While the royal wedding was a popular subject, apparently Osama bin Laden’s death has set a record of some 3,000 Tweets per second. There have been so many Tweets that even news agencies are beginning to get confused. And don’t forget the associated malware scams.

Another breach was discovered at Sony. This occurred a few days before the main hack and affects another 24 million accounts, for online gaming, including many from an old list of customers in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.

Later this year, Amazon is expected to release an Android tablet, apparently to compete with Barnes & Noble’s color Nook.

News Corp paid $58 0 million for MySpace in 2005. Now they’re trying to unload it for the bargain price of $100 million.

Research In Motion is under fire. Several countries have objected to the security features included on BlackBerrys, the PlayBook isn’t flying off shelves faster than an iPad, and market share has dropped. Will they be the next firm swallowed by Microsoft?

Large companies always look at the bottom line. If something isn’t selling, even if the technology is good, the product will be killed. But, what if, instead of just killing the product, the technology was open-sourced? Then others, less worried about the bottom line, might continue working on the idea.

In the PlayStation debacle, there is a glimmer of good news. If your account information included a credit card number, Sony had encrypted it. No word yet on whether passwords were encrypted or stored in clear text.

A sort of a candy shop for tech nerds, Google’s workshops are set up to help keep the creative side of the business working. The workshops contain an array of equipment and materials to allow employees room for experimentation.

Chrome 11 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame is now available for download. If you’re up for bug-hunting, Google is offering up to $16,500 for each bug found.

Apparently Apple wants to sell cloud-based music services, to complement iTunes, from the iCloud.com domain. The company has reportedly purchased the domain name from Xcerion.