Ralph Jennings - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Ralph Jennings

Article | 21/03/2011 Taiwan team designs new way to protect touchscreens

Researchers in Taiwan have obtained patents for a method of making diamond film to resist scratches and fingerprint smudges on the touchscreens of han...

Article | 21/03/2011 Asustek tablet with Honeycomb goes on sale Friday in Taiwan

Asustek Computer said it would start selling<strong> </strong>its first tablet PCs with the speedy Android 3.0 operating system this week, spicing it ...

Article | 18/03/2011 Experts see wide use of flash-hard disk hybrids by 2016

A quarter of new laptops and half of new desktop PCs will adopt an emerging data storage method by 2016, pairing flash memory with traditional hard di...

Article | 17/03/2011 Taiwan expects multiple impacts on tech from Japan quake

Taiwan's economic ministry expects semiconductor and display panel industries on the island to take a hit from the earthquake in Japan last week as su...

Article | 17/03/2011 Analyst: Nearly half of all PCs to use graphics processors

Half the notebook computers and a growing number of desktops shipped in 2011 will run on graphics-enabled microprocessors as designers Intel and Advan...

Article | 16/03/2011 Quake may affect tech industry for six months, says analyst

World technology hardware supplies will take as long as six months to resume normal flows following disruptions from last week's massive earthquake in...

Article | 16/03/2011 Taiwan professor releases one-touch disaster alert app

University researchers in Taiwan have released a mobile phone application that with one touch can transmit to any number of people the location of use...

Article | 15/03/2011 Flat panel makers face shortages after Japanese quake

Major display panel manufacturers face a shortage of materials from Japan as the powerful earthquake on Friday has hit their suppliers, companies and ...

Article | 15/03/2011 Taiwan to deploy first seabed quake sensor

Taiwan will soon install its first system to sense undersea seismic movements that may herald earthquakes or tsunamis, it said Monday. The island is v...

Article | 14/03/2011 Taiwanese semiconductor firms face supply shortages in Japan

Taiwan's major semiconductor manufacturers, a crucial link in the global tech supply chain, scrambled on Monday to gauge how their access to raw mater...

Article | 11/03/2011 3M and Quanta to process touch panels in Singapore

Contract manufacturing giant Quanta Computer has joined with 3M to form a new company that will produce advanced touch-screen displays for tablet PCs,...

Article | 11/03/2011 Taiwan airport opens e-library for transit passengers

Taiwan's international airport has opened what it calls the world's first in-transit e-library, offering 400 e-book titles to ease waiting-hall boredo...

Article | 4/03/2011 Taiwan researchers seek to perfect LED backlights, MEMS

A government-funded research institute in Taiwan have kicked off a three-year effort to develop cheaper, longer-lasting LED backlights in mobile phone...

Article | 4/03/2011 Taiwan researchers turn to silk for flexible e-devices

Researchers at a Taiwan university said on Thursday they had found a way to use silk membranes in flexible electronic devices and started talks with m...

Article | 3/03/2011 Amazon extends remote computing to Japan

Amazon.com's remote computing arm has expanded into Japan after finding that developers in the tech-savvy Asian country want more local data storage a...