Nancy Weil - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Nancy Weil

Article | 8/03/2007 MS ANTITRUST - DOJ, states concerned about Vista docs

The U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general are concerned that Microsoft is revising deadlines that it agreed to as part of its antitru...

Article | 28/12/2006 Report: Feds looking at Apple stock-option documents

U.S. federal investigators are "looking closely" at stock-option documents that former Apple Computer officials allegedly falsified to boost their own...

Article | 4/12/2006 MIT debate: Will a 'conscious' machine ever be built?

The question of whether machines will be capable of human intelligence is ultimately a matter for philosophers to take up and not something that scien...

Article | 10/10/2006 Google to buy YouTube in US$1.65B stock deal

Google has laid speculation to rest -- it is buying YouTube for US$1.65 billion in a stock transaction.

Article | 19/07/2006 Judge: Rambus can take lower damages or have new trial

A U.S. judge has ruled that a US$306.9 million damage award to Rambus is unjustifiably high and said that Rambus can either accept a reduced $133.5 mi...

Article | 16/06/2006 Ray Ozzie's illustrious IT career takes another turn

Within minutes of the official Microsoft announcement Thursday that Ray Ozzie has stepped into the role of chief software architect, his official biog...

Article | 17/02/2006 Kumar erased evidence from his hard drive, US says

The U.S. government will present evidence at the upcoming trial of Sanjay Kumar that the former chief executive officer of CA erased from his laptop c...

Article | 30/01/2006 US court sets date for Google hearing

Google attorneys will square off against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) at a Feb. 27 hearing over the issue of providing the government with inf...

Article | 10/01/2006 Adobe buys Navisware DRM division

Adobe Systems has acquired the DRM (digital rights management) division of Navisware, a privately held company that creates software for CAD (computer...

Article | 9/12/2005 End of year: Top predictions for 2006

Boldly going where we should know better than to go, we humbly offer our top predictions for IT in 2006:

Article | 16/11/2005 Vendors warn of new Sober variants

Yet more variants of the mass-mail Sober worm are making the rounds of the Net and could infect Windows-based computers, antivirus firms warned Tuesda...

Article | 18/10/2005 IDC, Gartner find Q3 PC shipment increases

Spurred by low-priced computers, global shipments of PCs increased more than 17 per cent in the third quarter, according to analyst companies, IDC and...

Article | 15/09/2005 Microsoft says it would settle employee case

If Google would agree to make a preliminary injunction become permanent in a lawsuit Microsoft filed against it related to a former employee who has g...

Article | 8/09/2005 CA opens access to 14 patents, announces deal with IBM

Computer Associates International (CA) will allow access to individuals and groups in the open-source software community to technology included in 14 ...

Article | 1/09/2005 Moto Q will support Napster To Go

Motorola's Moto Q smart phone will be compatible with the Napster To Go portable subscription music service, Napster said Wednesday. A growing list of...