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Nokia, the global leader in phone production, has announced that its developer forum database was hacked. Member information including emails and dates of birth had also been accessed by the hackers. The breach was made due to "security flaws" in the system, according to Nokia spokesperson Doug Dawson. The hack ...

I've been hacking together bits of code for years now. I'm not entirely sure how it all started, but it was probably way back when I built my first FreeBSD box and started playing around with a bit of simple shell-scripting.Back then, if you wanted to run any Unix ...

Samsung has its Galaxy S II at the top of the smartphone pile, and a bunch of entry level smartphone cheapies, including the Galaxy Ace, Fit, mini and Gio. That's a lot of phones.Confused much? Don’t be, the B-list Galaxy phones are basically variations on the same entry level ...

I used to meet with Steve jobs in the 1980s, when he was lauded as a visionary. To be honest I wasn't that impressed with him.Sure, he deserved credit for the Apple I and then Lisa, which turned into the Macintosh but it was too early to tell what he ...

After five months of running its online deals program, Facebook is now shutting it down for good. Facebook Deals, which supplied users with online coupons in line with similar deal sites like Groupon, will now be shut down in the US, according to a statement by the social networking giant. ...

How could you get paid to add to the crowdsourcing debate? It's simple, according to Daniel Neville, Brand Co-ordinator at Idea Bounty. Just do it.Idea Bounty is a global crowdsourcing platform connecting clients with thousands of creatives around the world in order to help "solve marketing and communications briefs ...

True remakes in games. Why so few? Hollywood loves remaking the same stuff ad nauseum, whereas game studios just rewarm or port over. While I was contemplating the metaphysical implications of rehashes, it occurred to me that this is something you don’t often see in videogames: The straightforward remake. Not ...

China's largest microblogging service has contacted millions of its users warning them to ignore any false reports spread over the network. The move is being viewed by some as a sign of growing unease over the rise of social networking sites in the country.Sina sent at least two messages ...

Addressing the annual Edinburgh International Television Festival, Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, lambasted the United Kingdom for allowing itself to throw "away your great computing heritage".Organisers billed Schmidt's speech as a "first in history", as it was the first time in the festival's 35 year history that that the MacTaggart ...

Econsultancy.com, which recently launched its Twitter for Business Guide, suggests that, contrary to popular belief, most of the sentiment posted about brands on Twitter is positive.This piece of data is also contrary to Brandwatch's Customer Service Index, which states that out of the 16 000 tweets it studied 48 ...