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Microsoft set forth with an announcement that people who jailbreak their Windows Phone may well be banned from enjoying certain facilities provided by the company. Well take a look at what they had to say after the Hack was unleashed and spread like fire over the web. We anticipated that people would attempt to unlock the phones and explore the underlying operating system. We encourage people to use their Windows Phone as supplied by the manufacturer to ensure the best possible user experience . Attempting to unlock a device could void the warranty, disable phone functionality, interrupt access to Windows Phone 7 services or render the phone permanently unusable. Well, their tone seems to be more kind of a request, isn’t it? C’mon now, who cares. Take a look around. I guess this instead is what is making news.

Image via CrunchBase Earlier this week we commented on the interchange between tech business blog Tech Crunch - which had written a story claiming Facebook is building its own mobile phone. Upon realising his PR people had antagonised this influential publication, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the sensible measure of inviting Tech Crunch over to FB towers to clarify the matter. The raw transcript of the interview is here, but we've extracted what we consider to be the key excerpts. Zuck's main agenda appeared to be to clarify the semantics around what is meant by "building a phone". Of course a lot of vendors don't physically build their products, finding it more efficient to get companies like Hon Hai to do it instead. So on that basis, of course Facebook isn't building its own phone.

IP addresses are assigned to those devices like computers, phones, cars, wireless sensors, etc that is connected with the Internet. But, according to the Internet analysts, we will run out of IP addresses in less than a year. As per ReadWriteWeb, Internet is evolving on daily basis. New devices are hooked to the net very frequently. That's why we may run out of the numbers to assign those web enabled electronics. "The main reason for the concern? There's an explosion of data about to happen to the Web thanks largely to sensor data, smart grids, RFID and other Internet of Things data," Richard Macmanus writes on that site. John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, told ReadWriteWeb that only 4 billion IP addresses can be assigned under the current system and that is going to be exhausted in less than a year. Our existing system for assigning IP addresses can only handle 32 bits of data. But, researchers are workin...

Yahoo joined hands with arch rival Google to strengthen its foothold applications for Google's mobile operating system Android.  Yahoo Messenger and Mail provides a home screen widget and HTML 5 compatibility for their email and news sites. Yahoo has made some major product releases across all the major smartphone platforms in the last month. Yahoo Mail app comes with following features  - download and view attachments, rich text formatting and emoticons in emails. Users are provided with an opportunity to organize and manage Yahoo! Mail folders, messages, and spam. Further, it's possible to upload photos as attachments from the photo gallery and camera. There is access to Yahoo! Address Book. The Yahoo Messenger app enables full use of emoticons as well as rich text formatting to the users. They can send photos to friends from the photo gallery. They might also be able to send photos to friends from the photo gallery and phone camera.  Users can also send instant mes...

  IT'S getting harder and harder to keep up with all the latest Android mobile phone launches. They are like buses. You wait ages for one, and then about six come along at once. Hot on the heels of the Sony Ericsson X10, LG's first in the GW620, HTC and its Legend and Desire plus Samsung's own Galaxy Portal now comes this beauty. Again it's a Samsung. Again it's a Galaxy but this is codenamed the S and we've no idea why. It's hardly catchy.

By some accounts, this week hasn't been so great for Google. The first bit of bad news concerns sales of Google's Nexus One phone. On Tuesday, the market analytics firm Flurry released a report saying initial sales of Google's Nexus One phone have been slim compared to the Droid and the iPhone. The firm compared sales of those those phones over the first 74 days they were on the market. In a blog post , Flurry says it chose that time period because that's how long it took the original iPhone to sell 1 million handsets when it was released in 2007.

I can’t see this on my own Facebook profile yet, but we’ve gotten a number of tips in our inbox in the past 10 minutes so it’s safe to assume it’s not a hoax or anything: Facebook appears to have started enabling users to generate custom two-dimensional QR codes .

Microsoft Corp. is expected to announce a major revamp of its phone software Monday, in an attempt to regain momentum in a crucial market where it has been overshadowed. CEO Steve Ballmer will be speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the world's largest cell phone trade show, and analysts expect him to reveal Windows Mobile 7. The software could be in phones by late this year. The new software comes as Microsoft, dominant when smart phones were young, has taken a back seat to Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerrys among corporate users and Apple Inc.'s iPhone among consumers.

FBI Director Robert Mueller wants ISPs to track “origin and destination information” about their customers’ browsing habits and store them for authorities’ use for two years, according to a CNET report. That would mean monitoring the IP addresses, domains and exact websites users visit, and then storing that information for months. If officials who support this measure get their way, federal, state and local law enforcement would be able to access the information via search warrant or subpoena. Access to exact URLs would require deep-packet inspection, which could be a violation of the Wiretap Act. The courts would end up having to make a ruling one way or the other if authorities try it.

It's not the Android phone that Asustek's president was bragging about yesterday , but the WinMo 6.5.3 model we heard whispers of actually looks nicer than expected, if this Taiwanese pre-order picture extravaganza is anything to go by.