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Modern Warfare 3, Activision’s latest first-person shooter, hit store shelves like a runaway train. The game, part of the Call of Duty franchise, was predicted to be the top-selling video game despite healthy competition from EA’s Battlefield 3 released in … Continue reading →

An Occupy Wall Street commercial will air Wednesday night during the same show that routinely refers to the protesters as “far-left loons.” Advertising spots on The O’Reilly Factor were crowdfunded using a startup fundraising platform and purchased through Google TV … Continue reading →

Apple’s voice assistant Siri will remain exclusive to the iPhone 4S, Apple has confirmed. In an answer to an inquiry from the developer Michael Steeber, asking about a possible special Siri-enabled iOS build for iPod touch and iPhone 4 owners, … Continue reading →

Biscotti TV Phone on an HDTV Click here to view this gallery. Your next video conferencing solution could be Biscotti. No, not the crescent-shaped cookie, but a $199 device that’s shaped like a Biscotti and is officially called “Biscotti TV … Continue reading →

Google has unveiled Google+ Badges for brand pages, a widget that lets brands promote their presence on Google’s social network. Google+ Badges are similar in form and function to Facebook‘s Like Box social plugin. The easily embeddable widget lets users … Continue reading →

Several Facebook fan Pages encouraging rape and violence against women have been taken down. While the removal of the pages are in accordance with the social network’s policies, many people are giving credit to a change.org petition that has more … Continue reading →

Legendary funny-man Eddie Murphy has quit as host for the the 2012 Oscars. Murphy left just one day after Brett Ratner, a producer for the awards show, resigned after using a derogatory slur in a press conference for his latest … Continue reading →

If you were to throw a dart at Google+, it would be more than twice as likely to land on a man’s profile as a woman’s profile. Although the social network, according to recent estimates, has improved its gender ratio … Continue reading →

It’s a big week for Mozilla, as Firefox celebrates its seventh birthday and Firefox 8 hits the interwebs. In recent years, Firefox has lost ground to browsers such as Google Chrome. Yet Firefox remains a significant and important part of … Continue reading →

Some CEOs like to shout their acquisitions from the rooftops. And then there’s Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who would prefer that you didn’t know his company just bought a startup called Yap. Here’s how cloak-and-dagger it got: Yap technically merged … Continue reading →