The latest mobile data from comScore is out, showing Android handsets continuing to outpace others in the market. These new figures obviously pre-date the release of the Verizon iPhone, which is coming this weekend.

At a reported $3 million per 30 second spot , Super Bowl advertising is big business.

A Columbia University professor has published a report that found New York City prostitutes are using Facebook to find clients, Wired Magaizne reported . Seems the internet are the new streets that are being walked

French-born author Jules Verne is being honored with an international Doodle today. The author of numerous works including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) was born on February 8th, 1828.

The five to six days that the Egyptian government closed down the internet and cell phone access cost the country over $90 million dollars, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Google’s Honeycomb OS went head-to-head with Apple’s “Daily News” for release parties, showing off the details of its interface for both users and developers in its Motorola Xoom press event. The battle continued in Superbowl commercials, where Google’s tablet commercials were unafraid of directly attacking the single tablet option of the iPad.

Before I started writing about Google, Bing, Yahoo, and all the rest, I didn’t even know about the existence of half their services.

Google’s productivity services, from Google Docs to Gmail and more, offer plenty of time saving alternatives.

Hotmail has long been a popular service for setting up “side accounts” for email. After all, it’s one of the easiest services to set up quickly, and while it’s not always the most competitive of interfaces for a primary account, it’s more than sufficient for a specialized “throwaway” (your “these people might spam me” account, your “this will distract me if I send it to my work inbox” account, your “I don’t want my spouse to find out about this” account, etc.).