If you want a photo with President Obama, you'll have to get someone else to take it. After some recent high-profile photos, the White House is officially reining in the Twitpic-er-in-Chief.

Reddit spent a good chunk of yesterday and this morning justifiably ragging on this Samsung ad for featuring "possibly the world's worst actors."

Disguised as a mere clip of a little girl dancing under an unknown YouTube account, Samsung's newest viral Galaxy 580 ad builds to become an all out choreographed spectacle.

If Goldilocks were shopping for a TV today, odds are she'd walk away disappointed and empty-handed. We looked at three major TV manufacturers' latest offerings and couldn't help but wonder — whatever happened to the medium TV?

Samsung says Lisette Lee, the Beverly Hills woman caught with 500 lbs. of marijuana on her Gulfstream jet, is lying about being an heiress to their fortune. Hollywood acquaintances say she's been calling herself one for years.

Lisette Lee arrived in Ohio from Beverly Hills on a chartered jet carrying $500,000 worth of marijuana. False eyelashes fluttering, she claimed to be an electronics heiress. But she used to use a different name and be an actress.

If you're old, pregnant, under the age of 20, or regularly sleep deprived/drunk, you may not want to buy a 3D TV. At least that's what the manufacturers of these sets are now warning consumers. Is 3D-TV the new Olestra?

In a single hour, Macy's sold 72,000 bottles of Beyonce's new perfume yesterday. If you think that's impressive, check out all the other stuff she uses her famous face to sell. A portrait of the artist as a commodity.

[Samsung puts on quite a display of displays for their booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which opened today. Image via Getty]

We already took our shot at what was behind Samsung's so-crazy-it-makes-sense attempt to acquire SanDisk. Samsung, we said, has supplied the memory chips for Apple's iPhone since its launch last year. That's why Samsung needs to bulk up to contend with the might of Apple, one of the largest buyers of flash memory. Now…

Samsung has launched a hostile $5.9 billion offer for SanDisk, a rival maker of flash-memory chips, which SanDisk has rejected. Toshiba, which manufactures chips in partnership with SanDisk, is considering a blocking bid. The posturing is typical: SanDisk says the bid undervalues the company, while Samsung executives…

Milpitas-based flash-memory maker SanDisk may sell out to Korean megavendor Samsung, the world's biggest maker of memory chips. As prices for flash memory drop, SanDisk sale rumors have floated for weeks, including word of a possible acquisition by hard-drive maker Seagate. But Samsung could use SanDisk's portfolio…

AOL ad revenue grew at an old media-like pace in the second quarter, increasing just two percent. So what's Middle America's favorite Internet property to do? Get super-sized, of course. "Beginning today," a breathless flack writes us:

Sony, Samsung, Motorola and Hitachi have banded together to adopt Amimon's ready-and-shipping wireless HDTV chips for next year's products. Because the products will have no cable jacks, the new gear will sport a conspicuous logo that indicates it will connect to other devices with the same logo. If you want to play…

Everyone likes to talk up Apple's innovative design. It's a much more attractive story than the real reason why Apple has come to dominate first the MP3 player market, and soon, the smartphone market: Ruthless haggling with suppliers to lock up crucial components, shutting out rivals. Apple is buying 50 million…

Steve Jobs likes to say that Apple is the last company that makes "the whole widget." But it doesn't, not really. Sure, Apple makes software and designs hardware — but inside its gadgets are silicon brains from the likes of Samsung and Intel. Jobs is adept at bullying chipmakers for lower prices and faster delivery,…