Queensland police this week warned lonely hearts not to be fooled by internet romance scams.
Two of the fastest-growing and most acquisitive IT services companies in Australia today showed little interest in buying up all or pieces of failed rival Commander, which passed into the hands of administrators last week.
Microsoft said on Monday in the US that it has released the first update to its Windows Home Server product.
Russia's new 42-year-old president yesterday showed frustration with government officials who did not know how to use a computer and warned that they could soon be out of a job.
Microsoft is warning that a Word flaw is being used for targeted attacks, and has also issued four 'important' patches, including one for a potentially serious DNS flaw in the latest Patch Tuesday bulletin.
Synchronising data between multiple computers is difficult and dangerous, which is why we get software to do it these days rather than attempting to manage all the file movements ourselves. But making the assumption that the software knows what it's doing can in itself be dangerous.
Yahoo's decision to offer unlimited storage capacity for Web mail users might be great news for home users keen to swap stupidly high-resolution photos, but for enterprise IT managers it's just another pain in the backside.
The Web 2.0 meme is percolating through all manner of media and has now reached as far as Bangladesh.
I begin what will become a journal of these troubled and blackhearted times in telecommunications.
Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.
With the release of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is making a number of improvements to the server's underlying storage mechanisms. I'll talk about four of these improvements and explain what they mean for the typical IT organisation.
In final instalment of 'Securing Microsoft', Ina Fried looks at the next generation of security threats. With Microsoft now outspending everyone with their massive security budget, will it be enough to stop ever more sophisticated security threats?
The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an open source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
What's inside the latest 160GB notebook hard drive from Western Digital? Our photo gallery shows you.
NComputing's L230 thin client is an option if you need to add a group of low-impact users to an existing Ethernet LAN. However, you'll need to ensure that the host PC is adequately specified to deliver acceptable performance to the terminals attached to it.
Final Cut Studio 2 is a solid value and worthy upgrade for serious film editors who work on Macs. However, hobbyists should consider simpler software.
Microsoft released several patches for Windows Vista on Tuesday, including one designed to put the iPod and the new operating system back on speaking terms.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
Heat or dots? The question is dividing the hard drive industry as it prepares for a major product overhaul.
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The cash-strapped UK National Museum of Computing is home to an exhibition of the evolution of British PCs.… Watch it now
In this exclusive video interview, Optus chief information officer Lawrie Turner speaks to ZDNet.com.au about being the IT head for Australia's number two telco.
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