Nokia N9 to come at the MWC with a 1.2 GHz CPU, 12 MP camera

With the MWC fast approaching, rumors about the MeeGo-running Nokia N9 are starting to intensify again. If the Finnish source is to be trusted one of the most hotly anticipated smartphones of this year will make its debut at the congress in less than a month.

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Why Facebook wants your phone number

(CNN) -- Facebook wants your address and mobile phone number.

But it's not sure exactly how to ask.

It's a complicated digital courtship, particularly because Facebook doesn't just want this data for itself -- it wants to "share" this info with all of its friends, which in this case happens to be app developers (think FarmVille, Compare People and Where I've Been -- all that non-Facebook stuff that pops up in your news feed).

That may sound confusing, but the debate over this Facebook phone-number-sharing -- which caused Facebook to backtrack a bit from the request after bloggers and users expressed outrage this weekend -- essentially comes down to two related questions:

Why does Facebook want your phone number and address?
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Nintendo Hand-held, 3-D Gaming System

The Nintendo 3DS, which displays three-dimensional images without the help of glasses, will go on sale March 27 in the United States and sell for $250, the company announced during simultaneous events in Amsterdam and New York.

The system will be released March 25 in Europe. European prices will vary according to the retailer.

The hand-held gadget turned heads when it was unveiled last summer at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles.

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First Facebook Message App a Scam

Facebook users should be on the look-out for a new scam spreading on the popular social networking site.

According to Softpedia, a new application that promises to find the very first status message posted by user on Facebook is a scam.

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Interfacing with your Windows OS and your Computer Hardware

For windows, what your 3rd party applications basically can do, you can too. These are possible thru windows API function calls that you can access thru the DLL's provided. All you have to know is the function name, its parameters, and its return data type, if it returns a value. These information are readily available on the net, specifically in Microsoft website. You can embedd these functions in your C++ programs, visual basic, or any other language that allows function calls from a DLL.

Android Software Development Fever

Android is an open source mobile phone software platform developed by Google and then taken over by the Open Handset Alliance.

Android is a software stack made up of the operating system the drivers or the software that lets applications interface to other software and network (more like drivers), and the user applications. It is all the software that will make and identify a mobile phone an Android phone. 

NI LabVIEW Mobile Module for Handheld Devices

The NI LabVIEW Mobile Module extends the LabVIEW graphical development environment to handheld devices, so you can easily create custom applications to run on Microsoft Windows Mobile for Pocket PC devices.