Peter Sayer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Peter Sayer

Article | 22/02/2001 Conference: 3G services will be an eye-opener

It was a cheap stunt, compared to the thousands of dollars some companies have spent on technology demonstrations in Cannes this week, but Jim Healy's...

Article | 15/02/2001 Intel to scrap streaming media unit

Intel is to close down its nine-month-old Internet Media Services (IMS) unit by the second quarter of this year, it has announced. The move will affec...

Article | 1/02/2001 French 3G licences attract few applicants

By the closing deadline of noon on Wednesday, the French government had received just two applications for the four third-generation (3G) mobile telec...

Article | 17/01/2001 Centre to be established for cyber-security

US IT industry representatives will announce the creation of the long-awaited Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (IT-ISAC)...

Article | 3/11/2000 Playstation 2 EU import duties no game, says Sony

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) is to appeal a decision to treat its Playstation 2 console as a video game for the purpose of assessing Euro...

Article | 5/10/2000 Nokia Runs IP Traffic over Police Radio Network

Belgian mobile phone users wanting quick access to Web sites as they stroll the streets of Brussels will soon have a faster alternative: Ask a policem...

Article | 14/09/2000 Jobs announces Mac OS X beta, new iBooks

As expected, Apple Computer Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs used his keynote address at Apple Expo yesterday to announce the availability of the pu...

Article | 11/09/2000 Microsoft teams with Philips, others on Digital TV

Software giant Microsoft used the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam to push its Microsoft TV client-server software platform as the f...

Article | 7/09/2000 Foldable, flexible notebook screens on the way

Researchers at Philips Electronics have developed a new display technology using plastic polymer semiconductors instead of silicon, which could open t...

Article | 5/09/2000 Alcatel, Fujitsu launch 3G joint venture

French electronics and telecommunications giant Alcatel and Japanese hardware company Fujitsu have finalised plans to form a joint venture to develop ...

Article | 1/09/2000 Study: MS Word documents can be tracked on Web

Creators of Microsoft Word documents can use the application's ability to include Web hyperlinks to remotely track who is reading a document, accordin...