With nearly 20 percent of tax payers now using the ATO’s e-tax eletronic tax return service, tax time has become a target for cyber criminals looking to steal personal information which may give them access to bank accounts or other financial institutions. AVG Australia warns that in the upcoming monthsy we can expect scams in the form of fraudulent emails,[Read More…]

Amid the tremors and earthquakes being reported in our region today it was timely to catch up with the general manager of Acronis, pacific, Karl Sice. A recent survey by Acronics revealed that over one third of Australian Businesses do not have a disaster or recovery plan. So in the event of natural disasters or other events that might see[Read More…]

The latest IDC Digital Universe Study has revealed that the amount of data being created globally is now growing faster than Moore’s Law…with 1.8 Zettabytes of DATA to be created in 2011. Today i spoke about the implications of this growing date trend with Clive Gold, Marketing Chief Technology Office at EMC Corporation. Listen here – IDC Digital Universe Study[Read More…]

Many new computers now have a feature called USB 3.0…but what exactly does that mean? Well, the USB port is commonly used to connect peripheral devices such as Keyboards, Mice and external hard drives to your computer. The new USB 3.0 feature now being introduced on many new computers simply refers to the evolution of the speed at which data[Read More…]