Gregg Keizer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Gregg Keizer

Article | 26/03/2007 US gov't warns about batteries after in-flight fires

U.S. transportation officials last week warned travellers to take precautions when flying with battery-powered gear such as laptops and cell phones af...

Article | 26/03/2007 Windows Home Server testing uncovers nearly 2,400 bugs

Microsoft's Windows Home Server developers have been inundated with bug reports on the under-construction consumer server software, which -- when it w...

Article | 26/03/2007 Exploit-for-sale hacker pins bug on Vista's e-mail app

A just-disclosed bug in Windows Vista's built-in e-mail program can be used by hackers to run malicious code on a victimized PC, said a researcher Fri...

Article | 23/03/2007 Yahoo refreshes Widgets

Yahoo Thursday updated its free Widget software and touted the program's new automatic updating feature and its lighter appetite for RAM.

Article | 23/03/2007 Is Xbox support staff helping hackers hijack accounts?

Microsoft Thursday blamed Xbox Live network account hacks on users' gullibility, but evidence shows that in some cases the gaming service's own suppor...

Article | 23/03/2007 Microsoft gives Vista security an A-plus

A Microsoft executive Wednesday said Windows Vista's first 90 days was a huge security success when compared to the opening three months of Windows XP...

Article | 22/03/2007 Microsoft probes Xbox Live hacks

Microsoft Wednesday acknowledged reports of hackers stealing player accounts on the company's Xbox Live gaming service and said it is launching an inv...

Article | 21/03/2007 Microsoft, Vista activation researcher butt heads

Microsoft Monday declared that a technique to delay Vista's activation as long as a year just "doesn't work." The researcher who published the activat...

Article | 21/03/2007 No Vista 'pop' on 2007 PC sales, predicts Gartner

The launch of Windows Vista won't do much for PC sales this year, a research firm said Tuesday, with the new Microsoft operating system giving "at bes...

Article | 21/03/2007 Apple trumped by HP, Acer in laptop sales gains in Q4

Although Apple's climb in computer market share has been largely fuelled by its laptop lineup, other PC makers have done even better at boosting globa...

Article | 21/03/2007 Firefox hit by fewer flaws than IE in 2006

Mozilla's Firefox suffered from 26 percent fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a security company's r...

Article | 20/03/2007 New QuickTime exploit hits MySpace, steals passwords

A Trojan horse exploiting a flaw in Apple's QuickTime that was patched two weeks ago is infecting MySpace.com users' computers, collecting confidentia...

Article | 20/03/2007 'Wiki' finally legit, says OED

Six years after Wikipedia.org debuted, editors at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) have finally deigned to add the word "wiki" to the OED's online ...

Article | 19/03/2007 Microsoft concedes: OneCare AV software 'not stellar'

Microsoft last Thursday acknowledged poor test results of its OneCare antivirus software, but promised it would do better by paying more attention to ...

Article | 19/03/2007 Microsoft guru wants Vista bugs rated less serious

Microsoft's own bug hunters should cut Windows Vista some slack and rate its vulnerabilities differently because of the operating system's new, baked-...