David Legard - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by David Legard

Article | 22/05/2010 Thai riots spark reporting via Twitter, YouTube

The serious riots in Bangkok this week have taken a tragic toll out on the streets, but have also sparked an unprecedented emergence of amateur news g...

Article | 10/09/2004 Online fraud: We got law, but no enforcement

Plenty of laws exist to prosecute online identity thieves and fraudsters, and also to co-opt ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and online auction site...

Article | 16/08/2004 Symbian bugged by Mosquito bite

Users of mobile phones running the Symbian OS are vulnerable to a trojan contained in an illegally adapted version of the Mosquitos game, Symbian said...

Article | 2/07/2004 China remains haven for spam Web sites

The number of unique new unsolicited e-mail (spam) messages has risen 42 percent from 350,000 per day at the end of 2003 to 500,000 a day by the end o...

Article | 18/06/2004 SingTel to offer mobile music fusion

A proprietary compression algorithm will power a new high-quality mobile phone music service to be launched by Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) ...

Article | 17/06/2004 Society set to kill off spam, academic says

E-mail spammers will be driven out of business within two years because society will not accept being held to ransom, according to Ravi Sharma, adjunc...

Article | 4/06/2004 Microsoft granted patent on button click timing

Microsoft has been granted a patent relating to the use of buttons on hardware devices that form part of a user interface.

Article | 20/05/2004 Could your PC run Mac OS?

A team of open-source developers has released software which emulates the PowerPC processor architecture and enables users to run Mac OS and some Unix...

Article | 10/05/2004 New variant of Sasser worm appears

Despite the arrest Friday of the suspected author of the Sasser worm which affected millions of computers worldwide last week, a new variant of the wo...

Article | 19/04/2004 Berners-Lee wins inaugural technology prize

Tim Berners-Lee, credited with being the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been awarded the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize, which carries an ...

Article | 30/03/2004 IM spam to triple in 2004: study

Spam sent via instant messaging (IM) is set to become a major nuisance in 2004, with the number of IM spam messages tripling from 400 million to 1.2 b...

Article | 12/03/2004 Hitachi offers more media storage with 400G-byte drive

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. has launched a new 3.5-inch hard disk drive with a capacity of 400GB, higher than any other drive in this cla...

Article | 24/02/2004 Study: Software piracy rates remain high in Asia

Software piracy remains a multi-billion dollar industry in Asia, but there are some signs of improvement in the 14 Asian countries being most closely ...

Article | 11/02/2004 PC drives will reach 600GB by 2007, industry says

The standard desktop PC of 2007 will have a hard disk drive with capacity between 500G bytes and 600G bytes, according to Mark Geenen, managing direct...

Article | 2/02/2004 Microsoft offers $250,000 reward over Mydoom.B attacks

Microsoft will pay a US$250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for releasing the Myd...