Laura Rohde - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Laura Rohde

Article | 23/08/2001 Intel chip price cuts expected soon

Intel Corp. is widely expected to step up its speed and price war with microprocessor rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) by providing pricing for...

Article | 22/08/2001 Free wireless broadband trials to begin in London

In what it believes to be the first trial of its kind, U.K. cable company NTL Group Ltd. will launch a free trial of a wireless broadband network in L...

Article | 21/08/2001 Handspring cuts PDA prices as market heats up

Faced with stiff competition in a market that is becoming increasing crowded, Handspring Inc. has lowered its suggested retail price for its Visor lin...

Article | 20/08/2001 Web currency firm joins dot-com has-beenz

Incentive-based rewards company Beenz.com Inc. will suspend its Web site operations beginning Aug. 26, the company announced on its site on Friday.

Article | 16/08/2001 UK man charged with creating W32-Leave.worm

A British man was arrested on July 23 on charges that he created and released the W32-Leave.worm, Scotland Yard confirmed on Wednesday.

Article | 8/08/2001 Gartner: 86 percent of users concerned about security

When it comes to security online, the Internet still has an image problem, with 86 percent of U.S. adults indicating that they are very concerned abou...

Article | 25/07/2001 Napster names new CEO

File-sharing service Napster Inc. named Konrad Hilbers, a former senior executive at Bertelsmann AG, as its new chief executive officer (CEO) on Tuesd...

Article | 16/07/2001 European Parliament doesn't want to ban spam

A committee for the European Parliament late Wednesday decided not to call for a ban on unsolicited commercial e-mail, commonly known as spam, voting ...

Article | 13/07/2001 Dictionary recognizes SMS as part of English language

Mobile phone users have made their mark on the latest edition of the venerable Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The term SMS (short message service) a...

Article | 10/07/2001 Free software advocates support options to .Net

The Free Software Foundation announced Monday it will support two new free software alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s .Net platform, called the Mono a...

Article | 4/07/2001 Toshiba, IBM to break up LCD JV

Toshiba and IBM have agreed to end their 12-year-old LCD (liquid crystal display) manufacturing joint venture by the end of August, IBM announced Tues...

Article | 3/07/2001 Microsoft readies Windows XP Release Candidate 1

Microsoft has made the first full testing version of Windows XP available for evaluation, the company announced Monday.

Article | 27/06/2001 Yahoo to add video to instant messaging

Yahoo is set to announce that it is adding video to its instant messenger (IM) service so that users will be able to see other IM users by means of We...

Article | 26/06/2001 Compaq to swap Alpha for Intel

Compaq will transfer its entire 64-bit family of servers to Intel's Itanium microprocessor architecture by 2004. Also as part of the agreement, Compaq...

Article | 22/06/2001 Dataquest: DRAM market to shrink by 55 per cent in 2001

The DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip market will be worth 55.5 per cent less this year than last largely because of falling chip prices, accor...