Apple may well use iTunes as a trojan horse to mount a far reaching assault on Facebook with the release of Ping, a social feature integrated within iTunes which looks a lot like Myspace, only better.

Angry Birds, the best selling game for iPhone, is finally coming to Android – but if you want in then you'll need to sign up for the beta trial.

An IT engineer who attempted to dispatch a spider with an improvised flamethrower ended up on the wrong end of his own can of deodorant, the Sun reports.

New photos gleaned by the Mars Express spacecraft in orbit about the red planet have failed to shed any light on the origins of an "enigmatic" elongated crater named Orcus Patera.

Putting on weight can be bad for your health: it may also cause you difficulties when trying to enter the United Kingdom. That was the unfortunate experience of a Mr Derrick Agyeman, for whom weight gain led to an enforced stay in the Netherlands, and litigation that is still making its ponderous way through the UK courts some years later.

According to Patently Apple, our favorite Cupertino computer company is considering a new audio input port configuration for the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

Social not-working behemoth Facebook has been up to its old tricks again. The company decided to ban ads for Just Say Now's pro-use marijuana campaign, as well as blocking web platform Power.com from being mentioned by users.

The United States Government knows that its plan to switch off the internet in the event of a cyber war and plunge the whole world into chaos will be a little controversial. So what it has done is place the enabling legislation as a footnote in a bill which is not related and has to be passed by the Senate.

Playboy, famed for its intellectual interviews and bunnies with breasts, has shown off its latest online game and it strangely looks like a GTA knock-off.

The HTC Merge has been spotted in Global Certification Forum filings and on the US network Verizon's database, and is rumoured to be a much more powerful handset.