Are Apple, Google and Facebook Natural Monopolies? (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | They may not be the power company, but you won't find too many threats to their dominance. All three are not only at the top of their game, they have few, if any, competitors. And the law helps keep newbies out of the market.

Watch: CES in 60 Seconds: Samsung Super OLED Televisions
Samsung displays ultra thin TV sets with voice controls and a video camera.

Watch: Facebook Prepares for IPO
The Internet giant is expected to file the required paperwork to go public.

Super Bowl bust: U.S. government seizes 307 domains for violating NFL copyrights (Yahoo! News)
Yahoo! News - While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency seized 307 different domains suspected of violating NFL copyrights. …

First Meteor Shower of 2012 Dazzles
The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first major show of shooting stars in 2012, peaks in the hours before dawn on Wednesday. The best seeing should be after the moon sets around 3 a.m. Astronomers say you may see 60-200 shooting stars per hour if the weather is clear.

18-Mile Crack Seen in Antarctic Glacier
Antarctica is so vast that the pictures give you no sense of scale. The pencil-thin line across the satellite image of Pine Island Glacier (above) is actually more than 18 miles long, 800 feet across in places, and 180 feet deep. And it’s growing. In...