TECHNOLOGY

Facebook.com has launched verified accounts for it's most popular members and celebrities. While you wait for the newest feature from Mark Zuckerberg, the man who brought us Timeline, to show up in your newsfeed here are the top five reasons to complain about Facebook's newest change to the site.

It may be safe to say that Apple is dominating the mobile market, especially after a recent lawsuit against Motorola. The company has just won a patent debacle against Motorola in regards to Apple’s staple “slide to unlock” feature on smartphones. The Munich Regional Court in Germany ruled that the competitor smartphone supplier infringes Apple’s European patent, and the decision imposes a permanent injunction against Motorola devices.

Telecoms providers should be able to raise prices charged to rivals for using their networks to help spur investment in faster fiber optics, industry body ETNO said on Thursday.

Sources close to the project say Microsoft's next-generation gaming console, which many have called Xbox 720 up until this point, has been given the internal code name Durango. Here are 10 other past video game consoles that received their own codenames while in development.

A group of ‘hacktivists’ calling themselves L0NGwave99 took on the stock exchange earlier this week after announcing their intentions on Sunday. Through coordinated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS ) attacks the group, which acted in conjunction with the formless and international hacker collective Anonymous, and in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, temporarily shut down the public websites for NASDAQ, BATS stock exchange and the Chicago Board options Exchange (CBOE).

Enhance memory skills, improve spelling, and increase your number of hookups? The “Words With Friends” gaming application seems like it should be changing its name to “Words With Friends With Benefits.” According to a poll conducted by Zynga, the maker of the application, this game has the possibility to spell out L-O-V-E. The poll surveyed 100,000 players and revealed that one in 10 players of the game have hooked up with an opponent as a direct cause of the game. Of these users, 47 percent o...

Many people tend to believe that jailbreak apps (not authorize by Apple) are not secure enough to use compared to the ones available in the Apple app store. If you are one of those, here's a surprising update for you - the popular, yet unauthorized, jailbreak apps have more respect for your privacy than those apps boasting Apple's approval.

Thank You J.K Rowling is trending on Twitter and millions of Harry Potter fans have already thanked the author. Similar tweets keep popping up every moment. Scholastic's Parent & Child magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Books for Kids features Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on the 6th position from the top. However, the top position among the books for children was nabbed by E.B. White's classic tale Charlotte's Web.

Retailers in more Chinese cities have been told by authorities to take the popular iPad tablet PCs off their shelves this week, media reports said on Thursday, due to a legal battle between a Chinese technology firm and Apple Inc over trademark issues.

Three former executives of Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp were arrested on Thursday over their role in a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at the maker of medical equipment and cameras, Japanese media reported.

Nvidia Corp warned that delays in ramping up new manufacturing technology are affecting sales of its PC graphics chips and that smartphone chip-customer Samsung Electronics has become a rival.

Clearwire Corp said its 2012 revenue may fall, or at best remain at 2011 levels, as it faces increased competition at its biggest customer, Sprint Nextel , sending its shares down nearly 9 percent in after hours trade.

Three former executives of Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp face possible arrest this week over their role in a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at the maker of medical equipment and cameras, Japanese media said on Thursday.

Three former executives of Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp face possible arrest this week over their role in a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at the maker of medical equipment and cameras, Japanese media said on Thursday.

Oscars 2012 apps allow you to watch on iPhone, Android, iPad and other mobile devices via free mobile live streams, and also to view photos and commentary and to participate via social media.

Data storage equipment maker NetApp Inc reported results in line with Wall Street projections, news that sent its shares surging nearly 8 percent in relief after disappointing results in past quarters.

If you're a Sprint customer and you're torn between the HTC Evo View 4G and the ZTE Optik, here's what you need to know. We generally don't recommend data plans for tablets, but some people do find them necessary, and because Sprint offers both of these tablets on their network, you get them at a subsidized price. Their on-contract prices standout because the Optik is $100 with a new two-year contract compared to the $250 for the View 4G.

On the same day that the new Twisted Metal video game for the PS3 was released, Sony announced that its movie studio is planning to produce a Twisted Metal film. Brian Taylor, who directed Ghost Rider and Crank, is set to write and direct. The movie has no release date as of yet, but until then check out the trailers for the top five movies based on video games.

Cisco Systems Inc has challenged EU clearance of Microsoft Corp's acquisition of Internet voice and video service Skype at Europe's second highest court, saying the commission should have put tougher conditions on the deal.

For gamers who pre-ordered Sony's PS Vita, some will be getting their hands on the new portable gaming console on Wednesday.

Cisco Systems Inc has challenged EU clearance of Microsoft Corp's acquisition of Internet voice and video service Skype at Europe's second highest court, saying the commission should have put tougher conditions on the deal.

Stocks gave up gains on Wednesday as the S&P 500 hit a technical barrier near a nine-month high and Apple shares erased a 3 percent advance.

ASUS took to their Facebook blog to remind their customers that the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update is coming to the Transformer TF101 tablet in February, but the exact date is yet to be announced.

A debt-laden Chinese technology firm seeking to ban all shipments of Apple's popular iPad tablet into and out of the country has been told that China's customs authorities are unlikely to intervene in the trademark battle.

Working conditions at Chinese manufacturing plants where Apple Inc's iPads and iPhones are made are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country, according to the head of a non-profit agency investigating the plants.

According to a blog post written by Osama Bedier, vice president of Google Wallet and Payments, the company has repaired a weakness in the Google Wallet app that would have allowed anyone who picked up an Android phone with the application on it to make purchases with the original user's credit card.

Comcast Corp posted a better-than-expected rise in quarterly profit driven by strong subscriber additions, though it was tempered by weak performances at its NBC Universal broadcast and movie units.

Zynga Inc's shares fell 16 percent on Wednesday, amid heavy volumes, after the social gaming company warned of a slowdown in bookings, indicating paying players may be spending less than expected.

Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it was considering spinning off its loss-making LCD flat-screen business in a surprise move as it seeks to orient its components business towards OLED displays, touted as the next-generation technology that will replace LCD TVs.