David Legard - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by David Legard

Article | 30/03/2001 Analyst: SingTel/Optus stronger in Asia than Australia

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) and its new $17.2 billion Australian acquisition, Cable & Wireless Optus (CWO), are well-positioned to succeed ...

Article | 26/03/2001 SingTel swoops to win Optus deal

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has won the bidding to buy Cable & Wireless Optus (CWO) with a combined cash, share and bond offer worth $17.2 ...

Article | 23/03/2001 3G auction closes at $1.17 billion

Australia's 3G (third-generation) mobile spectrum auction closed Thursday with the six bidders agreeing to pay a total of $1.17 billion for 48 of the ...

Article | 15/03/2001 IBM: Conventional drives can reach a terabyte

Conventional magnetic disk drives can overcome previously forecasted limits and ultimately achieve storage densities of one terabyte (1,000G bytes) pe...

Article | 21/02/2001 IDC: Linux is Asia-Pacific's fastest growing server OS

Use of the Linux operating system for servers will grow by 57 per cent per year in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) to be worth $US470 millio...

Article | 12/02/2001 IDC: Sweden remains top information society

Sweden has maintained its position as the economy most in tune with information technology in all its aspects, according to a study by market analyst ...

Article | 7/02/2001 Australia to get nationwide VoIP network by Q3

Orbit Canada and Perth-based ITSP Australia will complete building a VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) network connecting Australia's six biggest ci...

Article | 2/02/2001 IDC: Asia-Pacific PC market grew 38 per cent in 2000

Sales of PCs into the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) market grew 38.5 per cent in 2000 to reach 19.9 million units, according to figures released Wedn...

Article | 23/01/2001 Hackers hit government sites

A group of hackers has attacked government sites in the US, UK and Australia at the weekend, according to Attrition.org, a Web site which monitors hac...

Article | 10/01/2001 Malaysian hackers may face indefinite detention

The Malaysian government is considering using the country's Internal Security Act (ISA) against hackers such as those who defaced the country's parlia...

Article | 18/12/2000 Telecom New Zealand eyes C&W Optus purchase

Telecom New Zealand is looking to acquire pieces of Australia's second-largest carrier Cable & Wireless Optus as part of its expansion plans, the comp...

Article | 8/12/2000 IBM, Infineon plan magnetic memory chips

IBM and Infineon Technologies have agreed to jointly develop a new memory technology that could significantly increase battery life of portable comput...

Article | 1/12/2000 Study: Internet raising security awareness

Greater use of the Internet and electronic commerce is encouraging end users in the Asia-Pacific region to pay more attention to security issues, acco...

Article | 27/11/2000 SEA-ME-WE 3 cable repair slated for Tuesday

The SEA-ME-WE 3 undersea communications cable that was damaged off Singapore early this week is on target to be repaired by next Tuesday, a Telstra sp...

Article | 24/11/2000 3G auction rules emphasise competition

The government Thursday announced rules for the forthcoming 3G (third-generation) mobile phone spectrum auction designed to ensure that there will be ...