by Claudine Zap Forget about " 2012 ." We have seen the end of the world, and it's happening now. OK, not to our planet, but light years away a star like our sun is in its death throes. A dramatic â?" and eerie â?" video captured for the first time by researchers at Whipple Observatory  in Arizona gives the clearest look yet of what happens when a star dies â?" and gives us clues to the fate of our own sun. The death watch goes something like this. As reported by Physorg.com ,

Sree Kamireddy, Bing Program Manager and self-proclaimed "Privacy Champ" has written a post on the Bing blog discussing how Microsoft handles your Bing search history information. More specifically, Kamireddy explains how this is actually in users' hands. Kamireddy explains that Bing Offers the following: - Off/On switch: With one click, you can choose to turn history on or off directly on the search results page or, if youre returning, on the homepage.

Well, it's official: Facebook is freaking huge. Today, comScore released some statistics regarding November, and during that month, the social network managed to hit (and pass) a very significant milestone. We'll let Andrew Lipsman, Director of Industry Analysis at comScore, reveal his own data. On the comScore Voices blog, Lipsman wrote, "For the first time in its history, Facebook.com surpassed 100 million monthly U.S.

Google's future of search is looking incredibly bright, but it's bound to be more than a little disconcerting for privacy advocates because it means Google will act on the data it collects on users. ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick put Google's future search focuses, originally relayed by Google's Marissa Mayer to the Telegraph in three buckets: Translated search, social/personalized search and intuitive search. The translated search is a great idea and seems harmless.

Image via Wikipedia Last month, "unfriend" was named Oxford Dictionary's word of the year for 2009. This afternoon, our friends at Experian Hitwise analyzed the top 300 search terms for 2009 and Facebook was the top-searched term overall. Now, if only I could convince my kids to friend me on Facebook. But I digress. This is the first year that the social networking Website has been the top search term overall, accounting for 0.67 percent of all searches. In fact,

Ask's Dictionary.com has appointed a new President - Shravan Goli. He replaces Doug Leeds, who was named President of Ask.com-U.S., in October . Goli will report to Scott Garell, President of Ask Networks, and will be responsible for leading the strategy and overall business for Dictionary.com. "Shravan's hands-on operational expertise and innovative product development talents make him the ideal executive to take Dictionary.com to the next level of success," says Garell.

New research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 4 percent of cell phone owners ages 12 to 17 have sent sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of themselves to someone else on a cell phone. Pew found 15 percent of teens that age have received this kind of image of someone they know personally on their cell phone.

by Mike Krumboltz Senator Joe Lieberman has never been one to shy away from controversy. The Connecticut lawmaker and former Democratic vice presidential candidate caused a huge stir when he spoke on John McCain 's behalf at the Republican National Convention in 2008. Now Sen. Lieberman is back in the political spotlight, thanks to his opposition to health care reform. Until very recently, Sen.

Experian Hitwis e has just released two significant data of 2009 - top-search term and top-visited site with Facebook and Google earning the top spot respectively. Facebook beats dislodged last years top-searched term - MySpace. While Google obviously retained its last year's position. Moving from last year's 10th spot, Facebook accounted for 2.48% of the top 300 searches in 2009.  Including other variations of searches related to Facebok such as facebook.com,

comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 43 days of the November â?" December 2009 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, nearly $21 billion has been spent online, marking a 4-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week ending December 13 reached $4.74 billion in spending, ranking as the heaviest online spending week on record.