ANZ Bank has disabled the use of all online bank statements until a critical flaw is fixed.

A recent usability study of nine opt-out tools that target behavioural-based advertising found they were confusing, difficult to operate and communicated very poorly with users.

Apple’s Safari 5.1 browser, available pre-loaded in the new Mac OS X Lion, or available to download on PCs and Macs, has taken this whole business of copying the iPad waaaay to far, annoying Macolytes to no end.

Samsung’s new “Smart TV” range for 2011 puts a ton of computing smarts into what was once just a basic flat panel, building in as standard what once took a separate PC or advanced set-top box, with even 3D models and glasses very nicely improving over last year’s latest and greatest.

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

Mozilla’s Firefox has, after a lengthy beta and release candidate, finally turned version 4.0, with nearly triple the downloads in the first 24 hours than enjoyed by Microsoft’s IE 9.

Microsoft boasted of 2.3 million downloads for its new IE 9 browser within the first 24 hours, while the cunning Firefox 4 put four to the floor with a report of at least 6.5 million downloads of FF4 within 24 hours.

IE9 is here - in final form at last, as XP lovin’ users watch it just zoom right past. Windows 7 gets to see a web of beauty spun, but for XP users all - it won’t even get a run!

The latest update to Google's Chrome browser delivers speed improvements previously found only in beta releases. The company claims a 66% boost in JavaScript performance.

Eternal vigilance and remorseless focus on testing are required for any software development, and unfortunately the Mozilla team let a significant Java applet problem slip into Firefox Browser 3.6.14, but have already released a fix in version 3.6.15.