Margret Johnston - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Margret Johnston

Article | 11/12/2000 Europe's cyber crime treaty criticised as vague

The chairman of the committee working on the Council of Europe's proposal for fighting cybercrime faced renewed questions and criticism of the draft t...

Article | 30/11/2000 PC design counts more than ever

Desktop PC design appears to be on its way toward some major changes, with size and colour being critical in determining the success of the design, a ...

Article | 2/11/2000 Top ten 'dot cons' identified

Scams on the Internet now have a name -- dot cons -- and consumer protection agencies around the world are banding together to help catch and prosecut...

Article | 19/10/2000 Microsoft posts Q1 net income of $US2.58B

Citing accelerated deployments of Windows 2000 Professional and Windows Millennium Edition (ME), Microsoft Wednesday announced net income of $US2.58 b...

Article | 18/10/2000 Intel beats revised estimates

After warning last month that demand for PCs in Europe would weaken third-quarter earnings, Intel on Tuesday reported a profit of $US2.9 billion, or 4...

Article | 17/10/2000 Business spy threat real, former CIA chief says

Threats to the security of business information are numerous and they come from all directions, including organised crime syndicates, terrorists and g...

Article | 13/10/2000 RIAA Announces Effort to Develop Sound ID

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Thursday announced a project to develop a worldwide standardised system for identifying digita...

Article | 12/10/2000 MS Office for Mac Released

Microsoft has released the Office 2001 Macintosh Edition in the US and plans to launch the product locally on October 26.

Article | 12/10/2000 Startup Will Integrate Palm in Car

Palm envisions its popular handheld computer taking a prominent place in your car.

Article | 11/10/2000 HP Launches Second Desktop in E-PC Line

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday launched the SMB e-PC, the second in its "e-PC" line of smaller and more stylish desktop computers for businesses.

Article | 3/10/2000 AES Crypto Standard Winner Announced

The US government has selected an algorithm submitted by a pair of Belgian researchers as the winner of its competition to create the Advanced Encrypt...

Article | 26/09/2000 E-Book industry warned of piracy threat

The electronic-book industry must be diligent and energetic in its efforts to avoid the copyright problems the music industry has experienced due to t...

Article | 21/09/2000 Intel unveils wireless architecture

Intel on Wednesday introduced the Personal Internet Client Architecture, a set of components and software aimed at accelerating the development of nex...

Article | 4/09/2000 Report: the Net goes international

North Americans continue to be the largest single block of the online population worldwide, but a report released Friday shows that growth in the numb...

Article | 1/09/2000 US online sales hit $US5.5B in Q2

The US Census Bureau's most recent quarterly survey of online retail sales in the US showed a 5.3 per cent increase over the estimate for the previous...