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Earlier this week the German Government advised that all users of Internet Explorer should switch to an alternative browser.

The reason given was that Microsoft is suffering from a zero day security hole that leaves users of Windows XP (IE7 and...

Over the course of the summer you may have noticed that an urgent update was issued for Java. In our household it seemed like there was a blizzard of updates as we have two laptops and two PCs and each runs at least two browsers, with each browser r...

Oh dear. It seems that Mac users are too smug and complacent to save themselves from the Flashback Trojan.

A few weeks ago I wrote about the surprisingly high levels of Macs that had been infected by a Trojan called Flashback.

The good news w...

We're in the run-up to the annual tech fest at Computex 2011 so it is timely that Acer and Samsung have announced that the first Chromebooks will launch in the UK on 15th June.

These models are the Samsung Series 5 and Acer Chromebook. Truth be t...

Now you see them:

Now you don't:

This is an apparently simple problem, but I've seen it happen so often now that I thought it was worth covering, just in case it saves a few people from a minute or so of keyboard-pounding frustration.

If you ...