Almost two years ago The Filter, a startup backed by Peter Gabriel, launched to bring better music and movie recommendations to consumers. The site got lost in the abundance of more popular music and movie sites out there, so about a year ago CEO David Maher Roberts decided to shift gears and start licensing his... 

A new report from the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) has highlighted the security dangers of using social network sites, the most obvious being Facebook and Twitter, with the threat the greatest when accessing the sites from a mobile phone. The report, which Enisa will be putting online when... 

Say what you like about how the PS3’s games library stacks up against the 360, it’s hard to deny that it’s a far lovelier media player. Near-silent operation, masterful upscaling of SD content to HD screens, the lovely Planet Earth music visualiser and, of course, the Blu-Ray drive. What it doesn’t... 

InsideSocialGames’ weekly list of the quickest growing Facebook games shows some explosive growth for RockYou’s Zoo World this week. The application gained over 1.8 million new monthly users over the week, an increase of over 10% of its previous user base. For context, Zynga’s Farmville only gained... 

For decades, educators have been scrambling to find better ways to prepare students for the real world. It began with the mildly apocalyptic government report, A Nation at Risk, which warned that an outdated school system was unwittingly sabotaging America’s economic superiority. Year after year, major educational... 

NVIDIA has an eye on the notebook market by targeting gamers with a potential external graphics accelerator, although nothing concrete is mentioned just yet. While there is definitely an opportunity to tackle this market, many questions still need to be answered including whether the size of its target market is large... 

Today, the blog Chromium Notes, which is written by a developer who works on the open source project (that Google Chrome is built on top of), posted a very interesting graph: one that shows the number of code commits to WebKit. Notably, it appears that Google has overtaken Apple as the organization that contributes... 

When Electronic Arts bought Playfish for $300 million last year, the intentions seemed clear. Buying the burgeoning social gaming company would 1. Give EA instant entree into the burgeoning Facebook gaming scene courtesy of Pet Society and Restaurant City and 2. Give Playfish a chance to spread its wings and turn popular...