Peter Sayer - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 27/05/2008 Societe Generale plans to close loopholes by year end

French bank Societe Generale expects to have remedies in place by year end for the technical and procedural flaws that allowed rogue trader Jerome Ker...

Article | 27/05/2008 Deutsche Telekom seeks investigation of call data abuse

Deutsche Telekom has asked the public prosecutor in Bonn to investigate allegations that its security staff misused call data records on a number of o...

Article | 23/05/2008 HP puts green labels on black-and-white printers

Hewlett-Packard has set ambitious goals to improve the energy efficiency of its printers and use more recycled materials in their manufacture -- and i...

Article | 21/05/2008 Game consoles contain environmental hazards, says Greenpeace

Games consoles contain toxic chemicals that would not be allowed in young childrens' toys, even though the technology to eliminate them is available, ...

Article | 16/05/2008 CBS to buy CNET Networks for $1.8 billion

CBS has agreed to pay US$1.8 billion in cash for online media company CNET Networks in a deal that has the backing of both companies' boards.

Article | 21/04/2008 Bull crams crypto chips into bootable USB hard disk drive

Bull has a gadget for businesses worried about the security of data stored on laptops: a bootable, portable password-protected hard disk drive with an...

Article | 7/04/2008 TomTom says Tele Atlas merger held up by EU investigation

TomTom's acquisition of mapping company Tele Atlas has dragged on longer than expected, held up by an investigation by the European Union's antitrust ...

Article | 2/04/2008 ISO adopts OOXML format as international standard

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has adopted an international standard based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document f...

Article | 31/03/2008 Late surge of votes in favour of OOXML standard

Countries previously against adoption or abstaining whether the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopts a file format based on Mic...

Article | 26/03/2008 Microsoft offers way to share data with social networks

Microsoft is opening up its Windows Live platform to allow users to share their contact lists with five social-networking sites, some of which until n...

Article | 12/03/2008 EU approves Google-DoubleClick deal

Google's acquisition of DoubleClick does not pose a significant threat to competition in the European online advertising market, the European Commissi...

Article | 6/03/2008 CEBIT: Sony-Ericsson phone ranks top in Greenpeace guide

A phone from Sony-Ericsson, a notebook from Sony and PCs from Dell and Hewlett Packard came top of their categories in a study of green electronics de...

Article | 5/03/2008 CEBIT: Yahoo adds OnePlace to its mobile suite

Yahoo will add OnePlace to its suite of services for mobile phones in the second quarter, offering a single repository for photos, Web links, news fee...

Article | 4/03/2008 CEBIT - Ballmer: IT is entering another period of revolution

IT is about to undergo another revolution, this time allowing us to interact with it in more natural ways, Steve Ballmer predicted at the opening cere...

Article | 4/03/2008 CEBIT: Merkel, Sarkozy, Barroso talk economics in show opener

It wasn't about the IT, it was about the economy for Jose Manuel Barroso, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, speaking at the opening ceremony of the C...