(Mashable) -- Paul Allen, a Google+ watcher whose estimates about the social network's growth have proved accurate in the past, claims that the site now has 62 million users and is adding 625,000 new users per day."It may be the holidays, the TV commercials, the Android 4 signups, celebrity and brand appeal, or positive word of mouth or a combination of all these factors," Allen wrote on his G+ profile page Tuesday, "but there is no question that the number of new users signing up for Google+ each...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Hewlett-Packard announced Thursday that it will continue selling personal computers after all, reversing an earlier decision to exit one of its core business lines.Yet HP now says it believes that PCs should be part of its future.The company shocked Wall Street and the tech industry alike when it announced Aug. 18 that its board was exploring "strategic alternatives" for its Personal Systems unit. That division mainly comprises HP's PC business, which is the world's largest....

With a public beta of Photoshop CS6 arriving tonight, Adobe is moving video editing from a sideshow to center stage, matching the real-world merging of still photography and videography.Don't beat yourself up if you didn't know that some modest video editing abilities are tucked into the premium version of Photoshop CS5.But expect a lot more starting today, when Adobe Systems releases an open beta version of Photoshop CS6 code-named Superstition.The new version brings video from the higher-priced...

* UberMedia, maker of of the Twitter app UberSocial, announced Chime.in, a new social platform centered on relevance and monetization for publishers. "Existing systems don't really have a good way of pulling good content and putting it up top," CEO Bill Gross told Fortune last week. Users create posts called "Chimes," which can include images, videos, polls, and links and are shareable on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. They're easily sortable and searchable by interests, the people sharing them,...

(CNN) -- People around the world began seeing messages from Facebook on Thursday encouraging them to start scrapbooking their life.The service's new Timeline profiles, which Facebook introduced nearly three months ago at its annual conference, is now available to any of the site's 800 million users who decide to activate it. Soon, Facebook will turn it on for everybody with an alert at the top of profiles, the company said in a blog post.Timeline will arrange a user's posts, photos and important...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- As the iPad eats away at personal computer sales, the PC appears to have found a potential savior in ... Apple?It's an unlikely source, but it's true. Ultrabooks, the ultra-thin notebook computers with no hard disk drive or slot for a DVD, are a category of PC that was essentially invented by Apple with its MacBook Air, which debuted in 2008. Now, PC makers are scrambling in their attempts to replicate Apple's secret sauce.Market analysts expect them to succeed: Sales of Ultrabooks...

(CNN) -- Friday's Google "doodle" on the search engine's main page might be one of its most random. But if you don't have scurvy (and we're going to go ahead and assume you do not), you should probably take a moment to say thanks.Instead of its usually multi-hued logo, Google welcomed visitors to its main search page Friday morning with a citrusy image of what appear to be oranges, grapefruits and strawberries growing together in a stylized field.The Google doodles usually are designed to note a...

San Francisco (CNN) -- Verizon Wireless is rebooting its application store for smartphones after a lackluster first attempt.The new storefront, called Verizon Apps, will be presented for free to Verizon customers with Droid phones. It will coexist with Google's Android Market, which comes preloaded on all of its phones.Verizon already offers apps that are exclusively available to its subscribers, such as one with live video of National Football League games.The U.S. cellular giant is set to introduce...

(CNN) -- Like a stereotypical beauty pageant, it looks like thin will be in at the world's largest annual gadget convention next week in Las Vegas.At the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, computer makers will be pushing a new breed of ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops amid a sea of razor-thin smartphones and tablets.Last year, 140,000 people in the technology industry convened at the Las Vegas Convention Center to mingle and gawk at cutting-edge hardware. The organizers expect to welcome...

The main problem with the code we presented earlier is that it didn't take into account the possibility of multiple XMLHttpRequests running concurrently and therefore falling vicitim to the race condition which is a common occurence in asynchronous systems. The problem is that the single global variable req is overwritten as soon as another call is made to the loadXMLDoc() function, effectively terminating any previous calls that have not yet reached the execution state (the processReqChange() function). 1....