• The cell phone - brain tumor rumor lives!
• Got a latin lover? There’s an app for that. Jibbigo will translate your speech in real time from English into Spanish (and vice versa).
• 7 iPhone apps you may want by October 31st.
• Wii is about to get Netflixy with it!
• Creepy! Adult Care Bear and Balloon Boy among Google’s top Halloween searches.
• Midlife crisis! The internet turned 40 this week.
• Get your Asus some USB 3.0! Asus has introduced a motherboard with on-board support for SuperSpeed USB, with up to 10 times the data-transfer rate of its predecessor.
• Verizon’s venture into Android land seems to be paying off.
• Considering a career in spamming on Facebook? Got $711 million?
• Apple TV turns 3.0. Does anyone out there care?

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• Gaming consuls get the recession treatment and we like that!
• Up till now, ebooks have been pretty niche but that’s hankering to change with some new features.
• Tablets are so the new touch screen phones.
• Eat your heart out Segway!
• Wanna double mocha frappa dabba doo skinny? There’s an app for that.
• Welcome to the Microsoft Windows Bank of Paris.
• Have the recent gmail outages damaged the cred of the cloud?
• Intel wants your TV to work like a computer, of course housing it’s own chip.

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• Facebook is excellent for learning all sorts of random information about your friends; not so good for your university grades.
• Watch out Hulu, YouTube is working your corner now, thanks to Google.
• Week Wii controls will get a boost from MotionPlus starting on June 8th. Wii Cheer!

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To be fair, it’s a nice gesture that someone would offer a little color for your decidedly modern Wii player, but it is a sad day for the goddess of taste with this bizarre color combo. It’s not quite military, not exactly multicultural, way shy of a rainbow, wait… are they giving us produce? As in corn and green pepper? Eggplant, onion and sweet potato? And more deeply, why is this vegetable inspired Wii numchuck defecating all over that promotional photo?... Read more

One more reason your boyfriend won’t leave the TV and come rub your back (or one more reason to not rub your boyfriend’s back)—Wii and PS3 will get a new online channel built specifically for viewing YouTube this week. The news was introduced in a blog post.... Read more

Gay gaymers have a tendancy to form uncanny bonds with games that place us in fantasy settings and in control of cute girls and hot males.  Luckily, we’re being stocked full with RPGs (Role Playing Games, like the Final Fantasy series, Elder Scrolls, or Tales of Symphonia) for every system lately.  And now, it’s my job to introduce to you the newest and exciting entries into the world of console RPGs.... Read more