News

Article | 13/10/2007 'Storm' flaunts crazy cat to build out botnet
After lying low for several weeks, hackers responsible for spreading the Storm Trojan have returned to the attack with e-mail that leads to an exploit...
Article | 13/10/2007 Charity uses widgets to provide accountability to donors
A children's charity is using widget technology -- traditionally used with a single purpose application like updating weather or news on a Web site --...
Article | 13/10/2007 Security professionals poke holes in Viagra Spammer murder
If rumours are correct, there should be a dramatic decrease in Viagra and Penis Enlargement spam from today, with the so-called 'murder' of a Russian ...
Article | 12/10/2007 Quantum cryptography working with Australian company to secure ballots in Swiss election
Swiss officials are using quantum cryptography technology to protect voting ballots cast in the Geneva region of Switzerland during parliamentary elec...
Article | 12/10/2007 Student who disclosed breach to paper escapes expulsion
A student at Western Oregon University who accidentally discovered a file containing personal data on a publicly accessible university server and then...
Article | 12/10/2007 .Asia registry to crack down on phishy domains
The registry for the new .asia TLD (top-level domain) plans to ban domain names that are consistently used for phishing sites.
Article | 12/10/2007 Hackers claim to revive 'bricked' iPhones
Hackers have come up with at least one way to "unbrick" iPhones disabled by a firmware update Apple issued two weeks ago, developers of both paid and ...
Article | 12/10/2007 iPod nano sets light to man's pants
The iPod nano may not be cheap but it's not supposed to literally burn a hole in your pocket. However, for one man in Douglasville, Georgia, US, it di...
Article | 12/10/2007 Mobile Firefox likely to work on Symbian
Mozilla's mobile Firefox browser, which the company said earlier this week is in the works, will likely be available for phones running Symbian, Windo...
Article | 12/10/2007 New iPhone lawsuit seeks US$2.6B in damages
A class-action lawsuit targeting Apple and AT&T, filed last week in a US federal court, accuses the companies of illegally conspiring to tie iPhone cu...
Article | 12/10/2007 Microsoft adds PHP to InfoCard support list
Microsoft said this week it would collaborate with Zend Technologies to allow PHP developers to build support for user-centric identity cards into the...
Article | 12/10/2007 Hybrid hard drive works without Windows
New FlashMate hybrid hard drive technology has been introduced that allows data to be read, even when the computer is switched off.
Article | 12/10/2007 ITXPO - Dell says he'll be ready with PC alternatives
The question that Michael Dell, the CEO and chairman of the company that bears his name, was asked twice by a Gartner analyst was also one of the most...
Article | 12/10/2007 Amazon offers uptimes guarantees for online storage
Amazon this week unveiled a new service level agreement (SLA) that it said guarantees that customers using its hosted Simple Storage Service (S3) will...
Article | 12/10/2007 Mobile Firefox out to break industry hold on device apps
By developing a version of its open source desktop Firefox Web browser to run on mobile devices, Mozilla hopes to break the hold some handset makers a...
Article | 12/10/2007 Microsoft to patch Windows Uniform Resource Identifier bug
After several months of claiming that fixing a critical flaw was not its job, Microsoft reversed direction yesterday and acknowledged a bug in Windows...
Article | 12/10/2007 EBay gets social in the 'Neighborhood'
Online auction house eBay has added new social networking communities to its site in an effort to provide new ways to connect buyers and sellers.
Article | 12/10/2007 Word exploit loose, according to Microsoft, Symantec
Security researchers spotted an attack this week that exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Word patched just days before.
Article | 12/10/2007 YouTube lands on Google Earth
If you've ever wanted to travel to Paris, but just never got around to it, you can now use the Google Earth software tool and watch a sunset filmed fr...
Article | 12/10/2007 IBM to integrate UC into Symphony
Given a level playing field, can anyone unseat Microsoft as the king of productivity applications? This is just one of many questions numerous compani...

Best Deals on PCWorld

TabletsView all »
NotebooksView all »
Mobile PhonesView all »
Printers & ScannersView all »
Networking, Wireless & VoIPView all »

rhs_login_lockSign up to PC World Today for the latest news, reviews and galleries from PC World Australia.