Grant Gross - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Grant Gross

Article | 8/11/2005 Grokster shuttered in court settlement

Peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendor Grokster has closed down as part of a settlement in a 3-year-old lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. entertai...

Article | 17/10/2005 Gates to students: We need your ideas

Microsoft needs students interested in computer science to program the IT innovations of tomorrow, including Tablet PCs that users can write on with a...

Article | 14/10/2005 Samsung to pay US$300M fine for DRAM price fixing

Samsung Electronics and its U.S. subsidiary Samsung Semiconductor have agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$300 million fine for participating in an "i...

Article | 11/10/2005 Google fixes flaw before publicized

Google fixed a security vulnerability on its search-engine Web site within days of being notified by security vendor Finjan Software, Finjan said Mond...

Article | 26/09/2005 Watson search tool adds to MSN Search

The Watson 2.0 contextual search software released by Intellext earlier this month is now available as an add-in package for Microsoft's MSN Search To...

Article | 22/09/2005 Judge approves $6.1 billion in WorldCom settlements

A U.S. district court judge on Wednesday approved a US$6.1 billion settlement to investors who lost money in an accounting fraud at the former WorldCo...

Article | 9/09/2005 McAfee releases consumer Internet security suite

McAfee's new consumer-focused Internet Security Suite 2006, with protections against spyware and phishing scams, is now available, the company announc...

Article | 23/08/2005 Life after Grokster: Music CEO asks for tech help

Technology and entertainment companies need to put aside past differences on how to address file-sharing using peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software and work...

Article | 22/08/2005 Sun releases DRM project as open source

Sun Microsystems is releasing its digital rights management (DRM) project under an open-source license, in hopes of driving a unified standard in the ...

Article | 19/07/2005 To stop hacker attacks, don't rely on ISPs

Your Internet service provider isn't to blame if your company is hit with a distributed denial-of-service attack. That was the verdict of IT security ...

Article | 4/07/2005 FBI cracks down on 'warez' piracy sites

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with help from investigators from 10 other countries, has arrested four people and dismantled at least...

Article | 16/06/2005 B2B retail hubs join forces

When the dotcom bubble burst five years ago, many business-to-business online marketplaces flamed out like so many bottle rockets. Now two of the surv...

Article | 14/06/2005 MS ANTITRUST - Judge throws out parts of Novell lawsuit

A U.S. district court judge has thrown out four counts in Novell's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, but let stand two other counts accusing the so...

Article | 10/06/2005 VeriSign again wins bid to operate .net domain

VeriSign has won its bid to manage the .net registry, home to more than 5 million Internet domains, for the next five years, the Internet Corporation ...

Article | 3/06/2005 CA details sophisticated Web attack

A new "sophisticated" attack that uses three pieces of malware to turn PCs into zombies that can be sold to criminal groups has appeared on the Intern...