Twitter has passed 200 million accounts

The number of people who have registered accounts on Twitter has now surpassed 200 million, a representative of the company said publicly yesterday.

Yahoo sells Delicious to YouTube founders

Internet bookmarking site Delicious has been sold to YouTube Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

It will be operate as normal for about another month before changing to AVOS. Financial terms have not been disclosed

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PlayStation Network Hack: Who Did It?

One of the biggest network hacks in history. Who is reponsible for it? No one really knows!

Over 77 million Playstation users have been exposed in this hack. Normally everyone points fingers at China, but not this time. China is claiming innocent.

Stay tuned for more developing information.

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Chipsets

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2011 – As part of ongoing quality assurance, Intel Corporation has discovered a design issue in a recently released support chip, the Intel® 6 Series (and the Intel® C200 Series Chipset), and has implemented a silicon fix. In some cases, the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD-drives. The chipset is utilized in PCs with Intel’s latest Second Generation Intel Core processors.  Intel has stopped shipment of the affected support chip from its factories. Intel has corrected the design issue, and has begun manufacturing a new version of the support chip which will resolve the issue. The Sandy Bridge microprocessor is unaffected and no other products are affected by this issue.

The company expects to begin delivering the updated version of the chipset to customers in late February and expects full volume recovery in April. Intel stands behind its products and is committed to product quality. For computer makers and other Intel customers that have bought potentially affected chipsets or systems, Intel will work with its OEM partners to accept the return of the affected chipsets, and plans to support modifications or replacements needed on motherboards or systems. The systems with the affected support chips have only been shipping since January 9th and the company believes that relatively few consumers are impacted by this issue. The only systems sold to an end customer potentially impacted are Second Generation Core i5 and Core i7 quad core based systems.  Intel believes that consumers can continue to use their systems with confidence, while working with their computer manufacturer for a permanent solution.

To determine if your chipset is the Intel® 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family, follow the below instructions. Note: You must be logged-in as an Administrator to complete these instructions. If you are not logged-in as an Administator, log out and then log back in as an Administrator.  

        1.     Open up the RUN/SEARCH command within the Windows* Operating System:

                Select your Operating System (OS) you are running below for an example:

                Windows 7*:

                

                Windows Vista*:

                            
                

                Windows XP*:

                
                

                Windows 2000/2003*:

                

        2.     Type “devmgmt.msc” then press ENTER/RETURN key on the keyboard
        3.     Expand the “System Devices” 
        4.     See the screenshot below for an example of where to locate your chipset identification
    
                

According to Hitwise data released today, Facebook.com was the top visited website in the US in 2010, taking up 8.93% of site visits between January and November 2010. Google.com came in second at 7.19%, Yahoo Mail isthird with 3.52% and Yahoo.com is fourth at 3.30%. YouTube came in fifth at 2.5 %

Read the results here.

We all love to buy things that are overkill, things that we will never need or use. Like your 600+ HP Mercedes that you cruise along at 65MPH.

This MSI MOBO is one of those things. What do you need 8 PCIe slots for? Who cares but we love it. How about 3 seperate BIOS chips?

I do however love the idea of 8 USB 3.0 ports. This will insure you will never need a USB hub to connect your peripherals.

The MOBO is due first quarter of next year. Until then you will have to just get by with your 2 PCIe slots.

Source: SemiAccurate

If you woke up this morning to a disconnected Skype messenger, you are not alone. Skype posted the issue on their Twitter Page.

The program has been affected on all platforms including mobile devices. No work as to when things will be back to normal.

Lets hope things get back to normal as millions use skype to communicate for business and for personal communication, specially during the holiday seasons.

It seems as if the laptop industry is now saturated with "budget minded" laptops. What happened to the days of power house laptops that would weight a ton and out perform a workstation?
Acer is on the complete opposite path with their new laptop. Now, don't get too excited as this isnt your "top of the line" laptop but its finally something we can smile about.
We still need to wait for its release in the States and it looks like it  will be a bit on the pricey side. We estimate at over $900 once released.

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