Jared Newman - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jared Newman

Article | 25/06/2010 iPhone 4 antenna problems, screen discolouration marr launch

Complaints of iPhone 4 antenna problems and screen discoloration are pouring in from frustrated iPhone buyers grappling with what they claim are flaws...

Article | 24/06/2010 Let Bing's New Features Entertain You

To give Bing a boost, Microsoft's bringing in the muscle of its modest entertainment empire.

Article | 23/06/2010 Multitasking With iOS 4 is Horrible: Apple Blew It

Alright Apple, you win. You don't really want multitasking on the iPhone, and iOS4's halfhearted attempt proves it.

Article | 27/05/2010 Facebook's privacy fixes can't cure stupid

Facebook deserves plenty of blame for messing too much with its privacy settings, but no amount of fixing will stop people from embarrassing themselve...

Article | 27/05/2010 Internet privacy worries are eroding, Pew finds

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's vision for a less private Internet is slowly coming to fruition, a survey by the Pew Internet & American Li...

Article | 26/05/2010 No simple solution to Foxconn suicides

Two recent Foxconn worker suicides, the ninth and 10th this year, present a harsh reality to the Chinese electronics manufacturer and its American tec...

Article | 22/05/2010 60 percent would quit Facebook? Yeah, right

Facebook's privacy problems reportedly have the social network rethinking its approach, and a new poll suggests that the threat of user decline is rea...

Article | 21/05/2010 Google Street View Privacy Breach: Lawmakers Get Mad

Want a metric for the speed of US government? Just look at the response to Google Street View cars' accidental collection of private data.

Article | 21/05/2010 Google is Headed For Your TV

Google has partnered with Intel and Sony to create Google TV, an ambitious attempt to bake its Android software into TVs, Blu-ray players, and a Googl...

Article | 19/05/2010 MySpace's new privacy pitch: Too little, too late

MySpace is using Facebook's privacy fiasco for a little free publicity, announcing a one-click privacy feature that seems more like an attention grab ...

Article | 18/05/2010 Five years of YouTube: The ups, the downs

YouTube turns five today, and with 2 billion daily users to celebrate the birthday, is safe to say the video site is having a good life. Still, the ro...

Article | 15/05/2010 Acer to launch Chrome OS devices at last?

Remember Chrome OS, Google's stripped-to-the-browser operating system? It's reportedly ready for prime time, with Chrome OS devices from Acer leading ...

Article | 13/05/2010 Apple's iPhone 4G: what we know so far

Apple's leak control has apparently failed again, with photos and video of yet another alleged iPhone 4G prototype appearing on a Vietnamese Internet ...

Article | 13/05/2010 In Pictures: 15 fictional heroes of geek

The old saying goes, "Be nice to geeks--you'll end up working for them someday." But in fiction, some geeks go on to even greater things, like fightin...

Article | 13/05/2010 Android 2.2 packs 5x performance boost, says report

Full Flash support may be Android 2.2's most noteworthy feature, but the update known as "Froyo" could pack a wallop for other applications as well.