In this week’s bipolar app roundup: Foursquare, squared! Slow ISPs, tattled on! Videos, easily streamed! Street Fighter fans’ high standards, met! Twitter apps, set free! Your entire life, documented! Your every plan, shared! And more… This Week’s Apps To view the gallery as a single page, click here . This Week’s iPhone News …

Even if you don’t own a PlayStation 3 , Heavy Rain is a game you should know because it re-imagines both videogames and movies, combining them into a new genre of Choose Your Own Adventure digital narrative. (Very minor spoilers ahead.) This is not to say Heavy Rain is perfect…

If you’re in the market for a netbook—the gimpy kittens of the laptop jungle—know this first: on the inside, they’re all basically the same. Making the little differences all the more important! And yes, they do add up. For our Battlemodo, we decided to look only at netbooks…

We had a very hotly contested matchup this week in our long-running Faceoff series , with Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE going up against Sony’s PlayStation Network for favorite online console gaming service. After an astounding 35,055 votes we’re ready to declare the winner… … and Xbox LIVE takes the …

Happy Friday, people! Along with the venerable tradition of Follow Friday , today also marks this week’s edition of the Friday Poll . Last week we wanted to know if location checkin services freak you out in terms of privacy concerns. Reactions were pretty mixed, although many of you felt like services gave you enough …

It’s time once again to pit two contestants against each other in an all-out battle for the hearts and minds of Mashable readers. In this week’s Web Faceoff , we wanted to get a sense of which online console gaming service Mashable readers prefer: Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE, …

Sony PlayStation 3 owners in multiple regions (including North America, Europe, and Australia) are facing the inability to sign into the PlayStation Network online gaming service, corrupted user data and inability to play some games online or off. The problems are accompanied by the 8001050F error code. When they try to load up …

This past week it seems Twitter was all about entertainment, with Justin Bieber, the Olympics, and the Jonas Brothers on the tips of everyone’s fingers. Our friends at What The Trend have provided an overview of the most tweeted topics this past week. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games…

The Facebook -platform game FarmVille has 80 million players . It’s been named social networking game of the year. It’s played by people young and old . It’s bigger than Twitter . But that doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. The game optionally advertises itself by sending out news feed updates to your friends whenever…

Smartphones can do some amazing things these days, and the Android Market has quickly become a sandbox for some clever developers, as well as Google Inc. itself. We’ve already touched on some popular Android apps for Twitter , some for news , and some great multiplayer games , but not all apps have a specific purpose…