Facebook Leading, Microblogging Growing, World Connecting

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1 in every 5 minutes of time online is now being spent on social networking sites, up from a mere 6% in early 2007. The sites, led by Facebook, now reach 82% of the world’s internet-using population — about 1.2 billion people in total. This growth is happening across countries, with 41 of the 43 countries that the web measurement firm tracks showing penetration of 85% or more.

via ComScore’s 2011 Social Report: Facebook Leading, Microblogging Growing, World Connecting | TechCrunch.

How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million Of Its Android Phone Customers

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That means ~10 million people who bought the phone are going to be stuck on the outdated version 2.3 Gingerbread (or 2.2 Froyo in many cases) until they decide to drop more cash on a new phone.

via How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million Of Its Android Phone Customers – Business Insider.

It’s pointless to support old hardware on phones.  I wonder why this is even an issue?

This is an interesting point I didn’t know and relates to computer architecture.

It also demonstrates the inherent problem in Android phone manufacturers customizing the OS to the point where you can barely recognize Google’s original intentions for design and functionality. Those skins are such a tax on a phone’s hardware that it cripples functionality and makes it so all but the newest phones miss out on updates. So far, Samsung only guarantees Ice Cream Sandwich for its Galaxy S II phones. The Nexus S, which is also made by Samsung and shares similar hardware specs as many Galaxy S phones, will get the Ice Cream Sandwich update, but only because it uses a pure version of Android without the TouchWiz skin. Motorola only guarantees it for its latest Droid Razr. And HTC will issue Ice Cream Sandwich for the Rezoundsome time next year.

WiFi Protected Setup Flaw Can Lead to Compromise of Router PINs

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WPS is a method for setting up a new wireless router for a home network and it includes a way for users to set up the network via an external or internal registrar. In this method, the standard requires a PIN to be used during the setup phase. The PIN often is printed somewhere on the wireless router or access point. The vulnerability discovered in WPS makes that PIN highly susceptible to brute force attempts.

via WiFi Protected Setup Flaw Can Lead to Compromise of Router PINs | threatpost.

“I noticed a few really bad design decisions which enable an efficient brute force attack, thus effectively breaking the security of pretty much all WPS-enabled Wi-Fi routers. As all of the of the more recent router models come with WPS enabled by default, this affects millions of devices worldwide,” Viehbock said in a blog post.

Managed DNS Advanced Feature:Active Failover

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Datacenter and/or server failures are no fun for anyone, especially those responsible for website operations. If you’ve protected yourself by using Active Failover — an advanced feature available for DynECT Managed DNS users — your site will remain live and accessible without any of your visitors knowing the difference.

via Managed DNS Advanced Feature:Active Failover – Dyn.

Pingdom Web site monitoring for 100% uptime. Measure your downtime.

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Pingdom Web site monitoring for 100% uptime. Measure your downtime..

How it works

The Pingdom service monitors websites and servers from multiple locations on the Internet, making sure that they are working. You can use Pingdom to monitor both your public and password-protected websites, your FTP servers, your email servers, and any other kind of service that should be accessible from the Internet.

If your site stops working, Pingdom will alert you immediately. Like a watchdog.

I signed up for the free account that monitors a single server.  We’ll see how well this works.