Howard Dahdah - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Howard Dahdah

Article | 1/05/2001 The Internet for Busy People

Wherever we turn these days, references to the Internet are everywhere. This does not necessarily mean all Australians are connected or have a total g...

Article | 4/04/2001 Office XP coming in June

Finally, after a two-year wait, Microsoft has announced that its new office suite - Office XP - will be available to Australian consumers from 1 June.

Article | 2/04/2001 ASPs starting to leave an impression

Of the nearly 90 application service providers situated in Australia and New Zealand, only 30 will exist by the end of next year, according to researc...

Article | 15/03/2001 GuardDog sinks teeth into virus threats

An Australian IT company has launched a security service which uses peer-to-peer technology to help users quickly download updated antivirus files to ...

Article | 13/03/2001 Gartner: Bluetooth will be riddled with security threats

It is a still a while away from being deployed commercially but, when it is, Bluetooth will be riddled with security flaws that will come out of the "...

Article | 8/03/2001 Study: Customers embrace online banking

Nearly half of Internet users are expected to have conducted online banking by this time next year according to a survey by e-measurement firm Red She...

Article | 2/03/2001 Seagate decides: Time for a new name

Seagate Software has announced that as of this coming Monday it will be known by its new moniker, Crystal Decisions.

Article | 1/03/2001 Telstra denies virus attack

Telstra hit out today against reports made by a national newspaper which suggested a computer virus was the cause of a problem with its BigPond e-mail...

Article | 14/02/2001 A gift guide to Valentine's Day

If you fall into healthy chunk of the population which took today as another Wednesday, only to wake up being served breakfast in bed, or greeted by ...

Article | 14/02/2001 Lonely heart cries foul of 'bogus' matchmaking ads

It may not be roses for all on this Valentine's Day. A lonely heart has taken consumer action against Soulmates Technology, a provider of Internet-bas...

Article | 13/02/2001 Here's how to remove Anna

PC World shows you how to remove the virus.

Article | 13/02/2001 Here's how to remove Anna

Infected users can remove the virus in two ways. You can download an "Anna Kournikova" software update from your antivirus vendor. Running this update...

Article | 7/02/2001 XML travel interface makes online booking easy

Complex travel queries which can take up to half an hour in a travel agency can be completed in less than 20 seconds over the Web courtesy of new tech...

Article | 5/02/2001 Parliament tunes into MP3

The Winamp application is getting major mileage on the desktops of members of the NSW Parliament with the trialling of a new service which distributes...

Article | 1/02/2001 NRMA offers online elections

Taking the online election plunge, NRMA will this year offer its two million members the option of voting for its upcoming board elections on the Web.