TECHNOLOGY

Count the Angry Birds franchise mavens among those excited about the Mars Curiosity Rover landing, as they have added more levels to their Utopia planet, Mashable reported. Everyone's favorite cranky birds will be flying through the "air" on Mars.

Linkin Park frontman and rapper Mike Shinoda will be scoring the soundtrack for EA's upcoming military shooter "Medal of Honor: Warfighter," continuing a relationship with the publisher that began with 2010's "Medal of Honor."

Premium handset manufacturer Samsung has confirmed that the next version of the popular Galaxy Note tablet will be released Aug 29.

Quite interestingly, almost all sources associated with the purported iPhone 5 components have pointed to the same form factor -- a two-tone design. And a new report, surfaced Thursday, provided more evidence with images, claiming them to be of "a prototype finalized design casing of the iPhone."

The final copy of the Windows 8 OS has leaked to file sharing sites, The Verge reported. The leaked version appears to be the enterprise edition of the much-awaited OS.

The Facebook pages of several Major League Baseball (MLB) teams were hacked Thursday afternoon with hackers posting amusing status and downright obscene messages on the wall.

Tucows, a provider of domain names and other Internet services, announced Thursday that its mobile phone service, Ting, has made the new Samsung Galaxy S3 available for pre-order on its website.

Facebook launched a new and improved version of the company Facebook Stories section on Thursday. Featuring both original and curated editorial and artistic content, the company says that the new site is intended to be "a place where we could celebrate great stories."

The existence of Rule 40 tells says the IOC thinks that Twitter is solely a marketing tool, and not a tool for communication and storytelling. In this way, the athletes likely understand Twitter significantly more than the IOC members.

Since the New York Times first rolled out its paywall in early 2011 -- amid equal parts skepticism and ire -- other papers around the country have followed suit at an impressive rate.

Software Giant Microsoft announced Wednesday that it had released its much-awaited touch-based Windows 8 operating system to manufacturers.

Just a couple of weeks after Sprint announced that its HTC Evo 3D and Evo Design 4G would get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update by "early August," the U.S. carrier has now started pushing out the over-the-air (OTA) updates for both the devices.

While earlier reports suggested that the Cupertino tech giant might be switching to a smaller port with 19 pins from the traditional 30-pin dock connector, a latest report Wednesday suggested that Apple could shrink its connector dock even further to just eight pins and that it could also receive a new name altogether.

A rumor that the new Apple iPhone -- commonly called the iPhone 5 -- will cost $800 upon its release shocked Apple fans hit Twitter early Thursday morning.

Pirate Bay, which renamed itself as Olympic Bay and sported a new logo on home page signifying the five Olympic rings with the tagline "this is for everyone," has reverted to its original logo on the home page despite Olympics being the trending topic.

Amazon on Wednesday released an iPad app that provides video streaming for movies and television shows available through its Instant Video service. The free app lets anyone with an iPad buy and stream movies and TV shows, while Amazon Prime members in the U.S. can watch them for free.

The 2012 Olympic Games are in full swing, running from July 27 through August 12 in London. From swimming, to gymnastics to archery, nations all over the world unite to compete in the most monumental and historical series of sporting events.

Demonoid, the popular BitTorrent, site has been inaccessible from July 24 and the downtime is expected to continue for an indeterminate span of time.

Dropbox, the online file storage site confirmed Tuesday that a small number of accounts were hacked on its services and the organization has introduced security features that improve account safety and facilitate robust recovery.

In the wake of multiple reports claiming that Apple would make its sixth generation iPhone, unofficially called the "iPhone 5," public at a special event in September, another report from Asia hit the web Tuesday, suggesting that the delivery schedule and the early shipment of the flagship smartphone might be disrupted due to low yield rates of in-cell touch panels the device is rumored to feature.

Microsoft's Outlook.com, the successor to Hotmail, is just a few hours old, but the new metro style email service has already got more than one million people signing up for it, according to official figures tweeted just over six hours after it was announced Tuesday.

Google's Nexus Q, the spherical black media device that played a big role in the Google I/O keynote in June, is apparently off to a shaky start. The company announced Tuesday that the launch of the Nexus Q had definitely been delayed as it was still working on the device for further improvements.

Following a short-lived suspension of British journalist Guy Adams from Twitter, the social media company and its partner that was the target of Adams' first attacks, NBC, have both apologized for the incident and attempted to explain their intentions.

An ambitious Kickstarter project, brain child of Josh Guyot and JoeBen Bevirt, Galiloe made headlines in April after exceeding its funding goal by more than half a million dollars and getting encouragement by investors and funders. Galileo is an iOS powered Robotic Doc compatible with iPhone and iTouch which enables motion controlling the phone device while Face Timing.

A report published in the Telegraph Media Group Tuesday revealed how the iPhone survived "multiple attempts" to scrap it owing to design flaws.

T-Mobile customers will soon get a chance to experience the phone-tablet sensation Samsung Galaxy Note with the S Pen for $250, the Android Authority reported.

The iPhone Dev Team confirmed via its official blog last week that the popular jailbreak tool Redsn0w is compatible with the Mountain Lion. Here are the steps to jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 compatible devices using Redsn0w 0.9.14b2 on a Mac running OS X Mountain Lion.

Apple announced Monday that downloads of the latest OS X, Mountain Lion, had exceeded three million in just four days, making it the most successful OS X release in the company's history.

A new investigation confirmed some suspicious rumors about Microsoft's next-generation videogame console, the Xbox 720, following a leak of the console's preliminary software development kit.