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Orange has commissioned a study to promote itsrecyclingscheme, and it found that a whopping £2.7bn worth of mobile phones are lying unused in people’s homes across the UK. The report in today’sTelegraphalso noted that almost a third of consumers were unaware that they could make money by selling their unused gadgets. It’s not clear how big a user-base was used in this study, but I’m not entirely confident of that statistic, and I posit that most people simply never get ’round to selling their old devices....

It’s the bane of every blogger. Comment spam, blog spam…whatever you want to call it, has reached epidemic proportions. Bloggers from all backgrounds set aside time to sift through the steady stream of pseudo-comments that sit waiting for ‘approval’. Most experienced bloggers can spot a counterfeit comment from a hundred yards. The grammar is normally passable, and it often adopts a rather complimentary approach, but it just never seems quite right....

Choosing which programming language to specialize in is a moment that can really define your career. Whether you’re a newbie or you’re picking up a second language, you need to know which ones are most in demand and what you can do with them. That’s why we’re doing a series on the top jobs for the most common programming languages, starting with Python. There are so many programming languages out there, but for anyone who wants to break into the world of engineering, knowledge of Python can open a lot of doors....

You’ve no doubt read all aboutLulzSecandAnonymousover the past few months, the infamous ‘hacktivist’ groups that have been engaging in widespread hacking of high-profile corporate websites. Now, as Gawkerreportedyesterday, a new hacking group has thrown itself into the fray, targeting Hollywood celebrities.Hollywood Leaksstarted tweeting almost two weeks ago, posting this introductorymessageabout a new script for a Tom Cruise movie called Rock of Ages: It turns out, the hackers accessed the email account of one of the actors in the musical, and it seems that Peter Shankman, the movie’s director, had sent the script to the cast by email....

Formspring, the popular social network with over 26 million users, has today launched its free iPhone appon the App Store. It allows users to ask and respond to questions, as they have always done, and also adds the ability to send a picture in lieu of a question or an answer. Formspring was launched in November 2009 as a way for users to send personalised questions and responses to each other....