Bob Brown - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Bob Brown

Article | 8/10/2010 Watch out Verizon: LightSquared’s LTE-based 4G network adds backing

LightSquared, the billionaire-backed upstart building an LTE-based 4G network across the United States, this week announced Nokia will develop devices...

Article | 6/10/2010 Microsoft IE browser share dips below 50%; Google Chrome rises

Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has dominated the Web browser market since blowing by Netscape in the late 1990s, last month fell below the 50 pe...

Article | 6/10/2010 Top reason for Facebook unfriending: Too many useless posts

The No. 1 reason why friends dump friends on Facebook is when they get fed up seeing too many useless posts, according to new research out of the Univ...

Article | 1/10/2010 iPhone 4 fails to slow Android demand for long

Apple's rollout of the iPhone 4 in June temporarily slowed down demand for Google Android smartphones, but a new study shows consumers are again very ...

Article | 29/09/2010 Amazon prepping Android app store, tablet?

Amazon is said to be readying an Android app store and tablet, a move that should boost Google's mobile platform while also challenging Google's own A...

Article | 23/09/2010 Google Android smartphones winning over businesses, ChangeWave finds

Companies are increasingly spending their smartphone dollars on Google Android devices, at least in part at the expense of RIM BlackBerry devices, acc...

Article | 22/09/2010 Google Transparency Report shows U.S., Brazil make most data removal requests

Google has introduced a Transparency Report that lets you see which countries are asking the search company for data on its users and making requests ...

Article | 21/09/2010 iPhones, iPads secure enough, but what about Android devices?

Apple has done enough security-wise with its iPhone and iPad to make many CSOs comfortable with the mobile devices connecting to corporate networks, b...

Article | 17/09/2010 Inside Intel's security organisation

The "Here You Have" e-mail virus that ripped across the Internet last week didn't leave Intel unscathed: The 80,000-plus employee company had 4,400 em...

Article | 14/09/2010 Google: Android Froyo OS is hot, fragmentation remains

Google has released a breakdown of Android releases running on active smartphones, tablets and other devices and the results show that the latest vers...

Article | 10/09/2010 Smartphone users gobbling up game apps

Americans are increasingly stuffing their smartphones with apps, with games leading the way and productivity apps in the middle of the pack.

Article | 10/09/2010 NSF: Time for an Internet do-over

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has doled out grants worth up to $US32 million in total to a pack of universities dedicated to rethinking everyt...

Article | 10/09/2010 10G Ethernet vendor Myricom taps new CEO, expands beyond HPC

Myricom, a pioneer in high performance computing that has shifted its focus to more mainstream networking applications in recent years, has named co-f...

Article | 20/08/2010 A short history of Intel acquisitions

Looks like Intel is on what has the makings of a good old-fashioned shopping spree.

Article | 19/08/2010 Dell Streak teardown: Go ahead and drop the tablet

The Dell Streak tablet, which goes on sale Friday in the United States, is a sturdy device just daring you to drop it. But if you do need to take it a...