Angry Birds", the most-downloaded mobile app of 2011, was catapulted to the world of Facebook on Tuesday in a bid by its Finnish maker Rovio to get one billion people playing the addictive game. Fans were able to test the new Angry Birds Facebook app online Tuesday morning ahead of its official global launch in Jakarta, the world's most Facebook-connected city. "With the great success of the Angry Birds game on smartphone platforms, Rovio intends …

From SOPA to Ellen DeGeneres, protesting keeps getting more social. Thanks to Twitter and Facebook, digital agitation has entered the mainstream allowing people to affect change at a dizzying speed. Going viral is no longer reserved for cute puppy videos. Social networking has moved into new areas of social protest, Tim Stevens, editor-in-chief of the technology blog Engadget, said, shortly after Susan G. Komen Foundation reversed course on pulling …

He is all of 21 and can boast of over 38 million YouTube hits for his song. But Anirudh Ravichander, composer of the phenomenally popular Tamil-English number "Kolaveri di", is already trying to move out of its shadow. " 'Kolaveri di' is in the past now; I am trying to move on to new projects," Ravichander said in an e-mail interview. "Although I'm enjoying the success, I realised it was very important to move out of the 'Kolaveri di' shadow to …

Angry Birds and Facebook were the most downloaded iPhone apps of 2011, according to Apple, but some less predictable apps also made their lists. Craig Palli, a vice president at Fiksu, a marketing company for app developers, explained that this year's top apps incorporate three main trends: the ability to connect with friends, discovery and games that let users past the time and pick up where they left off. The top app in the social networking …

If reports from Kollywood are to be believed, Namitha is deeply in love and is planning to marry the man of her choice. The actress is said to be dating a Mumbai-based advocate and their professional meetings soon turned romantic, say sources. There is a talk that Namitha may soon announce her wedding date and call it quits as far as acting is concerned. She is currently into real estate business and wishes to settle down in marital bliss soon.

Midnight soccer with daughter Suhana proved to be a painful game for superstar Shahrukh Khan as he hurt his ribs while playing. “Have hurt ribs. Holiday soccer career nipped in the bud…bah!! Now to indulge in reading & videogames. Hurts only when I laugh or breathe,” Shah Rukh wrote on social networking site Facebook. The actor is holidaying in Dubai with wife Gauri and children Suhana and Aryan, and is enjoying the “luxury of nothingness”. “My …

Yes another actresses Facebook account has been hacked! This time it’s Shruti Hassan! After Trisha, Hansika and Sonal Chauhan, Shruti Hassan joins the dubious list of actresses whose Facebook has been hacked. Shruti has fallen a prey to cybercrime as she becomes the latest victim of hacking. The actress claims that her Facebook and Gmail account has been hacked and also apologizes if anyone might got any false messages. Shruti is now contacting Facebook …

Mobile gaming firm Rovio said on Wednesday its hit game Angry Birds had reached a record 500 million downloads in less than two years since its launch. "It's more than any game ever before," Rovio's marketing chief Peter Vesterbacka told a conference in Helsinki. Unlike most mobile-game crazes, Angry Birds -- in which players use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal the birds' eggs -- has stayed at the top of the charts since it was launched for …

The 2011 Nobel season opens Monday with the announcement in Stockholm of the Medicine Prize, to be followed over the course of a week by the awards for physics, chemistry, literature, economics and peace. The Medicine Prize is scheduled to be announced at 11:30 am (0930 GMT) at the earliest. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps the most watched of the prestigious awards, will be revealed Friday in Oslo, and the five-member Norwegian Nobel …

Israeli ambassador to Jordan, Danny Navon was returning to Israel on Thursday with his staff, fearing a large demonstration outside the embassy in Amman over the weekend, Israeli public radio reported. The Jerusalem Post newspaper said that calls for a mass rally had been posted of social networking site Facebook under the banner "No Zionist embassy on Jordanian territory." The Israeli foreign ministry spokesman could not immediately be reached …