Peter Sayer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Peter Sayer

Article | 4/03/2008 CEBIT: Merkel, Sarkozy, Barroso talk economics in show opener

It wasn't about the IT, it was about the economy for Jose Manuel Barroso, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, speaking at the opening ceremony of the C...

Article | 4/03/2008 CEBIT: TomTom aims to speed GPS users with traffic, lane data

TomTom International has upgraded its route-finding software for its latest GPS (Global Positioning System) devices because the previous generation pi...

Article | 29/02/2008 How OOXML vote could change all -- and nothing

Next month, national standards bodies will vote for the second time on whether to adopt the Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an internationa...

Article | 21/02/2008 ODF standard editor calls for cooperation with OOXML

The teams developing the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML) standards should work together, evolving the two in parallel, the edito...

Article | 19/02/2008 'DVD Jon' offers beta version of content sharing tool

After cracking the encryption system that protected DVDs in order to play the discs he had bought on a PC running Linux, Jon Lech Johansen has his sig...

Article | 15/02/2008 MWC - GPS about finding friends, not route, in Barcelona

Location-based services appeared here, there and everywhere at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, as service providers maneuvered to ta...

Article | 12/02/2008 MWC - Android comes to life in Barcelona

Google's Android software platform for mobile phones is coming to life in Barcelona, with a number of chip manufacturers showing it running on prototy...

Article | 11/02/2008 MWC - Zeemote wants mobile gamers to let go of their phone

You might think the last thing you'd need to play games on your mobile phone would be a wireless remote control, but Zeemote's JS1 is just that.

Article | 11/02/2008 MWC - Celltrust targets banks with encrypted SMS app

Celltrust developed its SecureSMS application so banks could deliver secure text messages to their customers' mobile phones -- but the company's chief...

Article | 5/02/2008 Antivirus companies aim to set standards for testing

Antivirus software companies and software testers created a new organization Monday with the goal of providing consistent information about the effect...

Article | 1/02/2008 Amazon buys Audible for US$300 million

Amazon.com has begun a new chapter in its battle for customers' ears: it has agreed to pay US$300 million for Audible, a seller of audio books that ha...

Article | 29/01/2008 Nokia to buy software developer Trolltech for $US153M

Nokia has offered to buy Trolltech, the Norwegian developer of a widely used application framework, for 844 million Norwegian kroner ($US153 million) ...

Article | 22/01/2008 EU helps machine translation with one million sentences

The European Commission is offering translation software developers free access to around one million sentences translated between 22 of the European ...

Article | 15/01/2008 Tech companies share environmental patents

A group of technology companies is offering to share some of its patents to encourage the development of environmentally friendly technologies.

Article | 8/01/2008 Sony-BMG to sell DRM-free music downloads through stores

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will crack open the door to its music vaults on Jan. 15, taking the DRM copy-prevention wrapper off a limited selection o...