Blockbuster is broke

Blockbuster has announced a 435 million dollar loss for the fourth quarter after a 114 million dollar loss in the third quarter. In September it announced that they would be closing 960 underperforming stores. To revitalize its business, Blockbuster hopes to install 7,000 rental kiosks this year to help it more effectively compete with Redbox. It installed 2,000 kiosks in 2009.

Twitter Phishing

Twitter users were being hit on Wednesday with the second phishing attack this week.

The latest attack: Users received messages saying 'This you????' luring users onto a fake twitter log in page. Messages are being spread directly in bulk using a group tweet, 'according to sophos' .

The Sophos blog entries have videos explaining the attacks. They also warn users not to reuse passwords on different sites. A Twitter phishing attack that steals your log-in credentials compromises your bank and e-mail accounts, if you use the same password on those sites.

Charging for farmville?

All of the rumors of Zynga charging $5.99 a month for farmville are FALSE. After being posted on a blog, rumors of a fee for playing farmville with upgraded levels and more spread all over the internet. Evenn though farmville has 75 million monthly players, Zynga still doesn't think it is appropriate to go public with the game.

Fable 3

The sequel is on it's way. Fable 3 will be here just in time for the holidays. The perfect gift for most gamers.

Avatar 2

Has pre production on an avatar sequel already started? Slash film is reporting that technical crew members are currently being hired to work on avatar 2, and are even having to sign 3-5 year contracts to work on the project. It's not a huge shock that Fox would rush a second film into production. Avatar has just became the highest grossing film of all time.

Mars Rover= Fail

The 900 million dollar NASA project has now been permanently stuck in a sandy rut on Mars, after more than 5 years of scientific exploration, lasting far long than its intended 90 day mission. The Mars Rover has damaged its 2 right wheels. NASA still hopes that it will still retrieve data from it's sandy 'resting place'

Adobe vc. Apple

Adobe has now released an official statement saying, "It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. And without Flash support, iPad users will still not be able to access the full range of web content including over 70% of games and 75% of videos on the web." Apple claims that Flash isn't an option because it is a security risk and drains the iPad's resources