Laura Rohde - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Laura Rohde

Article | 7/06/2001 Excite@Home to pack up in Germany, France and Spain

Excite@Home will close its offices in Germany, France and Spain this July, resulting in the loss of 85 jobs across Europe, the company announced Wedne...

Article | 10/05/2001 More headaches for Napster with Songbird launch

Songbird, a free software utility designed to help artists search the song database of beleaguered file-swapping service Napster to pinpoint whether t...

Article | 30/04/2001 Napster says sorry for 'overblocking'

As Napster's user numbers continue to decline, the embattled peer-to-peer file-sharing software company has issued an apology to its users for "overbl...

Article | 6/04/2001 EMI, HitHive launch music file-sharing service

EMI and wireless music provider HitHive have signed an agreement which will enable digital music from EMI's catalogue to be distributed through wirele...

Article | 23/03/2001 IBM talks wireless partnerships, portal services

IBM stormed the massive CeBIT trade show here Thursday, showing off its WebSphere Portal Server alongside such high-tech goodies as a networked Porsch...

Article | 6/03/2001 Napster filter deadline looms as downloads continue

Fans of music-sharing service Napster continued to download music files by the likes of Metallica and Dr. Dre as the company attempts to implement its...

Article | 21/02/2001 Hackers deemed terrorists under new UK law

Hackers now have a new tag in the UK: cyberterrorists. Under the Terrorism Act 2000, enacted into law beginning Monday, people who endanger lives thou...

Article | 19/02/2001 Psion to supply NEC with Bluetooth kit

NEC is to include Psion's Bluetooth wireless networking equipment in its future PC products, the two companies have announced.

Article | 16/02/2001 FIFA offside on online World Cup ticket sales

Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) on Thursday announced it was forced to close down its just-launched Web site selling World Cu...

Article | 14/02/2001 University puts British Library on a chip

A professor at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, claims to have invented a memory chip which can hold enough information to fit the entire c...

Article | 7/02/2001 Alchemy demonstrates 400MHz, half-watt microprocessor

Alchemy Semiconductor is readying its new high-performance, low-power Au1000 processor which the company it will demonstrate at this week's Windows em...

Article | 6/02/2001 Microsoft dubs new versions of Win, Office 'XP'

To paraphrase the term: it's about the Internet, stupid. With that in mind, Microsoft has anointed its new versions of its popular software programs W...

Article | 23/01/2001 Study predicts $US2.5B in Bluetooth sales in 2001

Products featuring the Bluetooth wireless technology are expected to generate worldwide revenue of $US2.5 billion in 2001, according to a new study re...

Article | 19/01/2001 Scientist cooks up virtual sex technology

For those looking to put more a little more "reality" into their virtual reality sex life, an Australian scientist may soon have the answer.

Article | 4/01/2001 Microsoft, Starbucks team on wireless Net services

Internet and caffeine addicts unite. Microsoft and coffee monolith Starbucks Coffee have agreed to jointly offer high speed Internet connections in St...