build business applications in less time with what the comp...

Article | 3/04/2008 Adobe releases runtime code to Linux developers

Adobe Systems announcement that it has made available the pre-release alpha version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) to the Linux community will ...

Article | 31/03/2008 P2P plug-in could detect net neutrality violations

In an effort to regulate network management practices, a peer-to-peer platform provider has released a tool to help users track possible traffic manip...

Article | 15/02/2008 Software designed to prevent identity theft

Using peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications on the job raises the risk that confidential data residing on a user's PC might be inadvertently ex...

Article | 14/02/2008 Why Microsoft became attracted to Danger

Microsoft's plan to acquire mobile technology developer Danger will grant the software mogul the brand recognition it seeks in the youth market, analy...

Article | 6/02/2008 Why Wi-Fi may be a possible substitute for RFID

Given that many companies already have Wi-Fi networks, Wi-Fi Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) may be a cheaper alternative to some more expensive rad...

Article | 31/01/2008 Google guy talks mobile search UI

Google on Wednesday launched an enhanced search service designed to streamline the mobile Web browsing experience to reap faster more targeted results...

Article | 14/01/2008 Breast cancer 'Booby Wall' raises awareness online

Securing the anonymity of women who choose to post images of their breasts on the Booby Wall, an online site in support of breast cancer awareness, wa...

Article | 9/01/2008 Canadian Windows ISV helps mobile Linux effort

A Canadian open source firm is considering contributing its technology to the LiMo Foundation, a consortium of companies striving to build a globally-...

Article | 19/11/2007 EMC innovation strategy goes beyond storage

EMC no longer refers to itself as a storage technology vendor, but rather an information infrastructure vendor.