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Security vendor Blue Coat has previously concentrated on the enterprise market for its hardware products. Now the company is taking aim at medium sized businesses.

Threats to conventional PCs and mobile devices skyrocketed during 2010, according to a new report from Symantec, with social networking and mobile devices playing significant roles.

Compuware has updated its Gomez platform to handle the new versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer.

A new SQL injection attack has compromised tens of thousands of URLs according to a security vendor. The attack was initially used to push rogue AV malware.

Microsoft is warning its users of nine rogue digital certificates that could be used in a variety of attacks involving popular sites. They include sites operated by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, Skype and Mozilla.

Not to be outdone by its far more popular competitor, Yahoo! has added a search-as-you-type feature to its search engine.

Firefox 4 isn't just being downloaded faster than Internet Explorer 9, it's being used more. Figures from a web analytics company gives Mozilla's new browser more than twice the share of IE9.

Just three weeks after launching a program to get 50,000 Australian small businesses online with their own websites, 4,100 have taken advantage of the free service.

Website uptime monitoring firm Pingdom has been looking at visitor stats to find out where Macs are most popular. Australia is one of the top ten nations on this measure.

Search giant Google has teamed with small business accounting software vendor MYOB in a massive promotional push to give 50,000 small Australian businesses their own basic websites for free. The deal aims to make establishing a simple calling card website a no-brainer by filling in a form and includes $75 worth of Adwords for promoting the brand via Google.

Dr. Vint Cerf - often called the 'Father of the Internet' (along with Dr. Bob Kahn, and others), now chief Internet evangelist at Google - gave a fascinating recent lecture at Stanford University about the Internet's development, its successes, surprises along the way,  areas where it hasn't succeeded, and ways that it should be improved.

Microsoft has released a "feature complete" release candidate version of Internet Explorer 9.

The National Library of Finland has turned to crowdsourcing to clean up errors in digitised documents. Volunteers are rewarded by turning the tasks into a game.

Security provider Blue Coat has launched its cloud service platform, with web security as the first offering.

The latest update to the FortiWeb web application firewall provides several new features.

A 'group buy' voucher operation is threatening action against a site that aggregates such offers, thereby driving additional traffic to it.

The adoption of technology from RightNow has taken some of the load from Spendvision's customer service team while allowing the company to provide differentiated service levels.

Just when you thought there was convergence around H.264 for web video, Google has revealed that it will drop support for the codec in future versions of the Chrome browser.

Version 1.6 of the Joomla CMS was released this week. Despite being a point release, it delivers a wide range of improvements.

Despite reports that Delicious was tastelessly being sent to the chopping board, Yahoo has come out with the potentially tasty news that Delicious isn't set to die, but the company is still looking for an 'ideal home'¦ outside the company' which may or may not ever eventuate.