Sandra Rossi - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Sandra Rossi

Article | 17/10/2006 Businesses will be hardest hit by removal of blacklists

Australian businesses can expect a massive increase in spam if a US court carries out its threat to shut down the Spamhaus Project which is a non-prof...

Article | 4/10/2006 Vodafone set to launch HSDPA broadband network

Vodafone will launch its next evolution of mobile broadband next week when the carrier flicks the switch on Australia's first commercial High Speed Do...

Article | 21/03/2006 Labor to block inappropriate ISP traffic

Labor announced on Tuesday it will force Internet service providers (ISPs) to block violent and pornographic material.

Article | 23/11/2005 Utilities to offer broadband services

A consortium of 11 Australian utilities is preparing to offer telecommunications services in a bid to add value to their existing infrastructures.

Article | 16/11/2005 Telstra inks contracts worth $5 billion in IT transformation

Telstra has inked more than $5 billion in contracts as part of the massive revamp of its Internet protocol (IP) network and third generation (3G) mobi...

Article | 15/11/2005 Beazley: Telstra job cuts just the beginning

The axing of up to 12,000 jobs at Telstra is a taste of things to come, according to federal Opposition leader Kim Beazley.

Article | 13/10/2005 Mobile phone use affects brain waves

Mobile phone use can affect a person's brain waves even when the handset is switched off and the user is asleep, new Australian research released toda...

Article | 13/09/2005 Union says Telstra planning to axe 14,000 jobs

The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) today said the government is secretly planning to axe 14,000 jobs at Telstra.

Article | 23/08/2005 Linux takes to the streets on Software Freedom Day

Linux Australia is taking free and open source software to the streets with Australia's first Software Freedom Day on September 10, 2005.

Article | 22/06/2005 Banks defend delay in notifying customers of security breach

Australian banks are today still checking the accounts of nearly 130,000 credit card holders hit by a security breach that occurred in the US late las...

Article | 9/06/2005 Telstra's search for chief is over

The former head of French mobile company Orange, Solomon Trujillo, has been appointed Telstra's new chief executive officer (CEO) for a fee of $3 mill...

Article | 4/05/2005 New laws to ban e-mail monitoring go before Parliament

The Workplace Surveillance Bill 2005, which will go through Parliament on Wednesday, makes it a criminal offence to read employee e-mails.

Article | 22/02/2005 Primus slams ACCC over size of Telstra fine

Primus Telecom today expressed outrage at a decision by Australia's competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to...

Article | 11/11/2004 Spammers look for salvation

Poor old Citibank. This financial services firm is still the biggest target of online scammers trying to get Internet users to part with their cash.

Article | 9/11/2004 Computing adds up to toxic waste

The disposal of computers, monitors, keyboards, printers and other IT consumables, continues to be the waste management problem of our age. This envi...