Photos: Anniversary of NASA's Worst Tragedies
Late January is always a dark time of year for NASA's astronaut program; the anniversaries of its three worst accidents all happen in the same week. The Apollo 1 astronauts died in a cockpit fire on Jan. 27, 1967. The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff Jan. 28, 1986. And the space shuttle Columbia broke up on return to earth Feb. 1, 2003.

Watch: SOPA Backlash Causes Web Blackouts
Google and other sites protest anti-piracy laws with new look.

Bluefin: How to Measure Social Buzz for a TV Show
Daisy Whitney’s New Media Minute: Where will the next great breakthrough in marketing and measurement come from? A lot of ad agencies are betting on a social media metrics company called Bluefin labs. Everywhere I turn, I hear this company’s name mentioned; we should mention...

Android lead smartphone platform in 2011, will be used by government (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Android got some good news this week. Firstly, numbers released by comScore suggest the platform grew in the fourth quarter of 2011 in the U.S. Secondly, the U.S. government has decided to use Android devices as secure phones.

Photos: Knut's Half-Sibling Born at Zoo
Anori, Knut's half-sibling born at German Zoo

HP awards new CEO Whitman with $16.5M pay package (AP)
AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician's ability to lift the stumbling technology company's stock price during the next two years.