ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | This is shaping up to the be the year streaming video becomes ultra-competitive. Netflix is starting to recover after a near disastrous price hike announcement in 2011, as reported by Forbes, and a recent announcement says Verizon and Redbox will form a streaming video partnership that will be up and running by the end of the year, the Associated Press reported. Now, Amazon is getting ready to jump into the streaming video world in a major ... more

A glossy meteorite that broke off from the Red Planet some million years ago and landed in Morocco last summer passed through many hands before finding a home at the Natural History Museum in London.

Appolicious - Feel like heading out with some friends? You might want to make use of two of today’s Fresh iPhone Apps: LoSo, an app that gives you info about what’s going on in restaurants and bars (as well as exclusive deals and discounts), and TextVite, an app lets you send instant SMS-style event invitations using your own photos. While you’re waiting for everyone to meet you, we also have some handy games to play. ...

AP - The iPhone helped Sprint gain customers in the latest quarter, but also forced the carrier to post its largest loss in three years because of the high cost of the phone a network upgrade.

Reuters - When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world's biggest Internet population might seem an obvious ambition for the social networking giant as it trumpets its global growth before a $5 billion initial public offering, but the chances it will succeed look slim.