Tom Krazit - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Tom Krazit

Article | 11/01/2006 Analyst predicts Dell Opteron servers by end of '06

A financial analyst issued a report Tuesday predicting that Dell will once and for all drop its exclusive use of Intel chips in 2006 and introduce ser...

Article | 11/01/2006 Jobs introduces new notebook

Apple Computer's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Jobs introduced a new notebook and an iMac computer that use Intel's latest processor on Tuesday,...

Article | 10/01/2006 AMD adds second core to powerful gaming processor

Advanced Micro Devices will release a dual-core version of its most powerful and expensive PC processor for high-end gamers after using a single-core ...

Article | 6/01/2006 CES - Sandisk unveils 'nano killer' music player

Sandisk unveiled two new flash memory-based MP3 players Thursday at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show, attempting to make a dent in App...

Article | 6/01/2006 CES - Nintendo puts Game Boy in autos with Visteon

Nintendo Co. has licensed its Game Boy Advance technology to automotive electronics supplier Visteon to use as part of a new portable gaming system fo...

Article | 5/01/2006 CES - HP unveils new AMD Turion-based multimedia notebooks

Hewlett-Packard plans to announce new consumer notebooks that further its support for Advanced Micro Devices's Turion mobile processors at the 2006 In...

Article | 5/01/2006 CES - New Seagate drives help ease home storage crunch

PC vendors and digital media enthusiasts believe there's no such thing as too much storage. New disk drives from Seagate Technology introduced Wednesd...

Article | 30/12/2005 The year in PCs: Carly's gone, Dell slows, AMD surges

The PC market has a somewhat unfair reputation as the mature, staid sector of IT. True, the basic PC is over 20 years old and no longer has the buzz f...

Article | 23/12/2005 Intel, others, back new interface for displays

A recently formed industry consortium backed by PC and consumer electronics companies is pushing a new standard for the interface that links PCs and h...

Article | 22/12/2005 Serious flaw reported in Symantec antivirus software

Remote attackers could gain control of systems protected by Symantec's antivirus software due to a flaw in Symantec's Antivirus Library, the company c...

Article | 21/12/2005 Santa Claus worm strikes IM clients

The Santa Claus worm doesn't care whether you've been naughty or nice, but it's making a list of PCs to infect this holiday season, according to a thr...

Article | 21/12/2005 IDC: 2006 PC growth to slow, but still above 10 percent

PC shipment growth next year will decline from its current heights, but should still remain strong as users continue to upgrade to notebooks, IDC said...

Article | 20/12/2005 Dell recalls 35,000 batteries worldwide

Dell and the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) have announced a worldwide recall of about 35,000 notebook batteries that could potential...

Article | 19/12/2005 HP no longer feeling blue, to support HD-DVD

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has dropped its exclusive support for the Blu-ray high-definition DVD recording standard, pledging to support both Blu-ray Disc a...

Article | 15/12/2005 Intel's '06 resolution: improve notebooks, home PCs

Intel is getting ready to launch two major products that will combine the most visible piece of the company's evolving platform strategy, its Centrino...