Grant Gross - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Grant Gross

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...

Article | 1/06/2005 New Bagle variants spreading

Three, and possibly four, new versions of the Bagle e-mail worm were spreading quickly on the Internet Tuesday, Internet security firms reported.

Article | 22/04/2005 Hynix to pay $185 million DRAM price-fixing fine

Hynix Semiconductor, a South Korean maker of DRAM (dynamic RAM), has agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$185 million fine for conspiring to fix prices...

Article | 20/04/2005 MCI to acquire digital media software from TWI

MCI will acquire Interactive Content Factory (ICF) and its digital video editing software under an agreement with TWI and its parent company IMG World...

Article | 13/04/2005 RIAA, MPAA target student file trading on Internet2

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) on Wednesday separately will file lawsuits a...

Article | 4/04/2005 Microsoft files 117 phishing lawsuits

Microsoft on Thursday filed 117 civil lawsuits against alleged phishers trying to scam Microsoft customers out of personal information such as credit ...

Article | 31/03/2005 WORLDBEAT - Robots aren't just for housecleaning anymore

Some people may think of robots as friendly human-shaped things that help with the housework or that will in the future pilot spaceships.

Article | 9/03/2005 Group complains about 'legal' download sites

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a Washington, D.C., Internet civil liberties group, on Tuesday filed a federal deceptive-advertising co...

Article | 2/03/2005 Tech groups, lawyers speak out in Grokster case

A group of technology trade groups, consumer advocates and lawyers filed more than 20 briefs Tuesday in support of peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vend...

Article | 25/02/2005 Study: Powerline broadband set to grow in 2005

Broadband customers in the US looking for an alternative to cable-modem or DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) service may not have long to wait for broadba...

Article | 10/02/2005 Judge questions impact of settlement

A U.S. district court judge on Wednesday praised Microsoft for efforts to improve technical documentation for its communications protocols, but questi...

Article | 28/01/2005 Diebold to market paper-trail e-voting system

Diebold Election Systems, a target of many electronic voting critics during the 2004 U.S. election, announced Thursday it has completed the design for...

Article | 20/01/2005 P-to-P operators plead guilty to copyright violations

Operators of two peer-to-peer (P-to-P) services have pleaded guilty to felony criminal copyright infringement charges in the first U.S. federal convic...

Article | 18/01/2005 Panix.com domain hijacked

Panix.com, the main domain name of New York Internet provider Public Access Networks, was apparently hijacked over the weekend, leaving customers of t...