Howard Dahdah - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Howard Dahdah

Article | 24/06/2003 Reseller finds fault with Veritas

Veritas has been accused of openly shipping a faulty backup product for more than a month, using customer and reseller resources to correct its mistak...

Article | 28/05/2003 Crow-eater makes waves with Linux radio tuner

Who would have thought one man's interest in a know-all scientist with a weekly segment on national radio would have led to the development of a neat ...

Article | 19/05/2003 Palyh worm makes tracks in Australia

An e-mail purporting to be from Microsoft, but in fact a hoax carrying a computer worm, is causing a few headaches for Internet users across Australia...

Article | 16/04/2003 Dell offers first sub-$1000 PC

Dell on Wednesday announced its first sub-$1000 PC, available immediately.

Article | 16/04/2003 Mozilla 'dirty deed' brings out a Firey response

That free lovin' spirit shared among the open source community has been ruffled this week after a decision by The Mozilla Organization to change the n...

Article | 7/04/2003 IDC: Inkjet sales remain strong, despite Q4 decline

Sales of inkjet printers dropped by 4 per cent in the final quarter of 2002, but despite this decline, the inkjet market is still fairly healthy, acco...

Article | 27/03/2003 Mandrake enters new Galaxy with release 9.1

MandrakeSoft has put aside its financial woes, announcing the release of Mandrake Linux 9.1 for x86 processors on Wednesday.

Article | 25/03/2003 Hackers to descend on Sydney

Next month a large gathering of Australia's underground hacker community will converge on the University of Technology, Sydney for a two-day event cal...

Article | 21/03/2003 NetBSD celebrates 10 years

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the NetBSD operating system and in honour of the occasion developers worldwide are having a party.

Article | 9/01/2003 SES gets Unique site solution

When it comes to natural disasters such as floods, storms or rural road accidents, Australia's Sate Emergency Service volunteers are first on the scen...

Article | 11/12/2002 Hammer time: AMD spruiks 64-bit computing

Early next year AMD will release its much hyped 64-bit Hammer chips. Its country manager for Australia and New Zealand, John Robinson and technical ma...

Article | 8/11/2002 Vamos appointed Microsoft Australia MD

After three years as the head of Microsoft Australia, Paul Houghton has been sent packing to the US, with the company announcing today that Steve Vamo...

Article | 8/11/2002 Vamos appointed Microsoft Australia MD

After three years as the head of Microsoft Australia, Paul Houghton has been sent packing to the US, with the company announcing today that Steve Vamo...

Article | 24/10/2002 Xandros debuts Linux desktop OS

Xandros, a new entrant in the Linux market, released its first OS on Tuesday, claiming ease of use, installation and functionality as its greatest dra...

Article | 16/05/2002 Opera 6.0 for Linux released

Opera Software ASA on Wednesday released the final version of its Opera 6.0 for Linux browser.