Robert Mullins - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Robert Mullins

Article | 20/02/2008 Even high-performance computing is seeking energy efficiency

High-performance computing centers are the Indy cars of the technology industry: built for speed and little else. Let the other guys build the Corolla...

Article | 21/12/2007 The iPhone: Why one little gadget matters so much

With its picture gracing the cover of Time's November 12 "Best Inventions of 2007" issue, the iPhone is undisputed as a technology product that matter...

Article | 16/11/2007 How Cox Communications joined the teleworking revolution

The popularity of teleworking is based on a simple premise posed by an obvious question: Why should someone have to drive to an office to talk on the ...

Article | 14/11/2007 Oracle takes on VMware, others, with its own hypervisor

Oracle is going after its piece of the hot virtualization market by introducing an open source Xen-based hypervisor to compete against those from Nove...

Article | 9/11/2007 Red Hat expands Linux server, partners with Amazon

Red Hat is updating its Linux-based server operating system and offering a number of other related improvements aimed at helping the company assume a ...

Article | 8/11/2007 Data integration tool goes open source

XAware, a provider of commercial data integration software, is now going the open source route, introducing the latest version of its product, XAware ...

Article | 29/10/2007 Sun countersues NetApp over storage patents

Sun has filed a countersuit against rival Network Appliance over patent infringement allegations regarding network storage management software.

Article | 25/10/2007 CTIA - Ballmer disses Google on wireless plans

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday, in a swipe at rival Google, that his company does not have any plans to bid on wireless spectrum in January,...

Article | 12/10/2007 Mobile Firefox out to break industry hold on device apps

By developing a version of its open source desktop Firefox Web browser to run on mobile devices, Mozilla hopes to break the hold some handset makers a...

Article | 11/10/2007 Oracle fixes glitch in PHP Web applications

Oracle has released a database driver free to the open source community that improves retrieval of data from Oracle databases for Web applications dev...

Article | 10/10/2007 Ballmer claims Red Hat violates Microsoft IP

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Red Hat Linux uses intellectual property owned by Microsoft and that Red Hat's customers should pay Microsoft for it.

Article | 29/09/2007 HP Labs director sharpens focus on results

Prith Banerjee is settling into his new job as director of HP Labs, the research division of HP in Palo Alto, Calif. Banerjee, 46, comes to HP from th...

Article | 13/09/2007 AMD Barcelona premiere brings out the stars

Hollywood draws Nicole Kidman, Jack Nicholson or George Clooney to its premieres. Monday night, Silicon Valley brought out Hector Ruiz, Michael Dell a...

Article | 31/08/2007 Internet pipes can't keep up in YouTube age

The Internet needs a massive investment to keep up with the demands of YouTube fans, billions of e-mails and wireles access, a university study states...

Article | 30/08/2007 'Bee Movie' creates buzz for HP telepresence system

When the animated film "Bee Movie" opens Nov. 2, those who stick around for the credits will see HP's name scroll past following star Jerry Seinfeld's...