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According to the China Internet Network Information Center, at the end of 2012 the population of China with access to the Internet had surpassed the half a billion mark. In total, some 513 million people now access the web in some form across China.
Even so, Chinas uptake of the Internet is well below the U.S. and its only the sheer number of people there that makes the half a billion figure possible. Internet penetration in the U.S. has reached 78.2%, where as China only enjoys 38.3 percent.
Our latest poll had almost 3,000 people who answered, Which company made the best desktop motherboards in 2011?. 
Well out in front with almost half the votes, ASUS was voted as the maker of the best desktop motherboards in 2011 by TweakTown readers. In second place GIGABYTE got 20% of the votes while ASRock came in third with 14% of the votes. Read more…
iTwin, the company behind the world’s first ‘limitless’ secure USB device for remote file access, recently announced their spanking new iTwin Multi functionality. This is a free iTwin upgrade that allows users to share files stashed on a computer with multiple people simultaneously. The iTwin Multi will enable multiple users and workgroups to safely connect multiple iTwins to the same computer for remote access, not to mention being able to edit and share files as well without having to go through the headaches associated with email, VPN, or remote access software.
Ouch. We knew the movie studios didn’t like Netflix very much, but this is just brutal. In the viewpoint of the movie studios, they want people to go out and buy new DVD and Blu-ray releases. A rental provides only a fraction of the profit that an outright purchase would, but with $1 Redbox rentals and unlimited Netflix streaming for just a few bucks per month, why buy? There’s hardly a good justification any more. But now, those who are impatient may find themselves buying more than renting. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has just forced Netflix to wait 56 days to receive new release and made-for-video titles on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. That’s up from the prior 28 day window that used to exist. Read more…
IT departments in the age of mobile computing must adapt to newly empowered users who select not only their own devices but their applications as well. This adapation — as difficult as it may seem — has a strong benefit: Enabling a modern workforce, said Maribel Lopez, president of Lopez Research at the AppNation conference last week in San Francisco.
“You can look at it [from the perspective that] BYOD is taking control away from IT, or you can look at it as it’s an opportunity to mobilize your entire business that you would have never been able to afford before because you wouldn’t have bought the devices and you wouldn’t have wanted to manage them,” Lopez said.