TECHNOLOGY TROUBLE

700,000 PEOPLE CALLED THE FEDERAL DIGITAL TV HOTLINE LAST WEEK:

For the past several months . . . even YEARS . . . the Federal Communications Commission has been warning people about the nationwide switch from ANALOG TV . . . to DIGITAL TV.

Well, the switch was finally made on Friday, and according to the FCC, the federal digital TV hotline was swamped last week . . . with nearly 700,000 calls from people having trouble operating their digital converter boxes.

Overall, more than 317,000 people called the hotline on Friday alone. (Google News)

(--In other words, yes, a lot of people procrastinated on the whole digital switchover . . . . If you're one of those people and you're having trouble with your digital signal, you can call the hotline at 1-888-CALL-FCC.)

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MORE THAN 500,000 PEOPLE GRABBED THEIR OWN FACEBOOK VANITY URL . . . IN THE FIRST 15 MINUTES:

You may have heard that last Friday, Facebook started a new service allowing users to set up their own vanity URL. (--Basically, that means they can set up their own, personalized URL . . . such as www.Facebook.com/1055JYY, for example . . . in order to direct other people to their Facebook page.)

Anyway, according to a Facebook spokesman, in the first SEVEN MINUTES, more than 345,000 people had set up their own, personalized URL. -And in 15 MINUTES, more than 500,000 had. (Tech Crunch)