Galen Gruman - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Galen Gruman

Article | 26/04/2011 Users report BlackBerry PlayBooks failing to restart

Some BlackBerry PlayBook tablets that Research in Motion released last Tuesday are suddenly failing to restart. Some even simply stop working while in...

Article | 22/04/2011 Users rule in smartphone picks, but IT has a big hand in tablets

Mobile device management provider Good Technology's latest quarterly survey of the devices its thousands of customers manage through Good's tool shows...

Article | 15/03/2011 Tablet deathmatch: Apple iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom

Let's cut to the chase -- the iPad 2 that Apple just released pulls further ahead in the battle with the only real competitor on the market: the Andro...

Article | 10/03/2011 iOS 4.3 boosts first-gen iPad browser speed by 18 per cent

With all eyes on the iPad 2 that becomes available tomorrow at 5 p.m. in each time zone, Apple has released its iOS 4.3 update for the first-gen iPad,...

Article | 2/03/2011 Welcome to the iPad 2: Inside Apple's new tablet

Today at 10 a.m. Pacific time, Apple will reveal the details of the much-rumored iPad 2. The speculation has been rampant for months, with bloggers cl...

Article | 1/03/2011 Mobile deathmatch: Motorola Mobility Atrix 4G vs. Apple iPhone 4

InfoWorld has been putting the major contenders up against Apple's iPhone for several years, and the iPhone handily has won each time. But with Motoro...

Article | 23/02/2011 First look: Despite stumbles, Xoom closes in on the iPad

First things first: The Motorola Mobility Xoom tablet is no iPad-killer -- yet.

Article | 21/01/2011 Box.net moves cloud storage further into business collaboration

The beauty of the cloud is that it makes it easy for people to get technology in place when they need it. The ugliness of the cloud is that it lets em...

Article | 11/01/2011 Android: The next generation

CES 2011 was a sea of Android smartphones and tablets, but only a few stand out as the technology innovators

Article | 4/01/2011 The straight talk on IT's new directions

What's to happen in 2011?

Article | 15/12/2010 The right office apps for the iPhone at work

With Apple's iOS 4 supporting corporate security requirements, companies are increasingly saying an explicit yes to iPhone use. Certainly an iPad make...

Article | 16/12/2010 Android, iPhone users outpace BlackBerry, Symbian users in data usage

It's no surprise that iPhone and Android users are using more data today than the iPhone users of two years ago (when there were no popular Android de...

Article | 13/12/2010 First look: Chrome OS beta's Achilles' heel is its reliance on the Web

Computers and their software today are too complicated, and users are increasingly looking at iPads and cloud-based services such as Google Docs to ha...

Article | 10/12/2010 Samsung's Galaxy Tab makes a strong case for buying an iPad

Competing with Apple on quality, elegance, and innovation is nearly always a losing battle. By comparison, most products feel awkward and substandard....

Article | 8/12/2010 Inside Google's new Chrome OS 'Chromebook'

It's been a year since Google first said it would deliver a browser-only operating system for laptops called Chrome OS. Today, Google previewed the re...