| Report: Google+ Users Spent an Average of About 7 Minutes on the Site in March | | Google+ is catching up on a lot of fronts to Facebook, but it's still lagging in one key metric: Time spent. The average user spent 6 minutes 47 seconds on Google+'s site in March vs. 6 hours, 44 minutes on Facebook.com according to figures Nielsen supplied to Mashable. However, that number is down for Facebook. In March 2012, the average was 7 hours, 9 minutes per person.
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| Internet Connects Dying Girl to Her Musical Hero — in a Day | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:53 PM | Chris Taylor |
| New Jersey 19-year-old Marie Sowler was diagnosed with stage 4 leukemia. Her sister and father pitched in with a double bone marrow transplant. Sadly, it didn't work. Marie has been given just days to live. Her fondest wish is to meet Kellin Quinn, lead singer for indie band Sleeping With Sirens. And thanks to the combined information-spreading powers of Reddit and Twitter, that wish looks like it is about to come true.
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| iPad Mini Sales Aren't So Bad After All | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:48 PM | TabTimes |
| Apple component supplier Pegatron dismissed reports that iPad mini demand is stuttering to a halt. Bloomberg journalist Tim Culpan reported that Pegatron CEO Jason Cheng said iPad mini revenues had dropped and were “more on demand, while the price has been stable." Just one day after that report, Cheng is now accusing Culpan of twisting his words.
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| 25 Priceless Texts Only Mom Could Write | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:14 PM | Neha Prakash |
| With Mother's Day just around the corner, it's that time we appreciate all that Mom has done for us over the years. Yes, those 3 a.m. feedings were crucial and packing our lunches was a big deal, but there's something else that they've done that really proves how much they care — texting. We all know moms would much rather pick up a phone and give us kids a ring to chat about our day or make sure we are eating our veggies.
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| McCain Introduces Bill for 'a la Carte' Cable TV | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 7:34 PM | Charlie White |
| Hate having to pay for hundreds of cable TV channels when you watch less than a dozen? How about those blackout rules that make it so you can't watch your favorite NFL team when a home game isn't sold out? If Sen. John McCain gets his way — and that's a big "if" — those two annoyances could be a thing of the past. Sen. McCain introduced a bill Thursday in Congress, the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013.
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| How Much Would It Cost to Be the Great Gatsby? | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 6:48 PM | Chris Taylor |
| The highly anticipated movie from Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, opens this weekend. Whether or not Luhrmann has done justice to Fitzgerald's quintessential Jazz age novel — or even bested the 1970s Robert Redford version — is open to debate. What seems clear is that the filmmaker has remained true to one essential component of Gatsby's character — his sheer opulence.
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| Tastiest Vines of All Time: Ryan Gosling Refusing Cereal | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 6:31 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Ryan Gosling, if you don't eat your cereal, you'll get all skinny and look more Mickey Mouse Club than Notebook. Film director Ryan McHenry is trying to get the dreamy actor to stuff his belly with wheaty nuggets of breakfast goodness, but the Gos is having no part of it.
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| Your Future Samsung TV May Bend and Twist | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 5:22 PM | Laptop Magazine |
| A new Samsung patent describes a TV with a flexible display that viewers could bend by using a remote control, just like changing the channel.
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| Meet the World's Cutest Baseball Fanatic | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:49 PM | Sam Laird |
| "CC" is 18 months old and probably knows more about the New York Yankees than most grown-up baseball fans. Watch her drop knowledge in this adorable video.
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| How to Hack Google Like NSA's Top Cyberspies | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:37 PM | Nextgov |
| There’s a reason they call it cyberspace: Like space, the Internet has grown so expansive that we’ll likely never know all its secrets. Indeed, cyberspace is so deep and complex that even the National Security Agency’s top cyberspies are struggling to comprehend it. But that hasn’t stopped them from trying.
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| Twitter Buys Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:10 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Twitter has acquired a scalable computing startup called Ubalo, the two companies announced Thursday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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| Texas Congressman Will Arm Twitter Follower With an AR-15 | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 3:28 PM | The Daily Dot |
| Many members of congress use Twitter to stay in touch with their constituents. Some use it to arm them. Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), used his Twitter account Wednesday to announce an AR-15 giveaway. He invited all interested U.S. citizens to submit their names in hopes of winning the same kind of assault weapon that was used in the Sandy Hook massacre and has since become a symbol for those opposing new gun regulations.
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| YouTube Introduces Paid Channels | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 3:24 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| After months of rumors, YouTube finally introduced a pilot program for paid channels on Thursday. YouTube will now let a few dozen of popular channels charge viewers a subscription fee of 99 cents or more per month, the company announced in a blog post. Each of these channels will offer two weeks of free viewing before charges kick in and some will provide discounts for those who sign up for an annual subscription.
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| Facebook Home Hits 'About 1 Million' Downloads, Looks to the Future | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 3:19 PM | Emily Price |
| Four weeks ago, Facebook launched Facebook Home, a launcher for Android that brings the social network's experience front and center. The company on Thursday invited a small group of reporters to its campus to discuss Facebook Home, its successes and challenges, and what we can expect to see added to the platform in the future.
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| New Bill Legalizing Cellphone Unlocking Introduced in House | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 3:05 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| A new bill making it legal to unlock your cellphone or other mobile device has arrived in the House of Representatives. The Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 would also make it legal to circumvent digital rights management (DRM) locks to use protected content in a way that doesn't violate copyright law and to develop and sell cellphone unlocking software.
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| Report: Amazon Working on 3D-Capable Smartphone | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 2:24 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| For more than a year, there have been rumors that Amazon is working on a smartphone. Now, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is actually working on two. The Journal reported Thursday that Amazon is "developing a wide-ranging line-up of gadgets," including two smartphones, one of which will have a 3D screen.
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| Tesla Model S Gets 99 out of 100 Rating From Consumer Reports | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 1:23 PM | Charlie White |
| Consumer Reports has fallen in love with the Tesla Model S. On its scale of one to 100, the $70,000+ electric car scored a 99, tied with the highest rating the highly regarded publication has ever awarded to any car. It's an enormous victory for Elon Musk's growing electric car company, which showed its first profit last quarter.
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| The Old Spice Guy Is Selling Beer in Israel | | Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:46 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Have you ever wondered what became of the Old Spice Guy a.k.a. Isaiah Mustafa? It turns out he's alive and well and selling beer in Israel. In this ad for Maccabee Beer, Mustafa employs some of his trademark eloquence ("Did you ever taste the silent splendor of a sunrise?") to convince a bar patron that Maccabee's new taste is actually good.
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