Andrew Hendry - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Andrew Hendry

Article | 24/01/2008 Telstra recruits foot soldiers to beat CDMA cut off

Telstra has appointed 57 specially trained Coverage Advocates that will be tasked with traveling regional and rural Australia to help people migrate f...

Article | 21/01/2008 Hitachi high-tails out of CE market

Hitachi Australia Pty Ltd will withdraw from the Australian consumer electronics market as part of a global refocusing of its consumer electronics sal...

Article | 21/01/2008 IT's Million $ Babes

The innovator behind the controversial Screen Goddess IT Calendar and CEO of ThoughtWare, Sonja Bernhardt, announced this week the winners of her late...

Article | 16/01/2008 e-book version of Cruise biography could lead to legal action in Australia

The publishers and author of the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography could be sued under Australian defamation laws if anyone in Australia read...

Article | 16/01/2008 Google's AdWords Challenge heads down under

Universities from Australia and around the world are taking part in the Google Online Marketing Challenge; a competition aimed at providing tertiary s...

Article | 15/01/2008 Microsoft's OOXML: The No vote

The Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales recently hosted a symposium to discuss issues surrounding the proposed Micro...

Article | 14/01/2008 New Pacific cable set to make broadband cheaper

PIPE Networks on Monday announced the approval of a $200m undersea cable system stretching from Sydney to Guam which it claims will inject much needed...

Article | 11/01/2008 A tuned-up KDE 4.0 ready to roll, opens up to Mac, Windows

The next generation of KDE's open source project, version 4.0, expected to be released today, will sport a major under the hood tune-up that will brin...

Article | 14/01/2008 Child Wise CEO calls for government re-think on ISP filtering

Child Wise CEO Bernadette McMenamin has clarified her position on the Federal government's plan to implement mandatory Internet filtering at the ISP l...

Article | 11/01/2008 Barclays 'chairman' scams his own bank

Barclays bank in the UK has found itself at the centre of another security scam, this time around someone posed as the bank's chairman and scammed £10...

Article | 9/01/2008 Top Gear host publishes bank details, loses money

The BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost £500 after publishing his bank details in a British newspaper in a naive attempt to prove that the UK's lar...

Article | 8/01/2008 Netgear recalls faulty adapter

Netgear is conducting a recall of its XE103 Powerline Ethernet Adapter after testing revealed circuitry malfunction that could cause the product to st...

Article | 18/12/2007 Draft standards for VDSL2 equipment released

Australia's Communications Alliance has revealed draft standards for the customer equipment that will be required for adoption of the next era in broa...

Article | 13/12/2007 Quantum key to unbreakable cryptography

For the past three years researchers at the Australian National University have developed and are now commercialising an unhackable means of transmitt...

Article | 13/12/2007 Infidelity a problem? Offset your cheating online

A Web site is offering people the chance to offset their infidelity by paying random strangers to remain faithful, in a satirical bid to highlight the...