Micromax X259 solar phone launches in India at Rs. 2,499.

Micromax Informatics Limited has launched a 'green phone' X259.Priced at Rs. 2,499, X259 comes with a built-in solar panel and allows users to charge their phones using solar energy. According to the company, the phone automatically gets charged through solar power on exposure to sunlight.


The smartphone is especially targeted at rural areas where power cuts are high.

Back in April, Micromax had revealed its plans of launching a phone with built-in solar charger. The Micromax X259 is a dual-SIM phone, featuring a 2.4-inch display with 240x320p resolution and 118mm X 50mm X 16mm dimensions. It has a 0.3MP camera. Micromax's X259 multimedia features include audio and video player and FM radio with recording. The device supports GPRS and Bluetooth. The X259 comes with a 1,000mAh battery, which is rated to deliver 4.5 hours of talktime and 200 hours of standby time.

BlackBerry 10 OS to bring video chat feature within BBM.

Beleaguered Research in Motion (RIM) has high hopes of its BlackBerry 10 OS, which expected to release in the first quarter of 2013. BlackBerry 10-based smartphones are likely to be boosted from by an improved BlackBerry Messenger social networking tool, which will come with video chat capabilities – a feature that BlackBerry users have been missing out on for long.

At RIM's annual shareholders conference, CEO Thorsten Heins said BlackBerry 10 will come with various new and improved features, such as video chat within BBM. Speaking about the upgraded messenger service, Heins added, “It's still the major used social network in Asia Pac, which will upgrade that experience to a whole new social networking experience based on BBM.”

Do a security check-up for all your passwords.

You probably don't need to on account of last week's password breach. But this incident —following earlier security failures at LinkedIn and eHarmony— should be all the motivation you need to give your passwords a check-up.

The breach did not involve Yahoo's core consumer operations, such as its eponymous Web-mail service or its Flickr photo-sharing site. Instead, it affected Yahoo Voices, a library of articles, photos and videos cranked out by outside contributors that went by the name Associated Content until Yahoo bought that site for a reported $90 million in May of 2010.

In an apologetic post on its corporate blog, Yahoo explained that hackers got access to "an older file containing approximately 450,000 email addresses and passwords" predating that acquisition.

Back then, Associated Content let users sign up with logins from other sites, including Yahoo and also Google's Gmail and Microsoft's Hotmail. That company failed to take the basic step of encrypting this account database.

400,000+ login credentials dumped online : Yahoo! Voice hacked

Hackers belonging to a hacking collective called D33Ds Company have retrieved and dumped login details of more than 400,000+ user accounts in plain text. A post on Trustedsec stated, "The passwords contained a wide variety of email addresses including those from yahoo.com,gmail.com, aol.com, and much more." Interestingly, the post adds that the affected website is a sub-domain of yahoo.com, and that the compromised server may be Yahoo! Voice a.k.a Associated Content. "The affected website was only named as a sub-domain of yahoo.com. However, digging through and searching for the hostname, the attacker forgot to remove the hostname “dbb1.ac.bf1.yahoo.com” (credit to Mubix for the hostname find)," Trustedsec wrote. The most worrisome bit here is that the passwords that were stored were completely unencrypted, and as you're reading this, 400,000+ login credentials (comprising usernames and passwords) have been exposed.

It has been brought to light that the hackers used a union-based SQL injection attack to get away with the information stored in the database. The post on Trustedsec also put forth a glimpse of what the data leaked online looks like (can be seen in the image below). 

Facebook to launch a Job Board.

Facebook are to launch a job board aimed at businesses wanting to attract staff from the 950 million potential candidates on Facebook.

Facebook has been used by businesses vetting new employees for some time, and many prospective employees have regretted posting those out-of-it party pictures when trying to impress a new boss...