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PCWorld: For the first time ever, the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that more than half of all American adults now use social networks. That corresponds to 65 percent of all adults who are online. The fastest growing segment of those using social networks was baby boomers–adults age 50 to 64. Participation […]

Washington Post: Samsung is launching a new cross-platform mobile chat service that some are calling an “SMS-killer.” Similar to BlackBerry Messenger, Samsung’s ChatON service will enable one-to-one or group chats, and it will allow users to attach photos, videos and audio messages. However, unlike Messenger, it will work on Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Samsung’s Bada OS […]

Time: Facebook reached a major milestone in June: according to figures published by Google, the site had more than one trillion page views for the month. 870 million unique visitors visited the site during June 2011, which equals 46.9 percent of all Internet users. The number two site for the period was YouTube, with about […]

PCWorld: Published reports say that Microsoft offered attendees at the TechEd New Zealand conference a sneak peak of a quad-core tablet running the Windows operating system. Video and photos from the event reveal almost nothing about the slate; however, Microsoft Principal Architect Patrick Hevesi did say that one Windows 7 quad-core tablet will have a […]

TechWorld: According to security vendor F-Secure, the devastating security breach at RSA may have resulted from a single phishing e-mail. A recruiter in the human resources department reportedly received an e-mail that read,”I forward this file to you for review. Please open and view it.” The employee retrieved the message from a junk mail folder […]

Technology Reviews: IBM is working on building a disk drive that is ten times larger than any other drive ever built. The drive will have 200,000 separate hard disks that provide 120 petabytes (120 million gigabytes) of storage. The researchers say the drive could help to create complex models for predicting weather and climate change–or […]

Dark Reading: The Apache Foundation has issued an alert about a security flaw in its extremely popular Web server software that could enable crippling DDoS attacks launched from a single PC. “By sending specially crafted HTTP requests which include malformed range HTTP header, an attacker can disrupt the normal function of the web server, thus […]

CNN: Wednesday night, Steve Jobs resigned his position as Apple’s CEO. Jobs will continue in his role as chairman, but current COO Tim Cook will take over as CEO. Many believe Jobs’ deteriorating health played a role in his decision. In his resignation letter, he wrote, “I have always said if there ever came a […]

NewsFactor Network: Shortly after it announced that it would no longer be selling its TouchPad tablet, HP put the doomed devices on sale for $99. In response, consumers snatched up the tablets so quickly that most retail outlets soon sold out of them. In a blog post, HP’s Mark Budgell wrote, “the good news is […]

Wall Street Journal: According to Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins of the China SignPost analytical service, a documentary which recently aired on Chinese television includes a 10-second segment showing a Chinese military cyberattack on a U.S. website. During the segment, the video shows someone using a tool labelled “Attack system..PLA Electronic Engineering Institute” to launch […]

Mashable: Google is rolling out new functionality for its +1 button that appears on more than 1 million websites. Users who click the button will now be given the opportunity to “Share on Google+.” This new functionality makes the +1 button more like Facebook’s Like button. Website publishers also now have the opportunity to modify […]

LA Times: Google has reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department in a case concerning Canadian pharmacy ads on the search engine. Google will pay a $500 million fine, which represents the amount of money it made from the ads, plus the amount of profit the pharmacies made on the illegally imported drugs as […]