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Google Chrome: 3.8% browser share

Just a week after its launch, there are more ZDNet.com.au readers using Google Chrome than Apple's Safari browser. Meanwhile, Microsoft Internet Explorer now accounts for just 53 per cent of all browsers.

Tags: browser, chrome, google, ie, internet explorer, market share, safari, cent

AMP re-thinks secure development

Australian financial services giant AMP has re-thought the way its information technology security team relates to the rest of the business as a result of the industry's increasing reliance on Web applications to deliver services.

Tags: amp, security, web applications, security team, risk, business managers, project managers, security policies

Cinergix waves Australian flag

Melbourne-based start-up Cinergix appears to be the only Australian act headlining at the massive tech start-up conferences in the United States this week.

Tags: bootstrappr, demo, techcrunch50, spellr.us, cinergix, creately, start, conference

Microsoft attacks potential VMWare feature

Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley last week criticised virtualisation rival VMWare for an idea that could see virtualised operating system images patched while they were still running in memory.

Tags: microsoft, steve riley, virtualisation, vmware, andre kemp, patch, steve, virtualise

Ubuntu debuts Jaunty Jackalope

The Ubuntu project has detailed plans for the April 2009 version of its Linux distribution, continuing its habit of naming its software after animals by dubbing Ubuntu 9.04 "The Jaunty Jackalope".

Tags: linux, mark shuttleworth, ubuntu, jaunty jackalope

Opera joins the Symbian Foundation

The browser company Opera has signed up to the Symbian Foundation, a Nokia-led consortium that was set up in June to turn the Symbian mobile operating system into an open-source platform.

Tags: foundation, open source, operating system, symbian, opera

Google anonymises IP data

Google this week said it would anonymise user data received through search requests entered in its search engine and Chrome browser.

Tags: data retention, google, ip, privacy, search, anonymise, chrome, suggest

NHS IT contractors get pay rise

UK health agency Connecting for Health will now pay telco BT £1 billion, 61 per cent more than the original £620 million, to provide the backbone for the NHS National Programme for IT, following a contract reset in February this year.

Tags: csc, e-health, iba, isoft, nhs, connecting for health, uk, contract

London Stock Exchange in huge outage

The London Stock Exchange has returned to normal after an outage yesterday in the UK that ceased trading for the longest period in eight years.

Tags: london, outage, stock exchange, trading, uk, exchange, trade, spokeswoman

Google quietly updates Chrome

Search giant Google has quietly begun releasing a hastily prepared update to its Chrome browser to fix some security problems.

Tags: chrome, google, security, web browser, chromium, update, user

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		What if your desktop security application could detect and remove a new threat that was only minutes old? That's the impetus behind McAfee's Artemis technology, announced yesterday.

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