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Now with Activision ready for another record-breaking installment of the CoD franchise, the game publisher has filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum last week to stop Scottsdale, Arizona-based Domains by Proxy, Inc., the current operator of the ModernWarfare3.com, from further using the site.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday that it had arrested 16 individuals across the country allegedly responsible for cyber attacks on PayPal's website and connected with the prankster and "hacktivist" group Anonymous.

Although Facebook is the most popular site in America, consumers "don't like" the social networking site, according to the 2010 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report, produced in partnership with ForeSee Results. Facebook scored 64 on the ACSI's 100-point scale, which puts its satisfaction even lower than IRS e-filers.

Google didn't really know what it unleashed when it banned Anonymous form its social network site Google+. The group has announced that it would be launching its own social networking site, called "AnonPlus" after Google+ banned Anonymous or 'yourannonnews' from the site.

The 400 bookstores under the Borders, Waldenbooks, Borders Express and Borders Outlet names will be closing shop in the U.S. after 40 years of existence, highlighting the decline of the hardcover and paperback bookstores worldwide.

Microsoft announced Monday that it is issuing a monetary reward in the amount of US$250,000 for new information that results in the arrest of operators of the Rustock botnet.

The LulzSec hacking group has attacked the website of the British tabloid Sun and posted a fake story announcing the death of the Sun owner Rupert Murdoch

Hacking group LulzSec defaced on Monday the website of U.S. tabloid The Sun, posting a fake article that media mogul Rupert Murdoch had been found dead.

It appears that Microsoft is planning a foray into the social networking scene with a new project called "Tulalip". The experimental project was revealed after Fusible.com spotted a teaser on socl.com, a domain owned by Microsoft.

Telstra's new offerings in Australia this month include devices known as the Android superphones: HTC Corp.'s HTC Sensation, dubbed as the ultimate media smartphone, and Samsung's Galaxy S II, tagged as Australia's fastest smartphone. With perennial market leaders Nokia, Apple and Research in Motion failing to launch any major offerings this year, devices running on Google's Android operating system this year. For one, Samsung has sold 3 million units of the Galaxy S II within 5...

Google Inc. told analysts that its new social networking service now has 10 million users, just two weeks into its soft release. Although top social network Facebook has more than 750 million users worldwide, the figures still represent overwhelming growth, given that Google+ is still in its beta and trial version and is in invite-only mode.

U.S. government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton confirmed Tuesday that certain of its data files ended up posted on the Internet due to an illegal attack.

Microsoft Corp. announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles, California, that it is retiring its Windows XP operating system and the support for the operating system will end in three years.Kicking off the four-day WPC 2011 event, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said 640,000 partners have made Windows 7 the fastest-selling operating system in history and indicated that with future versions in development, partners can be confident in their bets on Windows for phones, PCs, server...

Google has admitted that it has run out of disk space for its Google+ social networking service according to its SVP of social networking, Vic Gundotra.

Just like Craigslist, Cracker has sections devoted to jobs, stuff, cars, community, real estate, housing for rent and sale, services, and dating and personals.

DSL may still have the lead in fixed-line broadband subscribers but that lead won't last. According to a report from the industry analyst firm Ovum, FTTH and FTTB will surpass DSL's market lead in the Asia Pacific region by 2014.

Youtube's getting a makeover and it is cosmic. With all the new designs Google's rolling out for its sites the search engine giant is now waving its styling wand over YouTube

A research team from North Carolina State University headed by professor Xuxian Jiang discovered early this month a trojanised app called Fast Racing, hiding malware which it called 'Golddream'.

The Winklevoss Twins are set to continue their endless legal fight with Facebook. Why do you think they persist with court action after court action? Because Facebook has only just got started and they know that.

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Google Inc. is facing more patent litigation as it has increased its dominance in the industry, and could spend billions to buy patents or defend itself against litigation. The Palo Alto, California-based company owner of the world's most popular search engine, the most used operating system platform (Android) for smartphones, and potentially a social network (Google+) that could rival Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg divulged his "awesome" news at a press conference in Facebook's Palo Alto, California headquarters: Skype would be bringing video-chat capabilities to Facebook, which, he says, now has 750 million users.

The 36-day trial of Casey Anthony, accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008, brought minute-to-minute updates to people's smartphones and computers. For many people following Twitter and the massive media coverage, Casey should have been given the death penalty. The seven-woman, five-man jury in Orange County, Florida, after deliberating for just a day, gave her a "not guilty" verdict, sparking outrage from across the globe.

Internet subscribers in Australia grew by 17 percent in 2010 while the average amount of data downloaded rose by a further 29 per cent over the same period, according to research released today by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

Hackers hit FoxNews.com's Twitter account to send fake messages that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot dead at a restaurant in Iowa. Nokia Oyj has cut its smartphone prices in Europe by as much as 15 percent to boost sales. Zynga, maker of "FarmVille," "CityVille" and other games played on Facebook, is aiming to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering.

The Social Network, a film about Mark Zuckerberg's founding of Facebook and the resulting lawsuits, was a worldwide box-office hit last year. With Facebook's 700 million active users and other and the coming of its most serious rival yet, Google+, social networking sites are generating massive traffic. Another movie about a social network would certainly generate interest from audiences around the globe.

Users who want Google's Realtime Search will have to look elsewhere for the feature because the search engine has apparently disabled it for good. On July 2nd Google's access to Twitter's special firehose expired and it will no longer be available on the search engine.

Hackers took over a Twitter account belonging to US broadcaster Fox News and posted a series of tweets declaring that President Obama had been assassinated.

"Going on a diet? Have a Pascal Swirl" is just among the many random pages in forums and Facebook that have sprung up like mushrooms.