Jon Brodkin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jon Brodkin

Article | 27/06/2007 Israeli researchers map the Internet

Israeli researchers have created a topographical map of the Internet by enlisting more than 5,600 volunteers across 97 countries who agreed to downloa...

Article | 19/06/2007 Four Tips for Building Better Wireless Networks

How much performance capability do companies expect when they deploy a wireless network? Chances are, not enough - especially as wireless becomes a ma...

Article | 21/06/2007 Microsoft, IBM feel heat from Google Apps

Microsoft and IBM executives Wednesday admitted feeling heat from Google now that the Web search giant is trying to make inroads into the enterprise m...

Article | 18/06/2007 Ellison-backed vendor tackles wasted storage problem

Pillar Data Systems, the storage vendor funded by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, is getting ready to bolster its line of features with technology that help...

Article | 18/06/2007 Search engine roulette: sites rarely agree on top results

The most popular Web search engines rarely deliver the same results when identical queries are performed on each site, and the disparity has increased...

Article | 14/06/2007 New type of image spam hides in e-mail wallpaper

A new type of image spam found this week is able to bypass many filters by presenting a message as wallpaper within an e-mail, according to the vendor...

Article | 12/06/2007 EBay releases beta of desktop application for buyers

<a href="www.ebay.com " target="_blank">EBay</a> on Monday opened a beta program for a desktop application that makes shopping on the auction Web site...

Article | 5/06/2007 What Google bought in the past 12 months

Google is expanding seemingly by the minute, and acquisitions are playing a big role in the search engine leader's quest to rule the technology world....

Article | 16/05/2007 IBM opens sales center in Second Life

IBM Tuesday opened a virtual business center at <a href="http://www.secondlife.com/" target="_blank">Second Life</a> that will be staffed by IBM sales...

Article | 14/05/2007 Borders preps for life after Amazon with new Web site

Despite being one of the largest bookstore chains in the United States, Borders for several years has relied on Amazon to operate its entire online bu...

Article | 9/05/2007 IBM gathering public input to help Africa

IBM wants your advice on how to spur innovation and economic development in Africa. The company is inviting public comment on the Web until May 25, an...

Article | 8/05/2007 What a Microsoft-Yahoo merger would mean for Google

The potential of a Microsoft-Yahoo blockbuster deal probably doesn't have rivals at Google shaking in their boots just yet, but if a merger comes to f...

Article | 30/04/2007 Xerox technology responds to 'colorful' language

Xerox researchers are developing a way to change the colors in a computer document using natural language commands such as "make the background carnat...

Article | 23/04/2007 Google exec says content management systems lacking

A shortage of competition in the enterprise content management field is limiting the type of vendor innovation that makes products more appealing to c...

Article | 2/04/2007 IBM technology helps disabled surf the Web

IBM last week demonstrated more than 20 new technologies, including several that make the Internet and offline applications more accessible to the dis...