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You may have spent recent months ignoring the Facebook Timeline on your friend's profile, but ready or not, you're going to get the timeline in matter of weeks, Facebook has announced the new feature will become mandatory.

The body of Jimmy Slack, which has been missing since December, has been recovered from the Ohio River on the North Shore of Pittsburgh.

After the U. S. government shut down the major file-sharing and online storage site Megaupload, citing copyright infringement and other felonies, last week, similar sites at risk of impending prosecution are now ducking for cover. It gives rise to a question - is Megaupload shutdown the beginning of the end of these sites?

Paranormal Activity 3 may not have had the highest budget for a horror film nor the most sophisticated special effects, but it still got U.S. audiences hooked. Now it's out on Blu-Ray and DVD, giving fans another chance to have the chilling experience at home.

Facebook's Timeline feature will become permanent for all users starting today. Facebook will start opening up the new profile today, and everyone will be updated to it automaically within a few weeks. Once your profile is updated, you have seven days to adjust your profile just how you want. Depending on how much info you put on your profile and how long you've been using Facebook could determine if you'll need that much time, but at the end of the seven days, the change is permanent.

The Boston Bruins were invited to the White House on Monday to celebrate their 2011 Stanley Cup win. One player however, refused to go. Goaltender Tim Thomas did not attend the event.

The new leader at Research In Motion on Monday dismissed talk of drastic change at the BlackBerry maker, a declaration seized on by impatient investors who say Thorsten Heins has only 12 to 18 months to turn RIM around.

Lauren Conrad is expanding her namesake collection to encompass eco-friendly cosmetic accessories. And she is doing it all with cotton candy pink hair! Who said this Laguna Beach alum was just another pretty face?

She added that the U.S. had absolute respect for all Indians, including Sikhs.

Hackers collective Anonymous will reportedly take down world's No.1 social network site Facebook on Jan. 28, according to a YouTube video. However, many people doubt whether that will happen.

Facebook, Twitter and MySpace developers, in partnership with several unnamed social networks, have released a software called Don't Be Evil, meant to integrate their networks into Search Plus Your World - a new feature by Google.

A YouTube video allegedly posted by Anonymous to announce that its next big target would be Facebook and that the social networking site would be brought down on January 28 is a hoax, the hacktivist group has said.

Facebook, one of the many companies that opposed the SOPA bill, contributed $1.35 million to lobbyists last year. The sum pails in comparison to Google, which spent $9.98 million, and Microsoft, which spent $7.34 million over the course of the year.

The NHL champions visited the White House this week to meet the president.

Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' resignation has opened the door to a special election process, as her successor will be chosen by June.

Focus on the User--a group of developers from Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking sites--has created a bookmarklet that can be added to any web browser and adds Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, Tumblr, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Myspace, among other social networks to Google search results. The service was built as a proof of concept that social content could be added to Google's search results.

The sudden crackdown on popular online storage and file-sharing site Megaupload has prompted rivals FileSonic and uploaded.to to commit suicide by voluntarily limiting their file-sharing services and allowing users to only retrieve the files they have personally uploaded. No wonder, the U.S. feds' action has left everybody wondering whether other sites like Rapidshare, MediaFire, Dropbox, etc., which offer file-sharing and cloud storage services, will be next in the crosshairs of anti-piracy ...

President Barack Obama will be hosting a Google Hangout session on January 30th at 9 p.m. (EST) in addition to offering an enhanced version of the State of the Union speech on January 24 at 9 p.m. (EST).

Amid the fuss over crackdown on Megaupload, a rival file-sharing service provider FileSonic has voluntarily halted its service partially.

Donald Hux, who was suspected of killing former Gov. Mike Huckabee's first cousin Sandy, his ex-wife Amy, and kidnapping their family, was shot and killed in a deadly police shootout on Sunday night in Union County, Arkansas.

When Disney shareholders vote to re-elect directors at its annual meeting in March, neither Steve Jobs' wife nor a representative from his trust will be on the ballot, even though the trust is the media company's largest shareholder.

This is not the first time Megaupload's founder Kim Dotcom had his brush with the law. In 2002, he was convicted in what was then the largest insider-trading case in German history and a Munich court sentenced him to 20 months probation and a 100,000 euro fine. Can he win the legal battle this time?

Takeover talk swirled around Research In Motion on Monday as investors and analysts pondered whether new Chief Executive Thorsten Heins had been appointed to lead a turnaround of the struggling smartphone maker or prepare it for sale.

Jay Leno Outrages Sikhs With Joke Referring to Golden Temple

The nude photo of Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani has enraged several members of the Muslim community, particularly since one of the more principal tenets of Islamic fundamentalism has always been to ban women from any degree of nudity. The decision by Farahani, therefore, is a bold one and one that has, predictably, sparked controversy across the world. However, she isn't the first Islamic actress who has shed her clothes and her inhibitions. There are at least 3 others who have already ...

Absinthe, the latest untethered jailbreak, created specifically for Apple devices running iOS 5.0.1, is all set to open a new world full of tweaks for you.

ASUS recently launched an Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for its latest Eee Pad Transformer Prime, and it will do the same for the first generation of its tablet in February, the announced on its North America Facebook Page.

The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other Web sites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely heralded as an unprecedented case of a grassroots uprising overcoming backroom lobbying.

A Thai man married a corpse bride earlier this month, and images and information he released on the Internet have caught quite a stir. Chadil Deffy, a Thai television director, married his dead girlfriend's corpse and posted a video of the event on social network sites Facebook and YouTube,. The seach term man marries corpse bride has ignited on the Web.