Keir Thomas - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Keir Thomas

Article | 11/01/2011 How useful are tablets for business?

Last week's CES brought forward a huge number of tablets. It doesn't take a genius to realize we're entering the era of tablet computing. Either that ...

Article | 8/01/2011 Text message of 'death' threatens smartphone security

Security researchers have shown that carefully crafted text messages sent to cell phones via short message service (SMS) can cause them to shutdown wi...

Article | 8/01/2011 Motorola Atrix hints at a virtualized, cloud future

Motorola announced the Atrix smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show, and while many have been concentrating on its 4G connectivity and clever des...

Article | 5/01/2011 Overclock your smartphone, if you dare

WARNING: Overclocking is not for the faint of heart. Do not attempt to hack your phone unless you understand and accept the risks of turning it into a...

Article | 30/12/2010 Five Great Free Business Apps for Google Chrome

Five Great Free Business Apps for Google Chrome

Article | 29/12/2010 Microsoft Cloud Data Breach Heralds Things to Come

There was an accidental data leak in a Microsoft's cloud services and we can expect more in the future

Article | 21/12/2010 LG to launch first dual-core phone

Nvidia's much-hyped Tegra 2 CPU has finally found a home in a smartphone courtesy of LG's new Optimus 2X, which will be launched in Korea next month. ...

Article | 21/12/2010 Amazon EC2 ramps up cloud offerings with Oracle apps

Amazon has brought a fleet of major PeopleSoft and JD Edward applications to its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service, following a promise in September...

Article | 18/12/2010 Dropbox makes cloud syncing faster and more selective

Cloud sync service Dropbox has announced the final release of its client software. Dropbox 1.0 "Rainbow Shell" comes with performance increases, court...

Article | 17/12/2010 You can never have enough memory, says virtualization report

A new survey indicates that the biggest issue for virtualization deployment is insufficient memory installed in servers and not, as is commonly believ...

Article | 15/12/2010 Forget the CR-48: Google is best at the cutting edge

The results are in, and the overwhelming verdict when it comes to Google's Chrome OS is: "Why?" I lost track of the number of reviewers who pointed ou...

Article | 16/12/2010 Wikileaks attacks prove the Cloud is reliable

It's a strange world. When Amazon Web Services booted Wikileaks off its servers last week, many people (including me) said it raised significant quest...

Article | 14/12/2010 Is jailbreaking a device becoming acceptable?

A little mentioned fact about the new Google CR-48 notebook is that it's designed to be jailbroken. This was announced by Sundar Pichai, during Google...

Article | 14/12/2010 Solid state drives no better than others, survey says

Solid state drives (SSD) appear to be as <unreliable as traditional hard disks. In fact, they're marginally less reliable: Taken as an average across...

Article | 11/12/2010 Apple's switch to Sandy Bridge: Impact for gamers?

Rumors suggest that Intel's forthcoming Sandy Bridge integrated CPU/graphics platform will find its way into the lower-end range of the next generatio...