Anxiously awaiting the arrival of those brand spanking new apps for your Xbox 360 console? Well, the wait is over. Video apps for Comcast Xfinity TV, HBO Go and MLB.tv have arrived on a number of consoles here at Engadget HQ. Major Nelson dropped the official word a little while ago, leaving you mere moments away from live and on demand television and baseball just in time for the start of the season. Keep in mind all three of these high profile applications feature Kinect integration — but don’t worry, you won’t be forced to swing any bats in your living room. Xbox 360 apps now live for Comcast Xfinity TV, HBO Go and MLB.tv —...

  This July major US Internet service providers will start assisting copyright holders in their fight against online copyright infringement. Major ISPs including Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner Cable will begin fulfilling their obligations under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed last year, which will see the providers send out copyright infringement warnings to their millions of customers. ISPs To Begin Punishing BitTorrent Pirates This Summer |...

The perils and pitfalls of social networking are nothing new, and with more people putting more of themselves “out there” online it has become unfortunately necessary to prune one’s online public persona. However, some employers and colleges are taking the unprecedented step ofdemanding private access to user’s social networking profiles. In some cases this could mean being forced to “friend” a superior, or even ordered to surrender your password. According to Bob Sullivan at MSNBC, some employers are doing more than simply looking over the information applicants have publicly available. Currently, the Maryland Department of Corrections asks that job applicants submit to a Facebook review. During this process, applicants must log into their Facebook accounts and click through their pages while an interviewer watches over their shoulder. If this sounds intrusive, that’s nothing: Just a year ago, applicants had to surrender their user name password to interviewers. The practice would likely have continued if employees hadn’tcomplained to the ACLU… Employers and Colleges Want Your Facebook Password |...

  The current crop of iPhone killers failed to kill the Apple iPhone. Many of the iPhone’s competitors are really great phones with incredible screens, amazing cameras, powerful processors and advanced user interfaces. On most specs, the iPhone has been bested by several competitors. But still the iPhone reigns supreme in the market. Apple made more money on iPhones alone in Q4 than Microsoft did on every product it sells. What will it take to stop the mighty iPhone? Don’t look now, but the competition is getting ready to hit Apple’s super-villain iPhone with something akin to the X Men or the Avengers — a group of mutant super-phones with unprecedented powers and capabilities that vastly exceed anything that has ever been put into any phone ever. Here is the breathtakingly new crop of extreme super-phones designed to blow the iPhone away: Rise of the Extreme iPhone-Killer Super-Phones! –...

The coming changes to Google’s privacy settings were announced a while ago, but they’ll betaking effect tomorrow, so it’s worth a reminder. The new settings will allow Google to share your data between apps, something it never did before. This means that your web-browsing history may start influencing the ads you see in Gmail, or that the items on your Calendar might start influncing the ads you see on Google Maps. There’s nothing you can really do to stop this, but you can, however, limit the information shared if you remove your Google web history today, before it starts getting shared around tomorrow. Fortunately, removing your Google web history couldn’t be easier. Here’s how you do it: Log into your Google Account. Navigate  to google.com/history Click Remove all web history How To Delete Google Web History Before Policy Change |...

Even though it only sits behind Google as King of the Internet, Facebook wasn’t actually a publicly traded company — and it even got the Aaron Sorkin treatment. Today, finally, Facebook has taken its first steps to becoming a publicly traded company and filed to sell shares on the stock market. Along with seeking to use the ticker “FB” for its shares, it also filed seeking to raise five billion bucks. Facebucks, we’ll call them. Though not even close to Google in terms of revenue or control of Internet territory, analysts feel going public will give Facebook a major boost playing catch-up to the six-lettered Internet giant. Facebook Finally Files for IPO |...

One of the world’s largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said. An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart online piracy. APNewsBreak: US prosecutors shut down one of world’s largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload – The Washington Post. Oh boy…this is kind of a big deal. A HUGE blow after yesterday’s awareness campaign about SOPA and PIPA. This is an example of what can happen to Google, Facebook, Youtube (Youtube especially), really any website that has even a picture of someone without expressed written permission. I’d said that yesterday was blown out of proportion a bit as they don’t really enforce the laws currently in place, but um…just kidding. Now the new question is…what’s the point of SOPA and PIPA if they already have the power to do this? Read...