Carolyn Duffy Marsan - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Article | 20/01/2010 Available IPv4 addresses dwindle below 10 per cent

The long-awaited depletion of the Internet's primary address space came one step closer to reality on Tuesday with the announcement that fewer than 10...

Article | 5/01/2010 2020 vision: Why you won't recognize the 'Net in 10 years

To borrow from John Lennon: Imagine there's no latency, no spam or phishing, a community of trust. Imagine all the people, able to get online.

Article | 5/01/2010 10 fool-proof predictions for the Internet in 2020

Forty years after it was invented, the Internet is straining under the weight of cyber attacks, multimedia content and new mobile applications.

Article | 17/12/2009 Will 2010 be the year of IPv6?

Will IPv6 finally arrive stateside in 2010? That's the question U.S. ISPs and network equipment vendors are asking themselves after seeing a rise in I...

Article | 21/11/2009 Google adding IPv6 to YouTube

Google plans to upgrade its YouTube video streaming Web site to provide support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communicat...

Article | 19/11/2009 Pentagon expands exclusive deal with McAfee

The U.S. Defense Department is expanding its exclusive arrangement with McAfee, whose security software is at the heart of the military's cybersecurit...

Article | 16/11/2009 VeriSign bolsters security for .com, .net sites

More than 95 million Web sites – including 80 million using .com names and 15 million using .net names – will have access to new security mechanisms t...

Article | 10/11/2009 US veterans agency looks beyond EMC for multi-million storage deal

With a 75-year retention requirement and 5 petabytes of data, the US Department of Veterans Affairs faces major challenges when it comes to storing da...

Article | 20/10/2009 Secure telework without a VPN

How to provide a secure telework environment without much overhead? That was the question facing Octagon Capital, a Toronto brokerage firm that ended ...

Article | 13/10/2009 The Web browser turns 15: A look back

The Web browser turns 15 on Oct. 13, 2009 - a key milestone in the history of the Internet. That’s when the first commercial Web browser - eventually ...

Article | 6/10/2009 Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's

The U.S. Defense Department is offering cloud computing services that military officials claim are safer and more reliable than commercial providers s...

Article | 14/08/2009 Top high-tech rollercoasters

Behind the vertical dives and loop de loops of today's top tech rollercoasters are cutting-edge computer systems that thrill riders and keep them safe...

Article | 5/08/2009 Disney finds "a whole new world" in WiFi-powered rides

Disney claims its first use of an 802.11 wireless network to operate an amusement park rides is a hit.

Article | 27/07/2009 DNS remains vulnerable one year after Kaminsky bug

A year has passed since security researcher Dan Kaminsky disclosed a serious flaw in the DNS that makes it possible for hackers to launch cache poison...

Article | 17/07/2009 Will new top-level domains promote cybersquatting?

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is hosting two meetings this week -- one in New York City and the other in London -- t...