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Welcome back to InterrupTech.  Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry.  We cover HP’s new line of computers including the DreamScreen, a digital book outsells hardcover version, Facebook tops 300 Million users, Microsoft fumbles with the Zune again, and Android is picking up steam. Continue Reading »

Digsby, the popular IM and social media client, is getting closer to being the only application you need to access the social web.  Digsby has long had Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and LinkedIn as part of the application, and today is looking to improve on all of them.  It also announced… Continue Reading »

The U.S. Marine Corps have officially banned social networking from military networks.  This means no Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace, among others.  The ban has actually been in place for sometime, but has only just now become official.  Marines who want to access such sites on their personal computers and devices… Continue Reading »

Usernames are going to make Facebook even more friendly with easy to find pages of your friends.  Facebook is finally owning up to the logic of facebook.com/yourname vs. facebook.com/profile.php?/id=982339823.  Facebook opens the door to this fun at 12.01am EDT on Saturday, June 13.  That is right, it is you against… Continue Reading »

Yahoo has announced that the long delayed closing of its Yahoo 360 social networking service will now happen on July 13th.  Yahoo 360 opened with great fanfare in 2005 and was hoped to become a serious competitor to MySpace and Facebook, but it never happened.  The site’s closure was first… Continue Reading »

Facebook has always been plagued with issues when it comes to making money from their wildly popular site.  While Facebook has floundered, MySpace has built partnerships with different companies, including record and production agencies in order to make it extremely profitable.  In a move to build revenue for their site,… Continue Reading »

As just about everybody knows, Twitter is fast becoming one of the biggest social networks out there.  Heck, even Ashton and CNN were apparently battling it out to be top tweeter.  And given that Twitter limits you to just 140 characters, you have to make each one count.  As a… Continue Reading »

The hottest topic on Twitter right now is the Swine Flu outbreak.  The #swineflu tag has exploded and become one of the top 2 trending topics on Twitter search. Swine Flu has killed over 60 people in Mexico and cases have been discovered here in several states, including California, Texas,… Continue Reading »

A Facebook user discovered that a security glitch gave him administrative control over several corporate pages, including those of Microsoft, American Airlines, and Southwest Airlines.  The glitch gave him complete control over the pages. The bug was noticed late Wednesday by Tom Krieglstein, founder of Chicago-based technology training company Swift… Continue Reading »

Technology is a fantastic thing, but sometimes you’ve got to step back and appreciate nature.  How about saving some energy for just one hour? Tomorrow night is Earth Hour.  At 8:30 PM on March 28th, 2009 there is an initiative to turn off your lights for just one hour.  The… Continue Reading »