In case you haven't heard, SimCity Societies is the latest one of these 'video game' things that are corrupting minors and tearing apart the framework of society.  It will terrify your children and their clenched, sweat-drenched little hands into bowing down to socialist green police views by threatening them with punishment. I'm sorry, I just can't keep this joke running for any longer.  The above claims were actually made by Fox News, and are you really surprised?

Former Ebay CEO and past California Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has recently been named the President and Chief Executive Officer of HP. Meg has already served as a Board member over at HP so she has some background with the company. Meg played the lead role during a time of great success and growth at Ebay and then lost a political race for the seat of Governor of California in the most recent Gubernatorial election race for that state.

Facebook launched some major changes to it's Newsfeed in the past week, in preparation for their upcoming developers conference, and as usual, many people are frustrated. Normally I'm not one of them. I try to embrace the new changes because there's not much that can be done to change them. This time however, the change really frustrates me. I don't like Facebook's algorithms deciding which of my friends are important and which aren't, I want to see the entire Newsfeed with all status updates.

Verizon Communications chief executive Lowell McAdam has announced that he is supporting the AT&T T-Mobile merger. He warned that the Government has no choice but to let the deal go though unless they want to fix the current spectrum problems. He went on to say “We need to be very thoughtful on what the impacts would be to the overall industry if this is a way to regulate the industry without actually passing regulation.” The current telcos need more wireless spectrum to continue expanding and operating efficiently so they have resorted to acquiring other companies.

The cloud-gaming company OnLive has lunched its services in the UK with BT as a partner. This is OnLive’s first expansion outside of the United States and the launch comes with all the games that OnLive supports on their platform.

Netflix has just scored some new content in a deal with the Discovery Communications which includes content from Discovery Channel, TLC and Science. The two-year agreement places shows like "Man vs. Wild" and "How its Made" onto Netflix instant streaming. This deal comes shortly after Netflix splits up its DVD rental service from the streaming service. Netflix has been facing numerous hurdles in attaining new content from publishers for its streaming services. More information inside.

Walmart today has announced a way to appeal to the mass of eco-friendly California Liberals by installing solar panels on more than 75 percent of its stores in the state, making California the first state in the nation where Walmart has devoted this level of commitment to renewable energy.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is appearing in front of a Senate Committee with accusations that Google's search results are being influenced. The accusations also accuse Google of favoring its own results above others on the internet. Google is the dominant search engine on the internet which controls 65% of the search volume on the internet. Google has the potential to either make or ruin a business. Google results bring in over 90% of traffic on many different websites. Google is being accused of a monopoly antitrust because of its position in the search arena. Google has substantial advertising revenues and owns a variety of different companies and services it offers. Google has expanded into many different areas and has raised concerns that Google has moved into deceptive practices on the internet. Google having this many different services puts it in a position to place its own services above others. The hearing is live on CSPAN right now, check it out.