Lenovo and IBM Corporation, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and other regulatory agencies, have announced the voluntary recall of certain lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony Corporation. In the interest of public safety, Lenovo will offer customers free-of-charge replacement batteries for all recalled batteries.

Yes, you are witnessing the revamping of our website from the old static webpages to the current new content-managed portal.

SingNet is pleased to announce that SingNet VOIP is now FULLY CONNECTED to M1 & StarHub. New customer & re-contracted customer will enjoy FREE local Off-Net calls till July 2007 if they sign up for the SingNet VOIP services with SingNet services. Below is the latest news release:

Pacific LANWorks Pte Ltd is proud to announce that we are awarded as AVG Authorized Reseller. The seal from AVG represents our commitment to our customers that we are serious in our business and we view security as our utmost importance to our customers and vendors alike. AVG is the name we trust for network security.


AVG range of antivirus software is a flagship product of Grisoft, which is founded in 1991 with corporate offices in Europe and the USA. Grisoft is focused on developing software solutions that provide protection from computer viruses. Grisoft's primary focus is to deliver the most comprehensive and proactive protection available on the market.

GRISOFT today announced that Microsoft is making AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 and AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition available via Windows Security Center as a Windows Vista security solution. The solutions are available in the latest release of the Windows Vista™ beta program and will be available in the commercial release.

Do you know you can enjoy free wireless Internet access at certain public places that have WireLess@SG hotspots?

Wireless@SG is a wireless broadband programme developed by IDA as part of its Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure initiative. It will be run and developed in the next two years by three local wireless operators who will deploy a wireless broadband network in Singapore. {josquote}Users can enjoy free, both in-door and outdoor seamless wireless broadband access with speeds of up to 512kbps at most public areas.{/josquote}

The targeted users of this wireless broadband network are broadly classified as "people on the move" - people who require wireless broadband access while away from their homes, schools and offices. These include students, tourists, business travellers and enterprise users such as insurance agents and real estate agents who use widely-available and wireless-enabled devices such as notebook PCs and PDAs. Once connected, users will be able to access all Internet-based services e.g. online gaming, web surfing, instant messaging, VoIP and email.
 

Pacific LANWorks Pte Ltd is proud to announce that we are awarded as the Affiliated Partner with Inzone Software Limited.

Inzone Software Limited is a privately owned company based in Auckland, New Zealand and has been {josquote}dedicated to helping businesses with innovative software solutions since 1996{/josquote}. Their flagship product, Click to Convert, was first released in Nov 1999, and was developed in response to issues related to the creation of documents for the web - lack of people with sufficient skills, time or patience to faithfully reproduce documents to HTML. Prior to Click to Convert there was no easy way to move documents to the web or intranet while keeping faithful to the original.

{josquote}Many home PC users may have been infected{/josquote} after a large-scale sustained Trojan horse attack that took place over the weekend, security vendors believe.

The Trojan, named "Storm Worm" by antivirus vendor F-Secure, first started to spread on Friday as extreme storms engulfed Europe. The e-mail claimed to include breaking news about the weather, in an attempt to get people to download an executable file.

The so-called "Storm Worm" swept into U.S. email systems on Friday, cutting a wider swath of American email systems than within Europe.
According to Finnish security analyst F-Secure, the "Small.DAM' worm infected 20.3 of the American servers the company tracks, compared to only 15.7 percent of European systems. In both geographies, the firm ranked the worm as a "medium" threat.

Pacific LANWorks Pte Ltd is proud to announce that we are awarded as BackupAssist Authorized Reseller. The seal from BackupAssist represents our commitment to our customers that we are serious in our business and we view data integrity and secure backup as our utmost importance to our customers and vendors alike. BackupAssist is the name we trust for secure backup strategy.

With the launching of Windows Vista, lots of customers has been asking us {josquote}whether Microsoft is going to shut down support for Windows XP{/josquote}, forcing all helpless users to buy Windows Vista.

No doubt the support for Windows 98 has ceased since last year, Microsoft did extend the support life for Windows 98 long after it supposed to expire.
For now, Microsoft is doing the same thing for Windows XP.

Microsoft has announced through their press release that they are going to extend the support for XP till year 2014 !

Microsoft's security response team has launched an investigation into reports of a zero-day attack against a previously unknown vulnerability affecting its ever-present Microsoft Word program.

The software maker said it's aware of "very limited attacks" exploiting the reported Word flaw. If the vulnerability—and attack—is confirmed, the company is likely to issue a pre-patch advisory with workarounds or suggested actions or vulnerable customers.