Peter Sayer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Peter Sayer

Article | 2/07/2003 Friskit to sue RealNetworks over patents

San Francisco technology licensing company Friskit filed suit against RealNetworks and Listen.com in a Chicago, Illinois, court on Friday, charging th...

Article | 30/06/2003 Vodafone picks RealNetworks for multimedia

Vodafone Group PLC will use software from RealNetworks Inc. to distribute audio and video content to users of its Vodafone Live wireless data service,...

Article | 25/06/2003 PlanetLab builds testbed for new Internet services

Intel and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are joining a consortium which aims to build a platform on which to develop "disruptive" Internet technologies, they an...

Article | 21/05/2003 Spanish eyes smile on Puretunes MP3 downloads

Web site Puretunes.com has joined the ranks of Web sites taking advantage of the willingness of Spanish authors' and performers' rights societies to s...

Article | 5/03/2003 Court to hear appeal in 'DVD Jon' case

Jon Lech Johansen will be returning to court to contest for a second time charges related to his development and distribution of DeCSS, a program that...

Article | 27/02/2003 Dell to announce its first printers in March

Dell Computer Corp. will announce its first own-brand printers in March, aiming them at home office users and large workgroups, Chief Executive Office...

Article | 18/02/2003 3GSM - Still looking for the 'killer app'

After investing hundreds of millions of dollars in multimedia messaging infrastructure, the mobile phone industry is still looking for the "killer app...

Article | 9/01/2003 XBox encryption key hackers throw in towel

The Neo Project, a group of distributed computing enthusiasts, has abandoned its attempt to crack an encryption key used to digitally sign software fo...

Article | 18/12/2002 No jail time sought for teen in Norway DeCSS trial

In closing arguments Monday, prosecutors called for Jon Lech Johansen, the 19-year-old Norwegian charged with using and distributing DeCSS, a program ...

Article | 16/12/2002 Google searches shopping sites with Froogle

Search engine company Google Inc. is testing an online shopping price comparison service, Froogle, and has introduced beta versions of two other searc...

Article | 4/10/2002 Microsoft aims to cut bugs from software recipes

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, goes the old adage: a piece of folk wisdom that Microsoft Corp.'s chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, h...

Article | 1/10/2002 Tetris tops Parisian night on the tiles

If you hear reports of giant, glowing blocks falling from the top of the French National Library in Paris this week, don't be alarmed: it's just Berli...

Article | 19/07/2002 Yahoo reevaluates its mail filters

Yahoo Inc. has cleaned up filters used to protect users of its Web-based e-mail service from malicious scripts embedded in HTML-format messages, and i...

Article | 25/06/2002 Report: Microsoft plans security chip for next Windows

Microsoft wants to change the fundamental architecture of the PC, adding security hardware to a future release of its Windows operating system, the c...

Article | 19/06/2002 Audiogalaxy caves in to RIAA, will filter songs

Audiogalaxy Inc., the company behind the Audiogalaxy.com peer-to-peer music file sharing service, is to pay music publishers "a substantial sum" and f...