Hotmail users report missing mails

Some users of Microsoft Hotmail are starting off the new year scrambling to get back e-mails of old, writes Yahoo News.

A chorus of frantic users has posted complaints on Microsoft's online forum that all of their messages have disappeared.

"Please help me get them back," wrote one user under the moniker “Zacgore” in a post dated Saturday. "All my kids' info and pictures are in there!" Others complain that the majority of the e-mail in their inboxes was sent to their deleted mail folders instead.

Mobile calls and texts made on any GSM network can be eavesdropped upon using four cheap phones and open source software, say security researchers, reports the BBC.

Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut demonstrated their eavesdropping toolkit at the Chaos Computer Club Congress, in Berlin. The work builds on earlier research that has found holes in many parts of the most widely used mobile technology.

The pair spent a year putting together the parts of the eavesdropping toolkit. "Now there's a path from your telephone number to me finding you and listening to your calls," Nohl told the BBC.

Facebook was the most popular Web site and most searched term in 2010, according to HitWise, notes eWeek.

Facebook's connections and the increase in time spent with them are of bigger concern for Google. HitWise delivered another red flag to Internet giant Google when it reported that Facebook was easily the most visited Web site and most searched term overall in 2010.

The social network accounted for 8.93% of all US visits between January and November 2010, with Google.com notching 7.19% of visits.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has approved a comprehensive plan to undertake large-scale trials of TD-LTE (Time Division-Long Term Evolution) in six cities to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of the homegrown standard to the mobile telecom carriers around the world, according to a report by China-based People's Daily Online, states Digitimes.

The six cities are Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou, in eastern China, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, in the south, and Xiamen, in the southeast, the report noted.

Commissioned by the ministry, China Mobile, the developer of TD-LTE, will be responsible for constructing, operating and maintaining trial networks, as well as technological and commercial testing of services and terminal devices.