Botnets are the biggest threat facing the Internet today and neither education, technology or the police can help, according to experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week.
At this week's South By Southwest Interactive Festival, Facebook founder and world's youngest rich list entrant, Mark Zuckerberg, sat down with Caroline McCarthy of ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com to talk about PayPal, pestering applications and press hysteria.
Douglas E. Van Houweling heads the private-public sector partnership charged with creating a faster electronic network. His modus operandi: Let your imagination fly.
Iraq, immigration, taxes, and healthcare probably have been the four most pressing topics of the 2008 US presidential campaign. IT has made nary an appearance -- so what do the candidates think on the subject of technology?
Microsoft is set to challenge Google in the online ad world with the sealing of its US$6 billion takeover of Internet advertising firm aQuantive.
It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service.
With the OPEL bid cancelled and procedural questions dogging the FTTN bid, Australia is currently in something of a technological limbo.
Today, Symantec released Norton 360 Version 2.0, but I wonder whether the security giant has learned from its past mistakes?
A good merger always gets the pulse racing -- and Seven's takeover of Unwired could be shaping up to be one of the most interesting for a while.
Life may be like a box of chocolates -- but telecoms right now is gearing up to be a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, as service providers seek increasingly novel ways to blend their offerings.
Google's Vint Cerf shares his thoughts on the limitless possibilities of the Internet.
Opera CTO Hkon Wium Lie must feel a special kinship with the "Band of Brothers" soliloquy that Shakespeare reserves for Henry V.
Software flaws in a fundamental language of the Internet could leave the Net's basic infrastructure in danger of disruption if the holes are left unpatched, an Internet security watchdog has warned.
As VoIP use rises, so does the number of questions about it. Here are some of the essentials.
If the size of the World Wide Web was measured by the number of domain names then it is growing faster than at any time in its history, according to figures released by research and analysis firm Netcraft last week.
Windows Vista Home Basic is essentially warmed-over Windows XP, Windows XP SP3. If you're currently happy with Windows XP SP2, we see no compelling reason to upgrade. On the other hand, if you need a new computer right now, Windows Vista is stable enough for everyday use.
Its excellent, sleek design doesn't cover for its sluggish performance.
While Symantec's protection is solid, the overall user experience within Norton Internet Security 2008 could be much, much better. Not all the features work together and use fewer system resources.
McAfee Internet Security 2008 trounces Norton Internet Security 2008, offering a better designed product with more security tools.
McAfee Total Protection 2007 does what it says on the label -- it protects your PC from all sorts of nasty attacks, albeit at a fairly high cost to your system performance, especially on older PCs.
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