Paul McNamara - Author - PC World Australia

Google says it is "very sorry" for a Gmail software bug that reset some 150,000 accounts and left their owners contemplating the prospect of having lo...

Article | 28/01/2010 Sun's Scott McNealy: 'Thanks for a great 28 years'

Sun founder Scott McNealy yesterday holstered the snark and poured his heart out in a farewell letter to company employees and stakeholders.

Article | 28/01/2010 Did Apple's iPad debut put a choke-hold on the Internet?

If our experience here and the chatter on Twitter is any indication, then the answer is that it sure looks as though the Internet gagged on an iPad.

Article | 5/01/2010 Facebook blocks 'Web 2.0 Suicide Machine'

Operators of Web site dedicated to those who seek social-media death with dignity say that Facebook is taking a more Hippocratic approach to the idea ...

Article | 24/02/2009 Social networks all over the map on reliability

That Twitter had more downtime last year (84 hours) than any of 15 social network sites measured by an uptime monitoring service should surprise no on...

Article | 17/01/2009 Twitter limits searches on site ... why?

Two Twitter questions have been nagging at me: Why on Earth would Twitter limit the number of searches a user may conduct -- a typical, relatively new...

Article | 9/10/2008 Torvalds talks about his brand new blog

We tend to think that everybody who's anybody in the tech world has a blog, right? Well, Linus Torvalds didn't have a blog, at least not until dipping...