Articles by Mashable from October 2011

For the Tech Innovators Series, supported by Lenovo, Mashable uncovered eight groundbreaking innovations that are changing the landscape of business.…...

We all enjoy a good old-fashioned fright, and what better time of year to indulge your dark side than Halloween? We have found 7 terrifically terrify…...

Halloween is coming up soon, and if you want to dress up like an Angry Bird, you’re running out of time. It’s too late to get a costume fr…...

Tour Googles sprawling Mountain View, CA, campus and as you ogle the colors, great employee facilities and sense of whimsy, youll think, Why…...

Thanks to the Internet, marketing has evolved over the years. Consumers no longer rely on billboards and TV spots — a.k.a. outbound marketing &#…...

“Who are you?,” I ask Siri, attempting to unravel some of the mystery behind the iPhone 4S virtual assistant by going directly to th…...

At this time of year we like to indulge ourselves with as many delicious chills as we can. To this end we’ve been taking a look at some spooky i…...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

Since Halloween weekend is currently in full swing (despite the snowy weather in the U.S. Northeast), we know many of you are probably busy mod…...

Annual performance reviews: you either love ‘em or hate ‘em. Some companies get the formula right, developing a constructive review proces…...

Steve Jobs was a man of contradictions. In Steve Jobs, a biography by Walter Isaacson, his groundbreaking ideas and spectacular technological br…...

It was another terrific week for tech, and we scoured the world to find the best examples for you, right here. So buckle up and get ready for the shin…...

When master magician Simon Pierro gets his hands on an iPad, watch out. Now he’s created a special Halloween edition of his unique iPad magic,…...

One thing we love about the Mashable community is the quality comments we find on just about every article on the site.That’s why weR…...

NSFW Warning: Careful, this video’s spicy language might not be safe for some workplaces or delicate sensibilities.The funny people at Jest h…...

The funny people at Jest have been paying close attention to the way news outlets cover stories, focusing on headlines in particular. Here’s…...

If Halloween elicits thoughts of scary movie marathons, haunted houses and things jumping out from behind the next corner, then maybe this year itR…...

YouTube is partnering with Ashton Kutcher, Amy Poehler, Shaq, IGN, The Wall Street Journal and dozens of others to launch a slew of premium vi…...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

In a blog entry on Thursday, Facebook stated that about 600,000 log-ins every day are compromised.The factoid, first noted by security site Sop…...

Could Siri, the voice-based virtual assistant for every iPhone 4S owner, constitute a threat to Google’s Android operating system? Absolu…...

Many mourned the death of Steve Jobs, the often-controversial, often-brilliant mind behind Apple. Amidst the sadness came a flood of tributes with min…...

Steve Martin’s not going to let his one-liners on Twitter go to waste. Instead, he’s going to recycle them for a for-charity book.T…...

For the discriminating BlackBerry fan, the Bold 9900 isn’t the ultimate BBM-running device, it’s the limited edition Porsche Design…...

Rather than limit ourselves to just one YouTube video today, we bring you a whole collection of our favorite spooky clips from the streaming pl…...

About 100 YouTube channels with original content from Ashton Kutcher, Amy Poehler and former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal, among others, are…...

Hulu inked a five-year deal with The CW on Friday, giving the streaming site access to next-day content from five of the six major networks.Sta…...

When exactly are your best times to tweet? With over 200 million tweets posted each day, this is a very important question to tackle. When you…...

Two weeks after the iPhone 4S release, Apple is quietly reaching out to users who have experienced serious battery drainage problems — and…...

The Wall Street Journal‘s bestseller rankings will now include ebook sales, the publisher announced Friday.Beginning this weekend, the Jo…...

Memes are huge this year. So are video game birds, superheros and working iPhone bodysuits. The year 2011 has never seen so many tech-inspired Hallowe…...

The Occupy Wall Street movement has not only inspired people to take to the streets, but to open their own wallets to support the cause —…...

Thanks to this weeks advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable’s spons…...

Last week, Netflix reported losing more than 800,000 subscribers since increasing its price by 60% this past summer. If you’re one of the…...

Nokia’s new Lumia 800 looks fantastic — easily one of the most impressive Windows Phone devices to date — yet the Finnish com…...

When an irate traveler tweeted about how he had arrived late to The Four Seasons in Palo Alto and been bumped to an inferior room, the ho…...

Facebook is releasing a new method for accessing your account when you lose your password: a little help from “trusted friends.”The…...

Google TV had such potential when it launched in October of last year. But for many users, the lack of Hulu – along with the awkwardness of th…...

Warner Bros., one of the world’s major film studios, will not be providing Blockbuster with DVDs for rentals. The decision came after Blo…...

We’ve seen this deal from grocery stores and apparel retailers — but a buy two get one free tablet deal? BlackBerry is now offerin…...

Between 2006 and 2010, American brand loyalty has declined sharply. During that same time span, fewer consumers self-reported that owning th…...

Nokia‘s share of the global handset market fell 5% in the third quarter compared to the same period a year ago.However, Nokia still owns…...

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says entrepreneurs can’t be afraid to move fast on enormous opportunities, even when mistakes are made.At the f…...

The first photos of Motorola’s next big Android 4G LTE release, the Droid4, have surfaced, just one day after the handset manufacturer&#…...

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform o…...

Despite the alleged intentions of its board, as well as rumored interest from Google and Microsoft, among others, momentum for a potential acqui…...

Ireland is pulling out all the stops, including a presidential visit, an orchestra and Bono, for a handful of the world’s technology elite.One-…...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of First To Know, a series in which we keep you in the know on whats happening in the digital w…...

Apple’s net sales in the Asia-Pacific region have risen to $14.3 billion in 2011, up 174% from the same period a year ago.The Asia-Pacifi…...

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone to run Google’s next-generation Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich, is arriving in Europe on…...

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable‘s Job Lists gather all our resource l…...

Running a marathons is grueling work, but ASCIS is hoping to make the upcoming New York Marathon on November 5 just a little bit easier with RF…...

The 3-year-old Klout has already become the industry standard for measuring social media reach and influence, but the company no longer has that…...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

If you have a crowd of people collaborating with large files synchronized by Dropbox, you might be interested in this new offering from the onli…...

Customer engagement is key for software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses. Correct interpretation of consumer actions is the basis for running a s…...

The Guardian unveiled a Twitter-based search bot Thursday.Users can search for content on The Guardian‘s website by tweeting a question o…...

“We need to be in the tablet business,” said HP CEO Meg Whitman in a conference call with analysts, just after she announced HP woul…...

The #occupywallstreet movement didn’t spring up out of nowhere. It was very deliberately conceived by the creators of a title you may have…...

Kobo Vox, a competitor to the Amazon Kindle Fire, will go on sale Friday. We got our hands on the seven-inch ereader tablet, and here are our fi…...

Lets hear it for Captain Obvious! HP and its new leader Meg Whitman finally figured out what we knew all along — that ripping the PC b…...

In a move that no doubt caused a lot of consternation after rival Netflix‘s experience doing the same, Redbox has decided to raise the pri…...

Google has added its perspective — with a search-data-based popularity contest — to the comparisons between Occupy Wall Street and t…...

Television is broken. I know it. You know it. Steve Jobs knew it. I have a pretty state-of-the-art 2011 Sony LED TV, complete with Hulu Plus, N…...

Hewlett-Packard will keep making PCs rather than spinning off its consumer computer division, the company announced Thursday.HP surprised the t…...

Lost in all the announcements about Timeline and frictionless experiences at Facebooks F8 conference in September was a change to the Open…...

Google has been busy (and a little scary) today. Its unveiled a host of new Google+ features, including enhanced photo editing tools, a new W…...

The Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered crea…...

Google has announced a host of new features for Google+, including the ability to use Google+ from a Google Apps account.When Google made Googl…...

Bizarre campaign videos seem to be the rage this year. First, we had Herman Cain chief of staff Mark Block’s “Now is the time for…...

Okay, so maybe Mac and PC people have their differences — a lot of them. But, the same can’t be said about Android and iPhone users. Or ca…...

Coldplay isn’t making its latest album, Mylo Xyloto, available on Spotify or any other streaming music subscription service.Fans will eit…...

Technology is constantly changing the way we define and consume media in our daily lives. It’s advancing the relationship between news org…...

Despite recent troubles, Netflix is a major force on the Internet, accounting for 32.7% of peak U.S. downstream traffic, according to a new repo…...

The Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Series is supported by Diet Coke. Now, the drink that helps you stay extraordinary brings you extraordinary pe…...

Seriously. Something is going on with Google+ right now as six or more Google execs profile pics have turned from friendly to spooky. It started…...

There’s an unsubstantiated rumor making the rounds that law enforcement asked Google to remove YouTube videos of police brutality captured…...

There’s an unsubstantiated rumor making the rounds that law enforcement asked Google to remove YouTube videos of police brutality captured…...

If you want to collect and share web content, and express your opinion in a structured fashion, where would you turn? Certainly not Facebook or…...

Mashable Editor in Chief Lance Ulanoff recently opined that tech has simply become overly distracting for him — and it isn’t just a…...

The Behind the Social Media Campaign Series is supported by Oneupweb, a relentless digital marketing agency focused on search, social, and desi…...

Facebook’s latest data center is being built in North Carolina — its next one will be built closer to the North Pole. The company c…...

Microsoft has laid out its vision for the next few years, and it’s a visual feast for techies and futurists. The dialogue-less video follows…...

RIM’s apology and peace offering of free apps after a four-day service outage in early October did not appease all unhappy BlackBerry owne…...

The United States is planning to open an embassy for Iran for the first time since 1980 — but only on the Internet.Secretary of State Hil…...

The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by Fedex. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves …...

The super-thin, super-light, 4G-sporting Motorola Droid Razr officially goes on sale this morning at Verizon Wireless, but you’ll need at…...

Bloomberg is bringing its 24-hour live broadcast to the iPad, the financial media conglomerate announced Thursday.Unlike CNN or ESPN, which mak…...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of First To Know, a series in which we keep you in the know on whats happening in the digital w…...

Livestream, the popular livestreaming site which essentially coined the term, just announced a serious relaunch under the title “New Liv…...

So he was a flawed mortal after all. A really flawed mortal, whose boundless obsession turned him into the nearest thing to a Shakespearean figu…...

After taking over the world – in the form of an extremely popular multi-platform game, followed by toys and accessories, even baby clothes…...

Sony Corporation has acquired Ericsson’s stake in mobile phone joint venture Sony Ericsson.The deal will place Ericsson’s 50% stake…...

Growing up in the ’70s, I was the worlds biggest fan of The Bionic Man. Every Sunday night at 7 p.m. you could find me glued to our Tr…...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

For years, media industry observers have talked about convergence, with video entertainment someday moving completely online, morphing into an all-str…...

Does actor and comedian Rainn Wilson really love fast food eatery Del Taco? Take a look at this trio of tweets Wilson sent, and tell us if yo…...

Does actor and comedian Rainn Wilson really love fast food eatery Del Taco? Take a look at this trio of tweets Wilson sent, and tell us if yo…...

Editors Note: Our original headline suggested Rainn Wilson may have accepted money for a tweet. That is not the case. The series of tweets were int…...

I get asked all the time, “How frequently should I post on my Facebook page? When is the best time to post?”Answer: Post whenever …...

Look what Nokia has done with this mobile gadget — Nokia calls it a “kinetic device,” a prototype with a flexible display the com…...

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The leaves are changing, the air is crisp and the pumpkins are piling up. Halloween is right around the corner. While the little ones are busy plannin…...

If the news articles and newly released biography of Steve Jobs aren’t enough for fans of Apple’s late co-founder, PBS has announced…...

Nokia just announced the Lumia 800, the company’s first Windows Phone, and we’ve got the details on the specs, form factor and special fea…...

In this 3D animation, a man amusingly describes Klout to his boss during a performance review.The overly excited employee mentions “fre…...

Despite Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype in May, a lesser known application called Tango will power video calls on Windows Ph…...

Despite Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype in May, a lesser known application called Tango will power video calls on Windows Ph…...

If you think you have what it takes to invest in startups, but are unsure of where to target your first seed investment, it may be worth your t…...

Research in Motion’s stock price fell 6% on Wednesday, after the company announced its latest setback — a delay in the system update…...

Coldplay will stream a live concert today at 4 p.m. ET on YouTube, through the American Express Unstaged performance series.Early online view…...

Coldplay will stream a live concert today at 4 p.m. ET on YouTube, through the American Express Unstaged performance series.Early online view…...

Last week, we asked you to send us your social media and tech-inspired Jack-o-Lanterns. We received a bunch of great designs, ranging from tech compan…...

Two BlackBerry models — the Bold 9900 and the Curve 9360 — have been approved for MasterCard near field communications payments.The…...

I needed sunglasses, the prescription kind. I hadn’t owned a pair in years, but this past summer I finally became fed up with squinting…...

It looks like earlier rumors are true: Flipboard is indeed getting into TV and film — starting with The Colbert Report.The iPad app, whic…...

Sociable Labs, a startup focused on integrating social actions and social sharing into ecommerce websites, emerged from stealth Wednesday with $…...

Gamification, the use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications, is transforming online news into an engaging, social and fun activity. It…...

If you and yours are really keen on Halloween, then sending an ecard to mark the occasion is a great way to kick off your fiendish festivities.We hav…...

A few years ago, news organizations were unsure about social. Journalists were apprehensive to create Twitter accounts and media companies quest…...

Klout has tinkered with its method for determining social media influence and it may affect your score on the platform.The new scoring model &#…...

Sincerely, makers of mobile apps Postagram and PopBooth, will continue its mission to turn digital captures into printed gifts with the addition…...

As images circulate of police firing tear gas at Occupy Oakland protesters, spectators from around the world have descended upon Oakland Mayor J…...

Eddy Terstall found a unique way to fund his upcoming movie, Deal, that required making lots of other movies.As the video above explains, Terstall n…...

The fate of the 12 remaining contestants on the U.S. version of The X Factor will be in the hands of the viewers starting Nov. 2., and they̵…...

A nefarious link that hacks Twitter accounts is being circulated via direct messages. The DM says, “There is a rumor/blog going around abo…...

Mint, the web-based personal finance manager, has finally come to the iPad.Mint for iPad, now available in the iOS App Store, brings most of th…...

Earlier this month, the advertising industrys leading brands, agencies and technology platforms descended on New York City for Advertising W…...

Starbucks is launching a QR code program designed to let consumers learn more about its coffee.The codes, created by Scanbuy, have already star…...

Google has released version 15 of its Chrome web browser, bringing the usual round of bug fixes and security improvements, as well as a redesign of…...

The sci-fi classic Star Wars: A New Hope features a famous scene in which Luke Skywalker practices Jedi Lightsaber skills on a small, flying sphere t…...

Nokia officially launched a host of new interesting mobile apps, Public Transport, Nokia Pulse and Live View, at Wednesday’s Nokia World c…...

Sprint beat analysts’ forecasts in its third quarter earnings report Wednesday, narrowing net losses to $301 million, or 10 cents per shar…...

The Global Innovation Series is supported by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. It delive…...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of First To Know, a series in which we keep you in the know on whats happening in the digital w…...

Nokia Lumia 800, the company’s flagship Windows Phone device, has been officially launched at the Nokia World conference in London today.…...

Two new Nokia Windows Phone smartphones – the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 – have impressive hardware specifications, but Nokia made sure to…...

Nokia has kicked off the Nokia World conference in London with a slew of Series 40-based devices under the collective name Asha. There are four…...

Besides its flagship Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, Nokia has today launched a more affordable WP smartphone – the Lumia 710. It has a 3.7…...

Nokia has officially unveiled Lumia 800, the first Windows Phone-based device from the Finnish mobile giant, at the Nokia World conference in…...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

If you decorate your house for Halloween, why not do the same for your blog? We’ve found eight great collections of social media icons that will…...

YouTube is pretty great, but YouTube commenters? Not so much. For every smart, insightful, useful comment below a YouTube video, there are usually 25…...

If you’re buying a car, do you check Facebook? Or do you read up on Kelley Blue Book values and scour the company website for every spec, from h…...

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The act of highlighting a noteworthy passage in an ebook is being socialized by Findings, an online destination where readers can collect, share…...

The fragile economy and slumping jobs market are causing unrest in America and across the world. As a response of sorts, the U.S. government a…...

The Taiwanese are at it again! This time the animators at NMA.TV are taking on the new Steve Jobs biography, lampooning some of the most talk…...

How does a new company find top talent before someone else does, and with as little cash as possible?As a startup entrepreneur, youre tryin…...

Americans who own tablet devices such as the iPad or Galaxy Tab use them frequently, a new study finds.According to research conducted by the P…...

Amazon‘s stock fell 17% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company’s net income missed analysts’ estimates and the Kindl…...

IBM has named 30-year company veteran Virginia Rometty as its first female CEO.Rometty will succeed the outgoing Samuel Palmisano (both picture…...

In 2010, women became the majority of the U.S. workforce for the first time in the countrys history. Also, 57% of college students are now…...

The Occupy Wall Street protests have spread to cities across the world. Now they’re also spreading to banks’ websites. A program ca…...

The woman who started and managed Google‘s blogs will now be shaping Twitter‘s voice.For the past nine years, Karen Wickre has been…...

Digital subscription and single-copy sales have spiked following the launch of Apple’s Newsstand app two weeks ago.Magazine publisher Con…...

Sony is moving forward on a cinematic adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, and is courting Aaron Sorkin to write the s…...

It’s hard to believe that a mere three months ago, Netflix stock had reached its all-time high at $300 per share. After Monday’s announcem…...

Halloween is nearly upon us. If you’re anything like the Mashable crew, you’ve already designed your perfect pumpkin, stockpiled mounds of…...

Google started publishing requests from governments for user information about a year ago. On Tuesday, it revealed the number of user accounts…...

Halloween is nearly upon us. If you’re anything like the Mashable crew, you’ve already designed your perfect pumpkin, stockpiled mounds of…...

The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by Fedex. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves …...

Are you, like so many others, tired of all those old-fashioned cameras you have to hold in order to take pictures? Well here’s a camera you ge…...

Leonardo DiCaprio has joined the growing list of celebrities who are also startup investors. The first startup to benefit from both his followin…...

Rockstar Games has officially announced Grand Theft Auto 5 as the next game in the award-winning video game series. The announcement came in s…...

Tony Fadell, the man who oversaw 18 generations of the iPod, announced the first product of his stealth startup Nest Labs Tuesday: a sexy, world…...

Netflixs worst decisions are likely behind it, but that has not stopped the bleeding. In the last 12 hours, the DVD shipping and online cont…...

Apple is working on a TV set that could appear by the end of next year or early 2013.According to three unnamed sources, Jeff Robbin, a softwar…...

T-Mobile recently announced the launch of two new tablets, the T-Mobile Springboard and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, but did not give us the pri…...

Netflix’s stock was down nearly 37% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the company disclosed a loss of 805,000 subscribers in the third…...

John McCarthy, the inventor of programming language Lisp and the man who coined the term “artificial intelligence,” has died at the…...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of First To Know, a series in which we keep you in the know on whats happening in the digital w…...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of First To Know, a series in which we keep you in the know on whats happening in the digital w…...

Zaarly, a startup peer-to-peer marketplace that has been called an alternative to eBay, has announced that eBay’s former CEO, Meg Whitman,…...

Nokia N9 probably won’t be a best-seller amongst smartphones. It’s the first and only smartphone based on the MeeGo platform, and Nokia…...

UNAIDS, the UN‘s branch dealing with HIV/AIDS, has launched a digital crowdsourcing campaign to combat HIV/AIDS across the globe. The campaign,…...

Dot, a hardware attachment for capturing panoramic video on the iPhone, starts shipping Tuesday after a short but storied development — on…...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

Amazon-owned Soap.com has begun selling grocery goods.Unlike Amazon Fresh, which delivers a full range of groceries via an elaborate system of…...

Jesse Comart serves as a communications and public affairs consultant at the Glover Park Group (GPG). Before joining GPG, he worked on policy a…...

Few events can boast headliners like Tim Cook, Norah Jones, Jonathan Ive, Al Gore and Coldplay. But Apple‘s campus-wide celebration of the…...

What’s even cooler than being a rally biker on a test run in South Africa? If you’re that guy and you also interrupt your test ru…...

Zynga‘s long-awaited IPO will hit a week before Thanksgiving, according to a report. The social gaming company, which originally planned…...

President Barack Obama, or rather, Obama’s 2012 Campaign, has officially joined Tumblr rounding out his collection of major social netwo…...

Hewlett-Packard recently expanded its Music Influencer program to include more intimate gatherings in a bid to win over some of the music scene&…...

And the Netflix hits just keep on coming. The company’s stock price, which was flirting with $300 over the summer, was trading at around $…...

Apple has decided to restrict the usage of Siri to the iPhone 4S but that doesn’t mean that enterprising developers haven’t started…...

Netflix‘s price hike caused 805,000 paid subscribers to jump ship in the most-recent quarter, the company reported Monday.The company fin…...

Square, a small credit card reader that can process credit card payments on a range of iOS and Android devices, will soon begin selling at Wal-M…...

Its 2015 and youre trying to get into an exclusive Soho club. You fidget while the bouncer holds his smartphone to your face. From behind…...

Wemo Media has partnered with top animators from Avatar and Tron, the director of MIT’s Media Lab and other high profile activists for an ambiti…...

It wasn’t just 60 Minutes that did a segment on Steve Jobs this weekend; Saturday Night Live celebrated the life of the Apple co-founder in it…...

Touch sensitivity on gadgets and robots is nothing new. A few strategically placed sensors under a flexible, synthetic skin and you have pressur…...

Anonymous, the group of high-powered hackers famous for taking down websites belonging to Bank of America and Sony, has turned its vigilante b…...

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Bloggers rejoice, eh! The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled that online publications and websites cannot be charged for libel for linkin…...

Lately we’ve witnessed the intersection of content and commerce, an emerging breed of retail site that features magazine-like editorials, photo…...

Since its debut in 2001, the Apple iPod has evolved from the seminal white box with a mechanical scroll wheel to, ultimately, a sleek touchscreen mult…...

Amazon is gearing up to introduce a new, HTML5-based ebook format called Kindle Format 8, the company announced Friday.KF8 is an improvement ov…...

The Statue of Liberty will turn on four live streaming web cams Friday in celebration of her 125th birthday anniversary.Four Torch Cams inside…...

Bucking a trend beleaguering the rest of the media industry, The Atlantic disclosed Monday that both digital and print advertising revenues were…...

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform o…...

Siri co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus has left Apple — just 12 days after the virtual assistant launched with the iPhone 4S and became an o…...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is no longer the “most-circled” person on Google+.That honor now rests, more appropriately, with Google c…...

There are plenty of videos on the Internet. YouTube users alone upload 8 years of video every day. What the web needs is a service that helps or…...

This is going to be a tough day. Early this morning, I downloaded the new Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs biography (simply titled Steve Jobs), which…...

Google’s long-rumored music download service could launch within the next two weeks.The music store will be an add-on to Google Music Bet…...

Many execs intuitively realize that engaging staff in open, transparent dialogue is vital to a business. However, that level of support is stil…...

The Facebook Marketing Series is supported by Buddy Media. Power your connections and turn fans into real connections with technology powered by…...

Whistleblower haven WikiLeaks will temporarily stop releasing leaks because of a lack of funds, the organization announced at a press conference…...

Say hello to the Dell XPS 14z laptop, the flagship PC of the company’s holiday lineup.The XPS 14z, which recently made its debut in China and w…...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of First To Know, a series in which we keep you in the know on whats happening in the digital w…...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of First To Know, a series in which we keep you in the know on whats happening in the digital w…...

So called “slacktivists” take easy, social actions in support of a cause signing a petition, liking a Facebook Page or putting…...

Apple has refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup with new processors and graphics chips today without changing any of the prices. The biggest chang…...

It was easy to see that Steve Jobs wasn’t a fan of Google or Android. But I’ll admit, I was surprised by the pure vitriol he express…...

It was easy to see that Steve Jobs wasn’t a fan of Google or Android. But I’ll admit, I was surprised by the pure vitriol he expres…...

The rumors which have been circulating since early 2010 have turned out to be true: Netflix has officially announced its expansion to the UK and…...

“With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital music player that lets you put your entire music collection in your pocket…...

60 Minutes has posted its two-part interview with Walter Isaacson, the authorized biographer of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, which aired at 7 p.m…...

60 Minutes‘s interview with Walter Isaacson, the authorized biographer of Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, aired on CBS News aroun…...

Everyone loves an infographic, and here at Mashable, we’ve taken an interest in producing our own infographics. In the gallery above, you’…...

Over the past few years, we’ve seen social media used in the job market in a number of ways — startups, small businesses and large corpora…...

Robots can do a lot. We’ve seen them compete in the Hawaii Ironman and play in an orchestra. But play video games?The Bitbeambot does exactly…...

Despite modern gaming technology, gamers are still eager for a throwback, now and then. Modern mobile gaming has adopted retro style to create new ex…...

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook eastern Turkey Sunday at 1:41 p.m. local time. Across the world, we can watch images of the destruction, thanks to Y…...

Ever since Facebook brought real-time music streaming and discovery to users’ News Feeds and profiles, Spotify integration has shown us t…...

Im a bad man. I simply do not pay attention the way I used to. I do so many things that I promised myself I would never do: Work on the comp…...

Computer giant Microsoft’s official YouTube channel appears to have been hacked Sunday morning. All of the official videos, including rec…...

Remember back in July when the state of Missouri enacted legislation making Facebook friendship between teachers and students — as well a…...

Weekends at Mashable mean the weekly features roundup is coming at’cha. You ready to rock this list?This week, we spent some quality time…...

Since its debut in 2001, the Apple iPod has evolved from the seminal white box with a mechanical scroll wheel to, ultimately, a sleek touchscreen mult…...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

It was a busy week in the gadget world, and I’ve boiled it all down into the top 10 most unusual, groundbreaking, futuristic and just-plain-weir…...

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Google is mulling purchasing Yahoo and has contacted at least two venture capital firms to help buy the company’s core business, according…...

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Instapaper, a bookmarking tool that lets you save items to read later, released version 4.0 of its apps for iPhone and iPad Monday.We’ve highli…...

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Apple sold more than 4 million iPhone 4S devices in the first weekend on the market, the company announced Monday. This is a new record for App…...

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Just as it did all week, the iPhone 4S dominated the news this weekend. We dove into Siri, the iPhone’s baked-in intelligent agent, and to…...

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California Gov. Jerry Brown officially declared Sunday (10/16/2011) Steve Jobs Day in California, and Apple is holding an invitation-only memorial…...

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The Occupy Wall Street movement, which seeks to highlight growing economic inequality, marched to New York’s Times Square on Saturday. The crow…...

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By now, you may have heard of the iPhone 4S. Understatement of the century aside, we’ve celebrated iPhone release day with a hefty collect…...

Daily deals have been a social media phenomenon over the last couple of years. Though there’s been a mad rush for companies entering the…...

California’s governor has chosen a day to dub as Steve Jobs Day: Oct. 16, the same date Apple will hold a memorial at Stanford University.…...

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AT&T and Sprint turned to Twitter on Friday to announce record demand for activations and sales sparked by the launch of the iPhone 4S.Spr…...

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The pace and power of web-fueled innovation is stunning. One day were swearing by Outlook, the next, we cant live without Gmail. These ch…...

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NASA, temporarily finding itself without a craft to send humans into space, has turned to Virgin Galactic for one suborbital flight and the opti…...

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The iPhone 4S goes on sale today, and as expected, Apple fans are queuing up around the world to have first crack at the newest smartphone.Mashable t…...

Google plans to take on Apple and Amazon with its own MP3 store that will open in the next several weeks and accompany its Google Music Beta ser…...

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Hulu and its owners have announced that they will not sell the popular video site after all.“Since Hulu holds a unique and compelling str…...

Along with iOS 5, Apple officially released iCloud Wednesday. The successor to the much-maligned MobileMe, iCloud is Apple’s first major attempt…...

Google‘s 3 year-old Chrome browser just hit the 200 million user mark, CEO Larry Page announced Thursday.The fast-growing browser had abo…...

People spend a lot of time on email — way too much for their own good and productivity. Email is a disruptive technology that can take yo…...

In case you didn’t already know, Apple is releasing the iPhone 4S Friday. But you probably did know.Chances are good that unless you are…...

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With the rise of digital books on the Kindle and the iPad, how is your local paper-based library keeping up? By fighting fire with fire. Ebook…...

OneWire, an employee recruiting platform, has raised $30 million since 2008. That’s not bad for a startup, but nor is it an eye-popping am…...

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Google has released an upgrade to Google Maps that offers 3D-style graphics and lets you swoop into Street View without a plugin. The upgrade,…...

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eBay says that its PayPal division expects to hit $4.7 billion in total payment volume (TPV) of digital goods in 2011.The projection, announced…...

Netflix has signed an agreement with CBS and Warner Bros. to bring content from The CW network to Netflix members in the U.S.Netflix’s de…...

Apple could be unveiling a movie service through iCloud as early as the end of 2011, according to the LA Times.The Times says representatives f…...

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After nearly four full days of global RIM BlackBerry service outages, RIM founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis finally stepped forward to offer his apo…...

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MapQuest, the 15-year-old mapping and direction site, has launched Vibe, a social algorithmic service designed to make you feel like a local any…...

The Australian court has barred Samsung from selling its tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, in Australia until it resolves its patent lawsuit with App…...

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Apple has just unleashed six new applications along with iOS 5. Here’s a pictorial tour of each one. The push marks the company’s most agg…...

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Facebook’s new Timeline design gives you a big space for a photo at the top of your profile. So far we have seen some cool and creative uses of…...

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Google is giving Google+ users two enhanced ways to find information disseminating across the social network, with real-time search and hashtags.&#…...

Now that iOS 5 is available, scores of eager iOS users are busy downloading and updating their devices to the latest and greatest OS. We’ve alre…...

TV is getting more social every day. A recent study from Nielsen and NM Incite gives a detailed glimpse into how, when and who is driving the social T…...

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Spotify has gone live in Denmark, meaning the startup’s freemium streaming music service is now available in the U.S and eight European co…...

You can learn a lot about a person from his or her mobile device, browser or computer preferences. New research shows that — at least when it co…...

Its only been a couple of hours since Apple unleashed iOS 5   the new platform for the iPhone, iPad and iPod — on a suspecting public…...

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Apple just made iOS 5 available to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. iOS 5 is a massive upgrade for Apple’s mobile operating system, adding a t…...

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Next Media Animation (NMA), the company famous for lampooning everyone from Tiger Woods to Apple in over-the-top video animations, may have satirize…...

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Apple has just released iOS 5, the newest version of its mobile OS, to the public.The updated OS is now available for download through iTunes…...

For a service that some say drives more traffic to websites than Facebook, StumbleUpon is not well known. However, user data that the company ha…...

eBay has launched X.Commerce, the company’s new commerce developer platform designed to house all of eBay’s major commerce and devel…...

NASA hopes its new space mission simulation video game will get tech-saturated kids excited about space travel.The game, called NetworKing, is…...

Across the board, early reviewers of the iPhone 4S have singled out Siri as a standout feature. And a number of them have tried to test it with silly…...

Facebook continues to emerge as an excellent tool for journalists, most recently with the addition of Facebook Subscribe. The feature is beneficial fo…...

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Sony has locked down 93,000 user accounts across the Sony Entertainment, PlayStation and Sony Online Entertainment networks in response to an at…...

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The early reviews for Apples iPhone 4S are in and, as expected, reviewers   who had anticipated an iPhone 5   are tempered in their prai…...

SCVNGR is introducing a pay-by-QR-code mobile payments experience called LevelUp in San Francisco and New York Wednesday, after an eight week pi…...

RIM’s BlackBerry is experiencing its third day of an outage in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and parts of South America — and now…...

By now, most marketers agree that engaging their brands in social media is a good thing, but they also feel that they could be doing it better Accord…...

Hootsuite is adding geosocial to its arsenal of marketing tools with the acquisition of Geotoko, a service for running location-based marketing…...

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MTV is putting the "music  back into "MTV  with its second O Music Awards on Oct. 31. The awards show will pay a musical tribute to St…...

The new version of Apple’s mobile platform iOS 5 is due to arrive Wednesday, and all the pieces are slowly falling into place ahead of the…...

Today, Google’s latest Doodle pays tribute to the late Arthur “Art” Clokey, a pioneer of stop motion clay animation, who was b…...

eBay is set to unveil PayPal Access, a service for letting users use their PayPal accounts on other websites without the need to register an acc…...

Lately people are talking about luxury brands and digital marketing. I can’t count the number of times this week I’ve seen tweets a…...

Popular crowd funding platform Kickstarter has announced that more than 1 million people have backed at least one project, resulting in more tha…...

During this decade of uncertainty and instability for the music industry, Apple has remained one of few companies that has managed to nail it.…...

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Holding Asuss new $999, 11.6-inch, 2.42 lb. Zenbook UX21 in one hand is an oddly familiar experience. Perhaps thats because it feels almos…...

The last few months have seen an explosive resurgence in real-time environments, last popular in the late ’90s. The interesting thing is…...

LinkedIn has acquired IndexTank, a provider of real-time hosted search technology, for an undisclosed amount.LinkedIn and IndexTank say that th…...

The latest of several studies to look into the relationship between Facebook use and low grades has a counterintuitive twist — some kinds…...

Even more park-loving New Yorkers will never need to skip a digital beat. The New York City Parks Department, in partnership with AT&T, is…...

A day before Apple is expected to release its iOS 5 update with Twitter integration, Twitter has upgraded its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad app wi…...

Nominations for the 2011 Mashable Awards, presented by Buddy Media, are now open! This year marks our fifth annual community-nominated awards…...

Social gaming juggernaut Zynga has announced “Project Z,” a platform for playing social games and chatting with friends powered by F…...

The first trailer for Marvel’s ultimate superhero mashup, The Avengers has just arrived online. The Avengers is Marvels version of…...

Zynga announced a slew of new Facebook games, add-ons and “express” versions of their social hits Tuesday, including CastleVille, Zy…...

When are people most likely to share content on the web? How do they prefer to share it? What services are they sharing to most frequently? These are…...

Apple has just pushed out iTunes 10.5, in preparation for the wider iOS 5 release on Wednesday.iTunes 10.5 will not only allow iPhone, iPad and…...

Steve Jobs packed a lot of living into his 56 years. If his career had ended 30 years ago, he still would have made history for helping popularize the…...

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Zynga has announced Hidden Chronicles, a new social game find hidden objects.The new game doesn’t emphasize building farms or defeating r…...

Zynga, the social gaming giant behind FarmVille, CityVille, Words With Friends and a plethora of other social games, has moved its 1,500+ employees to…...

There are some experiences our kids may never have. Folding down the corner of a page in a book. Leafing through the classifieds section of a…...

With Facebooks major changes set to roll out this week, little thought has been given to answering how Timeline and the revamped Open Graph…...

HBO programming will be available on Roku boxes at the end of the month, thanks to a deal between Roku and Time Warner.The HBO Go service will…...

Fans of U.S. politics, take note: You can now view live video streams from the House of Representatives on your mobile phone or tablet.The stre…...

Amazon is continuing to flex its publishing muscles with the launch of its seventh imprint, for works in the science fiction, fantasy and horror…...

Box.net, a popular cloud-based file storage and content management service, has raised $81 million in funding to take on Microsoft, Oracle, IBM…...

Watch out Skype, T-Mobile Bobsled is sliding into your VoIP territory. The service — which allows you to voice call your Facebook friends…...

Smartphones and tablets — particularly the iPad — are becoming an increasingly significant source of web traffic in the U.S.Accordi…...

After about one-third of Mashable readers expressed an interest in filling in at least a portion of their Facebook Timelines, we thought we’d de…...

Google’s +1 button will begin appearing on some ads in the company’s Display Network starting Tuesday.The buttons actually began ap…...

AT&T’s new app, AT&T Toggle, will surely resonate with people who use the same Android smartphone for work and personal purposes…...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of "First To Know,  a series in which we keep you in the know on whats happening in the digital w…...

The folks at AT&T weren’t kidding when they announced plans to introduce 12 Android devices this year. The company released five new…...

The folks at AT&T weren’t kidding when they announced plans to introduce 12 Android devices this year. The company just unveiled five…...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

Twitter has settled a lawsuit that will give the company control over the “tweet” trademark, according to a new report.Twitter does…...

Netflix backpeddled Monday on its highly unpopular decision to split Netflix into two companies. Qwikster, the service that would have deliver…...

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Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that the company will honor the memory Steve Jobs with an employee event on Wednesday, Oct. 19.The event, open…...

The Occupy Wall Street movement, a series of nationwide demonstrations that opposes corporate greed and social inequality, has caught fire this…...

UK newspaper The Guardian is making its schedule of upcoming stories available to the public in a two-week experiment, in an effort to elevate t…...

UK newspaper The Guardian is making its schedule of upcoming stories available to the public in a two-week experiment, in an effort to elevate t…...

Dungeon Masters, start your engines. Dungeons & Dragons, the original table-top role-playing game, is coming to Facebook.Atari has creat…...

Traffic to Google+ spiked 1,200% in the first few days following its public launch Sept. 20, but has since plummeted by 60%, according to a repo…...

Traffic to Google+ spiked 1,200% in the first few days following its public launch Sept. 20, but has since plummeted by 60%, according to a repo…...

And now for something completely different: A black pug in a (superhero?) costume “playing” the piano. We’re not very good…...

Dear Reed,We were delighted to learn that Qwikster is no more this morning. You finally came to your senses, shuttered that DVD ghetto you ha…...

Users in three continents were affected by a service outage by RIM’s BlackBerry.Though RIM has acknowledged the outage in a public statem…...

Twitter announced Monday that it will soon begin reformatting all links posted to its service with t.co, regardless of length.Previously, only…...

Facebook is bringing its platform to mobile. The social network is allowing app developers to connect users more easily to the mobile or web ver…...

Netflix‘s decision to kill off an unpopular idea — a separately branded DVD service — was unpopular with investors. After ris…...

Groupon’s deal counter will no longer accurately reflect the total number of Groupons customers have bought for each deal, the company sai…...

Facebook has finally launched its official iPad app, after months of speculations and leaks.Facebook for iPad, now available in the iOS App Store (up…...

Commenting is an integral part of the Mashable community. It allows everyone to participate, contribute and connect.We truly value the comments…...

Usually a shaky video of a phone in use is not a big deal — that all changes when that phone is Apple’s iPhone 4S, five days before its l…...

UNICEF, which has helped raise more than $164 million since 1953 with its iconic orange boxes, is taking its Halloween fundraising digital. Th…...

Facebook has acquired two-year-old social question-and-answer startup Friend.ly for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced Monday.The Frie…...

The Mashable Media Summit unites industry leaders and experts to reveal the latest innovations occurring in media. Held on Nov. 4 at the Times…...

Although the inside of the iPhone 4S contains some major differences from its predecessor, the exterior of the iPhone 4S looks exactly like the…...

It can be challenging for unknown startups to garner press attention — budgets are tight, relationships with journalists may not be that…...

Science is cool. Science in space is even cooler. Two science experiments hand selected by noted physicist Stephen Hawking (and judges from NASA…...

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Conde Nast is getting into the film and television businesses, the magazine publisher announced Monday. Dawn Ostroff was appointed president of…...

Further insinuating itself as a middle man between publishers and consumers, Amazon has introduced a service that lets consumers manage their pr…...

The U.S. government has targeted a WikiLeaks volunteer using secret court orders that would force Google and Sonic, a small Internet provider,…...

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Early evidence suggests that Amazon’s $199 touchscreen Android tablet, the Kindle Fire, will be a strong seller this holiday season.The t…...

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Allaying any doubts that the iPhone 4S will be a big seller, Apple announced pre-orders for the new model topped 1 million in 24 hours, which br…...

Computer Choppers, a company specializing in extra-expensive remakes of various gadgets, has once again adorned an Apple MacBook Pro with gold and dia…...

In the latest twist in the Netflix saga, the company has backed off a plan to offer a separate service for DVDs under the Qwikster name.Netflix…...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of "First To Know,  a series in which we keep you in the know on whats happening in the digital w…...

Apple and its innovative late CEO dominated our thoughts this weekend, with the death of Steve Jobs and the upcoming iPhone 4S both trending hig…...

T-Mobile expanded its tablet offering with two Android 3.2 devices: T-Mobile Springboard and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.The Springboard is a 7-inc…...

Apple and its innovative late CEO dominated our thoughts this weekend, with the death of Steve Jobs and the upcoming iPhone 4S both trending hig…...

Facebook has for many years been a portal for musicians to share their music, photos and thoughts as well as interact with fans. Now, the world&…...

Facebook has for many years been a portal for musicians to share their music, photos and thoughts as well as interact with fans. Now, the world&…...

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Search engine optimization isnt exactly something you can major in — at least, not yet. In fact, many professional search engine optimizers…...

A 36-year-old Texas man has pleaded not guilty to battery charges after allegedly attacking his estranged wife for failing to “Like”…...

Adele’s “Someone Like You” returns to the top of Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart this week thanks to the Sept. 29 release of…...

Last week, Facebook unveiled a new public metric to gauge the success of a Facebook Page beyond its Like count. The feature, called “Peopl…...

Despite the challenges social media presents for human resources professionals, it plays a growing role in talent recruitment. The big question,…...

Meet Bones Mello, the mysterious AT-AT dog who apparently already has his Star Wars Halloween costume picked out and built. Here’s a gallery of…...

Sustainable design. Experts have been telling us for decades that we should be building with these two words in mind, but which projects are really pu…...

Want to look before you leap into an iPhone 4S? OpenSignalMaps used 46,600 speed tests from real-world users (ironically, using an Android app…...

Leave it to the cold, dark shores of Scandinavia to finally crack the code on digital music distribution. X5, a tiny music group from the great…...

Who are the movers, the shakers, the companies that affect profound change? And what products do they bring to market that disrupt all others, making…...

Facebook’s new Timeline gives users a large “cover photo” space at the top of the page. As we’ve already shown, this is a grea…...

Once an employee is hired, our job isnt over. In fact, its just begun. Especially when there are surveys out there that say 84% of employ…...

The writers of Toy Story are reportedly in talks to pen a movie based on FarmVille, the popular Facebook game. Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen s…...

Steve Jobs leaves behind a nearly unrivaled legacy of invention and innovation.His products are loved by millions and copied by competitors; hi…...

Steve Jobs leaves behind a nearly unrivaled legacy of invention and innovation.His products are loved by millions and copied by competitors; hi…...

This spellbinding video is by master photographer and time-lapse creator Dustin Farrell, who took a Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR and created…...

It was a sad week for the tech industry, but underneath the somber news surrounding the death of Steve Jobs, there were still plenty of gadgets and te…...

The whirring hard drives that once occupied entire university labs held but a fraction of the data we carry in our pockets every day — and that&…...

The funeral of Steve Jobs reportedly took place yesterday, and it was said to be a small, private gathering. While this doesn’t seem to…...

The news this week took a somber turn upon hearing of the death of Steve Jobs. This week’s roundup is no different. Our features pay tribu…...

Want a new iPhone 4S in your hands at the earliest possible date? You’ve missed it. Take a look at the U.S. Apple Online Store and youR…...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…...

I arrived at Apple’s headquarters a little before 9 a.m. after a beautiful drive down the 280 from San Francisco on a sunny July day. Th…...

After a long break from videogame consoles, Spyro the Dragon is back in Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. The purple dragon’s new out…...

If youve been spending much time on the new Facebook, youve likely been asking, "Do I really care that my friend just listened to Lady…...

Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs, including the late Apple chief’s last ever interview, isn’t even on book…...

The Dalai Lama has officially joined Google+ — and he’s already planning a Hangout with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.The H…...

The reaction to Steve Jobs’s death from most members of the technology establishment — including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and t…...

There’s a new newspaper on Wall Street, and it’s targeting a very different demographic than the classic publication. The Occupied W…...

Parents don’t always have a reputation for technological savvy. In fact, they may see their computers as sources of constant mystery and befudd…...

The reaction to Steve Jobs’s death from most members of the technology establishment — including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and t…...

Pre-ordering for the iPhone 4S got underway early this morning, and the process hasn’t been entirely smooth. But it’s better than…...

Amazon is launching a French-language Kindle, available Oct. 14, and an accompanying Kindle Store.The E Ink ereader, which is the French-langua…...

With the passing of Steve Jobs, the Internet has exploded with tributes to the Apple cofounder in prose and through video.One of the reasons Jo…...

Sprint placed a big bet on the new iPhone 4S. Now, its stock shares are falling because the company might not have enough money to finance its a…...

The very baby bump that set the record for most tweets sent per second — a whopping 8,868 — is buzzing across the Internet again.…...

Netflix has signed a new content agreement with AMC Networks that will bring the critically acclaimed TV show The Walking Dead to Netflix member…...

Let’s get one thing straight — most iPhone 4 cases will fit the iPhone 4S, so if you’re upgrading your phone, but happy with y…...

Across the world, but particularly within the web design industry, the distributed agency model has gained widespread popularity. Centered on t…...

The iPhone 4S is officially available for pre-order and will be available to pick up in stores next week. While the fifth generation iPhone is certain…...

Occupy Wall Street, which began with a couple hundred protesters in Manhattan’s financial district Sept. 17, has sprouted “Occupy Se…...

A leaked video of what appears to be the first smartphone to run Android Ice Cream Sandwich. A video of what appears to be the Samsung Nexus Prime (or Galaxy Nexus), the first smartphone to run the ne...

There was no “one more thing” at the Tuesday’s Apple media event. Steve Jobs, already very ill, was absent from the conference, and the surprise announcements at the end of most even...

Thanks to this weeks advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable’s spons…...

A mockup of a Facebook Timeline profile with the VW image.After having seen some inventive cover photos from users of the new Facebook Timeli…...

Many Americans may be unaware that their social media conversations and posts are providing banks and lenders with a treasure trove of informat…...

MTV’s new movie, (Dis)connected, tackles what it means to grow up in a digital world, and it provides lessons for teens on how to handle digi…...

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Steve Jobs did not found Pixar. He bought it from Lucasfilm in 1986. By then, it had existed for seven years as a computer graphics group within…...

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The moment you might have been waiting for – depending on whether you’re disappointed or satisfied with iPhone 4S – is here: y…...

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable‘s Job Lists gather all our resource l…...

Attention young, confident professionals with big personalities in Silicon Valley: Bravo wants you. The cable network known for its dramatic rea…...

A major undercurrent of the 2011 Fall TV season is the increasing role that social and digital media have on how consumers consume, discover and…...

LinkedIn has long let users follow companies, but Thursday the professional networking service is finally allowing the more than two million busines…...

When one thinks of multiplayer gaming on the iPhone, turn-based board games like Words With Friends come to mind. They’re extremely convenient,…...

Rdio users in the U.S. have just been given a huge gift: free music streaming privileges.The streaming-music startup announced its free, on-dem…...

The iPhone 4S is available for pre-order in just a few hours, and for the first time it will be available on the U.S.’s three largest wire…...

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If you’ve been waiting anxiously for Sprint to finally start selling an iPhone, it finally happened: you can pre-order an iPhone 4 from Sp…...

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The social web has breathed a collective sigh of mourning. Steve Jobs, longtime leader of Apple, passed away Wednesday after a battle with panc…...

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After a six year struggle, Steve Jobs was taken by his longtime battle with cancer.Apple’s Board of Directors said the following in a st…...

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Were you surprised by Apple’s announcement of the new Cards app for iPhone? You shouldn’t be — it’s a multi-billion do…...

Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event answered some of our burning questions — such as what the next iPhone will look…...

The Washington Post has launched an Instagram project inviting readers to submit photos that illustrate what the economy looks like in their nei…...

If you have ever wanted to tell Twitter how you feel about its 200 million-member social network, now is the time to do it. Twitter’s Ex…...

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Microsoft has signed on an impressive roster of 40 TV and entertainment partners to Xbox Live, as the service evolves from a gaming hub into a f…...

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If you thought Amazon’s $200 Kindle Fire was a steal, wait until you get a load of this: The Indian government has released a new tablet c…...

Popular web-based TV streaming service Hulu is expanding its coverage to include Spanish language shows from Univision.Hulu users can look forw…...

Samsung, whose Galaxy Tab and Galaxy phones have been blocked for sale in various countries by Apple, is fighting back by trying to get the iPho…...

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As much as one-seventh of humanity has downloaded Google Earth, a technology that is only six years old.The free software has been downloaded 1 bil…...

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YouTubers, you have spoken, and this month’s batch of most-shared ads shows a lot of diversity. Yes, there are two cat videos (one in Fren…...

Prone to smartphone-related accidents? Don’t worry, Apple has a new iPhone AppleCare+ plan — one that covers accidental damage, such…...

One of the distinctive features of Google+ is that it lets you disable comments and lock down posts from sharing, but so far, you were only able…...

While social media has been around for a while, there are still aspects of it that are very new, such as policy development. Such policies have…...

There’s an odd sense of deflation across much of the tech world in the wake of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s first product launch Tuesday.…...

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Disney is planning to re-release a cadre of it’s most popular and beloved animated films in 3D. The decision followed close on the heels…...

Apple has finally revealed its next iPhone — the iPhone 4S. The company is, as would be expected, calling it “the most amazing iPhon…...

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Apple gathered the world’s tech press at its headquarters in Cupertino to announce its latest products — and to dash the hopes of an…...

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Apple announced its latest handset, the iPhone 4S, on Tuesday. Over at Apple.com, the company also posted this video showcasing the device and its n…...

More than 250,000 Kindle Fires have been pre-ordered since Amazon announced the new tablet computer last Wednesday, according to a report from C…...

Apple‘s stock fell as much as 5% after its iPhone 4S announcement Tuesday, illustrating that the news failed to wow investors.The drop, h…...

For the past year, we’ve endured a near-daily slew of rumors about a device called the iPhone 5. When Apple delayed its release of a new…...

Apple will sell the iPhone 3GS at the deeply discounted price point of $0.00, the company revealed at its Let’s Talk iPhone event Tuesday.…...

Apple has officially announced its fifth generation handset, the iPhone 4S. The new device, which retains the iPhone 4 form factor, will be ava…...

Apple has announced that Sprint will finally get the iPhone, making it the third U.S. wireless carrier to offer Apple’s flagship device.S…...

The new iPod nano will be easier to use as a watch, Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller revealed at the com…...

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Apple has unveiled Siri, a new iPhone 4S feature that lets you complete tasks on your phone by talking to it.During an on-stage demo at Apple…...

Among the myriad of announcements from Tuesday’s Apple event was an interesting new app called Find My Friends. The app lets you track th…...

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As the world’s tech media waited for news about the new iPhone on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the opportunity of a captive audience t…...

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A host of celebrities have joined anti-poverty advocacy group ONE to launch a PSA campaign fighting the growing famine in Somalia.The video feature…...

If you’ve looked at this thing called the Internet at any time in the past couple of days, you’re probably aware that Apple is about…...

As we approach the launch of the iPhone 5 — or maybe the iPhone 4S, it’s time to pay homage to the greatest cell phone of all tim…...

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Signaling its growing commitment to advertising, Twitter has launched an advertising blog and a Twitter feed devoted to the category.The blog n…...

Yahoo hopes to become the web’s next major online video destination with Screen, a revamped portal for all of its TV shows and premium vid…...

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Its been 14 months since Apple unveiled the iPhone 4. This radical redesign slathered the touchscreen phone in glass and metal. Despite An…...

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We knew this was coming, but now it’s official: Microsoft is not going to be making any more Zune players. A recent post on the Zune.net…...

Although it maintains a strict wall of secrecy about forthcoming announcements, Apple hypes up its special media events with cleverly designed and wor…...

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Ecommerce sites do a pretty good job of showing how apparel fits models. But for most of us, this isn’t much of a hint about how a piece o…...

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Apple will unveil a new iPhone on Tuesday; that much is a certainty. What remains unclear, even at this late stage, is whether Tim Cook will ann…...

Can a compelling advertisement be as powerful as a remarkable idea? TED believes so. For the second year running, the idea-spreading non-profit…...

Napster co-founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker is appearing in our newsfeeds with increasing frequency these days.First, there…...

The future of Sprint now depends on the iPhone. The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier has reportedly agreed to purchase $20 billion…...

After six years and 340 episodes, weekly online video show Diggnation is coming to an end, parent company Revision3 has announced.Featuring Kev…...

A recent photograph in The New York Times — for a story about cooking with chicken skin — has spawned the latest popular parody acc…...

While the tech world holds its collective breath for the Tuesday iPhone announcement from Cupertino, some unscrupulous hackers are taking advant…...

Google is testing a new kind of ad unit called “Circulars,” designed to mimic the full-page inserts traditionally found in newspa…...

Anyone looking to browse the web on their Kindle Touch should find a different device. Amazon’s popular new ereader has essentially killed…...

The once beloved Napster may have reached the end of the line, after a 12-year-long roller coaster ride that included legal woes and social rein…...

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Zynga’s new Mafia Wars 2 makes the hotly anticipated game more social by including Facebook shout-outs and contains more mature themes tha…...

Sure, theres a tiny chance Apple will not unveil the iPhone 5 at tomorrows Cupertino launch event, but its highly unlikely Apple would…...

Hulu users who don’t like the ads they’re seeing will be able to find ones they might prefer, thanks to a new program called Ad Swa…...

The Estee Lauder Company’s 19-year-old Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign is getting a social media makeover this October. The new Shine a L…...

Facebook and Google get compared a lot these days, but with its new advertising strategy, Facebook is adapting Googles ad strategy to its so…...

The Internet’s fascination with David Hasselhoff continues this week with this odd ad for Air New Zealand that features the Hoff doing…...

Wall Street analysts are already predicting record first day sales for Apple’s iPhone 5.Apple will unveil the follow-up to the iPhone 4,…...

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The Washington Post has launched a free app for Android, offering news, photo galleries and photo essays, blogs, traffic and weather info. The…...

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Although a federal judge has refused to grant a temporary restraining order on Facebook at the request of Timelines.com, a small Chicago company…...

Although a federal judge has refused to grant a temporary restraining order on Facebook at the request of Timelines.com, a small Chicago company…...

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Yahoo and ABC News have announced an agreement to share content including stories and web videos.Under the deal, announced Monday, Yahoo and A…...

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Several HTC Android handsets, including EVO 3D, EVO 4G and Thunderbolt, are susceptible to a security flaw that exposes users’ private dat…...

This weekend was dominated by Facebook and Apple. The former launched several new ad products, and speculation is rampant as Apple’s iPh…...

AT&T’s version of Samsung’s flagship smartphone – which is a bit different from the versions sold at Sprint and T-Mobile…...

To no one’s surprise, 18 of the 25 most-shared Mashable stories in September were about Facebook.Your share-happy fingers went into overd…...

Facebook has overhauled its Pages Insights analytics tool and added a new metric to gauge the health of a page: “People Talking About.R…...

Facebook is introducing a new type of ad that will expand if a friend “liked” the brand. The ad unit, which will be announced this…...

When Klout announced in mid-September that Blogger and Tumblr would play a role in determining your Klout score, WordPress users immediately ask…...

When Klout announced in mid-September that Blogger and Tumblr would play a role in determining your Klout score, WordPress users immediately ask…...

Research indicates businesses increasingly rely on the public relations industry to develop and implement innovative, cost-effective communicat…...

The Occupy Wall Street movement, a series of nationwide demonstrations that opposes corporate greed and social inequality, has caught fire in re…...

In the coming days, if you don’t restrain your enthusiasm for Apple’s new iPhone introductions, you’ll invariably be called fanboy o…...

October 1 marks 10 years since Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo flipped the switch on the world’s first 3G network in Tokyo. Heralding new speeds and…...

Oct. 1 marks 10 years since Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo flipped the switch on the world’s first 3G network in Tokyo. Heralding new speeds and am…...

Despite a few flops along the way, Nintendo has been one of the most successful players in the video game industry since the early 1980s.But how much…...

“Moves Like Jagger” from Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera — both Best New Artist Grammy winners — lands atop Billboard&#…...

Expecting Apple to unveil the iPhone 5? You may in for a disappointment, according to various reports.New evidence and speculation points to th…...

UK retailers are losing more than 8 billion ($12.6 million USD) per year due to website inefficiencies, according to research by data and ana…...

This week seemed to go by fast, am I wrong? You barely had time to finish last week’s roundup — it was a doozy with 61 stories ̵…...

Some of the most respected influencers on the Internet today were viewed as illegitimate sources just a few years ago. You know them as "blog…...

Apple’s iPhone event is rapidly approaching, and most of us are wondering precisely what’s going to be announced. So now we come to you,…...

Pretty much everyone knew that Amazon would introduce a tablet PC last week, but what may have come as a surprise to many was that the company a…...

As innovative and influential Facebook is, the company still mostly relies on a technology thats been around since 1994: display advertising.…...

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There are some people who think Facebook has become too complicated. There are other people who agree with those people.Mashable Comics are i…...

We sniff out a boatload of tech stories every week, but this week was unusual — it was outlandishly rich in bounty and packed with punchy tech…...

We sniff out a boatload of tech stories every week, but this week was unusual — it was outlandishly rich in bounty and packed with punchy tech…...

Ever since the launch of Facebook Subscriptions, the Mashable team has been excited to jump into this new way to interact with our community.…...

Google, Apple and Facebook are the tech trifecta, so we found facts that could help you land a job at one of these companies. No doubt, there will be…...

Ever noticed how the remote for each new TV you check out seems to have more and more buttons? Or how that online game you used to enjoy is fe…...

Private aerospace company SpaceX plans to develop reusable spacecraft that gently land on Earth or other planets using retrorockets, according to S…...

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Ronald Brown is a successful startup CEO with an extensive background in technology and consumer marketing. His new book, Anticipate. The Architecture…...

Mashable, 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation held the second annual Social Good Summit last week. The event united a dynamic commun…...

Facebook’s new Timeline design gives users a large “cover photo” space at the top of the page. We think this revamp is a great oppor…...

What do users of the latest Windows 8 beta think of the nascent operating system upgrade? A good way to find out is through Twitter — by i…...

Google may still be the world’s most visited website with users spending nearly 2 hours on the site in a given month. But the average U.S.…...

Kraft has come up with a clever way to exploit Jell-O’s unique motion properties in the digital age with an app for the iPhone and the iPad th…...

We got some hands-on time with Battlelog, a new social layer for Battlefield 3, the upcoming first-person shooter from Electronic Arts.The Batt…...

Watching Amazons CEO Jeff Bezos extol the virtues of the Amazon Kindle Fire on Wednesday, during what was probably one of the most important…...

Google has added a 3D aerial route preview option to its Google Maps product.With the new feature, Google Maps users can fly alongside routes…...

Chef Jaime Oliver is known for crusading against unhealthy food in school cafeterias. The celebrity chef has now brought his campaign online t…...

Apple will finally end our long national nightmare next week and officially unveil the iPhone 5.When Apple CEO Tim cook gets up on stage at Ap…...

Ninety-two percent of American’s took action for social change this past year, according to the Social Change Impact Report from Walden Universi…...

Amazon’s new Kindle Fire costs $209.63 to make, meaning the company loses about $10 on each one it sells, a new study reveals.Research fi…...

Google engineer Mihai Parparita met his wife during their junior year of college. But at some point, it occurred to them that they had actual…...

Facebook has been hit with a lawsuit over a trademark dispute surrounding the new Facebook Timeline profiles.Timeslines.com asserts that if Fac…...

Tech titans Facebook and Apple have a contentious relationship that is frequently put to the test. But a Facebook for TouchPad application was…...

Facebook Timeline allows users to see their past updates — including wall posts, photos or announcements. It can document your entire lif…...

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Sloan Churman was born deaf. For 29 years, she has relied on reading lips and, to a very limited extent, hearing aids.Two months ago, she re…...

Facebook and USA Today have teamed up to build an application that will rate the commercials broadcast during Super Bowl XLVI, Mashable has lear…...

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Love to travel, but hate to fly? Then we have some exciting news for you. This week Boeing delivered a 787 Dreamliner to Japanese airline ANA, promisi…...

A chiropracter in Ottawa gave an unusual invitation to the World Wide Web this week.“Hi, I’m Dr. Nancy Salgueiro with YourBirthCoach.c…...

Amazon shook up the tablet market this week with its Kindle Fire, but the big news in fictional tablet introductions occurred on The Office Thursday…...

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Chrome is poised to overtake Firefox as the world’s second most popular browser after Internet Explorer by December, according to web anal…...

Marking a comeback against a longtime rival, IBM has lapped Microsoft in market value for the first time since 1996.Big Blue had a market cap…...

The Social Media Infographics Series is supported by Vocus‘ Social Media Strategy Tool, a free, six-step online tool that lets you build a…...

The Amazon Kindle Fire is not the only 7-inch Android tablet making its debut this week. The Samsung Galaxy Tab family of products is adding a…...

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Everyone wants to know what the next iPhone will look like, but the folks at Giga.de took it a step further and created an actual prototype ba…...

Amazon wants to buy Palm and its smartphone/tablet platform WebOS, VentureBeat reports citing a well-placed source. There are other interested…...

Perhaps youve heard about the Google millionaires: 1,000 of the companys early employees (including the company masseuse) who earned thei…...

Facebook has gone a half step to putting the Poke out of its misery — but I don’t see why they don’t kill it off completely.…...

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USA Network launched a fun new interactive social media mystery game tie-in for its hit TV show Psych. The game is called #HashTagKiller and it…...

Sometimes a stroll down memory lane is more interesting because of the garbage. We’ve collected a list of 14 tech train wrecks you may remember…...

Now you can complement your collection of Angry Birds games, cases, cookbooks, plush toys and baby clothes with these speaker docks, decked ou…...

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How well do you know Internet memes? Find out with today’s YouTube Video of the Day from Cartoon Networks MAD TV show, which created this m…...

As September comes to a close, Netflix‘s stock price is falling like the Autumn leaves.The company’s stock lost another 11% on Thur…...

Internet meme and utterly fearless mammal the Honey Badger, not content with his 18 million views on YouTube, is headed for the TV screen. He opens…...

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Auction giant eBay and Facebook are quietly forging stronger ties with a secret joint partnership and the addition of Facebook exec Katie Mitic…...

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