Yardena Arar - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Yardena Arar

Article | 16/03/2004 Impressive handheld

This unit combines an organiser with Palm influences, a mobile phone, a keyboard, and a camera in a sleek, silvery 167g package that isn’t much bulkie...

Article | 9/03/2004 A pair of new Palm OSs

Palm's operating system is moving forward in two directions. These next-generation versions, slated to appear on devices that will ship later this yea...

Article | 22/01/2004 Palm’s power line-up: Tungsten E, Tungsten T3, Zire 21

If you’re wavering between a Palm and a Pocket PC for your next PDA, Palm makes the decision even harder with innovative models that address prior pro...

Article | 11/12/2003 Flat TVs take off

LCD, plasma, and other flat-panel technologies account for only a small share of the TVs sold today, but they're rapidly gaining ground, especially i...

Article | 20/11/2003 LCDs grow in size, shrink in price

LCD monitors are inching upwards in size. Several vendors at Comdex in Las Vegas this week added to their lines with new models in the 19-inch range a...

Article | 19/11/2003 ATI to Tivo-ize networked homes

ATI Technologies has announced at Comdex a software update that will enable ATI All-in-Wonder graphics boards to act as home video servers.

Article | 31/10/2003 Microsoft looks in the crystal ball

Tablet applications that quickly transform math formulas into graphics, and classrooms where professors can field instant-message queries from remote ...

Article | 17/09/2003 Smaller PC card format debuts

The trade group behind the PC Card has released the standard for the PC Card's successor: A smaller, faster card that goes in a slot that could become...

Article | 11/09/2003 Entry-level Palm plus camera

Slide up the metallic slate face plate, and the $599 Zire 71 turns into a camera. In camera mode, the 320x320 transflective 65,000-plus-colour screen ...

Article | 24/07/2003 Palm updates Tungsten T with more memory

Palm Inc. has launched a new, more multimedia-friendly version of the Tungsten T, the first handheld based on the Palm 5 operating system. The company...

Article | 24/06/2003 Biometric security Pocket PC

Talk about having a personal touch: the flagship iPAQ Pocket PC H5450 is the first mainstream personal digital assistant to offer biometric security v...

Article | 9/05/2003 Serial ATA II approaches--slowly

As the first serial ATA hard drives begin arriving in force, the group that developed the spec is already looking to its next generation, which adds f...

Article | 7/05/2003 Windows learns to play nicely

Seeking to stake out a place in the digital home, Microsoft is unveiling a plan to better integrate PCs with popular consumer electronics devices such...

Article | 14/04/2003 Notable new Office app

The newest member of the Microsoft Office family certainly doesn't lack ambition. It's called OneNote, and it wants to be the repository for all of yo...

Article | 20/03/2003 Wireless PDAs offer something for everyone

Though far outnumbered by an avalanche of new cellular handsets, a handful of innovative wireless-enabled PDAs are grabbing some limelight at the CTIA...