Peter Sayer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Peter Sayer

Article | 2/03/2011 Buffalo Terastations push limits of Atom platform

Buffalo Technology is bumping up against the limits of Intel's Atom platform with its forthcoming six- and eight-bay Terastation NAS (network attached...

Article | 2/03/2011 Archos launches color e-reader, Android tablet for €129

French media player manufacturer Archos picked Cebit to launch a color e-reader with a 7-inch touch-sensitive screen, and also announced the first tab...

Article | 2/03/2011 Wireless tech saves energy - and makes better mousetrap

Tucked in a dark corner of the Cebit trade show, in Hall 2, lies a mousetrap. Not just any old mousetrap, but a wireless-enabled one.

Article | 2/03/2011 Look, no hands! G.tec uses brain interface to tweet

Austrian company Guger Technologies (g.tec) has developed a brain-computer interface that can be used to "type" short text messages simply by staring ...

Article | 1/03/2011 Cebit kicks off with talk of openness

Open democracy, open borders and open standards were the themes to which speakers returned again and again at the opening ceremony for the Cebit trade...

Article | 25/02/2011 Enterprise trade show welcomes back consumer tech

Not only are consumer IT products finding their way into the enterprise, they're also finding their way back into Cebit, one of the world's biggest pr...

Article | 15/02/2011 ITU wants government help to avoid mobile bottleneck

Whitespace devices, LTE, femtocells, automatic Wi-Fi handover, optimized backhaul networks: wireless operators are already deploying a wide range of t...

Article | 12/02/2011 Nokia's pact with Microsoft puts Symbian developers in play

Developers who had previously built a business around coding apps for Symbian smartphones were put on notice Friday that they should pick another plat...

Article | 11/02/2011 France Télécom and Deutsche Telekom eye tech partnerships

France Télécom and Deutsche Telekom plan to collaborate on the technology they use to build and operate their telecommunications services, they announ...

Article | 7/02/2011 Inside Secure offers alternative Android NFC software stack

Inside Secure hopes to make it easier for Android phone designers to use its NFC chips -- or those of its competitors -- with the release of a version...

Article | 18/01/2011 Apple CEO Steve Jobs to take medical leave of absence

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take a leave of absence from the company for medical reasons, but will remain involved in major strategic decisions, the com...

Article | 31/12/2010 Skype adds video-over-3G capabilities to its iPhone app

Skype's free iPhone app now offers 3G video calls -- but Skype still recommends using Wi-Fi for best call quality

Article | 29/12/2010 Alcatel-Lucent to pay $US137M fine to settle bribery cases

Improper payments helped the company make up to $48 million in profit, according to U.S. authorities

Article | 10/11/2010 Vodafone quarterly mobile data revenue grows by 25 per cent

Vodafone reported third-quarter service revenue up 2.5 per cent year on year, but its mobile data revenue rose much faster, up 25.3 per cent. At 11.7 ...

Article | 13/10/2010 Capgemini opens Merlin data center in UK with PUE of 1.1

Capgemini opened the doors on a new data center near London on Tuesday that it sees as a showcase for green design.