Amazon tinkers with in-app purchases, iPhone 5 rumors point to a June release, and the Face It Campaign calls Facebook’s all-white-male board “ridiculous.”

Comcast and Time Warner don’t play nice with HBO on Xbox, Girls Around Me says it shouldn’t be attacked for its creepy app, and 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard card holders are at risk after a data breach.

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Adobe plans to collect revenue from programmers who create “console-quality” Flash games, the Transformers lose their battle against Asus, and President Obama has joined another social network to assist in his re-election bid.

Xbox Live expands its entertainment hub, HTC Sense demolishes its data for a redesign, and Google concentrates all its digital content into one Play button.

Apple won’t tolerate apps that gather UDID, Square is spicing things up again in the mobile payment space, and listen up gumshoes — the government creates its own Carmen Sandiego game to put social media to the test.

Zynga swallows OMGPOP, BioWare considers giving in to fans, and 2011 was a good year for Anonymous.

CNET tests out rumors of the new iPad overheating, comedian Aziz Ansari is set to follow Louis C.K.’s lead with a DRM-free video, and Nokia files a patent application for a tattoo that would vibrate when someone calls your mobile…

The Xbox 360 ain’t dead yet, the Federal Aviation Administration is rethinking its gadget policy, and Apple will pay out a dividend for the first time since 1995.

Microsoft mixes a projector with Kinect, Amazon sinks its teeth into Netflix with Shark Week, and Google is planning a major revamp for its search engine.