TNW Quick Hit: In late March webrought you the newsthat due to a piece of sophisticated hacking, 9 rogue SSL certificates had been loosed into the wild. At that time Microsoft promised to deliver a Windows Phone update to protect its handsets against the potential threat. According torecently rumored information, that update is due to be released on May 3rd. At the current moment, if the update will be delivered ‘over the air,’ or via direct download using the Zune client is not known....

If you’re trying to load up the Italian version of Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced and free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, you will instead finda letterinforming readers that the page might soon be deleted. A new law currently being debated by the Italian Parliament known as “DDL Intercettazioni”, or the Wiretapping Act, “requires all websites to publish, within 48 hours of the request and without any comment, a correction to content that the affected applicant deems detrimental to his or her image”....

WordPress hasjust announcedWordPress 3.1.4, which includes a maintenance and security update for all previous versions. WordPress says the new release incorporates several security fixes and hardening measures, particularly addressing one issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user to gain further access to the site. Credit to WordPress developersAlexander ConchaandJon Cavewho worked on the update. Download WordPress 3.1.4hereor update immediately from the Dashboard → Updates menu in your site’s admin area....

As we have previously reported, the Mango update to Windows Phone 7 contains vastly increased language support. Also in Mango are a number of new keyboards to allow users to type in the added languages. A new video discovered today shows off how one of those keyboards will function, with a ‘flick’ motion that helps tomake typing in Japanese much simpler. The phone in question is the Fujitsu IS12T, which was the first phone running Mangoto be announced....

1 January didn’t just ring in a new year, it rang in a new record for the number of tweets-per-second sent. According tofigures from Twitter, the Japanese sent 6,939 tweets-per-second as midnight chimed at the start of 2011. The figure is nealry double the previous record, which was 3,283 tweets-per-second, set last summer during Japan’s victory against Denmark in the soccer World Cup. It’s proof that the Japanese love their Twitter, but the whole world was at it....