Laura Rohde - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Laura Rohde

Article | 11/03/2004 IDC: PC shipments slower but still robust to 2005

Despite expectations that worldwide PC shipments over the next two years won't be able to match figures for 2003, the forecast is still one of double-...

Article | 2/03/2004 Court rejects ban on DVD descrambling code

In a closely watched case concerning a DVD-cracking tool that has been distributed over the Internet, a California appeals court has reversed a 4-year...

Article | 23/02/2004 Kazaa owner has its day in court against music industry

Sharman Networks, the owner and distributor of the Kazaa peer-to-peer (P-to-P) network, argued its case on Friday in the Federal Court of Australia ag...

Article | 4/02/2004 Microsoft deflecting Mydoom-B DOS attack

Microsoft on Tuesday said it had yet to be affected by a Mydoom-B worm-induced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which antivirus software c...

Article | 3/02/2004 Industry group launches wireless DRM initiative

Industry group the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) on Monday launched its newest Digital Rights Management (DRM) system for protecting digital music, video...

Article | 16/01/2004 Microsoft ordered to pay Eolas $520M in patent case

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a jury ruling that Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser infringed on a patent owned by Eolas Technologie...

Article | 8/01/2004 Napster to bring digital music to the masses

Beginning Feb. 15, US consumers can plug into Napster LLC's digital music service by purchasing a "Napster Burnpak" from retailer Target Corp., part o...

Article | 7/01/2004 Consumer group sues over copy-protected CDs

The Belgian consumer group Test-Aankoop is suing the world's four biggest music companies, accusing them of unfairly using copy protection technology ...

Article | 1/12/2003 UK to consider national biometric ID cards, database

U.K. government is set to consider legislation next year for the establishment of compulsory biometric identity cards and a central database of all U....

Article | 3/11/2003 ICANN to give new gTLDs a new push

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will launch a new initiative for enabling new generic top level domains (gTLDs), the g...

Article | 29/10/2003 Microsoft Media2Go gets new name, six month delay

Microsoft on Monday updated its plans for entering the portable media market, giving the software formerly known as Media2Go the official name of Wind...

Article | 15/10/2003 Microsoft, Tiscali sued over European download patent

Microsoft, Italian ISP (Internet service provider) Tiscali SpA and OnDemand Distribution (OD2) are facing a patent infringement lawsuit in a German co...

Article | 9/10/2003 Microsoft dominance of OS market grows, IDC study says

Despite increasing pressure from Linux, Microsoft dominated the worldwide market in 2002 for OSs (operating systems) used on servers and, less surpris...

Article | 3/10/2003 Newest Microsoft Smartphone to get viewing next week

The next step in Microsoft's effort to penetrate the mobile phone market comes on Oct. 8 when the latest handset using Microsoft's Smartphone operatin...

Article | 1/10/2003 Opera strikes licensing deal with Adobe

Adobe Systems will include the cross-platform rendering engine from niche browser maker Opera Software of Norway in its future products using the Maci...