Gamers: Time to score big – specials galore on Steam

If you are a gamer and you want to score yourself some great games over the next week, and holiday weekend, then you need to head over to Valve’s game store and start prepping your ... Read >

Fire at authorize.net grinds e-commerce to a halt

Score one for bricks and mortar shopping. Seattle based authorize.net was offline for hours this morning following a fire at a data center at Seattle's Fisher's Plaza. Reportedly many companies were affected, but authorize.net is the only one ... Read >

Some really cool laptops, too bad they’re just concepts

The only real extended use of a laptop that I have had is with the one I bought for my wife recently so they have never been high on my priority list of things ... Read >

BREAKING: Shots fired at Apple store in Virgina – one wounded [VIDEO]

The details are still sketchy but an unidentified man has fired at least one shot at the Apple Store in Clarendon, Arlington Virginia, just shortly after the store open this morning. Witness at the ... Read >

Lori Drew case dismissed, and why it’s a good thing

Charges against Lori Drew, the mother who drove Missouri teenager Megan Meier to suicide on MySpace in 2007 have been dismissed. Drew was found guilty of three counts of accessing a computer without authorization in November 2008 over ... Read >

Video: Seann William Scott pitches the “GiPhone”

Like the iPhone, but for guys... get it? Better than the lame pun name, below is a Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards iPhone commercial parody for the "GiPhone." I don't want to spoil the joke, but most of ... Read >

Amaze friends with Jedi-like brainwave power

Want to be the really cool geek on the block with incredible Jedi-like mental powers? Well now you can thanks to Uncle Milton Industries’ new toy called The Force Trainer that is hitting ... Read >

The IE8 puke ad pulled – the warm and fuzzy crowd wins again

Last week I wrote here about the new series of online ads that Microsoft was running for Internet Explorer 8 and truth be told I thought they were all funny as hell, and yes ... Read >

Better than drunk Scrabble: Battleship drinking game

You don't even have to spell stuff! Those of us who grew up in an era where even Commodore 64s and Ataris were somewhat rareish may remember board games. Monopoly was particularly good at keeping you out of ... Read >

Not enough Twitter followers? Pay uSocial to find more

Want to be on Twitter but don’t have the time or social media skills to find followers on your own? If that is the case then a new service from Australian social media marketing ... Read >

Helen Thomas calls Obama administration out on social media smokescreen

Chip Reid and Helen Thomas gave White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs a four-minute chunk of grief over trying to "control the press" in a way Thomas said was worse than even Richard Nixon. Thomas, who has been ... Read >

MySpace now a “digital ghetto”

Abandon your MySpace account for Facebook? You might just be a racist. At a keynote speech during New York's Democracy forum at Lincoln Center, Danah Boyd spoke of the racial disparity and possible reasons for mass abandonment of MySpace for ... Read >