In September of 2012, Facebook announced that it had reached the 1 billion user milestone. To put that in perspective, there are just over 7 billion people in the world. In other words, Facebook has accounts for 1 out of every 7 people in existence today – not including fake Facebook accounts. No matter which way you slice it, that’s an astonishingly large number, and Facebook has rightfull

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I don’t know about you, but my Facebook account is a valuable part of my life. It’s the sole way I keep in touch with well over half the people I know, and if someone were to go on there and send nasty message to people, my social and professional lives would be in shambles. That’s why I like to pay close attention whenever a Facebook virus alert is announced. Earlier today, Microsoft ann

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Small businesses often consider themselves immune to the virus problems facing other people. After all, it seems like most viruses either target big corporations with hundreds of millions of dollars of assets at play, or they target the individual consumer with credit card info on their computer. Well, it looks like small business owners are no longer immune from the world’s virus attacks –

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Microsoft apparently feels threatened by Google Docs. So threatened, in fact, that the company has decided to spend (presumably) millions of dollars creating a round of angry attack advertisements against the free service offered by Google. Five advertisements have been released so far, and all of them are, to say the least, strange. Some of them are cringe-inducing, while others make it diffic

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If you’ve been on the internet or read a newspaper lately, then you may have heard about this Kim Jung-un fellow from North Korea. After taking over leadership of North Korea from his dad, Kim Jong-Il, in 2012, Kim Jung-un has been making a lot of racket about taking over South Korea and unifying the Korean peninsula. Kim Jung-un has also talked about firing rockets at a bunch countries, and

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No device is safe from the wrath of today’s hackers. Google learned that lesson the hard way when a team of hackers used a well-known Android 4.0.4 exploit to hack into Google Glass. Google Glass is the name for Google’s futuristic new set of glasses. Although consumer release is still about a year away, Google Glass Explorers (including celebrities, scientists, computer nerds, and more) ar

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Linux is the most popular open source operating system in the world. But having said that, Linux remains a fringe operating system compared to major players like Windows and Mac OS X. But there’s nothing wrong with third place. Well, there is some good news for Linux fans: it managed to fight off Microsoft’s latest operating system for the last five months. That’s right: teams of open-sou

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It’s no secret that tablet computers are becoming more and more popular every year. Today’s tablet computers are more powerful than many desktops people have at home. And instead of upgrading their machines, people are realizing that they’re perfectly happy with tablets. Well, these consumer trends have started to take their toll on the desktop/laptop PC market. And according to a recent

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Security breaches are an unfortunate part of living a digital lifestyle. We depend on our online accounts for almost everything, and when the security of our online accounts gets breached, “almost everything” we care about gets placed at-risk. On that note, Twitter’s databases were recently hacked, revealing the passwords of 250,000 users. That’s a quarter of a million, which is still a

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If you woke up today and saw a headline that said “Microsoft Market Share Rising”, you would naturally assume that this was due to Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 8. But you would totally be wrong, because a new report suggests that yes – Microsoft’s market share is rising – but it has more to do with Windows 7 than Windows 8. This is significant because it’s the firs

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