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• Defence to ditch Internet Explorer 6

  Australia's Department of Defence will upgrade its 90,000 desktop PCs from version 6 to version 7 of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser — almost four years after the software was first released.

• Google updates IE 'killer' plug-in

  Google today updated Chrome Frame, a plug-in that embeds the company's Chrome browser engine into rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer, to a beta version.

• IE6 in death throes, usage drops below 5 per cent

  Usage of Internet Explorer 6 has finally fallen below 5 per cent in the United States and Europe, perhaps signalling the end is near for Microsoft's nine-year-old IE6 browser.

• Google adds Reader to 'kill IE6' campaign

  Google expanded its anti-Internet Explorer 6 campaign Thursday by announcing that it will phase out support for the nine-year-old browser for its Google Reader service June 1.

• Firefox aims to make IE, Safari browsing more secure

  Mozilla has expanded a service that checks if a browser's plugins are current to now scan Internet Explorer, Safari Opera and Chrome in addition to its own Firefox.

• Microsoft gets some heat over HTML 5 plans

  Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 -- and hence support for the upcoming HTML 5 standard -- to users of its older Windows XP operating system.

• Security companies warn of uptick in new IE attack

  Criminals are stepping up their attacks leveraging an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, using it to install fake antivirus products and malicious back doors on victim's computers.

• IE's share tumbles in some EU markets after ballot debut

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) has lost three times more share than usual in some European countries since the company issued a ballot that lets users choose an alternate browser, according to a Web measurement company.

• Hackers exploit latest IE zero-day with drive-by attacks

  Hackers are exploiting the just-disclosed unpatched bug in Internet Explorer (IE) to launch drive-by attacks from malicious Web sites, security researchers said today.

• Microsoft warns of new IE bug; attacks under way

  Microsoft today warned of a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is already being exploited by hackers, the second such admission in the last two months.

• New browser tweaks Chrome security

  The open source engine that forms the basis for Google's Chrome has spawned an ostensibly new browser, Comodo's cleverly named 'Dragon'.

• IE more popular than you think: Researcher

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is used much more often than most assume, a researcher has asserted.

• Google joins the 'kill-IE6' campaign

  Google has announced that Google Docs will drop support for Microsoft's nearly nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser starting on March 1.

• Google to end support for IE6

  Google will phase out support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 Web browser starting in March, the company said Friday.

• Facebook toolbar released for IE and in multiple languages

  Facebook-oholics now have more tools to deepen their dependency on the world's most popular social-networking site.