Microsoft has finally crossed the “magic 1 million mark” of Xbox 360 sales in Australia and New Zealand, and is celebrating with a special series of charity auctions to help a local children's charity, but while the number sold is definitely noteworthy, one can only wonder how many of those Xbox 360s are still working following the RRoD scandal.

Is Johnny Depp dead? No. But that won't stop the malware merchants exploiting the confusion?

With all the Google launches of this week and last, co-incidentally right at the same time Microsoft has launched its new Bing search engine, Google has also gone Squared, and has surrounded itself with celebrity star power!

The owner of susanboyle.com is hoping entrepreneurs or fans of Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer, will snap up this domain name for a cool $US 25,000. Yet, this is no case of cyber-squatting because the owner is none other than, well, Susan Boyle.

There is a Buddhist saying that "Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise" which certainly appears to fit the strange case of the Twittering Dalai Lama.

If you were a celebrity stuck in a lift, what would you do while waiting to be rescued? 

Celebrity Twitter users post something interesting, shock horror! Well, not quite. Hackers who compromised their accounts have posted a variety of messages on their behalf, ranging from the amusing to the offensive. Still, it makes a change from boring I guess.

When the 2008 Google Zeitgeist report of top search terms is published next week, the top of the list will be US President-elect Barack Obama. The result is in stark contrast to that of Yahoo! which has Britney Spears in the top spot ahead of Obama.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Once again, Britney Spears is the most-searched person on Yahoo! for 2008, pushing US President-Elect Barack Obama into second spot.

With the arrival of Britney Spears on Twitter, is the reign of Chief Twit Barack Obama finally over or can the pop princess do it again in the realm of the social network?