Stories by Ronda Field

Article | 13/12/2001 Sites raided in search for software pirates
A number of Australian sites were raided early Wednesday morning as part of a global sweep for software pirates.
Article | 20/11/2001 Reality strikes as Web services settle in for long haul
While it's virtually unanimous that Web services will be an important factor going forward, some of the hype is beginning to die down as reality kicks...
Article | 20/11/2001 E-cheques in the system
An online payment system based on the premise of electronic cheques is looking to breathe some life back into the local e-commerce market.
Article | 29/10/2001 auDA snares .au - officially
auDA has officially been handed the keys to the .au domain, after signing a formal agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numb...
Article | 26/10/2001 Asia Online goes into administration
The local arm of Internet service provider, Asia Online was put into the hands of administrators on Wednesday, with operations rumoured to cease on No...
Article | 17/10/2001 Campaign spams .au users
Many Australian businesses operating in the Internet space are being spammed with 'misleading' .au licence renewals.
Article | 28/09/2001 Westpac broking goes offline
Westpac's online broking service was offline for most of Thursday, with customers having to use the bank's phone broking service instead.
Article | 11/09/2001 Telcos hail commission's slap on Telstra's ADSL hand
A move by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to generate more competition in the broadband ADSL space has hit the spot with industry p...
Article | 30/08/2001 PC sales opportunities are still out there
PC manufacturers can still squeeze opportunities out of the global consumer PC market in spite of its recent slowdown in the US, according to Nielsen/...
Article | 30/08/2001 Dotcom blowout makes for porn boom
Dotcom failures are turning their hand, so to speak, to the online porn industry.
Article | 2/08/2001 Code Red fades to black
While mums and dads sat nervously on the edge of their chairs waiting for their home PCs to explode and the Internet's ‘meltdown' thanks to the evil C...
Article | 1/08/2001 Microsoft offer not good enough
After attracting bad press globally for its actions against local charity, PCs for Kids, Microsoft has announced that it will make a $65,000 technolog...
Article | 26/07/2001 Telstra says sorry
In the face of a brewing class action, Telstra has apologised to its 35,000 ADSL users and has offered them a refund of subscription fees, in a move t...
Article | 25/07/2001 Code Red worm carries 'meltdown' threat
The White House may have dodged the wrath of the Code Red worm this time, but the impact of this worm and its counterparts has been far-reaching, with...
Article | 23/07/2001 BigPond slow to react to user accounts breach
Telstra BigPond had a delayed reaction to news that 69 of its users had their login details splashed across a number of public forums over the weekend...

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