Brad Reed - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Brad Reed

Article | 12/05/2008 Science fiction's goofiest gadgets and technology

A preview of what gizmos won't be appearing in future editions of tech magazine columns.

Article | 6/05/2008 Apple wins big in Consumer Reports survey

In what is sure to become more fodder for Mac vs. PC ads, Consumer Reports' latest tech-support survey shows that Apple has the best help-desk support...

Article | 24/04/2008 SDK showdown: iPhone vs. Android

In this corner: the current champion of the mobile phone market, the iPhone. In the other corner: a scrappy open source challenger, Android.

Article | 14/04/2008 Japan's 10 funniest tech-related ads

Even the most culturally sensitive among us has to acknowledge that Japanese commercials are... well, strange. First of all, most Japanese commercial ...

Article | 3/04/2008 Microsoft demos Windows Mobile 6.1 at CTIA

Microsoft demonstrated new features for its Windows Mobile 6.1 platform this week, including Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash capabilities.

Article | 28/03/2008 Comcast agrees to stop picking on BitTorrent

Comcast announced this week that it has decided to stop targeting such P2P protocols as BitTorrent when managing network traffic.

Article | 17/03/2008 Verizon gets into P2P technology

Verizon announced last week that it has successfully tested a new peer-to-peer, file-transfer system that the company says could eliminate many of the...

Article | 4/03/2008 Akamai wins patent dispute with Limelight

Limelight Networks suffered a major blow on Saturday, as a jury in the Massachusetts US District Court found that the company had infringed upon a key...

Article | 27/02/2008 National Science Foundation taps into IBM-Google computers

The National Science Foundation announced this week that it had reached an agreement with Google and IBM that would let the academic research communit...

Article | 25/02/2008 Is a free global Wi-Fi network possible?

WeFi is hoping to do for Wi-Fi connectivity what Facebook has done for social networking.

Article | 22/02/2008 What do unlimited calling plans really offer businesses?

Verizon's announcement last week that it was launching a flat-rate wireless plan that would allow for unlimited calling had a cascading effect on the ...

Article | 21/02/2008 Comcast's defense of P2P traffic management practices meets skepticism

Critics of the US ISP Comcast aren't backing down after the company defended its traffic management practices in a Federal Communications Commission (...

Article | 14/02/2008 UK gov't mulls banning illegal downloaders from Internet

The UK government is considering cutting off Internet access for web users who illegally download music, movies and other digital media.

Article | 8/02/2008 First Google Android phone to debut next week?

The first mobile phone to incorporate Google's open-source Android platform will debut at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a source clo...

Article | 31/01/2008 Femto Forum looks to standardize femtocell architecture

In an effort to slim down a crowded femtocell architecture field, the Femto Forum this week announced a program to unite different device models.