For those of us in the tech industry, it’s hard to believe that anyone isn’t online in one fashion or another. But if you look closely at your own family and friends, you will probably find someone who still doesn’t use the Internet regularly – or even at all. CNET has posted a great video about the 5 reasons people don’t use the Internet. If you want to better understand the remaining holdouts be sure to check it out.

Anybody who loves computers has watched with anticipation the growth of solid state drives over the past couple of years. The promise of super fast OS and application load times is enough to make every geek drool. Unfortunately,  small capacities and really high prices have kept SSD’s out of the hands of even the most hard core gadget freaks. But over the past few months prices have dropped enough on the higher capacity drives to make a new SSD a very tempting upgrade. Now the question is do you really need one. Lifehacker.com tries to answer that question with a great post on the type of users who will benefit from an SSD and those who won’t.

Sony is continuing to push into the high end consumer digital camera market with a couple of new offerings. Though still on the amateur side, the new Sony Alpha A390 and A290 are packed full of features and are well built. Check out the quick look that engadget.com got of the two cameras.

Skype is jumping on the World Cup marketing bandwagon by offering free land-line phone calls for month in several countries across the globe. If you have friends or family in other parts of the world you may want to take advantage of this offer and save a few bucks on your international phone charges. Check out the countries available and the specifics of this deal at gizmodo.com

This upcoming summer, if you plan on taking a vacation or two, make sure you don’t find yourself with an armload of junk from with the name of the amusement park or oddities museum your kids made you visit. The “World Touristiness Map” may save you aggravation – and money – this summer by helping you avoid the most “touristy” places on the planet. This Google Maps mash-up has analyzed images from photo site Panoramio.com to help you avoid those places overcrowded by your fellow main. To find a great location that’s not overrun with khaki shorts and Hawaiian shirts take a look at this great use of Google Maps via Lifehacker.com.

I was surprised to learn that the iPhone is the fastest growing gaming platform in the world. Of course most of the games people are playing on the iPhone are digital versions of classic board, card, and strategy games and not the one’s you’ll find on your Xbox 360 or PS3. But the type of games you’ll find on the Nintendo DS or Playstation Portable are making their way to our mobile phones. Gaming blog Kotaku.com takes a look at what the upcoming iPhone 4 may mean for mobile gamers.

With a heated up browser market, more and more makers are touting their speed as the big reason to make the switch to a new browser. One of the big benchmarks is how fast can the browser process JavaScript – client-side code used in some fashion by most websites that can drag a page down if your browser can’t process it quickly. The new lightweight king – Google’s Chrome browser – touts a small footprint with quick load times and fast script processing. But according to techcrunch.com, Google’s own JavaScript speed benchmarker, Sputnik, reveals that currently both Opera and Safari are beating Googles browser. Read the full article here.