It's a perfect storm of cultural transformation: social networking, micro-communication, and a societal premium placed on content consumption.

It's often surprising how much innovation and R&D funding goes into the video game industry. Each year, the three players—Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft—up the ante in an increasingly bloody death match. Killzone indeed. NPD estimates the annual market for video game hardware and software is in excess of $20B. That...

"I shot a whole music vid on the beast… it’s better than the $100,000 HD Varicam I shot on in 05." -- Cullen Hoback, film director.

To deprive us of our Google-ing, Facebook-ing, and Twitter-ing is cause, it seems, for civil unrest.

All of a sudden Google looks a lot more colorful this morning. Staid be gone. And it seems that with Bing, Microsoft can still throw a hay-maker, and influence a certain Silicon Valley nemesis on occasion. In case you missed it, background photos are now available on the previously minimalist...

You can add yet another personality to Ed Norton, star of Fight Club. Although this one is not related to project mayhem, it does share one thing in common with that effort: he's trying to rally people to support a common cause. In this case, fundraising for non-profit organizations....

This is the little ThinkPad that could. It's so full of potential, and so close to greatness, it's hard not to cheer it on, even if the anemic AMD processor wheezes and sputters along the way. As it is, the ThinkPad X100e by Lenovo is a decent 11.6-inch portable...

At times he looked like a crazed and gangly magician, waving, grinning as the crowd oohed and awed.

Steve Ballmer is not known to back down, put a lid on it, or just chill. But sometimes I wonder if any of those would be better than continually looking ridiculous (but admittedly entertaining) on the public stage. Yes, I realize Microsoft is the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to the...

Today Google finally announced a shipping date for its much anticipated Chrome OS.