Following the news of her death, the price of Whitney Houston's album "mysteriously" went up on iTunes.

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We ought to know better, but smartphone distraction still contributes to a large number of injuries and deaths.

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Kiss' money-hungry frontman champions litigious lifestyle and sees his websites attacked.

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Renowned British institution equates sluggish iPod sales with the imminent death of digital music.

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"Scientists who drew up the key World Health Organisation guidelines advising governments to stockpile drugs in the event of a flu pandemic had previously been paid by drug companies which stood to profit, according to a report out today. An investigation by the British Medical Journal and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the not-for-profit reporting unit, shows that WHO guidance issue

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"Type 'How do I ...' into the search engine and one of the first suggestions it comes up with continues: '... delete my Facebook account?'" "Criticism [of Facebook] been mounting since a revamp of the site in December meant users' profiles became publicly accessible by default. Retreating back into anonymity also became an increasingly tortuous process, with profile

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"Angry Kindle fans have sabotaged the Amazon rating of a bestselling new book, Game Change, an exposé of the 2008 US presidential elections, to punish its publisher for delaying the digital edition of the book until February," The Guardian reported. "HarperCollins published Game Change – subtitled Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime and

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"The men behind Freakonomics offer a stunningly shallow and flawed view of sex work as a career option for women," the Guardian says of Freakonomics authors Steven Levitt's and Stephen Dubner's new book, Superfreakonomics. "Freakonomics, of course, is the science of choosing an appropriately wacky or controversial subject (sumo wrestlers, abortion), applying a little economic analys

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