Symantec has announced it will buy encryption vendors PGP and GuardianEdge Technologies to boost its line-up.

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Symantec to buy PGP, GuardianEdge

McAfee Australia has declined to say whether it will compensate enterprise customers affected by a bug in its software, although it has promised compensation for consumers who had to pay to get their computers repaired.

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McAfee mum on enterprise compo

A Russian hacker who attempted to sell the log-in details of millions of Facebook users has claimed to be living in New Zealand.

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NZ housing Facebook hacker?

Microsoft has mostly reinstated six years of blog archives belonging to Australian mobile technology evangelist Shane Williamson and hosted on its free Windows Live Spaces platform.

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Microsoft finds Aussie blogger's posts

Optus has signed an agreement with Switzerland-based mobile software company, Myriad Group, to create SocialView - an add-on to the Optus Zoo portal that will allow its customers to access Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Flickr at no extra cost.

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Optus adds social networking to Zoo

Just before Christmas, I shared my experiences with a hobbled home phone service that was delivering 1995-era dial-up internet speeds, if any connection at all. Here's how that story ended - and the very interesting lesson I learned about Telstra's PSTN in the process.

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A month without broadband: the final chapter

The Oracle Application Users Group recently released the results of a study that revealed 87 per cent of the respondents blame data growth for their performance issues.

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How to de-clutter your desktop

Bang the Table, the company which lost the business of NSW Transport for inadvertently enabling the leaking of government documents, has announced today that it has signed five new contracts with councils.

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Online council deals back on the table

McAfee customers whose systems went down yesterday should demand they get given money or an extended license for the time they had to spend fixing the problem.

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McAfee clients: do you have the guts?

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has said it will release a new augmented reality iPhone app for home buyers and sellers, combining house listings with satellite images and relevant pre-purchase information.

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CBA augments home buying app: photos