Differentiating feature: Cunning, spider-like moves. Signature move: Cloaking your iPad in a rubberized grip of certain death -- albeit comfortable and stable.

If Risk made you cry, wait until you see what social gaming giant Zynga has in store.

Retail partners include Macy's, American Eagle Outfitters (who joined Google this morning on-stage with and demonstrated "single tap" during a point-of-sale demo) and Subway.

Could it be that the very company that invented the "Tweet" would be unable to make money from the idea, while it's most influential partner could?

Companies such as Zynga, Groupon, Facebook, and Twitter are obviously watching the LinkedIn story very closely.

The "Neflix Effect" - it really could be called the "Profit Effect" or the "Profit Motive" because it's all about low variable costs for provisioning additional subscribers, and the flow of nice juicy profit margins that follow.

What if an organization of anonymous, distributed hackers can willingly - with enough time, effort - hack into any system in the world?

If you love the cloud, and find yourself spending time doing things such as email, social networking, and listening to music, then it could be ideal.

The biggest news so far is Google's entry into the movie rental business that will put the company into competition with Netflix, Amazon and Apple iTunes most notably.

ComScore reports that Android grew its subscriber base 6% q/q and now owns almost 35% market share.