Sony has started setting the stage for the launch of its Home virtual world. The company has been running beta tests with thousands of users for weeks now, and the formal launch is still expected to be this fall on the PlayStation Network. About 18 months in the making, Home is Sony’s “H...

It’s hard to knock Google for expanding their ad placement on their properties. After all, we are talking about their properties, properties that are free for us to use. But the problem, as we’re seeing today with its new ad box on Google Finance, is that users don’t like change &#...

Alen Nejeh had me laughing in his car. The founder of Telemetria Telephony was showing off his mobile Internet device, a computer with a seven-inch screen that can plug into a car’s dashboard. As we were driving down a San Jose street, he fired up YouTube. The video of an interview with Ninten...

While it’s hardly a surprise that games are popular in Apple’s new App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch, it is surprising how good many of them are. Unfortunately, many of the good ones will also cost you anywhere from $5 to $15. There is one game that I’ve been playing the past...

We already knew that the micro-messaging service Twitter was growing at an impressive rate in the United States, but get this: It’s doing even better in some other parts of the world. Take the UK for example. Traffic to Twitter’s website has increased 631 percent in the past year, accord...

“Fallout 3″ by Bethesda Softworks was the first game Microsoft showed off at its Xbox 360 press conference today and the top pick in Dean Takahashi’s “most anticipated games of E3.” The game’s executive producer, Todd Howard, took some time to discuss the state of the...

I’m not sure which classic rock song best describes the latest in the Microsoft / Yahoo battle: “The Song Remains the Same” or “Saturday Night’s All Right (For Fighting)”? Both apply in their own right as yes, Yahoo has rejected yet another proposal by Microsoft, ...

Facebook’s developer platform — you know, the software that spawned all of those third-party applications that have since invaded users’ lives — is going through some managerial changes. Facebook’s newly-hired vice president of communications and public policy, Elliot S...

Spire.com, a social networking site for the rich, has just raised $9 million in a first round of funding. Through articles and member recommendations, the site does a pretty good job of packaging “the good life.” Heck, I signed-up this afternoon, and I’m already feeling vicariously...

The borders between media are porous. WorldWinner, an online skill-based game company, proved that today when it announced that its “CATCH 21″ game will become a TV show on the GSN channel shown in 68 million homes. GSN airs only game shows and is jointly owned by Sony and Liberty Media,...