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Nielsen found that on average consumers worldwide spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82 percent increase from December 2008 when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. Facebook naturally was the biggest recipient of user eyeballs last month. Twitter remained the fastest growing social site, with unique visitors soaring from 2.7 million unique visitors in December 2008 to 18.1 million in December 2009, a growth of 579 percent, the researcher noted.

When you pop a Blu-ray disc into the LG BD390 ($300, price as of December 14, 2009), prepare to be impressed. The images it delivered to an HDTV were among the best we’ve ever seen.

Q: My iPhone’s touchscreen doesn’t work when I wear my gloves. Do I have any options to frozen fingers?

Acer’s Aspire Z5610 is kind of like a budget version of the Gateway One ZX6810-01 . Both have 23-inch, 1080p-capable multitouch displays and top-notch general performance, but the $900 Acer (price as of December 8, 2009) lacks the $1400 Gateway’s gaming grunt–as well as extras like a TV tuner and a…