Hackers attacked Google’s YouTube on Sunday, exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the ultra-popular video sharing site, hitting primarily sections where users post comments.

“Comments were temporarily hidden by default within an hour [of discovering the problem], and we released a complete fix for the issue in about two hours. We’re continuing to study the vulnerability to help prevent similar issues in the future,” a Google spokesman said via e-mail.

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This is definitely not the most groundbreaking FAQ but it was something I was always interested to know. For years RIM has offered the option to make the LED light blink red when you have unread messages or missed phone calls. I was always curious how long that LED light would remain red since after a while it turns back to green even with pending unread messages.

Bplay is know for releasing some of the sharpest looking themes and today they let us know about the release of their latest magmic theme Slipstream. This theme features a background with fluorescent light streams. My favorite features on this theme is the home screen icon looks like a shuffle play list of icons. The Calendar and the SMS icons have the today feature that moves down to let you scroll through the list of messages.

Stock of iPhone is still empty  and has a 3 week waiting time at any Apple Store, Orange doesn’t have iPhone 4 in stock and so does Vodafone. O2, the original exclusive carrier of the iPhone 3G,  the only place were ypu can find it is their online store.

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Samsung’s US team held a swanky event in NYC this evening to launch all four of its new US-spec  Galaxy S phones in style. If you haven’t been brought up to speed on Samsung‘s stateside Android invasion, the Captivate is headed to AT&T, the Fascinate  to Verizon, the  Epic 4G to Sprint and the Vibrant to T-Mobile. Every phone from Galaxy S Family have  4-inch Super AMOLED screens, 1GHz Hummingbird Cortex A8 CPUs, and cams that can capture 720p video. We’ve already got detailed hands on impressions of the Captivate and Epic 4G, but stay tuned for Fascinate and Vibrant previews tonight. In the meantime, check out the family all together in the pictures in the gallery below.

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Inadvertently or perhaps intentionally, Nokia officials have overlooked some documents and a video clip related to a phone to be launched this year: Nokia X10. The video has been removed from YouTube, but photocopies of technical data remained.

Nokia X10 will be a slider QWERTY keyboard that will build on Symbian OS^3. We have an ARM processor at 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM, a 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16 GB or 32 GB storage space, 5 MP camera, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and A-GPS. In other words, about all you have to have a top phone.

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While Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC and others have announced several new models, Nokia has assisted passive to show at Mobile World Congress 2010. Quite bizarre, the Finns have not even come with a new phone. Instead they came with a promise: cheap smartphones.

Those from Nokia, by Lee Williams, head of the Symbian Foundation, I promise that will get the smartphone market, which will cost only 100 euros. These devices will run Symbian ^ 3.

More information was not made public. Only that will be more such terminals and will be released even this year.

Nokia has big plans for 2010, but preferred to take a more protected from the sight of the media. The MWC has not submitted any phone, but officials Qualcomm (the company that Finns have a partnership) broke silence and said that Nokia will launch by the end of a Symbian smartphone, powered by Snapdragon processor a new generation. It will have a frequency of 1.3 GHz or 1.5 GHz.

If the rumors are true, Nokia smartphone is expected to compete with HTC Libra, device equipped with a Snapdragon processor clocked at 1.5 GHz and operating system Android.