Christina DesMarais

Remember when displaying bad manners meant just putting your elbows on the dining table? Today, with all of our mobile devices, we can be rude anywhere at any time.

My bet is, you’ll agree that some of these mobile missteps make you want to slap the perpetrators upside the head. Let's count some of the ways.

Mobile phone maker Motorola's update of the Droid RAZR to the Android 4.0 operating system appears to be on the way.

New official videos posted on the company's Japanese website show the OS running on the handset. Spotted by Droid Life, several videos -- some in Japanese --show off new features in Motorola's custom version of Ice Cream Sandwich.

Internet freedom advocates are finding creative ways to get their message out to the masses.

Source: www.dccomics.comThe latest unique effort comes from Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian and online advocacy group Fight for the Future. Their plan: a "Bat-Signal for the Internet." According to Forbes, once it launches next month it will provide participating website administrators with code they can add to their sites that can be triggered in the case of a freedom-infringing episode.

Source: OperaFacebook's advertising appetite could be in for a nice snack if the company gobbles up the Opera web browser as some technology observers have speculated it may, and investors who have been edgy since the social network's recent IPO could also get some relief.

Opera says that more than 168 million people -- many of them "young and innovative," according to market research -- used the Opera Mini mobile web browser in March. With Mini in hand, Facebook could vastly expand its reach into mobile. It could also mine more information about users even when they're not on Facebook.

Privacy fans, take note: A new technology, called Indoor Positioning System, could push your worry meter to the max. IPS allows pinpoint tracking of any Wi-Fi-enabled device, such as a smartphone or tablet, within a building. This means that an IPS service could easily track you--right down to, say, the table you’re occupying in a mall’s food court--as long as your mobile devices’ Wi-Fi is turned on. And, if you’re a typical device user, your Wi-Fi is always on, right?

In short, we've moved far beyond using regular old GPS for location tracking. Indoor environments are challenging for low-cost location systems such as GPS, because the ways in which buildings are constructed--not to mention physical obstacles and even people’s bodies--interfere with GPS's ability to pinpoint a location.

A leaked image purporting to show the yet-to-be-released Wii U, below an image of the old version. Source: GamesRadarNintendo isn't quite ready to pull the curtains off its next generation Wii U, but a purported photo of the game console has already circulated on Twitter.

That's according to WebProNews, which says GamesRadar found the image posted from the Twitter account of a QA tester for Traveler's Tales, makers of the LEGO game series. While the picture has been deleted, GamesRadar saved it and compared the image to a photo of the previous model.

Image courtesy of Mark Zuckerberg. Source: FacebookFacebook is all about sharing, but that doesn't mean its billionaire chief can't keep a secret, at least when it comes to his nuptials.

Guests that arrived at Mark Zuckerberg's Palo Alto, California, home Saturday, the day after his social network went public, thought they were attending a party to celebrate longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan's medical school graduation party. Instead, the two got married.

Facebook is now officially a public company, scads of new millionaires are on a Silicon Valley spending spree, and media outlets near and far have yet to pipe down about the IPO, likely one of the most anticipated in history.

But is the long-term viability and success of Facebook a slam dunk?  You’d think so, considering 900 million people on the planet use the social network now valued at nearly $105 billion.

Source: NASAInteractive maps and sites are worth checking out with the solar eclipse nearing.

NASA is using an interactive Google Map to let you see the path of Sunday's annular solar eclipse, which will be viewable for millions of people. NASA also offers a projected time lapse of the eclipse. And if you're in the western United States, check out the website Shadow and Substance, which shows how the eclipse will look in each state in which it will be visible.

Google's Mother's Day doodle is cute and cuddly, a contrast to the story behind the holiday as explained on a link provided through the Internet search leader's homepage.

Unlike some of Google's doodles that are static art, this one is animated. If you hover your pointer over the doodle, you'll see the message "Happy Mother's Day!" and if you click on it Google takes you to a search results page for the holiday.

Facebook CEO Mark ZuckerbergFacebook users are increasingly accessing the online social network via their mobile devices, a trend the company expects to capitalize on through advertising as it prepares for its IPO.

In March, the average Facebook mobile user engaged with the social network for more than 7 hours, according to comScore. That's a lot of head-down time to which Facebook has to respond.

Apple, Asus, and Samsung, look out -- HP is again jumping into the tablet fray.

At a conference in Shanghai this week Hewlett-Packard executives have been touting the company’s reentry into the tablet market, this time with models running Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system. That’s according to the Bangkok Post, which quotes HP big shots who say the move capitalizes on the high numbers of consumers investing in tablets and the fact that Windows 8 will let them share and store content online between different devices.