Amrutha Gayathri

President Obama's twitter account has 8.6 million followers and counting. But it has been his White House staff that has been tweeting on his behalf. But today, Obama's twitter followers were greeted by a tweet that notified the public that from now on, his tweets will be signed -BO. Welcome to a new @BarackObama. From now on, #Obama2012 staff will manage this account; tweets from the President will be signed-BO, Obama's tweet read.

It looks like the Pottermore website, ready for launch in five days, could be an MMORPG, which stands for 'Massively multiplayer online role-playing game'. The speculation is supported by the Pottermore Trademark description as published in Trademarkia.com, which describes it as Providing multiple-user access to a global computer information network; providing on-line chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among users in the field of general interest; pr...

Within hours of Representative Anthony Weiner's disgraceful resignation from Congress that ended the long sexting scandal, Porn magnet Larry Flynt offered him a lucrative internet job with his internationally known porn publishing company.

The rumor mills are churning out more as the world can't wait to see what is brewing behind the curtains of the newly announced website Pottermore. The brilliant purple image currently displayed on the website is rather blank and doesn't point towards any direction, except that the wait will be over in six days.

A German teenager accused of stealing unreleased tracks of Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake and selling them to fans was jailed on Thursday for 18 months. The 18-year old, who called himself DJ Stolen, operated from his parents' home. He was found guilty of computer break-ins by a court in Duisburg, Germany.

Microsoft released findings of a study on emerging forms of Internet scam that target English-language markets and costs victims on average USD 875.

Within hours of the Al Qaeda's announcement appointing Ayman al-Zawahiri as Osama Bin Laden's successor, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted that the terror network's new chief is no match for his predecessor.

The game was left to rot in a development hell forever. Finally, when released after a 15 year hiatus, Duke Nukem Forever was welcomed with Metacritic average of 49/100 (Xbox 360) spread across 41 different media outlets (current status). Nevertheless, his loyal fan base catapulted the Duke to the top of UK Videogame chart knocking critic's pet, Rockstar's L.A. Noire, from top.

LulzSec, the hacker group responsible for security breach of several high profile targets including CIA, FBI affiliate, Sony, Nintendo, Fox and PBS has released the stolen data from the SonyPictures.com which includes personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts. LulzSec tweeted moments ago providing the link to download the stolen data torrent through BitTorrent site 'The Pirate Bay'.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) public website went offline on Wednesday during the early evening hours of ET with tweets between hackers, moments later, indicating cold war.

According to an Al Qaeda-affiliated website, Egypt-born Ayman al-Zawahri has succeeded Osama bin laden as head of the terror network. Al-Zawahri, who will turn 60 next week, had been bin Laden's second in command before the latter was killed in a US Commando operation in Pakistan, last month. Zawahri had declared, earlier this month, the organizations decision to go ahead with the campaign against the United States and its allies, in response to bin Laden's death.

LulzSec did it again and this time it isn't 'just another target'. In a major embarrassment for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), their public website went offline on Wednesday during the early evening hours of ET, within 20 minutes of LulzSec's tweet: Tango down - cia.gov - for the lulz. The world's most famous spy agency website was taken out for about a couple of hours before it was back online.

Everybody is gearing up for a date with a moon that will turn scarlet in the shadow of Earth. You are lucky if you manage to be in Africa, Central Asia, South America, Europe, Australia or Philippines because you will be the ones to witness total lunar eclipse.

If rumors can be believed Microsoft will announce Xbox 720 at E3 2012. An industry source at Crytek was quoted by Videogamer.com, who revealed that Microsoft wants to make its new console announcement ahead of rival Sony and will do so in the next 12 months and 'likely' at next year's E3.

Lady Gaga says she writes her best songs while drifting off to sleep and records them in her cell phone that she doesn't forget them in the morning. Gaga told British TV host Paul O'Grady that most of her inspiration comes just before sleep. I just have to (write songs). Sometimes in the middle of night when I'm falling asleep I have a lot of ideas, then wake up and record them into my phone and send it to my producers and then I fall asleep, pop star was quoted as saying.

It has been a quite successful run for the anonymous hacker group Lulz Security, responsible for the security breach of corporations and government agencies including PBS, Sony, Nintendo, Fox, FBI affiliate Infragard, US Senate, and Bethesda Softworks among its high profile targets. The group still manages to tweet and communicate through Pastebin and their own website without a domain-seize threat from federal agencies. The virtually connected members of the group with the face of a caricature,...

These transparent planes would actually make people want to go up in the sky to have a clear look at the world and beyond. Planemakers Airbus unveiled, in London, the transparent beauties we will be flying in 40 years from now, complete with see-through aircraft cabin, 'intelligent' cabin wall membranes and interactive games. Though the idea has been announced to the world back in September 2010, the aircraft makers have now come up with a blue-print

If you think MacBook Airs and Chromebooks are apples and oranges, hold on. With the price of a MacBook Air you might get two Chromebooks (or even three, if it's the cheapest Chromebook); but will MacBook Airs retain their special place when pitted against Chromebooks? Should you buy a Chromebook or a MacBook Air?

A 44-year-old man accused of placing a hidden camera in the unisex washroom of a Starbucks Cafe in Brandon, Florida, was found dead in a hotel room in Punta Gorda, Florida, on Sunday, police said.

It sounds almost surreal. A place where you can login and order marijuana to LSD, which will be delivered on your doorstep by the US Postal department, obviously clueless, after you pay for the drug through bitcoin. All you need to do is become a Tor network member and open a bitcoin account, both completely legal. Though online transactions and delivery to your address is part of the whole process, the authorities are struggling to shut down the drug store or identify the users. Word of the mou...

Oscar winning actor Billy Bob Thornton's daughter Amanda Brumfield, 32, was found guilty of manslaughter of a 1 year old baby, the daughter of her best friend. The murder case was being tried in the same Orlando courthouse where the much hyped Casey Anthony first degree murder case was unfolding. The baby, Olivia Madison Garcia, who died in October 2008 while she was in the care of her mother's best friend, was also the goddaughter of Brumfield.

The wife of Representative Anthony Weiner is pregnant with the couple's first child, according to a New York Times report citing three sources with knowledge of the situation. Weiner's wife had earlier made it clear that she would stand by her husband even after he had admitted to have sent sexually charged material over internet to several women. Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had married Rep. Weiner a year ago.

MTV Skins, the racy teen series, will not be aired anymore. The network pulled the plug on the racy teen series just shy of a second season, MTV confirmed on Thursday.

Looks like Google inadvertently (not exactly sure if it was inadvertant) played a role in wrecking the Wi-Fi network at the Apple's WWDC during the Keynote. Greg Kumparak, live-blogger of Techcrunch, says that Google apparently planted a Trojan horse at WWDC, though the company most probably might be unaware of it.

The US first lady will don a cameo role in the upcoming episode of Nickelodeon's popular comedy series iCarly. The episode is written specifically for Michelle, and is likely to be aired in January. Michelle's guest appearance is in order to promote the Joining Forces initiative.

Citigroup confirmed a security breach at Citi Account Online, which was discovered by the authorities recently during a routine monitoring. The names, account numbers and contact information, including email addresses of the customers have been compromised. More critical information like date of birth, social security numbers, card expiration date and card security code (CVV) have not been accessed by the hackers, Citi said.

The latest reports from Forensics says that someone from Anthony family have been conducting Wikipedia searches with suspicious keywords like 'Chloroform', 'death', 'internal bleeding', 'hand to hand combat' and 'chest trauma'. The digital information that forensics uncovered from the Anthony home's computer formed the majority of testimony on Casey Anthony first degree murder trial on its 13th day.

Google will face charges pressed by the patent management company Isys Technologies for copyright infringement. Isys alleges that the terms Chromebook and Chromebox, brand names of devices that use Google Chrome OS, copies from its Chromium PC brand.

Nintendo Wii U doesn't seem to be appealing to the gaming community. The majority of gamers frowned on the supposedly innovative touch control pad. The confusion seemed to be regarding the brand new screen incorporated on the control pad for Wii U. What is an iPad doing in my game control? was the first reaction of majority of the gamers who previewed the latest offering from Nintendo. Initial reviews on the new console from Nintendo, the Wii U, poured in after the company unveiled it...