Robert Mullins - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Robert Mullins

Article | 22/08/2007 Tile is the next hot multicore chip design

Knowing that there's a limit to how many cores can be put on a chip, processor designers are looking to a tiled architecture as the next generation of...

Article | 17/08/2007 PC and software sales boost HPs revenue, profit

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s PC business and software sales from its Mercury Interactive acquisition helped produce net profit of US$1.8 billion (AU$2.28 bil...

Article | 13/08/2007 SpikeSource CEO: Linux all grown up

Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource, speaks about the open-source movement and new products SpikeSource introduced at LinuxWorld.

Article | 10/08/2007 LINUXWORLD - VMware virtual appliance a threat to the OS

The virtual appliance model could be a major threat to operating systems from major vendors such as Microsoft, says a cofounder of VMWare.

Article | 9/08/2007 LINUXWORLD - Dell offers Ubuntu Linux as an OS option on PCs

Dell hopes to push the open source Linux operating system into the corporate desktop environment using virtualization so alternative Linux operating s...

Article | 7/08/2007 Niagara 2: The sequel

Sun Microsystems hopes its new UltraSparc T2 processor, officially launched Tuesday, will earn it repeat business from existing telecommunications cus...

Article | 27/07/2007 AMD unveils strategy to 'Bulldoze' the competition

Executives at Advanced Micro Devices are pursuing a new strategy to combine CPUs and graphics processors into one unit and put them into everything fr...

Article | 6/07/2007 Solar Web hosting company powers Live Earth sites

The Web hosting company chosen to power the Web sites for this weekend's Live Earth concerts adopts an environmentally friendly business plan: Let the...

Article | 29/06/2007 State charges dropped in HP spy case

A state judge in California on Thursday dismissed charges against the three remaining state criminal defendants in the Hewlett-Packard spying case.

Article | 27/06/2007 IBM, HP share bragging rights on supercomputer list

IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival HP has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey...

Article | 27/06/2007 Sun needs AMD chips to launch new supercomputer

As Sun Microsystems prepares to demonstrate a new high-performance computer Tuesday at a technology conference in Germany, it hopes that quad-core pro...

Article | 21/06/2007 Nvidia expands from gaming to high-performance chips

Nvidia, known for graphics processors designed for video gaming, is expanding into the market for high-performance computing processors.

Article | 19/06/2007 HP FORUM - HP brings sanity to storage

Hewlett-Packard is developing new storage hardware that will make it easier for administrators to assign the right amount of storage to different depa...

Article | 18/06/2007 HP FORUM - Virtual computing can be a real hassle

For a technology that's supposed to make computing easier, virtualization is becoming quite complicated.

Article | 14/06/2007 IBM offers blade server for the little guy

IBM is adding to its blade server line with an upcoming model targeted at small-to-medium-sized businesses.