Heroin has been found in the hotel room where “Amazing Race” producer Jeff Rice was found dead, reported ABC News. Autopsy results revealed that large concentrations of cocaine were found in Rice’s body, resulting in an overdose.
Creating national awareness about bullying of young gays, the court case of former Rutgers student, 19-year-old Dharun Ravi, has begun its opening statements.
The entire nation seems to be in a mad rush to buy Nike's newest pair of sneakers - the Nike Foamposite Galaxy - released ahead of the 2012 NBA All-Star Games in Orlando, Fla. Everyone wants a pair of the $220 sneakers, complete with a purple and blue galactic sky and glow-in-the-dark capabilities. Instead of braving the crowds, here is how you can win your own.
The long awaited BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 is finally out. RIM released PlayBook last year and PlayBook OS 2.0 is the first software update for the tablet, coming out after almost one year later. The original plans of RIM were to release PlayBook OS 2.0 in December 2011. RIM is already two months behind on the original schedule.
Dropbox unveiled on Thursday a new photo uploading feature for Android smartphones, potentially sharpening its competition with Google, Apple, and a host of other companies battling to rule the burgeoning market for online storage solutions.
Forget Groupon, Scoutmob and Living Social. What if the goal was not to save your hard-earned money, but to save a hard-hit business? That’s the idea behind Cash Mobs, which organizes community spending sprees at local small establishments.
Along with other altered features, the Facebook Timeline allows users to upload a large vertically elongated photograph at the top of their profile, known as the cover photo. If this seems inconvenient for some users, they might be in luck. Today design website Aviary launched a service that allows Facebook-surfers to custom crop photos to fit perfectly in Timeline's constraints.
Facebook admitted to tracking users who weren't even on the Web site last September, and a Baltimore based law firm has now filed a class action lawsuit in a Northern California District court. It's not the first lawsuit filed against Facebook over privacy concerns, but it's the first nationwide class action suit that potentially involves anyone who was a member before Facebook changed their privacy policy. The thrust of the lawsuit filed by Murphy PA, Peter G. Angelos and Gerard Gibbs ...
Fisherman Robert Malone was in the catch of his life when he hauled in a 27-poud lobster off the coast of Maine.
Some celebrities have begun criticizing the National Enquirer for publishing the alleged last photo of a dead Whitney Houston in her open casket this week.
Anonymous Kollektiv, a German affiliate of the hacktivist group Anonymous launched what they called a comment flash mob on Feb. 21 against the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in response to an article in the WSJ discussing claims made by NSA director General Keith Alexander that the group is growing in strength and could have the capability to shut down the U.S. power grid in one or two years.
Google Inc. announced Thursday that it will join other Internet companies such as Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL to allow a do not track button to be available for customers on a Web browser, limiting what personal information can be collected and used.
Facebook, which has filed the prospectus for its initial public offering seeking to raise $5 billion in initial funding, is yet to set its price range for the IPO but buying and selling of its stocks are already happening.
There once was a man, and all he ever wanted was meal from Red Lobster for his birthday. The man couldn't get that meal. His name was Robert Mills.
Business networking site LinkedIn has acquired Rapportive, a Gmail add-on that provides information about your social contacts as you e-mail them. The deal was reportedly already in place by Dec. 8, but Rapportive confirmed the acquisition on Wednesday on its company blog.
Android users are flat-out demanding the release of popular smart phone game Temple Run on the Android market, taking to online forums and social networks to pressure Imangi Studios into releasing the game. Imangi responded to their frenzied fans on Twitter with the unfortunate news that there was no scheduled release date as of yet, and that until one was posted on the company's Facebook page all other rumors should be ignored.
Early this afternoon, shortly after 1 p.m. (EST), Twitter, the beloved micro-blogging website, logged its 500 millionth user according to market analysis company Twopcharts. The analysis company expects Twitter to acquire its 600 millionth user in just over 100 days. Twopcharts has even created a countdown website to mark the occasion. Not everyone is convinced by the metrics released by Twopcharts, namely The Next Web (TNW) who said in a blog post, Color us healthily skeptical.
Do you like scary movies? Well there's a pretty eerie one set for theaters on March 9th, but until then, there's a freaky new Facebook app to hold you over.
Mozilla, the non-profit company that makes the Firefox Web browser has plans to launch on online apps market in 2012, and possibly its very own smartphone, an idea also reportedly being mulled by companies like Amazon and Facebook.
Justin Bieber has landed his second book deal after his first literary success, First Step 2 Forever: My Story, which sold over a million copies in 25 languages. According to MTV, Bieber's upcoming book Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started is scheduled to be released in September by publishing giant, Harper Collins.
A series of technology companies, including security software maker Palo Alto Networks, are preparing to go public on the heels of Facebook's $5-billion filing, sensing a window of opportunity as the stock market rallies.
Pinterest, the online pin board photo sharing phenomenon, has certainly climbed the Web’s social popularity ladder. The newest craze has put a hiatus on pending membership requests, placing wannabe users on a waiting list because of the spike in its numbers recently.
