Unofficial mockup of a Nokia WP7 device.

Shortly after the folks over at Redmond unveiled the newest version of Windows Phone 7, dubbed “Mango”, Nokia has confirmed that several of its future device slated for release this year will sport Microsoft’s newest mobile operating system. Nokia has officially said:

Today Microsoft has announced the key new ingredients of the latest ‘Mango’ release of the Windows Phone operating system. This is the software that will be used on the first Nokia with Windows Phone device, and so should be of keen interest to Nokia-watchers everywhere.

In addition, Microsoft employees said during the keynote that they have several Nokia handsets running Windows Phone 7 in their labs. And unlike most other products Microsoft has made, none of them have leaked. Also, they won’t look anything like the renders that Engadget has leaked before, according to Nokia’s Jo Harlow in an interview with Forbes.

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Today we’re starting to roll out a fix which addresses a potential security flaw that could, under certain circumstances, allow a third party access to data available in calendar and contacts. This fix requires no action from users and will roll out globally over the next few days.

However, the problem isn’t over yet. Although Google has patched and moved both Contacts and Calendar to encrypted connections, the situation involving Picasa – Google’s photo sharing/hosting service – remains in the dark. Hackers can still exploit Picasa using the same method with no problem if they’re on the same open WiFi network you’re on. While there isn’t much you can do about this, you can take a few precautions. Not connecting your Android phone to an open WiFi network, using 3G instead of WiFi, or simply moving your photos out of Picasa can all help remedy the problem on your end. If you have any protective tips/security measures you’d like to let us know of, leave ‘em below in the comments.

[Source: ComputerWorld]

With all this news, it’s interesting that Newell said a while back that game consoles are “a waste of everyone’s time” and “a disaster on many levels … I’d say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, ‘This was a horrible disaster and we’re sorry and we’re going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it’.”

Portal 2 is slated for release sometime in 2011.

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After nearly three weeks of waiting, everyone gets the result we they were looking for with Opera – Apple approves Opera Mini to go on sale (for free) on the App Store. While the app is not on sale at the time of this writing, you should be able to see it within 24 hours, depending on the market that you have an iTunes account on. Original iPhone owners can also feel a little happier today, since the browser, when tested under EDGE connections, outpaced Safari by more than 6x.

Opera Mini isn’t a Safari based browser, like all the others on the App Store, which explains why people believed that it would get denied from the App Store. The app was first demoed at Mobile World Congress 2010, and then officially submitted the app to Apple in the wee hours of March 23. Most skeptics (me included) wondered if it will ever be approved, and so far it has. It doesn’t mean, however, that the app will remain approved for the weeks and months to come.

Update: Based on reports flying in from various places, those in Australia and the UK should be able to already download and use Opera Mini. Still not out for the United States. Video and more pictures after the break.

Update 2: It’s in the United States App Store, and from initial review, kicks Mobile Safari out of the playing field. Whether you have your iPhone handy or not, download it now.