To Do This Weekend: Pore Over the 1940 Census

Look up your relatives, the former residents of your house, or celebrities in the public release of the 1940 census.
Elvis Presley was five years old at the time of the 1940 census.

AllThingsD Sprouts Up at the Brussels Forum, Rubbing Elbows and Talking Tech

What is AllThingsD’s Arik Hesseldahl doing in Brussels, anyway? Talking tech, naturally.
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Flash! Inevitable Scheduled to Occur! China Smartphone Market to Become World’s Biggest!

China is fast becoming the engine driving the global smartphone market.
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Fujitsu Supercomputer Remains World Champ, but IBM and Intel Are the Real Computing Kings

The latest edition of the semiannual Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is out. Strangely, there’s no movement among the Top 10, and yet there’s still plenty to talk about.
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Fujitsu Beefs Up Its Best Supercomputer

A Japanese computer that this summer was the most powerful in the world just got a little more powerful, but not so much as to catch the brawniest American machine. At least not yet.
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Operation Shady RAT: The Biggest Hacking Attack Ever

The biggest network intrusion ever has been carried out since 2006 against organizations in 72 countries. You get three guesses who the attacker is thought to be, but you probably only need one. Need a hint? It wasn’t LulzSec.
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Vivek Kundra On Pushing the Federal Government Cloudward

The CIO of the United States oversees the biggest IT budget on the planet. He has a plan to move 78 different government IT projects to cloud-based services and save at least $5 billion within one year. He shared his list with us, and we’re sharing it with you.
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Upwardly Mobile Email Usage

A self-evident, but nonetheless noteworthy, data point with which to begin the day: More of us than ever are checking our email via mobile devices, and we’re doing it more frequently–to the detriment of Web mail usage.

Nielsen: Young People Across The Globe Love Their Cell Phones (But Use Them Differently)

According to a a new report, China is the biggest spot for the mobile Internet, with 73 percent of Chinese youths age 15 to 24 citing mobile Internet usage as among the things they used their cell phones for in the past month. That compares to less than half of American and British young people and less than a quarter of those in the rest of Europe. Meanwhile, young women in most countries were more likely than males to send text or picture messages, although the opposite was true in India, China and Brazil.

Google Expected to Outgrow Apple in Mobile Display Ad Market in 2011

The mobile advertising market is ballooning, as is Google’s share of it. Of the $877 million spent on mobile advertising in the United States this year, 59 percent of it went to the search sovereign, according to an updated assessment by IDC. In the mobile display advertising market, things were a bit different…but not for long.
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GSA Goes Google

LinkedIn Buys ChoiceVendor