Tim Greene - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Tim Greene

Article | 22/12/2009 Avaya drops wireless headsets

Avaya, which promotes itself as a software company, is trimming back even more on its line of hardware with the elimination of wireless headsets to go...

Article | 19/12/2009 How to protect your cloud data

The Cloud Security Alliance has taken a second run at creating recommendations for businesses to follow in order to better secure cloud services.

Article | 19/12/2009 Avaya closes Nortel deal

Avaya's purchase of Nortel is final as of Friday, with Avaya promising integrated voice/data branch-office gear and an aggressive integration of Norte...

Article | 19/12/2009 Unencrypted drone video advantageous to U.S. military, despite risks

The reason the U.S. military didn’t encrypt video streams from drone aircraft flying over war zones is that soldiers without security clearances neede...

Article | 12/12/2009 Phony Microsoft endorsement part of new scareware tactic

A new scareware package tries to sell bogus antivirus software to its victims using an apparent endorsement of the software by Microsoft.

Article | 11/12/2009 Nortel purchase to test Avaya big time

2010 should be a watershed year for Avaya, which has been reinventing itself for the past three years and is just about to take on the challenge of ac...

Article | 26/11/2009 Porn plus Facebook can lead to embarrassment, perhaps worse

The mechanism behind a click-jacking attack that was spread by luring in Facebook users with a link to a porn site that has the potential to do more d...

Article | 3/12/2009 Skype opens up SIP business service to everyone

Any business that has a corporate VoIP system can now use Skype's SIP trunking service as a way to cut the cost of corporate phone bills.

Article | 1/12/2009 Avaya's Nortel buy might not power it over Cisco

Even after it buys Nortel, Avaya won't dominate Cisco in the battle for business-communications customers, according to a new study.

Article | 24/11/2009 So you think you know Skype?

With Skype's legal troubles now cleared up, it's a good time to learn more about the company than just what features it offers. Here 10 questions desi...

Article | 13/11/2009 Cisco pushes to open up telepresence

Cisco is making a concerted effort to improve the compatibility of its telepresence gear, something that industry observers say has been lagging, but ...

Article | 12/11/2009 Logitech's LifeSize buy bewilders

Logitech's only video products are commodity Web cams, but that will change when the company closes a deal to buy high-definition videoconferencing ve...

Article | 5/11/2009 Siemens invokes Twitter to lure unified communications application developers

SAN FRANCISCO -- Siemens is invoking the model of iPhone-application development by opening a site in Amazon's cloud to encourage creation of unified ...

Article | 3/11/2009 Avaya developing "chameleon" units for business communications

<a href="https://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/091409-nortel-avaya.html?hpg1=bn">Avaya</a> is coming out next spring with chameleon-like appliances t...

Article | 27/10/2009 Skype for Business too risky?

If you're thinking about using Skype for Business as a way to save money you might want to put it off until the courts settle lawsuits that swirl arou...