Peter Sayer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Peter Sayer

Article | 31/10/2006 French publishers join Google booksearch lawsuit

An association representing 400 French book publishers has joined La Martiniere Groupe in its lawsuit to stop Google from digitizing books for its Goo...

Article | 26/10/2006 AMD completes ATI merger, plans CPU, GPU fusion

Advanced Micro Devices plans to make chips integrating its x86 with a graphics processor on a single piece of silicon by early 2009. The announcement ...

Article | 3/10/2006 UK supermarket to launch own-brand software range

U.K. supermarket chain Tesco will launch six PC software applications under its own brand, including a word processor and antivirus software, later th...

Article | 28/09/2006 Sony will begin selling e-book reader by end of October

Sony will begin selling an electronic-book reader in stores and on the Web in the U.S. by the end of October, and has opened a dedicated online bookst...

Article | 26/09/2006 Skype readying enterprise-friendly VOIP software

Skype is working to make its Internet telephony service more enterprise friendly, and expects to introduce a beta version of its software with support...

Article | 20/09/2006 Toshiba offers to exchange 340,000 batteries

Toshiba has offered to exchange 340,000 notebook computer batteries, but said they do not pose a fire hazard. Instead, defective batteries could unexp...

Article | 5/09/2006 Google seeks surfers' help to label images

Google is asking surfers with time on their hands to help it categorize and label the images indexed by its search engine, building a database of know...

Article | 8/08/2006 Record companies sue LimeWire for breach of copyright

Thirteen U.S. record companies sued file-sharing system operator Lime Wire in a New York court on Friday, accusing it of music piracy and demanding da...

Article | 7/08/2006 French copyright law takes effect, to industry dismay

Software publishers and Socialist Party members are among the groups unhappy with the new French copyright law that took effect Friday. French Net sur...

Article | 2/08/2006 Palm sees trouble ahead for Palm OS

Palm's plans for future products could be affected by delays in development of a new version of the Palm OS software, the company warned in a regulato...

Article | 31/07/2006 French copyright law gets tougher

France's Constitutional Council has made a stringent new copyright law even harsher, modifying three articles of the law and striking out a fourth in ...

Article | 26/07/2006 IBM will base software price on processor performance

IBM plans one day to charge for its software based on how fast it runs, not the number of processor cores on which it's running. The company announced...

Article | 3/07/2006 French law affects copyright, DRM, Apple

With a show of hands, French lawmakers approved a new copyright law on Friday, in a move that could have profound consequences for online music stores...

Article | 28/06/2006 Stallman: Fight French copyright law in the street

Free software campaigner Richard Stallman said French youth should protest against a draft law on copyright that will be voted on Friday.

Article | 27/06/2006 Desktop Linux could take off at airports, says Unisys

The airport check-in desk could be where "desktop" Linux usage takes off, according to Unisys's European coordinator of open-source software activitie...