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Nokia unveiled it's latest smartphone at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) currently being held in Barcelona. The Nokia 808 Pure features an remarkable 41MP rear facing camera prepared with Carl Zeiss optics, Zenon flash and a 1080p video. “Nokia PureView imaging technology sets a new industry standard by whatever measure you use,” said Jo Harlow, supervisory vice president of Nokia Smart Devices. “People will inevitably focus on the 41 megapixel sensor, but the real quantum leap is how the pixels are used to deliver breath-taking image quality at any resolution and the freedom it provides to choose the story you want to tell.” The smartphone also features a 4-inch nHD resolution ClearBlack touchscreen, a 1.3GHz processor, 16GB included storage, HSDPA and WiFi connectivity and a 1400mAh battery. The phone is due for UK release in May.

After the discovery that Google had bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser, Microsoft has announced that the same problem occurs in Internet Explorer. A blog from the IE engineering team published yesterday read; When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies. It went on to say; We’ve found that Google bypasses the P3P Privacy Protection feature in IE. The result is similar to the recent reports of Google’s circumvention of privacy protections in Apple’s Safari Web browser, even though the actual bypass mechanism Google uses is different. Microsoft also published hints for users to protect their privacy, check them out at; http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/02/...