Articles by Mashable from November 2011

Researchers have finally come up with the answer to a question that’s plagued us all for years: “Just how much Photoshopping did th…...

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

Hearing TED’s impressive list of speakers once required an exclusive invitation and a several day commitment. The organization launc…...

Facebook has agreed to a settlement with the FTC over charges that the social network had deceived its users about privacy. The FTC had accused…...

Comedian, actor, director and prankster extraordinaire Jaime Kennedy is back to his old ways — with a new hidden-camera campaign for Toshiba c…...

Foursquare is partnering with Scoutmob to provide deals for local restaurants, bars and entertainment. Scoutmob joins the ranks of LivingSocial,…...

The Modern Media Agency Series is supported by IDG. An important consideration in any marketing plan is does your product brand match the produc…...

Internet users in the United States watched more online videos in October than they ever have in a one-month time span. Those 184 million viewe…...

Spotify is getting its systems in order to support a planned 100 million users in the future, job openings suggest.But, as it prepares to annou…...

AT&T is still attempting to save its merger deal with T-Mobile by trying to sell a portion of T-Mobile’s assets to a smaller wireless…...

Hogwash, we say, to the common assumption that senior citizens are not very good at using technology and social media. Who hasn’t been st…...

Looking for a cheap way to tether your laptop to your iPhone? There’s an app for that, but it may not last.The iTether app from Tether we…...

UPDATE: as of 11:40 ET, attempts to download iTether on the app store are met with the following response: “The item you’ve request…...

Tis the season of holiday giving — not just to friends and family, but others in need as well. If you plan to do some or all of your shop…...

WordPress.com has announced a program that aims to offer bloggers an alternative to Google’s AdWords for monetizing their sites.Called Wo…...

The next iteration of Apple’s mobile platform, iOS 5.1 beta, has been seeded to developers, and it’s already yielding some interesti…...

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 Social CEO Series is supported by MessageMaker Social, the social media management system (SMMS) that lets you publish and manage targeted c…...

Federal law enforcement agents celebrated Cyber Monday in their own peculiar fashion by seizing 150 websites to go with along with the 72 they b…...

Twitter has acquired mobile security company Whisper Systems for an undisclosed amount, both companies have confirmed. Whisper Systems’ p…...

The original founding documents of Apple Computer Company from 1976 are up for auction at Sotheby’s, for an estimated $100,000 – $15…...

Basketball fans around the world rejoiced following the news this weekend that a National Basketball Association labor agreement appears imminent, wit…...

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…...

Ahead of her early 30th birthday this week, Britney Spears has recently dethroned Google CEO Larry Page as Google+’s most-followed person.…...

Scammers are using Cyber Monday to try and spread malware through malicious emails. The scam involves emails that appear to be from UPS,…...

Which program created the most social media buzz this past week? As we’ve seen in charts past, social television participants tend to gravitate…...

The increasing number of tablet owners in the U.S. is changing the way people shop from in-store to online — 20% of all mobile ecommerce sales n…...

Here’s a new tactic for Occupy Wall Street protesters to consider: dressing up as zombies for a mass performance of “Thriller”.Tha…...

Facebook will file its long-anticipated IPO between April and June 2012, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Monday.The repor…...

Facebook will make its long-anticipated move to go public between April and June 2012, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Mon…...

Total online sales were up 15% for the first half of Cyber Monday as consumers snatched up discounts at thousands of online retailers worldwide,…...

Total online sales were up 15% for the first half of Cyber Monday as consumers snatched up discounts at thousands of online retailers worldwide,…...

Webcams, amirite? Here’s a totally refreshing, embarrassingly honest video about one woman’s first brush with a webcam. If you ca…...

Google Music has just slashed prices for popular albums to the tune of $1.99. Like many companies on Cyber Monday, Google is working to sway con…...

If this were Black Friday, by now you’d be exhausted, attacked over a $2 waffle maker and all the things you want would be out of stock. Instead…...

The Economist is having a very good year so far: Not only has the publication reached a significant digital milestone, having sold more than 100…...

Scammers posted a number of fake games on the Android Market over the weekend, purporting to be titles from Rovio, the company that makes…...

It’s no secret that the world caught Bieber fever in 2011. Teen pop star Justin Bieber was the most searched person of the year on…...

Google+ has released guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners, in effort to acquaint the demo…...

This is one of those things that most email marketing experts agree on – but we’ve little recent data to prove the point. My theory…...

Open the pod bay doors, Kinect 2. The next version of Kinect — Microsoft’s hands-free, gesture-controlled gaming peripheral for Xbox…...

Foreign Policy, a magazine and website dedicated to global politics and economics, released its 2011 list of top global leaders active on Twitter. Inc…...

Passengers on Australian flightRegional Express ZL319 had an unfortunate surprise Friday, when a passengers iPhone 4 started emitting a sig…...

StyleCaster Media Group has raised $1 million in Series A-1 funding from a number of notable individuals in Silicon Valley, including Owen Van…...

Virgin America has offered up a private flight for you and your friends via Gilt Groupe, as well as the opportunity to name the plane you…...

The Trendsetter Tech Series is supported by smart. Test drive the space saving, eco-friendly, totally unique, smart. Visit smartusa.com to find …...

Video games may not rot your brain but they can change the way you think, a new study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Societ…...

The portrait of todays worker is undergoing a fundamental shift. Fueled by advances in cloud-based, social and mobile technologies, companie…...

Gamers rejoice: female online gamers are more social, happy, sexually and physically active than their non-gaming counterparts, according to a Harris…...

Thanksgiving is over and the holiday shopping season is in full swing. With this in mind, we present our list of the top 10 iPhone 4S accessories for…...

Google has come a long way since it started as a research project in 1996, and it may only be just getting started. The company posted a video…...

Black Friday is a thing of the past – today is all about finding your holiday deals and savings online with Cyber Monday! Over half of Ame…...

If you’ve been waiting at your computer all weekend for Black Friday to die down so you could scour the Internet for the best Cyber Monday deals…...

The majority of employed American adults (68%) with work email accounts check their messages during traditional family holidays such as Thanksgiving a…...

The majority of employed American adults (68%) with work email accounts check their messages during traditional family holidays such as Thanksgiving a…...

When you think of Black Friday, you envision mile-long lines and trampling crowds. Cyber Monday deals, on the other hand, can be accessed from the com…...

The American driver spends countless hours every day sitting in front of his car radio, a device that first appeared in the 1930s. While car in…...

If it’s been a long week for you — stuffed with family, turkey, football, shopping and naps — you might have missed a few valu…...

The European Commission is preparing a Directive to prevent Facebook from sharing users information such as their political beliefs and l…...

Poor AT&T. Up until recently, I bet its execs thought they were on a heros quest: Combining two big mobile companies (AT&T and T-M…...

Sony Ericsson and LG have announced that the latest version of Android, 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich, will be coming to some of their smartphones i…...

Amazon’s Kindle ereaders and tablets sold exceptionally well on Black Friday. The Kindle Fire was especially hot — it was the bests…...

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

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 sales broke all records this Black Friday, 9to5Mac reports citing inside sources.Apple’s forecast for Black Friday sales is four ti…...

The official specifications and pictures of the upcoming Motorola Droid 4 have been unearthed by Droid Life, revealing a device very similar t…...

The official specifications and pictures of the upcoming Motorola Droid 4 have been unearthed by Droid Life, revealing a device very similar t…...

The Black Friday madness may be over, but the holiday bargains live on — through Cyber Monday, that is.Mashable combed through Amazon‘s o…...

Scientists have created a computer system that attempts to recognize human emotions such as anger and impatience by analyzing the acoustic…...

Instagram photos aren’t just for sharing online anymore. You can turn them into photo books, frame them in four-inch bamboo shadowbox fra…...

Instagram photos aren’t just for sharing online anymore. You can turn them into photo books, frame them in four-inch bamboo shadowbox fra…...

Google is highlighting the 2011 Egyptian elections with a doodle on its search homepage for Egypt. Each of the six letters that spell out ̶…...

This post originally appeared on the When small businesses contemplate a social media strategy, Facebook and Twitter get lots of attention. How…...

Roughly 24 million photos were tweeted from English-language Twitter accounts for the week ending Nov. 24, according to real-time photo search engine…...

Roughly 24 million photos were tweeted from English-language Twitter accounts for the week ending Nov. 24, according to real-time photo search engine…...

Thousands of online retailers will discount their stock for Cyber Monday — the online version of Black Friday — now in its sixth year.Las…...

Mashable is looking for editorial and community interns to join our New York and San Francisco offices during the upcoming spring semester. I&#…...

The jobless rate is hovering above 9%, and job seekers have to be more savvy than ever to land a job. In fact, 77% of job-seekers are using mobile app…...

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…...

According to (unconfirmed) reports, Facebook is working with HTC to develop a phone that has a much deeper integration with the social network than…...

If you’re renaming or rebranding your business (or yourself, for that matter), and consequently need to change your Twitter username, you…...

If you’re renaming or rebranding your business (or yourself, for that matter), and consequently need to change your Twitter username, you…...

Black Friday sales hit a record high Friday — online sales rose 24.3%, but many shoppers opted to go to brick-and-mortar locations to spend th…...

The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen its word of the year: Squeezed Middle. Last year’s word of the year was big society, and the word…...

Today is the second annual Small Business Saturday, an American Express initiative to “shop small” at local businesses, since America̵…...

Bari Abdul is Vice President of Check Point‘s Consumer Business, ZoneAlarm, focused on innovating consumer security for the digital age. H…...

Each year the Mashable Awards honors the best in digital media, companies and personalities. This year, we have 196 nominees across 4 majors c…...

American fashion designer Tory Burch founded her label in February 2004, the same month that Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard…...

American fashion designer Tory Burch founded her label in February 2004, the same month that Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard…...

Black Friday is starting to look a bit more like Cyber Monday....

This post originally appeared on the In the past several years, businesses large and small have come to realize the positive impact of engagin…...

On Saturday, Nov 26 at 10:02 a.m. EST, NASA will send the biggest rover it has ever built, Curiosity, to Mars. The United Launch Alliance Atlas…...

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…...

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

After collecting nominations from the Mashable community for over a month, the 2011 Mashable Awards have now shifted to the voting portion of t…...

Its not looking good for AT&T/T-Mobile. After the FCC began moving toward giving the deal an official thumbs-down, AT&T formally wi…...

More and more mobile game developers are learning that their titles have to reach across playforms if they want to bring everyone in on the fun. With…...

As an entrepreneur, Ive been invited to guest lecture for entrepreneurial programs at colleges from Harvard to the University of Michigan. E…...

AT&Ts bid to take over T-Mobile suffered a major setback this week when the Federal Communications Commission said the merger wasnt i…...

Are you a proud owner of the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet? If not, maybe the reviews will help you decide. If so, you need to think about protecting…...

It’s Black Friday, the biggest day of discount shopping in the U.S., and horror stories are pouring in from across the country.Among the…...

AT&T has launched a campaign that lets you advocate for an AT&T 4G smartphone over Facebook this holiday season.Using the “You&…...

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…...

Facebook is a particularly appropriate medium for companies and causes to use when joining forces to engage consumers because “it’s …...

The first quad-core Android tablet scheduled to hit the market, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, is now available for pre-order in North Am…...

It’s that time of year again – time to gather around the dinner table, race through crowds to get our hands on this year’s be…...

Since Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinsky left Columbia University to join Y Combinator, their startup, Codecademy, has attracted close to 1 mill…...

If you’re staying well away from the retail madness that is a mall on Black Friday, then we salute you. The lure of bargains is too much for man…...

One of our favorite parts of working atMashableis getting to read and respond to the comments that you, our readers, post on each article we…...

Multiple tech blogs are reporting the appearance of ads for the hotly anticipated Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Although its already known that Ve…...

Sharing, but like real life. This is the message Google is sending with the first video TV commercial for its social network, Google+, which aired d…...

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…...

Apple’s Black Friday sale is less surprising than ever this year, since a leaked brochure informed us on all the discounts two days in adv…...

Microsoft has announced its Black Friday sale over at Microsoft Store, offering decent discounts on the Kinect, Xbox, select PCs, software and g…...

The Mashable Awards celebrates the best of the digital world — and as such, there are a whole heap of technology categories. You’ll…...

In this 11-minute timelapse video, freelance designer Dei Gaztelumendi illustrates a cover for comic book magazine Xabiroi from start to fini…...

Racing games have long been one of the most successful genres for the iPhone. The motion of tilting the device left and right makes for a great simula…...

This year’s sold-out Mashable Media Summit showcased an eclectic range of content delivered by leaders in the media and technology indust…...

A 90-minute special on Thanksgiving night revolves around Lady Gaga, who will perform eight songs and reveal private details about her life to journ…...

Need some ideas about what to get your tech-obsessed friends and family members this holiday season? Browse through our gallery to discover 16 quirky…...

Nokia has been working through a massive cost-cutting downsizing program, laying off thousands of employees, closing plants, and outsourcing ope…...

If like us, you like to keep your iPhone close, then a stand is an essential accessory. Whether it’s for your desk, bedside or coffee table, the…...

“We benefit when we listen,” said New York Times media reporter and blogger Brian Stelter on stage at the Mashable Media Sum…...

Since Google’s latest Thanksgiving-themed Doodle went live, people have been playing around with the interactive logo trying to find all 1…...

Big Fish Games made headlines Wednesday when it announced that it had become the first app developer to offer games by subscription through Appl…...

Among certain circles (my family, some of my coworkers, etc.) I’m known for my Googling skills. I can find anything, anywhere, in no time flat.…...

The 2011 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade brings thousands of people into the streets of New York to see the floats, balloons and musical pe…...

AT&T and T-Mobile have withdrawn the application for approval of the two companies’ merger from the U.S. Federal Communications Commi…...

Happy Thanksgiving! We are celebrating the holiday here at Mashable with a look back at all the Thanksgiving-themed Google Doodles since the search gi…...

Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone to feature the new version of Android, 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich, can now be pre-ordered in the U.S. from E…...

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 late Steve Jobs has been hailed as a brilliant businessman, marketer, and visionary. He was also an prolific inventor, if the number of pate…...

Debate is still raging about how many people are really using Google+ and whether it can ever overtake Facebook. But at least one prominent user…...

Infinity Blade is my favorite mobile game. I paid about six times more for it than I have any other iPhone or iPad app, and instantly knew it wa…...

Having trouble preparing your turkey? Take some advice from cooking instructor Mary Risley and, well, “just put the f__ing turkey in t…...

In what could be the first sign of a potential buyout, Microsoft has signed a confidentiality agreement with Yahoo to get access to the company…...

The intellectual property battle rages on between Apple and Samsung. In April 2011, Apple filed for patent infringement, claiming that Samsung copied…...

As Walmart looks to give out $1.5 million to nonprofit organizations this holiday season, it wants Facebook users to help decide to whom it shou…...

Like several celebrities before him, Jimmy Fallon has tweeted an apology. The host of Late Night said sorry this week to Republican presid…...

In case Target is one of your Black Friday shopping destinations, we’ve rounded up some of the best deals the big-box retailer has to offer. We&…...

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

Groupon stock continued its plunge Wednesday, trading in the $17 range, well below the company’s $20 IPO price. It’s the third cons…...

Streaming website Grooveshark has become the latest flashpoint in the cat-and-mouse game between the music industry and music sharing services.…...

When did Black Friday get so confusing?Some deals are happening all weekend, while others are only taking place at specific times. Companies ha…...

Ever since Microsoft Kinect debuted last year, controller-free gesture interfaces have gone mainstream. As popular as it is, the tech could stan…...

Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn — none of these companies would be able to sustain themselves without advertising. But getting your b…...

Classic novels and the Thanksgiving dish turducken have inspired a new hashtag — #LiteraryTurducken — which has caught the attention of Tw…...

From digital cameras to video game consoles, we’ve picked out some of the best Black Friday deals at Walmart. If you’ll be making your way…...

Move over Rebecca Black, YouTube Movies is about to make room for “hundreds” of Disney movie rentals.YouTube’s less than one-…...

Cinefy is a new mobile video editing app that promises “Hollywood effects” on the iPhone. Launched in limited beta on Tuesday…...

It seems ereaders are going to be a hot holiday tech gift this year — the Tickle Me Elmo for grown-ups, if you will.The space has certain…...

China has overtaken the U.S. as the largest market for smartphones by volume, according to one firm’s estimates.Nearly 24 million smartph…...

Apple has been flirting with the title of “World’s Most Valuable Company” for a good part of 2011. At a current valuation of about $…...

Be ready for the Black Friday madness — or get yourself pumped while you wait in line — with this roundup of some of the best buys at Best…...

Apple’s relationship with Samsung has deteriorated, and the Cupertino giant may be working with Sharp on the next generation displays for…...

Flash mobs hit the small screen this spring thanks to FOX’s MOBBED, and now the show returns Wednesday for a holiday special, turnin…...

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

Every year on Black Friday, Apple offers many of its products at cheaper prices, with discounts usually ranging from 10% to 15%. This year will…...

Click image to enlarge.In honor of Thanksgiving travel, Foursquare has posted an infographic on the company’s blog showing checkins rel…...

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…...

Group discounts can be a nice thing for both the seller and the customers, but one has to know his limits. A London baker learned that the hard…...

Six months after launch, RIM’s tablet – the BlackBerry PlayBook – still lacks a native email, calendar and contacts applicatio…...

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…...

Ads for Toyota’s Prius V appeared over the weekend in Livestand, Yahoo’s new digital reading experience for the iPad. As exclusive s…...

Google has shared the dates that several products “which havent had the impact wed hoped for,” will be shutting down.…...

The ol’ endzone dance just got even more social. When players in this Saturday’s Battle for the Golden Egg — the annual colleg…...

With the advent of social media channels, customer service has forever changed. Consumers are no longer willing to sit and listen to classical…...

Want to watch Rihanna’s latest music video? You won’t find it anywhere on French TV before 10 p.m. State officials have ruled that Rihanna…...

I met the Huang brothers, Charles and Kai, a few years ago through a mutual friend over BBQs and casual poker nights, and Kai is an occasional…...

Samsung attempts to undermine Apple’s mystique and its hold on consumers with a Galaxy S II ad that presents hard core Apple fans as lemmings…...

A new ebook released on Tuesday takes an inside look at the email correspondence of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Letters to Steve: Inside the …...

From 4.7-inch smartphones like the HTC Titan to models like the 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note, it’s clear that manufacturers are seeing a…...

AT&T‘s proposed merger with T-Mobile has gotten a big thumbs down from the Federal Communications Commission. In a conference call wi…...

As retailers prepare for post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping, consumers increasingly turn online to search for the best deals. Last year, according to…...

Google began its Thanksgiving celebrations early this year by putting up a holiday-themed Google Doodle on Tuesday afternoon.The Doodle featu…...

For the second day in a row Tuesday, Groupon shares plummeted — and flirted with falling below the company’s $20 IPO price. Groupon…...

Just days after Google released its latest Ice Cream Sandwich platform for Android to developers, Nvidia is offering a sneak preview of what the…...

One of the more fascinating apps to arrive recently for the iPad is 48 Hours Mystery from the folks at CBS Interactive. The free app includes i…...

Google+ users might see their Klout scores go up Tuesday. The social media ranking company Klout has built a scoring model to calculate activity…...

Old Spice, looking to maintain the social media momentum that began with its breakthrough “The man your man can smell like” campaign fro…...

Google, PayPal, Visa, American Express — they’ve all jumped on the mobile digital wallet train as a way to usher in commerce through…...

Google+ has made it easier to see what articles and blogs your friends are reading, the company announced Tuesday. Articles that get a +1 from…...

NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars rover dubbed “Curiosity” is set to liftoff on Saturday, the start of a 350+ million mile journe…...

For those of us who work with WordPress every day, it has been exciting to watch our beloved content management system evolve over the years fr…...

Two porn firms, including the company that runs Playboy’s website, have filed a lawsuit against ICM Registry over the creation of th…...

The Mashable Awards celebrates the best of digital, and perhaps no category showcases the digital world better than entertainment. From Game o…...

Arnold Schwarzenegger, your contact lenses are calling. Researchers at the University of Washington have successfully built and test…...

Twenty percent of teachers have personally experienced or knows another teacher who has experienced cyberbaiting, a new study reveals. Cyberbai…...

Three young siblings from Mexico are attracting heavy attention for their cover of Adele’s thumping pop anthem, “Rolling in the Deep,…...

Although many anticipated that Apple its eagerly anticipatory Grand Central Terminal store in New York City before Black Friday, construction w…...

Ten years ago, you probably wouldn’t have dreamed your cellphone would replace your camera. Now, millions of people carry mobiles that ea…...

You may want to think twice before enlisting your little ones to help out with holiday cooking. That is, unless you’re going for the hou…...

Since Alexa von Tobel dropped out of Harvard Business School to create LearnVest in late 2009, her personal finance startup has attracted…...

Netflix‘s stock price appears to be heading for another down day after the company predicted it would post losses for 2012.The admission, revea…...

Location-based services like Foursquare are here to stay, that much is true. For some, however, local deals and specials only go so far. That…...

A theory stemming from an experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s claims every living person is connected to any other th…...

Apple‘s long climb back from the margins of the PC industry will culminate in world domination next year, according to one researcher R…...

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

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…...

Isaac Wilder, an active member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, reportedly snapped photos of destroyed laptops confiscated from protesters d…...

Citing unspecified concerns about the security of our digital editions, Penguin Group USA is pulling new e-books from libraries; in addition, i…...

Most users never open up their gadgets and fiddle with the innards, but some like to change the battery and repair the devices. Those belonging…...

Flattr, a startup that seeks to motivate Internet users to pay for content they love, is launching the first Pay a Blogger Day Nov. 29. The team hope…...

Facebook is working with HTC to develop a phone that has a much deeper integration with the social network than any previous Facebook phone.…...

If youre annoyed by the Facebook news ticker already, just you wait. Facebook confirmed today that it has introduced sponsored stories, or ad…...

Did you know that Google offers 2-step login verification for Gmail accounts? The feature has been around a while, and now Google has written a remi…...

Round two of Small Business Saturday — another post-Thanksgiving national shopping day launched in 2010 — is taking shape as consume…...

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…...

Game publisher Square Enix announced on its blog today that it plans to release a version of the beloved role-playing game Chrono Trigger for th…...

RIM has slashed the price of the struggling BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to $199, the company announced on Monday. Although RIM says the de…...

A stronger version of the pepper spray made infamous by the UC Davis campus police officer who casually sprayed a row of seated, protesting stud…...

A stronger version of the pepper spray made infamous by the UC Davis campus police officer who casually sprayed a row of seated, protesting stud…...

In a scene that could have been from a 90s retro party, Bill Gates testified in a Salt Lake City courtroom today in a lawsuit that accuses Mi…...

The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to com…...

The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to com…...

Google unveiled the latest version of its free Search app for the iPad on Monday, making searching on the Apple device faster and more intuitive &#…...

Anyone committed enough to sit through a four-hour Woody Allen documentary is in for some serious treats. Like, say, a young Allen boxing a k…...

OK, I admit. I had to do a little research to find out why the heck WWE Raw topped the cable social TV chart this week. Turns out, one of the most ant…...

Everyone’s busy trying to figure out which tablet they’ll buy this holiday season, but there are other options. At least Googl…...

Hack-a-thons are becoming popular ways to get a massive group of hackers together for a manic, usually overnight blitz to code something cool. H…...

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

Word on the street is that YouTube has a slick new design. It’s a revamped homepage with some pretty tight Google+ social integration an…...

The Google Street View snowmobile has apparently been busy. Google has added imagery for a number of ski resorts using the specially-equi…...

Domino’s Pizza has found a novel way to engage iPad users and maybe sell a few more pizzas along the way. The pizza chain has created an a…...

Does the requirement that you must use your real name on Facebook and Google+ make you shy away from saying anything risqu on those networks?…...

From Oct. 11 to Nov. 18, the Mashable community submitted hundreds of thousands of nominations for the 2011 Mashable Awards, the fifth annual c…...

Apple’s long rumored store in New York City’s Grand Central terminal could open in time for Black Friday according to a report…...

When gift-giving happens this year, tablets are going to be all the rage. Seventy-nine percent of consumers would prefer them to a new laptop. N…...

The Kindle Fire (and Nook Tablet, for that matter) are perfect travel companions. They store your books, movies, music, and apps, and run on the…...

Just four months after music streaming service Spotify debuted in the U.S., its gearing up for a new direction.The company sent out an…...

Zynga‘s latest addition to the “-Ville” franchise, CastleVille, has had a solid opening. In just under a week, the game has ga…...

Zynga‘s latest addition to the “-Ville” franchise, CastleVille, has had a solid opening. In just under a week, the game has ga…...

The web has given the meme treatment to the police officer who doused students with pepper spray at the University of California, Davis, during…...

Why can’t newspapers seem to make any money online?That’s the question I asked myself the other day as I ran smack up against The B…...

Amazon has announced hundreds of deals for Black Friday on everything from flat screen TVs to jewelry. The ecommerce giant is also encour…...

Ron Johnson, the executive who helped create Apple Stores with Steve Jobs, says that the company’s Genius Bars were not a success initiall…...

Michael Lazerow, founder and CEO of Buddy Media, begins his talk with a promise that letting your brand’s content run free on social…...

Two-thirds (67%) of adult social media users in the U.S. voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race, although only a half (51%) would vote t…...

eBay on Monday announced it was buying Hunch, a technology platform that makes recommendations to users based on their expressed affinities.The…...

Take a look in the lower left-hand corner of your Google+ profile and you may notice a brand new feature: Chat with those in your mutual Circles…...

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