Robert McMillan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Robert McMillan

Article | 10/06/2005 Notebook demand boosts Intel's Q2 revenue estimate

Intel's revenue for its current fiscal quarter may be slightly higher than expected, thanks in part to strong demand for laptop computers. The chipmak...

Article | 7/06/2005 Red Hat set to release Fedora 4

Red Hat is readying the first major update to its free Fedora Core Linux distribution since November 2004. Expected June 13, a week behind schedule, F...

Article | 26/05/2005 Microsoft: New Netscape breaks IE

Microsoft is advising users of Netscape 8 to either uninstall the software or to edit their computer's registry files because of a bug in America Onli...

Article | 23/05/2005 Microsoft to talk .Net at Java conference

For the first time since settling its long-standing legal dispute with Sun Microsystems, Microsoft will be a full-fledged participant in the JavaOne d...

Article | 25/05/2005 FTC plans international 'zombie'-awareness campaign

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in conjunction with regulatory bodies in about 30 countries, is about to launch a new education campaign direc...

Article | 18/05/2005 HP revenue grows, boosted by Europe, Asia

Led by strong revenue growth outside of the U.S., Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday reported revenue of US$21.6 billion for its second fiscal quarter of 2005...

Article | 13/05/2005 Mozilla fixes critical Firefox bugs

The Mozilla Foundation has patched two "extremely critical" security holes in its Firefox browser that were reported earlier this week. The flaws have...

Article | 21/04/2005 AMD marks two years of Opteron with dual-core launch

Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday introduced the fist six models of its Opteron microprocessor to feature two processing engines, or cores, on a sing...

Article | 20/04/2005 After controversy, Torvalds begins work on "git"

A dispute between a prominent open-source developer and the maker of the software used to manage Linux kernel development has forced Linux creator Lin...

Article | 29/03/2005 AMD refreshes low-power Opteron chips

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has introduced low-power HE versions of its 2.2GHz Opteron model 148, 248, and 848 processors.

Article | 16/03/2005 IT manager sentenced to prison in hacking case

An IT manager who earlier pled guilty to hacking into his previous employer's computer network was sentenced Monday to five months in prison, the U.S....

Article | 16/02/2005 Red Hat embraces Solaris, 2.6 kernel

Red Hat is bringing Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system into the Red Hat Network, the company said Tuesday as it launched the latest update to ...

Article | 9/02/2005 Intel to announce Xeon upgrade on Monday

Intel plans to announce on Monday the first major upgrade to its Xeon processor product line since June 2004, according to sources familiar with Intel...

Article | 8/02/2005 Intel to ship multithreaded Pentium

Intel plans to release a version of its Pentium desktop processor this year that can run up to four software tasks at the same time. Called the Pentiu...

Article | 11/01/2005 Intel's Sonoma to launch next week

Intel plans to launch the second generation of its Centrino mobile processor platform on Jan. 19 the company confirmed Monday. The new platform, code-...