Peter Sayer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Peter Sayer

Article | 28/12/2007 US court of appeals hands Google a patent setback

Google's browser toolbar is back in court on patent infringement charges, after a U.S. court of appeals overturned part of a lower court decision. Goo...

Article | 11/12/2007 Paris on Rails welcomes Ruby on Rails 2.0

Organizers of the Paris on Rails conference that opened Monday were so busy preparing over the weekend that they hadn't heard the good news: Version 2...

Article | 28/11/2007 New legal guidelines proposed for online games

Video games that include an online element expose players and publishers to a host of new risks for which they must prepare. That's the message from F...

Article | 26/11/2007 French gov't plans to disconnect content pirates

The French government has a plan for cutting music and film piracy on the Internet: cut off the pirates' Internet access.

Article | 17/11/2007 Google needs telco partner for 700MHz bid, say analysts

Google is making the necessary preparations to bid for wireless spectrum in an auction be held in the US in January -- but it will likely need a carri...

Article | 15/11/2007 VeriSign to divest several lines of business

VeriSign plans to refocus its business on its two core activities, managing DNS infrastructure and selling SSL security certificates for Web sites.

Article | 13/11/2007 IBM agrees to buy Cognos for US$5B

IBM has agreed to buy business intelligence software vendor Cognos for around US$5 billion in cash.

Article | 24/10/2007 MySpace to add games from Oberon

Users of the MySpace.com social networking Website will be able to add multiplayer games to their personal profile pages, and play them for free, from...

Article | 11/10/2007 'Flat IP' mobile networks face new security challenges

Data will flow more freely as mobile communications networks move towards a "flat IP" model, but developers and operators will face new security chall...

Article | 2/10/2007 EU begins antitrust investigation into Qualcomm

The European Commission has begun an antitrust investigation of Qualcomm for suspected exploitative practices in the market for chipsets for mobile ph...

Article | 2/10/2007 Huawei, investment fund to buy 3Com for $2.2B

Network equipment vendor 3Com has agreed to be acquired by associates of Bain Capital and of Huawei Technology in a deal worth US$2.2 billion, 3Com sa...

Article | 18/09/2007 MS ANTITRUST - Ruling renews hope for developers

Microsoft's defeat in a European appeals court has left open-source developers hopeful about the future -- although still dissatisfied with the compan...

Article | 5/09/2007 ISO votes to reject Microsoft's OOXML as standard

Microsoft has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by th...

Article | 4/09/2007 OOXML vote at ISO: France says non, Australia abstains

France has voted against adoption of Microsoft's document format Office Open XML as an international standard, while Australia has decided to abstain.

Article | 4/09/2007 French YouTube rival lands $34 million funding

Paris-based video sharing site Dailymotion SA has landed a fresh round of funding to help it compete with U.S. rival YouTube, which has been gaining s...