Laura Rohde - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Laura Rohde

Article | 10/02/2005 RealNetworks makes mobile licensing flexible

RealNetworks has changed its mobile licensing model to provide more flexibility to handset manufacturers and allow software components like RealAudio ...

Article | 10/02/2005 MasterCard offers SMS to detect credit card fraud

If you've ever had a credit card purchase mysteriously rejected only to discover later that the bank thought you were a fraudulent user, you may appre...

Article | 7/02/2005 Christie's to auction computer history

This isn't your average eBay auction. For those who want to own a bit of computer and Internet history, the venerable auction house Christie's Interna...

Article | 4/02/2005 Napster To Go ready for portable players

Napster launched a portable version of its digital music service in the U.S. and the U.K. on Thursday, hoping to tempt users with a more tasty "all-yo...

Article | 1/02/2005 Russian company picks hole in XP Service Pack 2

Russian security company Positive Technologies has released a patch to a security hole it said it discovered in Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 ...

Article | 28/01/2005 Nokia Q4 profits fall on cut mobile phone prices

Nokia reported a 13 percent decline in net profit for the fourth quarter as revenue from its mobile phone division continued to decline. The Finnish h...

Article | 13/01/2005 Samsung phones convert words to text

For people fed up with pecking out text messages on their mobile phone, Samsung Electronics may have an answer. The South Korean electronics maker has...

Article | 10/12/2004 Genital warming and infertility link found in notebook users: Study

Laptops should be used as desktops if men want to protect their reproductive health, according to a new study published Thursday.

Article | 30/11/2004 UK's Blair tries to allay fears over ID card database

U.K. Prime Minster Tony Blair attempted to quell growing concern over the security of the country's national identity program by threatening jail time...

Article | 29/11/2004 UK online music sales to be included in singles charts

The U.K. music industry plans to take into account the sale of legal online music downloads in preparing its traditional weekly top 40 singles sales l...

Article | 19/11/2004 New Google Scholar search service aimed at academics

Google on Thursday formally launched a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers.

Article | 22/10/2004 Open-source backers start European antipatent campaign

A group of open-source companies is backing a campaign aimed at thwarting a directive before the European Parliament and the European Union Council of...

Article | 15/10/2004 UK servers returned to media group by US feds

Independent Media Center (Indymedia), the U.K.-based group responsible for running about 20 independent news Web sites, said that U.S. authorities ret...

Article | 12/10/2004 Authorities shut down UK-based news Web sites

U.S. authorities, participating in an international investigation, have shut down 20 independent news Web sites run by the Independent Media Center (I...

Article | 6/10/2004 Vendors look to tame DRM standards with Coral

Six large technology and music companies have banded together in an attempt to bring some interoperability to the digital rights management (DRM) syst...