Todd R. Weiss - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Todd R. Weiss

Article | 28/02/2002 AOL users file suit after receiving 'unordered' goods

Internet service giant America Online is being sued by a group of its subscribers who allege that the company shipped them merchandise they didn't ord...

Article | 25/02/2002 AltaVista to close free US e-mail accounts next month

Search engine company AltaVista Co. is refocusing on its core search business and will end its free Altavista.com e-mail account service for some 200,...

Article | 5/02/2002 HP raises estimates for Q1

Higher than expected sales of desktop PCs, printers, scanners and digital cameras have prompted Hewlett-Packard to increase its previous earnings esti...

Article | 1/02/2002 CA heeds customer calls for Linux IT answers

Two years ago, just five of his 100 largest enterprise customers were asking Sanjay Kumar, president and CEO of software and services vendor Computer ...

Article | 29/01/2002 LINUXWORLD: More services aimed at businesses

Last year's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York was a time for major vendors like IBM and Hewlett-Packard to debut new hardware offerings running...

Article | 19/12/2001 Holiday online spending zips up as expected

As expected in the weeks before Christmas, online retail sales are up.

Article | 10/12/2001 Hacker explains recent exploits inside WorldCom network

A 20-year-old computer hacker who last weekend alerted telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. about security holes he uncovered inside the company's n...

Article | 7/12/2001 WorldCom security hole fixed with help of hacker

Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. today confirmed that a computer hacker recently alerted the company to a security hole in its network that appa...

Article | 26/09/2001 '.Info' Web domain addresses go live on the Internet

After months of preparations, a few Web sites are beginning to appear online with new .info top level domain addresses that can be visited using Inter...

Article | 20/09/2001 Linux vendor Red Hat suffers Q2 loss of $55.3 million

The red ink continues for Linux market leader Red Hat Inc., which yesterday reported net losses of US$55.3 million for the second fiscal quarter ended...

Article | 19/09/2001 Unix/Linux vendor Caldera restructuring to cut costs

Unix and Linux software vendor Caldera International Inc. is laying off 51 workers and streamlining its operations as it fights to stay alive in a tou...

Article | 12/09/2001 US ATTACK: News sites simplified

Some major media organizations simplified their Web sites today in order to reduce bandwidth needs and lighten their server workloads, after many of t...

Article | 10/09/2001 HP/Compaq merger: whither Linux?

Until now, competitors Compaq Computer Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have had separate strategies for the continued use of the Linux operating system ...

Article | 10/09/2001 EBay plans to build trading system around WebSphere

Online auction Web site eBay Inc. last week said it has outgrown its homegrown transaction management applications and will replace them by next year ...

Article | 5/09/2001 Economy's losses could mean gains for Linux market

What effects could outside forces, including the sluggish U.S. economy and costly software licensing changes proposed by Microsoft Corp., have on the ...