An Android smartphone called Samsung Vibrant (a variant of the Galaxy S) launches on T-Mobile July 21, but when you pay the $199 price tag the phone won’t be all you’ll get.

An Android smartphone called Samsung Vibrant (a variant of the Galaxy S) launches on T-Mobile July 21, but when you pay the $199 price tag the phone won’t be all you’ll get. Each handset will come pre-loaded with a copy of Avatar and the mobile game The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition

California’s gubernatorial race is heating up, especially when it comes to televised commercials. Republican candidate Meg Whitman’s campaign recently released a spot that calls Democratic nominee Jerry Brown’s political career a failure

Why are we not surprised? Hustler has announced This Ain’t Avatar XXX , a porn film featuring stars in blue, Na’vi-like makeup in the style of Avatar , shot in (probably not-so-glorious in this case) 3D and high definition. The movie will be released on DVD and Blu-ray this September, but we don’t know much about it aside from the title and the DVD cover, featured below

Avatar wasn’t just a huge success at the box office ; the film is quickly setting records on home video as well. Since its release on April 22, Avatar has managed to move more than 6.7 million DVD and Blu-ray discs in North America alone.

I’ve seen Avatar (the 3D version) over the weekend, and while I won’t go into the content of the movie, technologically it’s a must-see.

If you’re planning on seeing Avatar in theaters this weekend, you are not alone. Both Fandango and MovieTickets.com are reporting that a huge percentage of tickets purchased online have been for the James Cameron-directed sci-fi epic

If you’re a Firefox user, you may already be familiar with Greasemonkey , an extension that allows users to create scripts that change the display or behavior of web pages. Greasemonkey scripts can come in extremely handy for various purposes, and Leonard Lin has come up with one that adds utility to the default Twitter display for the new retweet function . The user script, which you can download and install here , modifies the avatar display in your Twitter.com timeline to include both the person you’re following’s avatar along with the avatar of the Twitter user they retweeted.

There have been several high profile hackings of Twitter accounts, with the likes of Britney Spears and even Barack Obama having their accounts compromised (with bizarre tweets sent from them) for at least a few minutes.

Twitter has been making a series of big announcements outlining changes to the microblogging service such as geolocation tweets and Project Retweet . But quietly Twitter has been making some subtle interface changes too. A few days ago, some of our readers noticed some font changes to Twitter pages.