Market research firm IHS predicts a fast increase in HDD storage densities and, as a result, a similarly strong increase in storage capacities.

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Seeing those square QR codes everywhere could get a little ugly.

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Facebook is worth a bit less today than it was on Friday, the first day of its IPO launch. While the stock managed to stay slightly above its start price of $38 a share at the end of the day on Friday, CNBC.com reports that the company's second day of trading on Monday saw the price go down to $34.03 a share, nearly 11 percent lower than its price on Friday. It's also down 25 percent compared to the stock's highest price of $45 a share, achieved early in trading on Friday.

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The Anonymous group isn't afraid to mess with the big guys, and they are at it again. This time, releasing 1.7GB worth of data from the United States Bureau of Justice, including the entire database of the organization, as well as internal emails.

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It’s been revealed by a Wall Street Journal report this week that Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was the highest payed person in his position throughout 2011 in the USA. The amount of cash he actually received in annual salary from Apple was 90 cents, this along with his annual incentives equaled out to be just $180 cents. So where does the massive $378 million stack of cash come from, this $300 million more than the next highest paid CEO in the USA?

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We’ve all been there. No matter how good your vision is, if you spend any amount of time on a computer, you’ve had at least one experience of not being able to read what the heck those garbled inhuman words on those CAPTCHA screens are supposed to be. Now, a company called Are You a Human, is looking for a new standard that will alleviate frustration from both website owners and end users.

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Samsung’s Galaxy S III has shown up for sale in the US with an estimated release date of early June, though it won’t be bringing a slice of LTE pleasure to the lives of early-adopters. The new smartphone is already being listed – in international, HSPA+ form – online in both blue and white, expected to ship on June 1 2012. However, most in the US would probably be better off waiting for the official US variants.

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It’s no secret that when it comes to smartphones, Samsung sees only one company as its competitor – Apple. It believes, rightly so, that it has the most popular presence on Android so rather than fight against other Android manufacturers it has its eyes set solely on the iPhone. So it is really no surprise that the company has developed its own version of Siri. Will it be able to measure up?

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Microsoft has released an extensive blog post that looks back at the history of Windows and then points to where it’s headed for the future. From the days of Windows 1, when reviews called the idea of a mouse “gimmicky,” “anti-productive,” and “uncomfortable,” to today when mice are potentially becoming irrelevant again (thanks to the prominence of touch control), there have been a lot of changes in the way we interact with computers.

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Apple continues to add more and more iOS-like features to Mountain Lion. The latest addition to the developer preview brings the Automatic Download function for apps purchased from the OS X App Store. Just like iOS, once you enable this feature any Mac that is logged on the same account will automatically download purchased apps. The feature doesn’t seem to be fully baked in just yet, however.

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There’s a little website on the internet you might have heard of called YouTube, today celebrating its seventh birthday. First launched in May 2005, the video sharing site exploded in popularity after it was acquired by Google and is churning out videos and views at an breakneck pace. The first crazy stat to take away? 72 hours of video are uploaded to the site very minute, up from 48 hours last year.

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In December, Microsoft launched a new social networking service it called So.cl (pronounced «Social') as a kind of research project. So.cl was limited to a small audience base when it launched; specifically students from the University of Washington, Syracuse University, and New York University.

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It's been a pretty big week for Mark Zuckerberg; the company he founded went public, he turned 28, and got married. Yes, that's right: the Zuck has tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan, according to the AP.

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Twitter access has now been blocked in the country of Pakistan due to the service showing images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The Associated Press reports that, according to the government, Twitter refused to remove messages posted by others about a contest that actually started on Facebook. The contest apparently centered on posting images of Muhammad. The religion of Islam considers any depiction of Muhammad as blasphemous.

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A quick reminder in case you’re not following the various legal battles happening across the tech industry right now: everyone is suing everyone. One of the most prominent cases involves a legal tussle between Apple and Samsung, with Cupertino pointing fingers at the South Korean manufacturer, claiming that they blatantly copied various products. Now, the courts have ordered the two companies to try and settle the issue before the trial starts.

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Blizzard won't be ready to launch the real-money auction house on May 22.

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WikiLeaks was down for the count longer than The Pirate Bay.

On Wednesday The Pirate Bay mentioned on its Facebook page that Wikileaks was also under a DDoS attack. WikiLeaks confirmed the report via Twitter, stating that the whistle blowing site had been under sustained DDoS attacks over the last 72 hours. The site's «www» address wasn't affected, but the main wikileaks.org URL appeared to be the target. Currently both are now up and running.

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How much RAM does your smartphone have?

Dual-core processors in smartphones are almost the norm these days and quad-core CPUs are fast becoming common, too. Similarly, manufacturers are also stepping up the amount of RAM they're packing into their smartphones. The newly announced Galaxy S III boasts a whopping 1GB of RAM. However, the Japanese version of the Galaxy S III is going to have even more.

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RunCore has released an SSD that features two ways of destroying data, one of which is nuking the drive itself with the press of a button!

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A Samsung official told a Korean newspaper the company has received a whopping nine million carrier pre-orders for its next flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S III. The new phone, which is set to go on sale May 29 in Germany before releasing in other countries, is currently being manufactured at a South Korean facility.

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