The developer.nokia.com/community discussion forum was offline and under maintenance for sometime now, only for Nokia to officially announce that the forum had had a security breach. I quote :

During our ongoing investigation of the incident we have discovered that
 a database table containing developer forum members' email addresses
has been accessed, by exploiting a vulnerability in the bulletin board
software that allowed an SQL Injection attack. Initially we believed
that only a small number of these forum member records had been
accessed, but further investigation has identified that the number is
significantly larger.

The database table records includes members’ email addresses and, for
fewer than 7% who chose to include them in their public profile, either
birth dates, homepage URL or usernames for AIM, ICQ, MSN, Skype or
Yahoo. However, they do not contain sensitive information such as
passwords or credit card details and so we do not believe the security
of forum members’ accounts is at risk. Other Nokia accounts are not
affected.

Official announcement can be found here :

http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Discussion/content.php

Back in 2009, google launched its URL shortner services, goo.gl. Now, google has acquired g.co , an URL shortcut that only links to google products and services.

Find below post from Google Blog :

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/gco-official-url-shortcut-for-google.html

There is this great new service at www.ge.tt It’s free and basically it’s an instant file sharing service. No ads, no download delays and no restricted filetypes. Really sleek and professional looking, marking the beginning of corporates file sharing websites. Free and paid accounts available. Max file size is 2GB, which is more than enough.

Blekko, a new search engine that attempts to use human input to refine search results, launched a public beta on Monday.

blekko.com is an alternative way to search the web by using slashtags. slashtags search only the sites you want and cut out the spam sites. use friends, experts, community or your own slashtags to slash in what you want and slash out what you don’t.

You all should give it a try.

HP will roll the packaging of HP LaserJet print cartridges to a new design to align IPG portfolio for consistent premium brand communication via a consistent packaging identity and retail experience.

All HP LaserJet monochrome AND colour print cartridge packaging will include a new selectability number. Monochrome has a 2-digit number & Colour a 3-digit number.

First new packaging for monochrome already is shipping (July 2010), first colour cartridges scheduled to start as of August 2010.

Edward Screven, Oracle’s Chief Corporate Architect, discussed the current and future state of MySQL in his keynote at the MySQL Conference & Expo.

Watch this video on youtube :

Local authorities in Egypt has confiscated more than 70000 counterfeit HP product from the local market in the past few months. Find detailed report in Arabic here.

As of March 1st, 2010, Google has dropped support for Microsoft longest standing web browser, the IE6. Meaning that Google docs, Google Apps, Gmail and all other Google services will no longer support the ageing browser in an effort to introduce new features to these services.

Firefox 3.6 has finally landed. Now you can try the latest web browser from Mozilla. The new version comes with some new features: speed, detection of outdated plugins and graphics personas. Most important feature of all is the added securities that makes it the safest browser to use.

You can try it for yourself after you download it from here : www.getfirefox.com

Exploit code for the zero-day hole in Internet Explorer linked to the China-based attacks on Google and other companies has been released on the Internet, Microsoft and McAfee warned on Friday.

Meanwhile, the German federal security agency issued a statement on Friday urging its citizens to use an alternative browser to IE until a patch arrives.

More on this issue here.