Minute by minute, Nasdaq chaos engulfed Facebook IPO  —  Dead silence.  For nearly 20 minutes on the morning of Facebook Inc's trading debut last Friday, the line Nasdaq had opened up to keep traders informed about the social media company's $16 billion IPO had been mute.

Aged Windows XP costs 5x more to manage than Windows 7  —  As XP's life wanes, Microsoft talks dollars to get businesses to ditch 11-year-old OS  —  Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing …

RIM prepares for radical measures with global restructuring  —  Patrick Spence, who quit this week as Research In Motion Ltd.'s global sales chief, was not the first senior executive to leave the struggling BlackBerry maker this spring and he will not be the last, as the company prepares for thousands of additional layoffs.

Watch this rare video from inside the Foxconn facility where 70% of iPhones are made  —  You don't get a look inside Apple's factories in China all that often.  Apple is notoriously secretive about their processes and products.  That's why the video below is so fascinating …

UK ‘cookie law’ takes effect: What you need to know  —  Let's be honest: The U.K. has made a right hash-up of implementing the cookie law from start to finish.  It came into force on May 26.  Here's everything you need to know.

Motorola Demos Ice Cream Sandwich for the DROID RAZR in Official Video Series, Watch Them All Here  —  We know that Ice Cream Sandwich for the DROID RAZR will be here some time before the end of June (Q2) thanks to an updated timeline released by Motorola within the last week.

Facebook Is Building The Facebook Phone Right In Front Of Our Eyes  —  One of the many points of intrigue around Facebook's future centers on the mobile phone market.  —  It has been reportedly working on a mobile operating system for its own phone since 2010.

Facebook's Royal Wedding  —  THE wedding of Mark Zuckerberg to Priscilla Chan last weekend here in the backyard of their $7 million home had all the staging of a carefully orchestrated celebrity event.  A publicist for Facebook eagerly offered photos afterward of the beaming couple …

BitTorrent Traffic Booms Due to “Licensing Challenges”  —  Over the years we have been following various reports on Internet traffic changes, specifically in relation to BitTorrent.  One of the emerging trends is BitTorrent and P2P traffic as a whole losing its share of total Internet traffic, in the U.S. at least.