The number of downloads of Firefox as well as Opera surged in Germany after the Government advised against using Internet Explorer.

India’s National Security Advisor has revealed that India was also targeted by Chinese hackers in mid-December.

Emerging reports suggest that the Google Hackers may have been helped by Google China employees.

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Everything we know about the Google Hack Attacks (dubbed Operation Aurora) originating out of China.

The American Dialect Society has selected ‘google’ as the word of the decade and ‘tweet’ as the word of the year.

Mozilla Firefox, has moved up the browser market and has set up many new records. It has taken huge market shares from Internet Explorer and the ending of 2009 has been breathtakingly profitable for the browser.

Mozilla has been busy working on Electrolysis – a project which aims to introduce multi-core optimizations in Firefox. Firefox 3.7 will be delivering significant speed improvements.

Earlier today, Microsoft revealed information about Office 2010 editions and pricing.

Following Opera’s disappointing performance in Q3 2009, Opera has announced that Las Boilsen will be replacing Jon von Tetzchner as the CEO.

Nexus One website goes live, momentarily. More information and screenshots inside.

Seesmic has announced that it is acquiring Ping.fm and will soon be able to publish status updates on 50 social networks.

Is Microsoft already hot in their pants about Linux and Open Office? A recent job posting does not suggest otherwise. According to a job posting on Microsoft careers, they are looking for a Marketing lead who will focus on one of the biggest issues that is top of mind for KT and Steve B in “Compete”.

According to a new study by McAfee, who are one of the top security software vendors, shortened URLs will be the heavy target for Cyber criminals on sites like Twitter and Facebook in 2010.

A group of Tel Aviv University scientists are currently developing a next-gen captcha, which they believe will be extremely difficult for bots to crack.