There seems to be no such thing as privacy for popular figures these days. It looks as though TMZ got to someone at the hospital where Tiger Woods was taken after his car accident. If so and if this report...

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The news of the day in social media land: Twitter is apparently going to start experimenting with paid premium accounts through its Japanese subsidiary ( Twicco ), which has always been a bit separated from the rest of Twitter and in many ways a playground for the company ( Groups , Twitvideo.jp ). Japanese media are reporting that Twitter is going to introduce a tiered payment model and aims to charge...

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Did you notice a television ad during Thanksgiving's NFL football games featuring President Barack Obama? Joined by children from the Washington, D.C. area, the President and players come together for a friendly game of touch football, reminding fans about the importance of being active as part of NFL PLAY 60, the league's youth health and fitness campaign. Filmed on the White House lawn earlier this...

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Filed under: Japan , Technology , Nissan A while back, Nissan scientists helped to develop a paint clearcoat called Scratch Shield that can self-repair light scratches overnight or over the course of a week. Now the Japanese automaker is spreading the love, licensing the technology to Japan's largest wireless company, NTT DoCoMo. The clearcoat uses a special top layer of highly elastic resin that...

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I think it's very funny that they chose children from a Christian family. I don't know for sure if they actually are Christian, yet, only the children know. But I don't think it's okay to label them that way. It's not gonna hurt the child. If it is the truth it will show later. If they are really not Christian it will be revealed when they get older. Also I am Christian and if it really is the truth...

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Alright, Nokia. We know you've ben hurting since N-Gage passed away , but apparently in your despair you forgot that Nintendo wouldn't take kindly to a promo video featuring emulated SNES games. Oops! The video has since been pulled from Youtube, but the screen grab above shows how Nokia went out of their way to demonstrate how well SNES emulators run on the N900. The rub here isn't the emulator itself;...

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Authorities in Florida were searching Saturday for a man police said opened fire on his family after Thanksgiving dinner and killed four people, including his pregnant sister and a 6-year-old cousin who was sleeping in her bed.

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PITTSBURGH — Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is expected to sit out Sunday night's game at Baltimore because of a concussion, an unexpected development that apparently means inexperienced Dennis Dixon would make his first NFL start. Roethlisberger practiced all week despite sustaining his fourth concussion since 2006 during a 27-24 overtime loss in Kansas City on Sunday. During his only interview...

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Top golfer was in and out of consciousness when officers arrived at scene Friday morning.

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Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs and nest eggs wiped out by recession.

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SHANGHAI — A cargo plane crashed as it took off from Shanghai's main airport Saturday, killing three American crew members and injuring four other employees after it veered off the runway and burst into flames. Three Americans on the seven-member crew died and a fourth American was injured, U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Buangan told The Associated Press. He did not know the injured person's condition....

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Lenovo , the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, has announced today that it will be purchasing back its recently sold mobile phone business, in an effort to push into the smartphone market. The company had sold the unit last year for $100 million USD to focus more on PCs but now that the "technologies are now converging," says the AP , the mobile business area is creating a "significant growth...

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