Latest figures out of the social networking giant, Facebook, show an absolutely mind-blowing 1 trillion hits a month. For those who don’t quite grasp just how large that number is, 1 trillion is 1,000,000,000,000… wow. In comparison, YouTube only takes 100 million hits a month. 
Behind both of those giants, Yahoo.com receives 78 million page views per month on average. As Facebook continutes to grow, more and more people are joining, young and old. PC, Mac, mobile, tablets, everywhere. < Read more…
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From Japan Real Time:
Today’s flat-panel television sets look drastically different from old cathode-ray models. But where a TV set sits, often in the living room facing a couch, hasn’t changed as drastically. One factor that confines TVs to only certain parts of a home is the need to connect the TV to an aerial plug so it can receive broadcast signals.
As it becomes more and more difficult to sell TVs at premium prices, manufacturers are coming up with new features they hope will entice customers.
- Juro Osawa/The Wall Street Journal
- Sharp unveiled its new TV line in Tokyo on Thursday.
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Communications networks took a hit from Hurricane Irene with 1,400 cell towers and cell sites damaged or disrupted mainly in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina, the Federal Communications Commission said Monday.
In addition to cell site disruptions from power outages or other problems, 132,000 wired voice subscribers lost service as of Sunday, while 500,000 cable customers lost service, mostly in Virginia, an FCC spokesman said in an email early Monday. Three broadcast radio stations were also down for at least part of the storm, he said. The FCC didn’t say what percentage of the thousands of cell towers along the East Cost were affected.
VMworld It’s the VMworld virtualization extravaganza this week, and that means everyone wants to show that they are best buddies with VMware and enthusiastically supporting its virty and cloudy tools. And so it is that Hewlett-Packard is trying to change the subject about its own software aspirations and PC business spinoff and wants to talk about putting the vSphere 5.0 stack on its VirtualSystem preconfigured virtualized servers.
Just in case you can’t keep the HP product names straight, Blade System is the name of the company’s blade chassis and related x64-based server blades.
It was only a matter of time before the hacks for HPs now defunct tablet started to roll in.
Android-modding group CyanogenMod released a video of its popular aftermarket software running on HPs TouchPad tablet, a product which normally runs webOS not Android as its primary operating system.
Our ultimate vision is to create a multiboot solution where the end user will be able to boot into WebOS, Cyanogenmod, and/or other OSes, the CyanogenMod team said in a statement to Android-enthusiast blog RootzWiki.