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Scammers posted a number of fake games on the Android Market over the weekend, purporting to be titles from Rovio, the company that makes “Angry Birds.” Google, however, appears to be on top of the situation and has removed the fake apps. Nonetheless, it’s a reminder ...

It’s no secret that the world caught Bieber fever in 2011. Teen pop star Justin Bieber was the most searched person of the year on Bing.com, knocking out Kim Kardashian for the coveted top spot. Search engine Bing announced on Monday its “most searched” lists for 2011...

The official specifications and pictures of the upcoming Motorola Droid 4 have been unearthed by Droid Life, revealing a device very similar to the Droid Razr, with the addition of a physical QWERTY keyboard. The device sports a 4-inch qHD screen – slightly smaller than RAZR’s 4.3-...

Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demographic with the search engine giant’s five-month-old social network. The guide provides political types with a step-by-step walk through for crea...

This is one of those things that most email marketing experts agree on – but we’ve little recent data to prove the point. My theory is that it’s such “conventional wisdom” that people have stopped testing it – the same way they don’t do any more studies t...

Open the pod bay doors, Kinect 2. The next version of Kinect — Microsoft’s hands-free, gesture-controlled gaming peripheral for Xbox 360 — is rumored to have such high processing power that it can read lips and even detect the emotions of its user. If that sounds scary, well, ye...

Foreign Policy, a magazine and website dedicated to global politics and economics, released its 2011 list of top global leaders active on Twitter. Included are politicians, economists, journalists and political activists. Here’s a sample: @ClintonTweet ...

Passengers on Australian flight Regional Express ZL319 had an unfortunate surprise Friday, when a passenger’s iPhone 4 started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow. Luckily, no one was harmed, according to a Regional Express press release. According to the re...

StyleCaster Media Group has raised $1 million in Series A-1 funding from a number of notable individuals in Silicon Valley, including Owen Van Natta, former EVP of Zynga, CEO of MySpace and CRO of Facebook; David Ko, chief mobile officer at Zynga; and Mike Keriakos, president and cofounder of E...

Virgin America has offered up a private flight for you and your friends via Gilt Groupe, as well as the opportunity to name the plane you fly on. The flight for you and up to 146 friends is listed for $60,000 on the exclusive deals site. Find out more about the unique deal in the video...