All Hotmail users are now advised to change their password used on the Hotmail site – And if the same password is used for various other sites, then change them all too. This is due to a big information theft operation – Where over 10,000 Hotmail login details were publicly posted on the internet. Although the details have been taken offline now, backup copies of the information have already been taken – Which means your login details could be saved by criminals.

The list of 10,000 is said to be a small portion of a huge list – With the 10,000 login details only having usernames beginning with A and B. This means that although your details may not have yet been published online, they could still be saved elsewhere as part of a bigger list. For this reason, it’s important that you change your password just incase you are part of this huge list, because you could experience some major issues if other people have access to your e-mail account.

Microsoft have been informed on the publishing of this list, and are apparently “investigating” the leak of the information. It is still unknown how these details were actually found. It could be because of various methods – Such as hacking certain services, or installing a virus onto the computer’s of innocent victims. We expect Microsoft to notify the public with more information as they’ve discovered it.

For now, however, there really isn’t much we can do. The only thing we can do is to change our passwords, make sure our computer’s are clean of viruses and make sure everyone else knows about this problem – The more people who know about this information theft, the better.

In the United Kingdom, the iPhone has been locked onto the O2 network, giving O2 the monopoly on the product – Which gives them the right to stop certain development in applications by denying the publishing of certain applications which could hurt the revenue of the O2 company. Now, however, Vodafone and Orange have both got rights to the iPhone – Meaning that the iPhone will be available on both of these networks very soon.

Orange have claimed to be able to release the iPhone on their network in time for Christmas, which is a great time to release it as the iPhone has shown no signs of slowing down. Orange haven’t released any pricing details of the iPhone on their network as of yet, but more details are expected to be announced as the time until Christmas grows forever closer.

Vodafone are the latest company to gain rights to the iPhone. The latest talks were around a week ago, where Vodafone have paid for the rights to it. Unfortunately, they may not be as successful as they have claimed to release it sometime in 2010, which gives both O2 and Orange time to increase their sales and leave Vodafone trailing behind. No pricing details have been announced by Vodafone yet, either.

One of the benefits of more networks gaining rights is the fact that the costs may be lower – The networks will be in a pricing war to gain more customers, so you can be sure that these latest networks will provide lower costs in order to gain your customs.