Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Microsoft has fixed a bug causing Internet Explorer 7's phishing shield
to bog down page loads, as competitor Opera incorporates the technology
that warns users when they visit fraudulent websites.
The glitch caused Microsoft's new browser to choke when running on
Windows XP and loading web pages containing multiple frames. Microsoft
incorporated the technology to protect against the practice of setting
up fake website, pretending to be a trusted site such as a bank, and
then tricking people into entering their passwords.
The first major update to Microsoft's web browser in five years, IE 7
was released in October with a primary focus on combating new security
threats. Competitor Firefox 2.0, released at the same time, also
includes anti-phishing measures.
The Opera browser, which has a higher slice of the mobile device than
desktop market, has also incorporated phishing protection with Opera
9.1. The feature matches websites again a list of known phishing sites
maintained by the PhishTank project.
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