Philadelphia to Ticket People for Texting While Walking [UPDATE]

Correction Appended: July 19, 2011

Survey: Bing Closes On Google, Wikipedia Beats Facebook, Fox News Reigns

The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) is a national survey conducted by the University of Michigan that evaluates customer satisfaction with a number of businesses annually.

OS X Lion Coming Tomorrow (Or, You Know, Someday)

Let’s be honest: no one has much of a clue when Apple’s planning to release OS X 10.7 Lion, Cupertino’s latest mammoth overhaul of the company’s Mac operating system. Sure, we know it’ll be sometime this month, which is what Apple’s been saying for weeks—unless the company changes its mind, which, let’s not get ahead [...]

Your Website: It’s Probably Not Secure Enough

The latest LulzSec hack upon the websites of scandal-struck News International and some of its U.K. newspapers is just another episode in the adventures of what the hackers themselves call “the Lulz Boat,” by which they mean the increasingly bizarre and illegal trip they’re taking through global media and politics.

Why Google+ Has Already Disappeared in China

It’s not even out of its infancy, but Google+ has already been blocked in China. It seems just like only yesterday the product was announced; and my Circles aren’t even full yet.

Can Samsung Solve the 5-Inch Tablet’s Identity Crisis?

In the world of tablets, 10-inch screens reign supreme, but that hasn’t stopped some companies from dabbling in different shapes and sizes. Samsung, HTC, Dell and Research in Motion have all tried 7-inch tablets. Vizio’s going to market with an 8-inch tablet soon. LG rocked the 8.9-inch screen with the T-Mobile G-Slate. And you may [...]

Activision’s Field Generals Talk ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′

How important is Modern Warfare 3 to Activision? It’s being co-developed by three separate studios: Infinity Ward (still going after the exit of the studio’s founders), Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software. Glen Schofield comes to Activision from EA, where he worked on the first Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno.

LulzSec Hacks ‘News of the World’ and ‘The Sun,’ Plants Fake Murdoch Death Story

It looks like LulzSec are back at it again, and this time they have News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch in their crosshairs.

NBC and Facebook to Tag-Team New Hampshire Primary Debate

NBC announced today that Meet the Press will team up with Facebook to host the final GOP primary debate before the New Hampshire primaries.

WATCH: Say Hello to the Flying Sphere of Awesomeness

It looks like the kind of gadget you’d see CGI’ed into a sci-fi show (in fact, similar CGI flying spheres did appear in Doctor Who not all that long ago). But this particular flying object is very real, very cool, and very coming to a battle zone near you in the not-too-distant future.

What’s in a Name: Twitter Was Almost Called ‘Jitter’ or ‘Twitch’

The first tweet ever sent out by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2006 read “just setting up my twttr.” Thankfully, he and business partner Biz Stone had the sense to add discernible vowels to what we now know as Twitter— the rest, as they say, is history.