David Legard - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by David Legard

Article | 3/04/2003 Smaller, faster disk drives on the way this year

Smaller hard disk drives, faster drives and the opening up of the market for disk drives in consumer electronics devices will be among the key industr...

Article | 20/03/2003 IDC: LCDs to outsell CRT monitors in 2003

Sales of LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors will top US$20 billion in 2003, overtaking revenue from sales of conventional CRT (cathode ray tube) mo...

Article | 19/03/2003 Samba urges users to upgrade after flaw revealed

The developers of the open-source Samba file server product are urging users to upgrade to the latest 2.2.8 stable version of Samba after discovering ...

Article | 17/03/2003 Security firm finds a hole in Sun One

Security specialist @Stake has said that a module that ships with Sun Microsystems' One Application Server has a flaw which could be exploited by outs...

Article | 13/03/2003 Windows broadband users targeted by attackers

The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) security organization based at Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S. has seen an increase in exploitation of w...

Article | 11/03/2003 Silicon offers double the battery life, lab says

Adding a controlled amount of silicon to the graphite normally used in the anode of a lithium-ion battery may double the energy storage capacity of th...

Article | 7/03/2003 IDC: Internet traffic to keep doubling each year

The amount of information transmitted globally over the Internet will continue to double each year over the next five years, according to research rel...

Article | 14/02/2003 IIPA estimates US global piracy losses at $9.2B in 2002

The U.S. economy lost US$9.2 billion through copyright breaches in foreign countries in 2002, the industry body International Intellectual Property Al...

Article | 7/02/2003 Dataquest: Asia showed strong PC sales growth in 2002

The Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market saw sales reach 21.7 million units in 2002, 8.6 percent higher than in 2001, according to figures release...

Article | 20/01/2003 Dataquest: Consumer shipments boosted 2002 PC sales

Worldwide PC shipments in 2002 reached 132.4 million units, an increase of 2.7 percent over 2001, according to preliminary figures released Thursday b...

Article | 3/01/2003 Opinion: Web warriors seek Mr. Mugu's modalities

There's an odd battle building in the dark alleys and byways of the Internet, being fought by diverse characters such as Dr. Sigmund Freud, Kris Kring...

Article | 13/12/2002 E-mail threats, viruses worsen in 2002: security vendor

Viruses, spam and malicious Internet scams transmitted by e-mail all grew sharply in 2002, posing a threat to the smooth running of worldwide e-mail s...

Article | 12/12/2002 Court's Internet ruling 'provincial': cyberlaw expert

The decision Tuesday by Australia's High Court to assert jurisdiction over allegedly defamatory material posted on a U.S. Web site has been roundly cr...

Article | 17/10/2002 Deep Fritz strikes twice to tie match at 3-3

Strong play by chess computer Deep Fritz 7 allied to a single blunder in each game by world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik has seen the computer win ...

Article | 11/10/2002 Kramnik puts chess computer on the Fritz

World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik has taken the third game of man versus machine chess against the highly-touted Deep Fritz 7 machine to lead 2.5 ...