Apple's (AAPL.O) new iPhone sold out online in Britain ahead of its Friday launch, defying general consumer gloom as the country's economy threatened to tip over into its first recession in more than a decade.

Google has rolled out a challenge to virtual world giant Second Life with free software that lets people create their own online 3D worlds that can be embedded on websites and melded with other online functions

Surfers using the Firefox browser are the safest on the net, according to a new study.

The 18-month study, carried out by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, based its conclusions on how often users updated to the most recent version of different browsers.

Acording to the study, titled Understanding the Web Browser Threat, 83.3 per cent of Firefox users had updated to the latest version of Firefox, while only 47.6 per cent of Internet Explorer (IE) users were using fully patched browsers

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