Twitter says a security attack late last week managed to gain access to information about around 250,000 of its users. It appears the hackers gained access to usernames, email addresses and encrypted versions of passwords.

The service responded by resetting passwords for all affected accounts, which appeared to include many Twitter ‘early adopters’.

UK mobile virtual network operator Ovivo Mobile is using online investment platform Crowdcube to find new financial backers.

Ovivo, which was founded by Dariush Zand last year, offers its customers a bundle of free calls, text messages and data usage each month.

James Rosewell writes:

During December 2012 in the United States the HTC Evo 4G contributed 20% of web traffic from HTC devices. What is remarkable about this figure is that the HTC Evo 4G was first released in June 2010 and is almost three years old.

The HTC One series of devices were released during 2012 and contributed less than 10% of HTC’s web traffic in the same month.

Are HTC devices released pre-2012 too good at browsing the web?

Faiza Elmasry of voanews.com writes:

Imagine shopping for clothes online and being able to run your hand across the screen on your computer or smartphone to feel the fabrics. That kind of simulation technology could be available within the next five years.

Virtual mobile network and VoIP service provider Truphone says it’s arranged £75 million of new funding, which will enable it to open a number of new businesses around the world and employ around 500 additional staff members in the next 18 months.

The British-based company is also planning a number of new product launches.