Bob Brown - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Bob Brown

Article | 3/12/2009 Experts scrutinize 2009’s most notable IT apologies

We asked Peter Goolpacy and the team at Perfect Apology to rate the quality of the apologies issued by top tech companies and executives this year for...

Article | 25/11/2009 How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power

Contribute to projects including the LHC, climate forecasting, projects that benefit humanity, target disease cures and more.

Article | 15/10/2009 Intel, CMU add muscle to wimpy processors

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines flash ...

Article | 7/10/2009 Father of fiber-optics snags share of Nobel Physics Prize

Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today's long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year's Nobel Prize in...

Article | 24/09/2009 OnLive video game service: "In a lot of ways, we've solved cloud computing"

Steve Perlman, CEO of a company called OnLive that's readying an on-demand video game service, cringes whenever Google's gmail or other high profile W...

Article | 18/08/2009 How to build a 100,000-port Ethernet switch

University of California at San Diego researchers Tuesday are presenting a paper describing software that they say could make data center networks mas...

Article | 4/06/2009 Red Hat virtual desktop technology heads into beta tests

Side-by-side Windows displays might be the last thing you would expect to see taking center stage at Red Hat's booth at the recent Interop show in Las...

Article | 23/05/2009 One way to build mobile-friendly apps for all devices

Adam Blum, CEO of startup Rhomobile, says 90% of the programs being written with his company's open source mobile application framework are by ISVs an...

Article | 22/05/2009 iPhones in the enterprise leaving IT at wit's end

Executives smitten with iPhones are forcing enterprise IT departments to come up with ways to support the mobile devices even though big security and ...

Article | 15/05/2009 NSF wants $7B to head off demise of Moore's law, fund cybersecurity research and more

The National Science Foundation is looking to spend a good chunk of its proposed $7.045 billion budget for FY 2010 on advanced network technologies.

Article | 24/04/2009 Apple yanks 'Baby Shaker' from App Store

Apple -- on the verge of celebrating its 1 billionth App Store download -- has pulled a controversial application called "Baby Shaker" from its virtua...

Article | 14/04/2009 Twitter attracting techie labs

As Network World's Alpha Doggs network research blogger, I've been searching Twitter in recent months for vendor, university and government labs and r...

Article | 11/03/2009 MIT professor snags 'Nobel' of computer science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof. Barbara Liskov will receive the 2008 A.M. Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computer science.

Article | 6/03/2009 Downadup: Expert worries about smart phone, TinyURL threats

Don't get Patrik Runald wrong: the Downadup worm (also called Conficker) has been a big deal.

Article | 9/02/2009 Forget the Grammy Awards: Behold the Tech Music Awards

Alicia Keys, Eddie Vedder, Radiohead, Google and Twitter songs grab honors