Dahna McConnachie - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Dahna McConnachie

Article | 21/10/2004 Govt backs Perth open source symposium

Open source advocates will get an official boost next week with State Government support for the Australian Open Source Symposium in Perth.

Article | 21/10/2004 Sun slashes StarOffice cost to woo users

Sun has slashed in half the cost of its open source alternative to Microsoft Office.

Article | 14/10/2004 Blogging at the end of the earth

Blogging, or web logging, can be a powerful tool to bring a human face to enterprise, become published and build networks, according to Richard Giles ...

Article | 11/10/2004 Telco push for clearer contracts

In a bid to encourage consumer confidence in telecommunication service providers, the Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF) is seeking publi...

Article | 8/10/2004 Wireless broadband prices vary wildly

No wires does not necessarily mean no worries, according to a new study on Australian wireless broadband pricing which found costs can vary by up to 1...

Article | 1/10/2004 OzEmail iBursts on to wireless broadband

OzEmail launched two wireless iBurst broadband plans this week to deliver high speed internet to those on the move.

Article | 1/10/2004 SanDisk Digital film hits Big W stores this week

SanDisk's Shoot and Store range of digital film will now be sold in 110 Big W stores across Australia, and other mass-market distribution deals will b...

Article | 24/09/2004 Broadband phones to hit Dick Smith, mass retailer shelves

Mobile Innovations is moving on from its severed Vodafone partnership to develop broadband phones for the consumer market, with its first product to h...

Article | 21/09/2004 PC medicine: Doctor kills unwelcome Spyware

New Australian company PC Tools has added a spyware removal tool to its collection of programs designed to boost security and performance for Windows ...

Article | 23/08/2004 Yahoo Launches local music station

Yahoo Australia hopes to pull users from the US Yahoo music channel to its own newly released local site.

Article | 14/07/2004 Sensis works overtime on small business search engine

Popular search engines Google, Yahoo and ninemsn now have a new rival: Telstra’s sensis.com.au.

Article | 8/07/2004 BigPond builds on SMB success

BigPond recently launched a do-it-yourself Business Web site Builder, to help SMBs embrace Internet technology.

Article | 6/07/2004 OzEmail offers no-contract broadband

OzEmail is today offering a new ‘no-contract’ broadband plan at under $30 in an attempt to attract new customers in the competitive broadband arena.

Article | 23/06/2004 ACCC: telco competition needs to go further

Competition in the telecommunications industry has not developed to the extent expected when the industry was substantially deregulated in 1997, accor...

Article | 21/06/2004 UTS introduces short course for .NET

The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) will offer a short course in Developing Windows and Web Applications using Visual Studio .NET in November. ...