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Planking is a game that is gaining a lot of popularity where people (known as “plankers”) lie down on the ground – usually in an unusual location – and post the picture of planking on online community such as Facebook.

A former inmate at the Jixi labour camp in China has exposed a money making scheme going on within the prison: virtual gold farming.

Microsoft is still not too late for the tablet party. And with its Next operating system closer than most expect, the software maker could corner meaningful market share in 2013 and beyond, Citigroup said.

Jefferies & Co. expects four potential negative events for Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) shareholders in the next 6 to 12 months. The brokerage reiterated its underperform rating on shares of the BlackBerry maker with a price target of $35.

Technology giant Google launched its popular but controversial mapping service Street View project in Bangalore on Thursday.

Facebook said it has hired a former Bush administration official to help it head up its Washington operations, placing the company closer to policy makers.

Amazon today launched a Mac application store, pitting the company against Apple's own five-month-old Mac App Store.

The malware that has been making the rounds of Macintosh computers in the last few weeks may have a similar author as a Windows-based scareware that appeared at about the same time.

Skype, the popular video and voice chat service, is down for some users.

VoIP and group video conferencing provider and latest buy of Microsoft, Skype has crashed as users from across the world are citing sign-in and communication issues.

Microsoft announced an update for its Windows Phone 7 OS under the moniker Mango which will be rolled-out this fall bringing a deeper integration between native services and apps.

SEOUL (Reuters Life!) - It began with a simple phrase -- brace yourself -- sent by a university professor to his mistress via a South Korean messaging service app used by millions every day.

The EU cookie law will take another year to be enforced as the UK government ensures the websites there would be no overnight changes.

Steve Ballmer is wrong. Windows 8 will not be released in 2012, and when the next version is released, it may not be called Windows 8, after all.

Google will unveil a new payment system tomorrow, a move the company hopes will pit the search-giant against companies like Visa and Mastercard.

Twitter is finally buying TweetDeck for more than $40 million in cash and stocks. TweetDeck is a third-party client for the Twitter and It is the most popular Twitter application with a 19% market share as of June 2009, following only the official Twitter.com website with 45.70% share for posting new status updates.

Apple is fighting what security experts say may be the most pernicious types of computer virus to ever target its line of Mac computers.

A computer security researcher has found a flaw in Microsoft Corp's widely used Internet Explorer browser that he said could let hackers steal credentials to access FaceBook, Twitter and other websites.

Even as Apple is yet to release a system update that will protect Mac from the notorious malware, Mac Defender, hackers are growing in the Mac community and now an upgraded version of the malware, called Mac Guard, has arrived.

Mac Defender has already created headaches for many Mac users around the world, but it may be only the beginning, according to researchers at Sophos Laboratories.

Twitter's acquisition of third party client TweetDeck for $40 million has caught the attention of social network users because it is good news for Tweeters but not for TweetDeck users though both TweetDeck founder and Twitter CEO have called the acquisition an add-on for Twitter power users.