Peter Sayer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Peter Sayer

Article | 8/12/2011 NavX sues Google again, increasing its claim for damages over Adwords rules

French navigation data provider NavX filed another lawsuit against Google last Thursday, renewing its accusations that the company abused its dominant...

Article | 30/11/2011 EU seeks to simplify cross-border data protection compliance

To make it simpler for businesses to comply with the multiplicity of data protection regimes across Europe, Viviane Reding envisages letting European ...

Article | 9/11/2011 HP, Dell overtake Nokia in updated Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics

While some consumer electronics manufacturers have cleaned up their act, making more energy-efficient gadgets with fewer toxic materials, others are c...

Article | 27/10/2011 Facebook will cool its first European data center for free in Sweden

Facebook has begun building a data center in Lulea, Sweden, where it will benefit from cheap electricity and year-round free air cooling, the company ...

Article | 14/10/2011 SAP cuts provision for TomorrowNow litigation, boosting Q3 profit

SAP said its third quarter revenue rose 14 percent year on year, and operating profit more than doubled according to International Financial Reporting...

Article | 12/10/2011 German officials admit to deploying intercept software

Officials in a number of German state governments have owned up to using the Quellen-TKÜ Trojan Horse software in criminal investigations to intercept...

Article | 5/10/2011 Microsoft says no more Zunes, it's all about the phone now

Microsoft will make no more Zune music players, building its future music strategy on applications incorporated in its Windows Phone and Xbox platform...

Article | 22/09/2011 Nokia's interim CTO gets permanent status

Nokia's acting Chief Technology Officer Henry Tirri is to stay on in the role, after his predecessor Rich Green left the company on Thursday following...

Article | 21/09/2011 Spanish competition regulator investigates Microsoft

Spain's National Competition Commission is investigating whether Microsoft has unjustifiably prevented or limited resale of software licenses, in brea...

Article | 13/09/2011 Google lets Wi-Fi hotspot owners opt out of location service

Bowing to pressure from European privacy regulators, Google will soon allow owners of Wi-Fi access points to opt out of a Google service that allows s...

Article | 12/09/2011 Broadcom to pay $US3.7bn for comms processor maker NetLogics

Broadcom has agreed to acquire communications processor company NetLogics Microsystems for $US3.7 billion.

Article | 10/09/2011 French publishers drop lawsuits against Google book scanning

Three French publishers have dropped lawsuits against Google alleging that the company infringed their copyright.

Article | 5/09/2011 Samsung hides Galaxy Tab 7.7 at IFA

Now you see it, now you don't: Samsung Electronics erased all traces of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from its exhibition stand at the Internationale Funkausstel...

Article | 4/09/2011 Samsung wipes Galaxy Tab 7.7 from stand after court order

Now you see it, now you don't: Samsung Electronics erased all traces of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from its exhibition stand at the Internationale Funkausstel...

Article | 3/09/2011 Toshiba: Our relationship to energy use has changed

"The earthquake has changed people's values," said Masaaki Osumi, Toshiba's CEO of digital products, as the video wall behind him filled with cataclys...