Jason Snyder - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jason Snyder

Article | 1/01/2010 The future of open source

There's no question that the open source community is a passionate one -- and one with significant influence on technology directions and options. We'...

Article | 25/06/2008 Microsoft's future No. 4: 'Oort services' scenario

Long adept at staving off targeted threats to its core revenue streams, by 2013 Microsoft finally fell prey to the micromarket effect. Linux on increa...

Article | 26/03/2008 The state of open source: Avenues for acceptance

What are the next steps needed for open source as a software production methodology to reach the next level?

Article | 26/03/2008 The state of open source: Zack Urlocker, MySQL

Viewed by many as open source's most compelling business play in the past few years, MySQL made waves this year, accepting Sun Microsystems' US$1 bill...

Article | 11/05/2007 Hitachi adds data encryption to hard drive

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Thursday announced availability of what it is touting as the highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard dr...

Article | 26/04/2007 Dell brings solid state to Latitude

Not to be outdone by laptop rival Sony, Dell Tuesday announced the availability of SSD (solid-state drive) technology for its Latitude D420 and D620 n...

Article | 23/04/2007 Digg floats API, phishing mashups to come

Digg is just the latest in a raft of Web 2.0 darlings to open their data doors to developers by way of APIs. The <a href="http://apidoc.digg.com/" tar...