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| Video game characters get real with fake Facebook photos |
| If video game characters had Facebook profiles, they would take bathroom self-portraits and post party pictures just like the rest of us. |
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| As it scales, Instagram shows restraint in all the right places |
| Instagram has become the iPhone photo sharing app of choice, but cut through the hype and you'll find a compelling business lesson in managing scale through laser-like focus. |
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| Raspberry Pi $25 computers ready to go February 20 |
| Charitable organization hopes credit card-size system can train a new generation of programmers worldwide. |
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| LightSquared asks FCC for stricter GPS gear standards |
| LightSquared is asking the FCC to impose stricter standards on GPS equipment to ensure that its network can co-exist with these GPS devices. |
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| Google, wall off Android already, would ya? |
| Scanning Android apps for malware is a welcome move from a security standpoint, but Google still isn't going as far as Apple to eliminate the fragmentation issue. |
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| Is HBO's investment in Netflix-like firm a strategy shift? |
| HBO has invested $10 million into an Australian video rental service that operates much like Netflix, and right away, pundits say Time Warner is bowing to Netflix's business model. It's not that simple. |
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| Use less toilet paper to be green? Nope, say Americans |
| According to a study, a mere 6 percent of Americans would reduce toilet paper use in order to help the environment. Thirty-one percent, though, would give up books. |
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| Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock to step down |
| Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock says that, along with three other board members, he's not seeking re-election this year. The company appoints two new board members to fill the gap. |
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| Is Resident Evil Revelations the next must-own 3DS game? |
| The latest in Capcom's stellar survival-horror franchise hits the Nintendo 3DS. Is it the next must-own 3DS game? |
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| What the Dickens? Google uses doodle to (ultimately) sell books |
| Google is celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens with a doodle. But the doodle also seems to be trying to get you to use Google Books. Another example of Google's new commercialism? |
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| Anonymous targets Oakland city officials |
| The hacktivist group releases a document filled with private information on a group of City Hall and police department personnel. One councilwoman, whom Anonymous thanked for her community support, was spared. |
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| Win a vacay for downloading 419GB over 3G? |
| Well, only in Russia, where telco MegaFon doled out prizes for those who used the most amount of data on its 3G unlimited data service. |
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| This wristwatch wants to change your life (and how you sleep) |
| New software for the Sleeptracker Elite wristwatch helps users track sleep data over time, including nightly sleep scores based on light sleep stages, minutes of interrupted sleep, and more. |
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| Kinect Star Wars launches April 3 |
| Announced back in July, the Kinect Star Wars and special-edition Xbox 360 bundle will finally be available staring April 3. |
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| Super Bowl drives supersized wireless traffic |
| The wireless carriers weathered the surge in calling and data traffic during the big game. Verizon Wireless says it shuttled 2.75 times as much data as during the previous Super Bowl, while AT&T says people actually uploaded more data than they downloaded. |
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| Study credits 'app economy' with 500,000 U.S. jobs |
| Led by apps for mobile devices, the "app economy" is responsible for almost half a million jobs in the U.S., estimates a new study sponsored by CEO network TechNet. But the study also says figures may represent "jobs not lost." |
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| Google vies for tech 'moonshots' with 'Solve for X' initiative |
| The search giant has launched an online forum for folks to listen to some of the world's smartest people discuss breakthrough ideas that "live in the gray area between audacious projects and pure science fiction." |
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| Sam's Club next to get mini Apple stores? |
| Wholesale retailer Sam's Club is rumored to be in talks with Apple to bring store-within-stores to Sam's Club warehouses. |
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| Three years on, Chrome at last arrives on Android |
| With the Chrome for Android beta, Google adds PC sync, hardware acceleration, Web standards, and more as part of its plan "to reinvent mobile browsers." |
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| Tech spending was strong in 2011, despite sluggish economy |
| IT spending rose just 5 percent last year, but that small growth was seen in the face of economic problems across Europe and a hard-drive shortage, according to IDC. |
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