Dahna McConnachie - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Dahna McConnachie

Article | 30/10/2007 BPL trial slowed due to skills shortage

Country Energy's Broadband over Power Line (BPL) trial is being extended by a month, due to a lack of experienced field technicians and staff.

Article | 30/10/2007 Internet registry warns of Ipv4 depletion

IPv4 address space is likely to be fully depleted within two to four years, warned a Regional Internet Registry (RIR) organisation last week.

Article | 29/10/2007 SourceForge heads from one-stop shop to Mega-market

SourceForge has forged a name for itself as the one-stop shop for downloading open source software. Now it looks like it is heading to mega market sta...

Article | 26/10/2007 Gamer-turned-CEO chats about making money from games

It is confirmed. You can make money from game playing. Miniclip.com, the self-funded start up has over 400 free games on offer, from single player thr...

Article | 26/10/2007 D-Link and Beceem to push mobile WiMAX to the shelves

The WiMAX market has had another boost this week with network equipment provider D-Link announcing it will base a range of products on Beceem's mobile...

Article | 25/10/2007 Openbravo executives open up on the ERP solution

Openbravo, an Open Source web-based ERP product, was project of the month on SourceForge in September. The project uses a Mozilla Public License 1.1 (...

Article | 24/10/2007 Red Hat exec: Open Source is mature, disruptive and innovative

Open source is disruptive, it develops rapidly, is adopted quickly, and it efficiently meets market needs while enabling new market capabilities. Thes...

Article | 23/10/2007 ACCC seeks submissions on draft ULLS pricing principles

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking further comment on the appropriate pricing principles for the Unconditioned Local...

Article | 20/10/2007 ACCC launches public consultation on Telstra SAO exemption

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today launched a public consultation on Telstra's transmission capacity exemption application.

Article | 16/10/2007 OK and FST use Linux-based phone to accelerate mobile device innovation

Nine months after its official launch, Australian developers have already extended the capabilities of the world's first non-proprietary Linux powered...

Article | 15/10/2007 Drupal: from a drop in the ocean to a big fish in the CMS world

Drupal started out as a college experiment.

Article | 13/10/2007 Security professionals poke holes in Viagra Spammer murder

If rumours are correct, there should be a dramatic decrease in Viagra and Penis Enlargement spam from today, with the so-called 'murder' of a Russian ...

Article | 13/10/2007 Top Ten Facebook applications

With 46 million active users and over 300 Employees, Facebook could easily be called the new star of Social Networking.

Article | 11/10/2007 Consultant: Microsoft responds to Open Source leadership

By opening its .NET Framework libraries Microsoft is again responding to the leadership of the Open Source community, according to industry consultant...

Article | 10/10/2007 Luke Schierer discusses Pidgin, Open source and life

With over 3 million estimated users, Pidgin is an open source instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unix platforms. It works wi...