Derek du Preez - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Derek du Preez

Article | 9/03/2013 CIOs 'must engage with marketing teams' or face shadow IT

Stuart Walters, IT director at international law firm Taylor Wessing, has urged other CIOs and IT managers to engage with customer facing lines of bus...

Article | 28/02/2013 Consumers wary of banks sharing IT infrastructure, despite the benefits

Consumers are calling for portable account numbers to enable easier switching between bank providers, but are concerned about banks sharing IT infrast...

Article | 28/02/2013 Socitm: BYOD storms ahead of other IT trends as main priority

The professional association for public sector ICT management’s (Socitm) latest annual IT Trends report, now in its 26th year, has found that the use ...

Article | 19/02/2013 Tesco calls the police as online Clubcard accounts compromised

Tesco has confirmed that it has called in the police to investigate a possible data breach after a number of complaints from Clubcard members who clai...

Article | 14/08/2012 BBC delivered petabytes of content in a single Olympics day

The BBC has revealed that on the busiest day of its London 2012 Olympics coverage it delivered 2.8 petabytes worth of content, peaking when Bradley Wi...

Article | 8/08/2012 Acer chief warns Microsoft against launching Surface tablet

One of the world’s largest computer manufacturers, Acer, has attacked Microsoft’s plans to launch its own tablet in October, claiming that the move wi...

Article | 16/06/2012 Facebook to shed light on Nasdaq glitch

Facebook is set to file a motion to consolidate all the shareholder lawsuits against it, which may shed some light on the severity of Nasdaq’s technic...

Article | 17/03/2012 Tech firms rejecting job applicants based on their social media profile

One in five technology firms has rejected a job applicant because of his or her social media profile, according to a Eurocom Worldwide Survey.