Carolyn Duffy Marsan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Article | 14/02/2013 In Pictures: IT deal book of 2013

Our running list of mergers and acquisitions

Article | 5/06/2012 In Pictures: Why the Internet needs IPv6

Explosive growth of Internet users, devices, apps creates demand for more IP addresses

Article | 27/09/2011 CloudFlare unveils free IPv6 translation service

Startup CloudFlare is turning the economics of IPv6 transition on its head with a free cloud-based IPv6-to-IPv4 translation service that is available ...

Article | 28/07/2011 Yahoo, Facebook,Google to IETF: Where are the IPv6 users

Where are the users? That's what popular websites including Yahoo, Google and Facebook are asking the Internet engineering community when they are que...

Article | 10/06/2011 Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after trial

One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permane...

Article | 9/06/2011 World IPv6 Day: Tech industry's most-watched event since Y2K

The nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats tonight for the s...

Article | 8/06/2011 Can't reach your favorite site? IPv6 may be to blame

A small number of Internet users will experience delays or time-outs as they attempt to visit Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other popular websites tonig...

Article | 7/06/2011 Hackers may try to disrupt World IPv6 Day

Hundreds of popular websites -- including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Bing -- are participating in a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called I...

Article | 10/05/2011 Verisign expands cloud-based DDoS protection

Citing a rise in the number and scope of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks across the Internet, Verisign is expanding its cloud-based DDoS ...

Article | 3/05/2011 Free DNS service adds IPv6 support

OpenDNS, one of the Internet's most popular free DNS services, is now offering production-grade support for IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main co...

Article | 15/04/2011 Asia out of IPv4 addresses

The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has run out of all but a handful of IPv4 addresses that it is holding in reserve for start-up net...

Article | 1/04/2011 Tighter security available to .com sites, only with upgrades

VeriSign has added an extra layer of security to the Internet's .com domain, but e-retailers, banks and other Web site operators will need to upgrade ...

Article | 25/02/2011 The six biggest misconceptions about IPv6

For 15 years, Internet engineers and policymakers have been publicizing the need to upgrade the 'Net's current addressing scheme -- known as IPv4 -- t...

Article | 18/02/2011 How IT pros cheat on certification exams

Incidents of cheating on IT certifications are on the rise, a trend that experts say is an outward sign of the desperation felt by out-of-work and und...

Article | 12/02/2011 Software association paid $57K in 2010 to piracy whistleblowers

In 2010, the Software and Information Industry Association received 157 reports of alleged corporate end user software piracy. Of the 157 reports, 42...