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Nokia’s deal to outsource Symbian development to Accenture wasformally closedon Friday, after the two companies reached an agreement to handover software development and support to the outsourcing company. The terms of the agreement state that Accenture will support Symbian development and support at least until 2016, providing a lifeline for the stricken operating system. Nokia will transfer 2,300 of its employees from North America, Asia and Europe now that the deal is closed....

We seem to be inching towards a major Nokia announcement. In astunning memoleaked to Engadget, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop likens the Finnish company to a North Sea oil worker awakened during the middle of the night to find that his platform is on fire: “As the fire approached him, the man had mere seconds to react. He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters....

While hanging out with friends on the web, we often share links to music and sites. But instead of sharing links, wouldn’t it be more engaging to use a browser or app together by sharing the experience on the same screen? Synaptop, a Toronto-based startup has just unleashed its virtual computer platform enabling users to collaborate in real-time through a variety of apps including a web browser, media player, notepad and an application that supports live presentations....

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is world’s authority on country code top level domains (ccTLDs)recently approvedSyria’s Arabic domain .سورية. The addition makes the number of Arabic domains available to governments and companies now 8. Where Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Occupied Territory, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates have all been approved. The first of such domains went live back in May 2010 when Egypt put its firstArabic domain online....

After Anonymoushackedthe Syrian Ministry of Defense’s website, leaving a message of support for the Syrian people, a few hours later, Syrian hackers are said to have retaliated, taking down Anonymous’ social network, AnonPlus. Anonymous created the site after Google+ suspended their account, and according toComputer World, the University of Toronto’s Monk School of Global Affairs is crediting the pro-regime Syrian Electronic Army with leaving the gruesome message where the site used to be....