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Barack Obama hunting down, actually finding, and then killing Osama bin Laden spurred more knee-jerk internet reactions of people thinking they'd thought of something original since Balloon Boy was in the air. So, amidst a sea of poorly executed Waldo jokes and some really truly, horrible...

Social networking company looks to employ more staff as it expands to new 79-acre office campus Link Removed due to 404 Error Facebook is looking to hire 9,400 more employees in the next six years, according to reports. The social networking company, which has been undergoing explosive...

Four bank robbers have been arrested after boasting about their successful raid on Facebook. The dim witted criminals posted the message "I'm rich" and "Wipe my teeth with hundreds" soon after an armed raid on a bank in Houston, Texas. Police were...

A northern Colorado woman who was playing a game on Facebook while her 13-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Shannon Johnson, 34, of Fort Lupton, cried as District Judge Thomas Quammen told her he didn't think she was a bad person or that she...

In dicey union negotiations, it seems the modern silent protest is an embargo on tweeting. Representatives for the News Media Guild are urging union employees of the Associated Press not to promote their stories on Facebook or Twitter early next week. Reporters often volunteer to spread...

Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- In the technology world, a form of breaking bread can involve sharing hardware schematics. Facebook invited reporters, hardware makers and rival internet companies to its headquarters to debut a new initiative on Thursday for improving website infrastructure...

Google Latitude, the search giant's location-sharing mobile app, is launching checkin offers nationwide, giving users the ability to unlock discounts with a handful of launch partners. Much like Foursquare and Facebook, Latitude now reveals different offers if a user checks in to locations...

A youngster's ghostly playmate has been caught on camera in a photograph taken on a mobile phone, a family claims. The spectral snap shows five-year-old Sirus Walsh standing next to a childlike ghost. The family now claims their home is haunted – but insists no one is worried as their...

Workers at Asda, Tesco and Morrisons are being driven crazy by pranksters who rearrange the herb pots to spell out rude words. In what has become a craze among Facebook users, Supermarket Scrabble players take advantage of the fact that stores emphasise the first letter of the herb in...

Hey, I have a problem and hope someone can help me! I downloaded these video clips on this page called Download Facebook Videos. I am trying to make this slideshow with pictures and videos on WLMM. I downloaded the video clips of my friends page on FB and safed them on my computer in my videos...

Meet Norman, the big, cuddly, scooter-loving dog who's thrilling YouTube viewers and his 500 Facebook fans alike with his antics. Norman’s owner Karen Cobb says he has had a passion for wheels ever since he was a puppy: ‘He began playing with our kid’s scooter in the backyard and we...

Three men are in court after two allegedly secretly filmed their friend having sex with a woman, before threatening to release the footage if she complained. University of Westminster student George Iaponas, 24, met the victim via social networking site Facebook and she agreed to meet in...

1. Check emails. 2. Surf the Internet. 3. Listen to online radios. 4. Listen to online podcasts. 5. Watch movies. 6. Watch online videos at Youtube. 7. View online photo album at Flickr. 8. Read digital newspaper. 9. Read digital magazine. 10. Play games. 11. Login to Twitter /...

It was a weekend of Twitter and Android malware and worm removal, but squirming in between it all was Charlie Sheen, trying his hand at live video streaming with mixed results. Beyond that weirdness, even more frivolity with animals taking center stage, where those Angry Birds started...

Note to thieves: when robbing a place, the best way to make a clean getaway is not to post your picture on the victim's Facebook page. And if you do, scram out of town/country as fast as you can! Otherwise, you'll be like Rodney Knight Jr., who couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a pic of...

China's Baidu is going social Baidu, China’s “Google” so to speak, has announced the development and expansion for more social networking services to keep its strong momentum and dominance in the Chinese Internet landscape. Link Removed According to Chinese blog Techweb, Baidu CEO...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error Reuters – A competitor types a text message into a mobile phone during a competition in Singapore … NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Nearly four out of five women and three of five men say they believe texting, Facebook and other...

Coding4Fun is where we show off fun and cool open source hardware and software projects. We know there are lots of developers who code for fun, not just for their jobs and with this in mind, we want to show off the cool work developers can do when they combine smarts and passion. Our projects...

Mystery surrounds Idaho winner of $190 million - Washington Times Link Removed RATHDRUM, Idaho (AP) — Holly Lahti burst into the spotlight a week ago in a feel-good story about a single mother who won a $190 million Mega Millions jackpot. Then came the mugshot: a thin young woman...

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including [01:56s] Don Burnett - Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook enables you to build Facebook applications using Windows Azure [02:34s] Yochay Kiriaty - Windows Push Notification Server Side Helper Library...