John E Dunn - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 7/04/2011 Twitter delays revamp after service glitch

Problems launching a heavily revamped homepage are being blamed for a major glitch that hit the Twitter service on Tuesday evening.

Article | 6/04/2011 Seagate shows world's thinnest portable drive

Storage giant Seagate has announced that it will put on sale what it claims is the world slimmest ever portable hard drive, and for once the hyperbole...

Article | 1/04/2011 Microsoft rebukes developers for poor app security

Microsoft now 'gets' security at every level of the organisation but the wider software industry has yet to match its zeal, the company has said in it...

Article | 26/03/2011 UK BlackBerry users get Protect security app

The BlackBerry Protect remote security app previewed to users last year has become available for UK consumer users for the first time in a beta versio...

Article | 24/03/2011 Android tablets get first remote security and AV app

AVG has launched AVG Mobilation for Android which the company is promoting as the world's first security app specifically designed for Android tablets...

Article | 22/03/2011 Wary customers shun businesses after data breaches

Data breaches cost UK businesses more than ever last year, with most of the financial hit resulting from lost business in the aftermath of an incident...

Article | 17/03/2011 VoIP company changes name after The Cloud legal threat

A small VoIP company has had to change its name after being threatened with legal action over its use of the word 'cloud' in its name by European Wi-F...

Article | 11/03/2011 Vodafone red faced after blog site hacked

Anti-corporate campaigners have embarrassed phone giant Vodafone, gaining access to blog accounts run by the company to post copy critical of its clai...

Article | 11/03/2011 Google launches Chrome 10 to battle rivals

Google has pre-empted the forthcoming Firefox 4 and IE 9 with a new version of Chrome offering users a battery of tweaks including faster apps, interf...

Article | 8/03/2011 Twitter's 'dark side' growing once again

The number of Twitter accounts suspended for suspected criminal activity started to rise again during 2010, security company Barracuda Networks has re...

Article | 2/03/2011 SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find

A technology built into many new solid state drives (SSDs) to improve their storage efficiency could inadvertently be making forensic analysis at a la...

Article | 1/03/2011 Police ask UK citizens to forward every scam email

For the first time ever UK email users are being asked to forward messages they believe might be connected to fraud or phishing directly to the police...

Article | 26/02/2011 Google to use Return Path anti-phishing system

Google has joined Yahoo, software site Tucows and filtering firm Cloudmark in signing up to use Return Path's now formally launched Domain Assurance s...

Article | 26/02/2011 Seagate still looking into Momentus XT drive problems

Seagate has played down technical problems experienced in recent weeks by users of the company's Momentus XT hybrid hard drive despite ongoing queries...

Article | 25/02/2011 Encrypted USB stick glitch led to Council data loss

A council that used encrypted memory sticks has been handed a reprimand from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after an employee's struggle ...