Smartphone users are increasingly using their phones for instant messaging and accessing social networks, with a 60 percent growth in connection to the Internet from mobile phones in just 12 months by users worldwide.

A security vendor has warned that Australia is on the list of countries specifically targeted by the latest variants of the Yimfoca malware.

Skype 5.0 for Windows arrived last month, but Mac users are still on version 2.8. Good news: Skype 5.0 for Mac is now in beta. Bad news: you may not like some of the changes.

Certain BlackBerry services are set to be banned in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, with government officials citing security concerns.

Whether or not you're one of the 250,000 people already using the beta release of Norton Antivirus 2011, you may be interested in learning about the features coming in the 2011 editions of Symantec's consumer products, along with some free tools from the company.

Yahoo! has announced immediate availability of Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android, along with a Yahoo! Search Widget for Android, and new HTML5 versions of Mail and Yahoo! News site for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Call it Palevo, call it Yimfoca, a worm is being spread through instant messaging programs and other vectors.

There are myriad ways that viruses, Trojans and other types of malicious code can get into your business and it pays to be up on all of them. Security company AVG (AU/NZ) offers some advice.

If you are one, or have one lurking in a bedroom right now, it probably comes as no surprise that Millennials think email is somewhat quaint – a way to communicate with a great aunt perhaps.

Live in London? Looking for something to do this Friday? Canonical are looking for volunteers to perform usability testing of the Ubuntu Empathy instant messaging client. A paid incentive awaits!