DIGITAL LIFE

Motorola will begin selling the new Droid Razr smartphone Nov. 11 at 11:11 am, but you should wait to buy the Galaxy Nexus in a couple weeks. They both will be on Verizon, so they can take advantage of the 4G network, and even though Galaxy Nexus doesn't have a price yet, it won't be much more than the $300 Droid Razr.

Tonight, Venus, Mercury and the red supergiant star Antares will form an almost perfect vertical line on the southwestern horizon. The trio of the two innermost planets in our solar system and orange-hued Antares, the brightest star in the Scorpio constellation, will angle 'up' and slightly to the right approximately 30 minutes after local sunset.

Korean electronics giant Samsung is gearing up to release another two devices to swell the ranks of its popular Galaxy line: the Galaxy SII 'Skyrocket' and the Galaxy Nexus.

Motorola will begin selling the Droid Razr Nov. 11 and the recasting of the highly successful Razr brand that began in 2004 will be complete. Back then, Razr was a clam shell feature phone, but in 2011, it will live again as a next level smartphone that boasts the thinnest profile in the world.

Android and iOS mobile devices have grown their presence in the mobile gaming market from 19-percent market share in 2009 to 58 percent in 2011. The two challenge long-running mobile gaming champions Nintendo and Sony.

In preparation for the new Xbox 360 updates coming through Xbox Live, Microsoft is updating its Xbox.com Web site with more social features and a cleaner design. One of the biggest features to come is the Beacon System, which allows gamers to let their friends know what they are interested in playing.

Galaxy Nexus and Droid Razr are two of the thinnest smartphones out there, but they are also two of the most compelling, powerful and fastest of the bunch. Where iPhone 4S was an upgrade to the iPhone 4 (a serious upgrade to be sure), Samsung and Motorola have totally new designs with all the tech trimmings.

iPhone 4S' Siri and Samsung's Voice Talk are two similar features on two of 2011's hottest mobile phones. Both features allow users to send text messages, make phone calls and play music among other things.

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 comes out Nov. 15 and brings with it a host of new characters and tweaks to returning fighters.

Amazon responded to competitors' accusations that its Kindle Fire limits users' access to apps with an announcement that the device will offer thousands of apps when it ships to customers next week.

Apple's App Store is huge, so to help you comb through the thousands of potentially awesome apps, be sure to try Crosswalk, the Pandora-like app finder that suggests new apps for you.

The Radiant storytelling in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ will ensure an infinite amount of quests to perform that will be randomly generated based on where the player has been and what they have done.

Samsung is almost through rolling out their holiday lineup of smartphones in 2011, and two of the best available now are the Galaxy S2 and Focus S. Galaxy S2 is the pinnacle of Samsung technology and their bestselling device the world over. In November, Samsung will debut the Galaxy Nexus, a true next generation device, but it's really a Google phone manufactured by Samsung.

Taiwanese computer maker Asus introduced its new Eee Pad Transformer Prime Wednesday, the first tablet to utilize a quadruple core. The Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset, which itself was unveiled only a day earlier, is said to offer up to three times the graphics performance of its predecessor, the Tegra 2, and a 60 percent lower rate of power consumption.

Apple's newest update to its mobile system, iOS 5, brought with it some changes to the Safari Web browser, and Microsoft did the same to their system when they updated Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) with Internet Explorer 9.

Activision Blizzard’s extremely popular fantasy MMO has lost another 800,000 subscribers as of Sept. 30. The player count is now down to 10.3 million players.

With the holidays around the corner, smartphone makers have been busy rolling out some of their best devices. From the Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) to the Motorola Droid Razr, Android devices in particular having been strutting their stuff, giving the much-hyped iPhone 4S a run for its money.

Besides already being the most popular mobile system in the world, Google will be adding yet another update to the Android system, nicknamed Ice Cream Sandwich. So far, all of the Android versions in use have been identified using a designated sweet treat as its moniker.

The robbers struck two shipments of the game, making off with almost 10,000 copies of the latest “Call of Duty.”

More and more smartphone makers are releasing new devices this month, and almost all of them have bigger screens than the iPhone 4S. It's holiday time, and that means retailers bring out their best wares in time for the shopping rush.

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 adds 12 new characters to the game, joining the 36 fighters available for MvC3. That brings the total roster up to 48 characters, with two more available as downloadable content.

Kindle-Fire ships Nov. 14, just in time for Black Friday, and because it's the shopping season, there are a slew of tablets out there vying for a piece of the Amazon action. Kindle-Fire has the advantage of being tied right to Amazon's online store, something none of the other devices in this list have (besides access to Amazon.com)

Asteroid 2005 YU55 is scheduled to make its closest approach to Earth today at 3:28 p.m. PST (6:28 p.m. EST/1128 UTC).

Barnes & Noble's new Nook Tablet e-reader debuted Nov. 7, just in time for the shopping season and exactly one week before the Amazon Kindle-Fire ships out to people who pre-ordered it.

The launch of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is just a few days away and gamers couldn't be more excited. If there is any proof needed just check out this Skyrim rap posted on YouTube by Dan Bull.

The game was first supposed to launch on the PC on Oct. 18, but was delayed to Nov. 15. The game was pushed back again and will ship in North America on Nov. 22.

Bookseller Barnes & Noble rolled out its Nook Tablet yesterday and it's going to be a neck-and-neck race between B&N's latest offering and the Amazon Kindle Fire, which was announced earlier this year.

Samsung's Focus Flash and the HTC Radar are two new smartphones that don't cost $200, but also probably will be lost in the shuffle of high-end devices now coming out for the shopping season.

Five months after its initial launch, social network Google+ launched Pages, its answer to Facebook Fan pages - public profiles linked to brands and organizations. Previously, Google+ refused to allow companies to set up such profiles on the grounds that it had not yet established ground rules for doing so.