Past articles by Mashable from January 2012

11:31 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Judge: Ron Paul Cant Ask YouTube, Twitter to Expose Impostors

A federal judge turned down Ron Paul’s campaign’s request for information on a social media impostor last week. The campaign has be…...

11:07 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Columbia and Stanford Creating $30 Million Institute to Bridge Journalism and Tech

Big news on the innovation front: Columbia Journalism School and Stanford’s School of Engineering are teaming up to create an Institute fo…...

10:43 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable 5 Privacy Tips for Location-Based Services

The year 2012 is certain to reflect U.S. consumers continued love affair with sophisticated smartphones and tablets. One of the driving forc…...

09:57 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable How to Watch Obamas Google+ Hangout

U.S. President Barack Obama will be answering questions in a Google+ Hangout on Monday evening. The president, who has previously participated…...

09:39 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Ferris Buellers Latest Day Off Comes Courtesy of Honda [VIDEO]

You’ve seen the teaser and you’ve probably seen the 1986 movie, but now you can enjoy the full Super Bowl spot featuring the further adv…...

09:28 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable 52% of Holiday Shoppers Used Cellphones in Stores [STUDY]

More shoppers are using mobile devices in stores to do product research, price comparisons and look up reviews, but according to a new report,…...

09:01 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Analyst: Amazon Sold 6 Million Kindle Fires Over the Holidays

Just how much of a success is the Amazon Kindle Fire? According to one financial analyst, a very big one.Jordan Rohan of investment bank Stifel…...

08:44 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable How to Fill Out Facebook Timeline Without Annoying Your Friends

Like it or not, you’re about to get the new Facebook Timeline. Sure, change can be a good thing, but it often causes big backlash on Facebook &#…...

08:29 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Google, Yahoo Form Group to Tackle Phishing

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL have joined forces to thwart purveyors of phishing — those emails that attempt to trick users into givin…...

07:40 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable How to See When Someone Unfriends You on Facebook

Would you like to know when someone “unfriends” you on Facebook? There’s not a native way to see this information, and unless you ke…...

07:28 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable This New OLED Microdisplay Blows the Retina Display Away

A new OLED microdisplay from MicroOLED boasts the worlds highest pixel density, stuffing an incredible 5.4 million gapless pixels into a 0.6…...

06:47 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Bobbi Brown Launches Facebook Campaign to Revive Discontinued Cosmetics

For years, fans of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics have used traditional and social media to lobby for the return of lip colors that are no longer in prod…...

06:24 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Slate Gets Personal With Customized Newsfeed

Online magazine Slate is giving readers more control over the news discovery process with the Monday launch of MySlate, a personalized newsfeed…...

05:09 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Mashable Weekend Recap: 32 Stories You May Have Missed

We hope the break from football games (really, who watches the Pro Bowl?) gave you some time to catch up on interesting stories, funny memes and…...

04:14 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Megaupload Data Could Be Erased This Week

All the data on Megaupload – legal or illegal – could be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2, the Associated Press reports. The file…...

02:30 pm GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Samsung Galaxy S Advance Has Two Cores and a 4-Inch Screen

A new smartphone from Samsung has been unearthed in the Philippines, the Galaxy S Advance GT-i9070. The device will apparently be Samsung’…...

05:17 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable How Evi Compares to Siri: Evis Clever, Too, But Slow [VIDEO]

Getting Siri’s voice-recognition capabilities on your phone just became a possibility for Android users and a bit less expensive for iPhon…...

04:46 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable SOPA and Hollywood: Standing in the Way of Technological Innovation [INFOGRAPHIC]

In case you’re still unclear about the U.S. Congress’s hapless SOPA legislation that went down in flames earlier this month, the Matador N…...

04:09 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable How the Peace Corps is Building a Community of Volunteers Online

When volunteers return home from service with The Peace Corps, they often want to stay in touch with fellow Corps members. Can social media help…...

03:54 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable YouTube Cover Song Face-Off: Adeles Set Fire to the Rain

More than year after Adele’s mega popular 21 came out, her third U.S. single — “Set Fire to the Rain” — from the…...

03:22 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers [INFOGRAPHIC]

Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant a…...

03:03 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: Top 5 Viral Hits of the Week

The weekend is finally here, and if you’ve been too embarrassed to look at photos of cats and Ryan Goslin at the office, we’ve got…...

02:38 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable How To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Person For Your Startup

Chris Rickborn is the COO and co-founder for Unrabble, a cloud-computing hiring software company that helps busy startups make great hires.In a…...

01:40 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Megauploads Kim Dotcom Loses Call of Duty Top Spot While in Prison [VIDEO]

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can’t defend his top-spot score in the game Modern Warfare: Call of Duty 3 from behind bars — he was r…...

01:00 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable 10 Hysterical Political Parodies on Twitter

There are countless parody accounts on Twitter — musicians, celebrities, cartoon characters and religious figures can all grace your feed with t…...

12:59 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Megauploads Kim Dotcom Loses Call of Duty Top Spot While in Prison [VIDEO]

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can’t defend his top-spot score in the game Modern Warfare: Call of Duty 3 from behind bars — he was r…...

12:00 am GMT - Mon, January 30, 2012

Mashable Remarkable Joy of Books Animation Brings Books to Life [VIRAL VIDEO]

Relax and enjoy the magic that ensues when you combine a bookstore full of books, skillful stop-motion animation, haunting music, a boatload o…...

11:06 pm GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable Can You Name the 20 Viral Topics in This Illustration? [CONTEST]

Instead of sending holiday cards to clients and friends in December, London-based digital agency Syzygy recently whipped up a creative illustr…...

10:45 pm GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable Tech Hiring Trends 2012: What You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC]

Job trend reports are pointing to big things for the tech industry, including lots of openings and opportunities for growth. Here’s the lowdown…...

10:05 pm GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable 21 Must-Follow Pinterest Users

Looking to save some search time and launch into a rich Pinterest experience? We’ve scouted out some of the best Pinners the service has to offe…...

09:30 pm GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable 39 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Been away from Mashable for a few days? Here’s something that’ll get you caught up in a flash: it’s our weekly roundup of Mash…...

08:15 pm GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable Tweet Your Best Shot to Make NBAs Curry Your Voicemail Assistant

How would you like to put an NBA star to work as your own personal phone operator?That’s more or less the idea behind a Twitter-driven co…...

03:43 am GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable Top 8 Comments on Mashable This Week

We’re back again with another roundup of the top Mashable comments of the week.In this weekly segment, we showcase the week’s best…...

03:00 am GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable Engine Advocacy Turns Tech Nerds Into Political Experts

How do you turn technology nerds into political experts? That’s the question being asked by Engine Advocacy, a group dedicated to getting…...

02:33 am GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]

If you scanned across the tech and gadget world this week, you’d think the future had already arrived. We found so many great products and devic…...

02:11 am GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable Photoshop CS6 Turns to The Dark Side [VIDEO]

Attention, Photoshop lovers: Adobe is treating us all to a sneak preview of Photoshop CS6, and from what we can see, it looks amazing.Adobe…...

01:33 am GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week [PICS]

Out of the millions of pictures posted on Twitter last week, 10 of them stood above the rest, and we have the Top 10 Twitter Pics gathered right…...

12:40 am GMT - Sun, January 29, 2012

Mashable Tech Companies Ramping Up the Green Jobs [INFOGRAPHIC]

If you’re looking for a new job, but you’re also a friend of the environment, there could be a perfect position for you in the tech sector…...

11:26 pm GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable What Apple Could Do With Its $100 Billion Cash Hoard [COMIC]

Let’s face it: Apple is rich. So rich it could send a crowd of people to the moon to build a luxury hotel and hang out there for a few…...

10:39 pm GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable 6 Standout Apps Worth Downloading This Week

Facebook hogged tech headlines this week with news that it was pushing its Timeline to all users and will IPO next week. But while the 800-million-per…...

09:47 pm GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Before IPO, Facebook Takes the Fight Against Clickjacking to the Courts

Facebook is turning to the courts to fight the “clickjacking” scourge which sometimes plagues the social networking site. The news c…...

09:18 pm GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Google Doodle Celebrates Worlds Largest Snowflake [VIDEO]

Google is at it again, creating yet another of its whimsical doodles. This time, the search giant’s Google Doodle on its main search pa…...

08:11 pm GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable 10 Hilarious Animated GIFs that Took the Web by Storm

Along with all of the other weird quirks of the web, animated GIFs are extremely popular — especially on content-curating sites like Tumblr and…...

09:46 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable 15 Killer Quotes From Sh*t People Say Videos

This meme is certainly making a strong case to be one of the biggest of 2012. Sure, the first episode of “Sh*t Girls Say” was uploaded at…...

09:02 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Photo Startup Makes It Easy to Create Albums With Friends

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…...

08:30 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Elaborate It Gets Better Video Resembles Glee

An extensively choreographed “It Gets Better” music video — set to Lady Gaga‘s “Hair” — gained stea…...

07:59 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Meet Beckinfield, a YouTube Show With 4,000 Actors [PICS]

The make-believe town of Beckinfield is the setting for the Mad Libs-style show of the same name, which uses crowd-sourced amateur actors from a…...

06:48 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Breaking Down Apples Billions [INFOGRAPHIC]

It’s no secret Apple, one of the most valuable public companies in the world, is making major cash off today’s tech gadgets but how mu…...

06:25 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable 7 Big Privacy Concerns for New Facebook and the Open Graph

It’s not always clear how Facebook apps interact with the data you share on the social network. Are they allowed to broadcast it? Sell it?…...

05:35 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Twitter Users Rally to Boycott Country-by-Country Censorship [VIDEO]

Twitter‘s new approach to censoring tweets has users rallying around the hashtag #TwitterBlackout — a call to boycott the micr…...

05:14 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Sports Blogger Ousted Over False Paterno Tweet

CBS has shown the door to the blogger who tweeted an erroneous report of legendary Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno’s deat…...

04:47 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Happy 2nd Birthday, iPad. What Will This Toddler Be When it Grows up?

Two years ago this Friday — Jan. 27, 2010 — Apple unveiled the iPad to the world. At the time, critics and analysts were quick to m…...

04:25 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Newly Discovered Asteroid Narrowly Misses Earth

It isn’t just the sun’s radiation storm getting all up in Earth’s face this week. An asteroid the size of a school bus, disco…...

04:09 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Facebook IPO: Everything You Need to Know [VIDEO]

By now you’ve probably heard the news: Facebook could be filing its papers for IPO as early as next week. A Wall Street Journal re…...

03:20 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Relax: Twitters New Censorship Policy Is Actually Good for Activists

A lot of digital ink has been spilled about Twitter’s announcement that it can now censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. The move…...

02:45 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Angry Birds on Facebook Launching Your Way on Valentines Day

What could be more romantic than playing Angry Birds on Facebook with your sweetheart or with a social network of relative strangers? The highly ant…...

02:23 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Can Regular Investors Buy a Piece of Facebook?

Now that it looks like Facebook is (finally!) going to file for an IPO, plenty of potential investors want to know how they can get in on the ac…...

02:09 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Ex-Palm Chief Says Goodbye to HP, WebOS

Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm and co-developer of the Apple iPod, has left Hewlett-Packard, the company confirmed to Mashable. Rubinste…...

01:53 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Why Facebook is Really Worth $100 Billion

You know what hurts? Being wrong, thats what hurts. Not just a little wrong, but $85 billion wrong. Five years ago I laughed — dare I…...

01:36 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Seinfelds Kramer Reacts to Hearing Skrillex [VIDEOS]

Kramer Reacts to Dubstep – watch more funny videos A familiar Seinfeld clip of “hipster doofus” Cosmo Kramer has been set t…...

01:25 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable What is ACTA? Why Should You Care?

The technology community came out in force against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) before those two bills were shelved l…...

01:09 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable College Sports League to Stream Its Own Content Online

With television broadcast deals that reach into the billions of dollars, the delivery of college sports as entertainment has long been huge busi…...

01:03 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable 7 Lead Generation Trends For 2012 What You Need to Do Right Now [SPONSORED]

This post is brought to you by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform of marketing so…...

12:55 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable NASA Kepler Telescope Finds 26 New Alien Planets in 11 Solar Systems

NASA announced on Friday that its Kepler telescope has discovered 11 new planetary systems that include 26 confirmed alien planets. The n…...

12:11 am GMT - Sat, January 28, 2012

Mashable Map of 10,000 Tweets Shows New York City at Work

What does where we tweet say about how we live and work? That’s one of the questions Oakland-based programmer Eric Fischer hoped to answe…...

11:43 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable BREAKING: Facebook to File for IPO Next Week [REPORT]

The long-awaited tech IPO of the year — perhaps of the decade — is on. Facebook will file its paperwork for an Initial Public Offeri…...

11:43 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Facebook to File for IPO Next Week [REPORT]

The long-awaited tech IPO of the year — perhaps of the decade — is on. Facebook will file its paperwork for an Initial Public Offeri…...

11:22 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Google Music Finally Lets You Download Your Own Tunes [VIDEO]

Google Music, Google’s cloud music service, has finally introduced a feature that lets users download their music to a computer with…...

10:51 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Snaps on Maps: Google Wants to Send Photographers Inside Your Business

Google wants to get all up in your business — but in a good way.The search giant just unveiled an expansion to its Business Photos progra…...

10:30 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Google and Bing Searches Help Us Pirate Music?

Of course the public is going to pirate music when 80% of our search results for music direct us to illegal sites. That’s the claim…...

10:16 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Solar Storm Smacks the Earth And Weve Got Video

A massive wave of charged particles exploded from the sun and hit Earth earlier this week in what NASA calls “the most intense solar energetic…...

09:54 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable 10 Best Arcade Games for Android

Android gamers looking for lightning-quick action and the thrill of chasing a high score should look no further. These are 10 of the best arcade games…...

09:13 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Apple CEO Tim Cook Responds to Factory Condition Mistreatment, Promises to Dig Deeper

Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent an email to employees that addresses allegations surrounding work conditions at its supplies factories, noting that…...

09:13 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Apple CEO Responds to Factory Condition Mistreatment, Promises to Dig Deeper

Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent an email to employees that addresses allegations surrounding work conditions at its supplies factories, noting that…...

09:13 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Apple CEO Promises to Dig Deeper on iPhone Factory Conditions

Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent an email to employees that addresses allegations surrounding work conditions at its supplies factories, noting that…...

08:59 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Nintendo Announces Online Gaming Network

Nintendo users will finally soon have an online experience on par with Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. At least that’s the message from…...

08:37 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Juicebox Wants to Be Your Phone Charger Away From Home

Glowing purple at The Central Bar in Manhattan is a payphone-sized box, lined with seven small doors, that you wouldn’t recognize. Meet Ju…...

08:18 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable 15 Best Sh*t People Say Videos

In little over a month, the “Sh*t [People] Say” video meme has gone majorly mainstream, and it already feels like every corner of the huma…...

07:45 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Facebook Wants to Own Your Social Graph

Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore sat down with Facebook‘s Vice President of Partnerships Dan Rose as part of Mashable’s…...

07:30 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Facebook Timeline: Heres How Users Would Change It

On Tuesday, Facebook announced Timeline will soon be activated for all users.On the other hand, some Mashable readers have had Timeline enabled since…...

07:06 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: ACTA Ratification, Twitter Censorship, Samsung Earnings

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

06:31 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg on Greatest Innovators List

Steve Jobs has been named the second greatest innovator of all time, behind Thomas Edison, in the 2012 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index. The data…...

03:11 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable 22 EU Countries Ratify ACTA, Key Parliament Member Calls it a Charade

Most member states of the European Union have signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at a ceremony in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, J…...

02:00 pm GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Industry-Leading Super Team Launches Two Anti-HIV Programs at Davos

Some of the world’s most powerful and influential CEOs have created a campaign focused on eradicating new HIV infections in children by 20…...

10:19 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Flashpoint Demo Day a Glimpse of How Entrepreneurs Dreams Come True

A gathering of entrepreneurs in the Bay Area on Thursday offered a window into how ambitious techies’ visions become reality. It started w…...

09:56 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable How Brands Can Manage Facebook Comment Overload

Human beings are social by nature, and not surprisingly, we choose to spend much of our talkative time on Facebook.Comscore released data in D…...

09:41 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Super Bowl-Bound Ochocinco Calls Out Boehner on Twitter

Social media is lauded for its ability to foster unlikely connections. This week, Twitter helped join two of the most unlikely public figures in…...

09:25 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Collaborate On Multimedia Slideshows With Tumblecloud

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…...

08:51 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable 5 Ways to Get Ahead of the Competition at SXSW 2012

Approaching SXSW for the first time last year, we were not quite sure what to expect. I offered advice on what I know best — staying prod…...

08:34 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable How You Can Turn 19th Century Photos Into Animated GIFs

GIF made with the NYPL Labs StereogranimatorThe New York Public Library wants you to turn its archive of 40,000 historic stereographs into 3D i…...

08:01 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: 5 Hilarious Viral Topics Trending Right Now

The theme of today’s collection of memes could be “Messing with Your Head.” Whether intentionally or unintentionally, all of…...

07:28 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Size Matters: Clever Website Compares Smartphone Proportions

If you’re smartphone fanatic like I am, you want to know the precise size of each one of these phones. Sure, that latest model may be s…...

07:00 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Who Has the Best Space Plan: Gingrich, Obama or Romney? [POLL]

Forget about presidential politics for a moment. Forget left and right, Republican and Democrat. Forget the GOP primaries and the same tired old…...

06:47 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Cable Networks Embrace Social TV, Creating New Social Apps

As the mid-TV season continues to roll out, cable networks like FX and USA are doubling down on social TV campaigns and show integrations. Usin…...

05:41 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable ACTA Is More Dangerous Than SOPA

SOPA and PIPA are stalled (or dead) in the halls of the U.S. Congress. Yet, there may be a bigger, perhaps more dangerous threat to Intern…...

05:03 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Sh*t Politicians Say Video Arrives Ahead of Republican Debate

The latest political parody — Sh*t Politicians Say — just hit YouTube, keeping the unstoppable Sh*t [Insert Stereotype] Say meme alive…...

05:03 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Sh*t Politicians Say Video Arrives

The latest political parody — Sh*t Politicians Say — just hit YouTube, keeping the unstoppable Sh*t [Insert Stereotype] Say meme alive…...

04:22 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Twitter to Censor Content in Certain Countries

Twitter is giving itself the right to withhold content in specific countries, while keeping that content available for the rest of the world, th…...

04:04 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Will Apples TV Have a Super-Smart Touchscreen Remote? [VIDEO]

It could be the most direct evidence so far that Apple is developing a television set: the company filed for a patent on a new kind of tou…...

03:48 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable YouTube Changes Again: Video Editor, Browse Page Updated

Building off its homepage redesign in December, YouTube is rolling out design updates to other aspects of its site.The changes include updates…...

03:42 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Google Earth 6.2 Is a Massive Improvement, Shows Smooth Blue Planet [PICS]

You’ll be amazed at what Google has just done with Google Earth. Overnight, the earth-mapping application was upgraded to Google Earth…...

03:32 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable 50 Cent Bets Nude Twitter Shot on Giants Winning Super Bowl

The artist formerly known as Curtis Jackson may soon pull a Weiner and flash his johnson for all his followers to see. Rapper 50 Cent has broad…...

03:32 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable 50 Cent Bets Nude Twitter Shot on Giants Winning Super Bowl [UPDATED]

The artist formerly known as Curtis Jackson may soon pull a Weiner and flash his johnson for all his followers to see. Rapper 50 Cent has broad…...

03:19 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Is the Neo Geo About to Return as a Slick iPhone-Like Device? [VIDEO]

The Neo Geo is said to be making a comeback with a flashy hand-held gaming device resembling an iPhone.Neo Geo who? Don’t feel bad…...

03:02 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable U.S. Takes First Steps Toward Internet Voting

The 2012 Republican primary‘s first vote was not cast in New Hampshire, as most Americans would assume. An Okaloosa County, Fla., resident…...

02:51 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable 7 Ways to Follow The Hunger Games Movie on Social Media

The release of the first Hunger Games film, based on of the wildly successful book trilogy, is less than two months away, but the powers that be are t…...

02:39 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Nokias Windows Phones Rising Slowly, CEO Hints at Tablet

The reinvention of Nokia is going slowly, if the last financial quarter is any indication. The Finnish cellphone giant lost nearly a billion eur…...

02:28 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Which Oscar Nominees Got the Most Social Buzz [STATS]

The nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday, and fans quickly hopped to social media to share their approval or di…...

02:16 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Meet the Man Behind the Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger [VIDEO]

Randall, the elusive narrator of the mega sassy “Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger” viral video was recently caught on footage during a…...

02:05 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Facebook After Death: What Should the Law Say?

When you die, your social media presence lives on. But should it? Lawmakers and lawyers are tackling the question of what should happen to your…...

01:51 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable 7 Key Tips for Leveraging Big Data

One of my company’s clients, the CEO of a top social and mobile game publisher, recently commented: When youre learning how to ski…...

01:50 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable How One Entrepreneur Is Connecting Celebrities With Their Fans [VIDEO]

After graduating from the famed Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve Ellis spent the next decade trying to make it in t…...

01:29 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Multi-Screen iPhone Game Expands Your Playing Space

All of Apple’s iDevices — iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches — are a ton of fun, but for the most part that fun happens on a tiny screen…...

01:12 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Revealed: The FBI Wants to Monitor Social Media

The FBI is looking to develop a web application that can monitor social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, in order to gain better real-t…...

01:02 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Your Google Information Is Worth up to $5,000 a Year to Marketers [VIDEO]

By now, you may have already checked to see what kind of person Google thinks you are (if you’re a female Mashable reporter, Google…...

12:43 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Ferris Bueller at the Super Bowl? Online Tease Leaves Few Clues [VIDEO]

We haven’t heard much from Ferris Bueller since 1986, but apparently he’s taken some time off to do a Super Bowl ad.This 10-second teas…...

12:32 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable NFL Twins Share Twitter Account, Will Tweet and Play in Super Bowl

When New England Patriots cornerback Devin McCourty flies around the Super Bowl XLVI field next Sunday trying to stymie the New York Giants offe…...

12:09 am GMT - Fri, January 27, 2012

Mashable Nick Kristof: Facebook Subscribers Are More Valuable Than Twitter Users [VIDEO]

Mashable CEO and founder Pete Cashmore sat down at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with New York Times columnist Nicholas…...

11:56 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable The Unstoppable Rise of AirBnB [INFOGRAPHIC]

We make a lot of infographics here at Mashable, as you may have noticed; we also get a lot of infographics sent our way by eager companies. Some make…...

11:44 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Hey Girl, Foursquare Ryan Gosling Memes Should Be on Your Radar [PICS]

The “Hey Girl” meme, featuring actor Ryan Gosling, now comes in a new social media-infused flavor — Foursquare — after b…...

11:33 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable AT&T Winning the iPhone Race Against Verizon, But Loses $6.6 Billion

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11:20 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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10:52 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Anonymous Strikes: Symantec Says Stop Using pcAnywhere

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10:03 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable EXCLUSIVE: Coca-Cola Polar Bears Will Watch, React to Super Bowl in Real Time

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10:03 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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09:39 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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09:15 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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08:59 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable T-Mobile Takes LevelUp Partnership Further With Merchant Terminals

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08:52 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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08:28 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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08:02 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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07:50 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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07:40 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable 15 Funny Facebook Timeline Cover Photos

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07:16 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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06:36 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable What Would You Ask Jimmy Wales About SOPA?

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06:20 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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06:02 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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02:16 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable NASAs New Satellite Captures Amazing Hi-Res Image of Earth

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01:20 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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A new book by a top Fortune reporter reveals that Steve Jobs sought out the up-and-coming Lytro camera CEO — and putting Lytro in th…...

01:20 pm GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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10:14 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable 5 Essential YouTube Channels for Gamers

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09:38 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Macworld Enters 3rd Year Post-Apple; Is it Still Relevant?

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09:08 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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08:31 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: 5 Hilarious Viral Topics Trending Right Now

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07:31 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable HPs Plan to Open-Source WebOS: Whats Taking So Long?

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07:02 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Jailbreaking Exemption Law Could Expire Soon

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06:30 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable European Lawmakers Want Right to Be Forgotten on Facebook, Google

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05:59 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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05:37 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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05:06 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Google Thinks Im a Middle Aged Man. What About You?

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05:06 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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04:18 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable NFL Will Allow Players to Tweet Inside the Pro Bowl

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03:45 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

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03:05 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable New Scanners Will Virtually Frisk People for Guns [VIDEO]

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02:44 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Fifth Megaupload Arrest; No Bail for Kim Dotcom

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02:29 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Netflix Rebounds: Adds 220,000 Streaming Subscribers, Beats Street

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02:20 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable iPhone 5 Will Have 4-Inch Screen, Launch in Summer [RUMOR]

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02:09 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable 10 Simple Google Calendar Tips and Tricks to Boost Your Productivity

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01:52 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Pope to Social Media: Please Be Quiet

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01:35 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Boxee With Live TV Is a Cord Cutters Dream [REVIEW]

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01:11 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Facebook Subscribe for Journalists: What Works and What Doesnt

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12:36 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable More Power! Microsofts New Xbox 720 Will Be 6x More Powerful [REPORT]

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12:36 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Microsofts New Xbox 720 Will Be 6x More Powerful [REPORT]

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12:17 am GMT - Thu, January 26, 2012

Mashable Obamas State of the Union: Where Was the Tech?

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11:51 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable 6 Ways the Media Is Using Digital Tools to Cover the Election

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11:33 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Recycle Your Kids Clothing Through the Mail with ThredUp Bags

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11:13 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable McDonalds Follows Twitter Fiasco With Another Hashtag Campaign

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10:56 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Twitter Will Become Available in Right-to-Left Languages This Spring

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10:41 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Twitters Newest Impostor: Celebrity Chef Bobby Flays Wife

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10:33 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Why Gary Vaynerchuk Tells it Like it Is [VIDEO]

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10:11 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable IMAX CEO: 3D Isnt for All Movies [VIDEO]

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10:01 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable iPad to Kindle Fire: Youre Irrelevant

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09:45 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Augmented Reality-Enhanced Fashion Giveaway Draws Crowds Around the World

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09:29 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable 28 Essential Facebook Timeline Resources

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09:13 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Google Adds Emergency Alerts to Google Maps

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08:50 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Frictionless Sharing: 10 New Facebook Apps to Get You Started

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08:21 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Obamas State of the Union Address Sees 760,000 Tweets [INFOGRAPHIC]

Twitter has released the official stats showing the activity of its users during President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday,…...

07:59 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Facebook Halts Secondary Markets Trading, IPO Coming Soon? [REPORT]

Facebook halted trading of its shares in secondary markets for three days starting Wednesday, a possible indicator the company’s long-awai…...

07:36 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable How to Get Old Facebook Back

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07:04 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Could the Next Toy Story Be Rendered in the Cloud? [VIDEO]

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06:29 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: Facebook Timeline, Apples Amazing Quarter, Google Privacy Policy

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05:59 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Mozy Releases File-Syncing for Its Cloud Service

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04:18 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Solar Storm Puts Beautiful Northern Lights on Display [VIDEO]

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02:31 pm GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Google Offers Expands to Five New Cities

Google’s daily deals service, Google Offers, is coming to five new locales: Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa.Thes…...

09:37 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Davos 2012: Whats Your Question For the World Economic Forum?

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08:56 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable How Fancloud Centralizes Sports Talk

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08:07 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Bill Gates Recalls Final Talks With Steve Jobs

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07:39 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Drunk Hulk Discusses the Oscars Plus 4 More Viral Topics

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07:01 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Facebook Timeline-ageddon: Why Now?

Facebooks steady march to global Timeline coverage just turned into a dash — and its really the users who are running. By making F…...

05:59 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Why Social Media Needs to Get More Personal

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05:29 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Apples Best Quarter Ever: When Will its Run End?

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05:11 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Google Changes Again, Launches One Privacy Policy to Rule Them All

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04:57 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Could SOPA Be Coming to Canada?

After widespread online protests that saw several sites including Wikipedia go dark, the U.S. House of Representatives effectively killed the St…...

04:44 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Instagram Co-Founder, Steve Jobss Widow Among State of the Union Guests

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04:44 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Instagram Co-Founder, Jobs Widow Join Michelle Obama at State of Union

The prom king and queen of Silicon Valley will be attending the State of the Union address tonight at the U.S. Capitol as guests of First Lady…...

04:28 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Apples First Quarter Earnings: The Unbelievable Numbers

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04:07 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Get More from Wikipedia: 10 Tips and Tricks

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03:39 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Not Lovin It: Twitter Users in Revolt Over McDonalds Promotion [VIDEO]

A Twitter campaign that was supposed to reveal positive stories from McDonald’s suppliers turned into a nasty hashtag hijacking, as…...

03:25 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable LEGO Version of Minecraft Is Seriously Going to Happen

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03:03 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Live From the White House: The State of the Union, Tweeted

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02:52 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Apple Blows Out Q1 Earnings; Sells 37 Million iPhones, 15.4 Million iPads

Apple handily beat The Street’s estimate for its fiscal first quarter, reporting revenues of $46.3 billion for the quarter and a net profi…...

02:46 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Facebook Timeline for Everyone: How Does it Affect You? [POLL]

We knew this day would come. Now the answer of “when” is somewhat clearer: Facebook Timeline is officially coming to all users with…...

02:36 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Apple Is Worth More than All the Tea in China; What Else Does It Beat?

Apple‘s market cap rose to a record high of $400 billion on Jan. 19, 2012. With its earnings report due later today, Apple may be delivering eve…...

02:26 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable How to Watch and Interact With the State of the Union Address Online

Several websites are flexing their digital muscles Tuesday, offering interactive ways to watch, learn about and participate in the State of the…...

02:16 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable 11 Celebrities Already Rocking Facebook Timeline

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01:54 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Apple Tests Hundreds of Product Packages in Secret Unboxing Room [VIDEO]

Apple makes its product packaging with stealthy love. An advanced copy of Adam Lashinsky’s book, Inside Apple, reveals product packa…...

01:42 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Sims on Facebook: Sex, Shopping and Secret Stats [INFOGRAPHIC]

When it was launched in August, The Sims Social was the toast of Facebook. This social network-based version of the classic Will Wright game, where yo…...

01:32 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Time Warner Helps Social TV Startup Bluefin Labs Raise $12 Million in Funding

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01:22 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Judge: Order to Decrypt Laptop Does Not Violate Fifth Amendment [VIDEO]

A Colorado judge has denied a defendant’s argument that the Fifth Amendment protects her from decrypting her computer upon authoriti…...

01:11 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Facebook Timeline Roll Out: Everything You Need to Know

Facebook announced Tuesday that profiles, as many of us have known them for years, will be gone in a few weeks — replaced by Facebook Time…...

01:00 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Formspring Launches an Android App

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12:49 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Talking Social Media At the Oscar Nominations [LIVE VIDEO]

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12:38 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Why Startup Founders Need to Talk to Their Customers [VIDEO]

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12:31 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable Super Bowl Ads Will Get a Second Life on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

If you were a Super Bowl viewer in 1984 who left the room during Apple’s famous “1984″ ad introducing the Mac, you would have soon d…...

12:09 am GMT - Wed, January 25, 2012

Mashable What Apple Earnings Will Tell Us About iPad 3 and the Tablet Market

When Apple releases its earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2012 late Tuesday, we’ll learn just how much the tablet market has change…...

11:59 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Top 10 Safari Plugins and Extensions for Better Productivity

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11:38 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Wikipedia Wants to Be Free for Mobile Users, in Africa

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11:07 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Tackling Self-Driving Cars Biggest Questions [VIDEO]

Google’s self-driving cars have been on the roads and test roads for a couple years now, and autonomous vehicles may not be much far…...

10:35 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Startup Hiring: 3 Ways to Look Beyond the Resume

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10:20 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Nathan Barnatt Goes Dancing Mad to Yelles Comme un Enfant [VIDEO]

It was only a matter of time until wild man/dancing fiend Nathan Barnatt got his silly groove on in another bad ass video.This time ’r…...

10:07 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Lookouts Mobile Threat Tracker Shows Where All That Android Malware Is [VIDEO]

If you’ve got an Android phone, you’ve probably been increasingly concerned about malware, which flared up a few times over th…...

09:56 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable 100,000 People Visited Reddit at One Time on Monday, Breaking Record

As further evidence of Reddit‘s red-hot growth, the news aggregation site had 100,000 unique visitors at one time on Monday, breaking a pr…...

09:42 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Watch the Robot-Bashing Short Movie Jim Henson Made for AT&T in 1963 [VIDEO]

Jim Henson wasn’t always about the Muppets. In his early career as a puppeteer and filmmaker, Henson worked on many commercials and side projec…...

09:26 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable 11 Vital Mobile Apps for Entrepreneurs

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09:13 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Vimeo Redesign Puts the Focus on Content

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09:00 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Whos Nearby? This App Lets You Know

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08:52 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Ready or Not, Youre Getting Facebook Timeline

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08:42 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Ready for WikiLeaks, the TV Show?

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08:31 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Twitter Celebrates Melissa McCarthy, Jonah Hill and Other Oscar Nominees

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08:02 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Verizon Activated 10.8 Million iPhones, 15 Million Androids in 2011

Verizon activated 4.3 million iPhones in the fourth quarter, at least a million more than its previous record, but investors were unenthusiastic…...

07:55 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Oscar Nominations Revealed [OPEN THREAD]

The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards were announced this morning in a livestream hosted on YouTube.Actress Jennifer Lawrence, who was no…...

07:40 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Virgin America Honors Steve Jobs With Jet Plane Name

Virgin America has named a jet plane Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, after a memorable quote by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The plane – an Ai…...

07:08 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Vespa Desk Lets You Ride and Work [VIDEO]

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06:36 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Sony to Upgrade Tablets and Xperia Smartphones to Android 4.0 This Spring

Sony plans to upgrade its Android tablets as well as its Xperia smartphones to Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich this spring, according to a rep…...

06:19 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: Solar Storm, NBC News Launches NBC Publishing

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06:00 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Audiobooks.com Launches a Spotify for Books

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06:00 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Apple, Zynga and Facebook Among Top Trademark Bullies

You’ve heard about the iPod. But what about the BrainPod, the MixPod and the GoPod? Probably not, because Apple opposed their names when t…...

05:28 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Analysts Estimate Nokia Sold Around 1.3 Million Lumia Phones

Until we hear official wording from Nokia (or Microsoft) we’re left with what the analysts are predicting or estimating with regards to ho…...

02:45 pm GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Solar Eruption Triggers Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years

A huge eruption on the Sun has caused the strongest radiation storm since 2005, which is due to hit Earth on Tuesday, Jan 24, possibly causing w…...

10:59 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Twitter Acquires Malware Protection Company

Gearing up for Twitter’s self-serve advertising launch — currently in beta stage with only a small selection of advertisers —…...

10:07 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable The Pirate Bay Wants You to Download Physical Objects Now

File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is apparently expanding its reach into letting users pass one another physical objects to download. Well, that…...

09:17 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Web App Makes Paying with Nine Credit Cards Okay

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08:43 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Dog and Brony Show and 3 Other Hilarious Memes

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08:13 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Google Launches Feature to Find Hotels by Travel Time, Landmarks

Looking for a hotel near the Eiffel Tower, but not too familiar with your Parisian neighborhoods? Google has unveiled a new feature for its &#…...

07:19 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable 20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART]

With 1.9 million instances of social media chatter, the CNN Southern Republican Presidential Debate generated more activity than any other debate to h…...

06:48 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Super Bowl XLVI: Who You Need to Follow on Twitter

The New York Giants. The New England Patriots. Super Bowl XLVI. The matchup is set, and the world’s biggest annual sporting event is upon us. A…...

06:34 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable 4 Things RIMs New CEO Can Do to Fix the Company

Research in Motion, better known as RIM, used to be one of the most dominating smartphone makers in the world. But it’s seen its market sh…...

06:03 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Academy Awards Launches Digital Celebrate the Movies Campaign

Just in time for the 84th Academy Award nominations, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is rolling out a digital campaign, entitle…...

05:25 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Justin Biebers 5th YouTube Anniversary: The Road to Bieber Fever [INFOGRAPHIC]

Whether you love or despise 17-year-old international pop star Justin Bieber, you have his mom to thank (or blame) for thrusting him into the sp…...

05:00 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable 21 Essential Community Management Resources

Today is Community Manager Appreciation Day, and we have plenty of resources for those who are managing their own communities. With a bevy of s…...

04:49 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Anonymous Threatens Facebook Shutdown Jan. 28

Anonymous is planning to target Facebook in an attack Jan. 28 — at least that’s what a video uploaded to YouTube Monday is claiming…...

04:49 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Anonymous Threatens Facebook Shutdown Jan. 28 [UPDATED]

Update: Anonymous claims on Twitter that the video is fake, and they do not plan to take down Facebook. Anonymous is planning to target Faceboo…...

04:27 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Portlandia Stars Talk Twitter and the New Face of Comedy

Portlandia, IFC’s little sketch show that could, has moved from quirky sleeper hit to beloved comedy darling and one of IFC’s most-watched…...

03:45 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Facebook Spent More than $1 Million on Lobbying in 2011 [REPORT]

Facebook Inc. contributed $1.35 million to lobby various tech-related efforts last year, breaking the $1 million mark for the first time.During…...

03:37 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable 6 Top Community Managers to Appreciate

Happy Community Managers Appreciation Day! On this third annual CMAD, we celebrate community management, an industry that has become increasingly impo…...

03:10 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Is This the Ultimate iPhone Car Stereo? [VIDEO]

A new Kickstarter campaign can bring your iPhone‘s capabilities to the dashboard of your car — including turning it into a car…...

02:38 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable How to Register Your New Business Name

Youve brainstormed, polled your family and friends and conducted some kind of focus group testing. Youve come up with a cool domain name.…...

02:26 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable The Most-Shared 2012 Super Bowl Ad Teasers So Far [VIDEOS]

With the Super Bowl less than two weeks away, advertisers are following one of two plays: Remain completely mum about what they’re going t…...

02:14 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Tumblr Hits 15 Billion Monthly Pageviews [AUDIO]

After an explosive 2011, Tumblr is rolling full steam into the new year with impressive numbers that highlight the microblogging platform’…...

02:14 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Tumblr Hits 15 Billion Monthly Pageviews

After an explosive 2011, Tumblr is rolling full steam into the new year with impressive numbers that highlight the microblogging platform’…...

02:02 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Handle This: Google+ Finally Allows Pseudonyms

The Google+ Common Name policy will never be the same. Google promised it would take a close look at the requirement that only real names and id…...

01:40 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Consumers Want Online Video Ads No More Than 15 Seconds Long

Want to capture customer attention with online video ads? They’d better not be more than 15 seconds long, a new poll suggests.According…...

01:26 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable FileSonic Blocks File Sharing After Megaupload Bust

FileSonic, an online “digital locker” that provides users with 10GB of free storage for 30 days, has shut down the service’s f…...

01:16 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Take That, Twitter: Chinese Site Beats Tweets per Second Record

Sina Weibo, one of China’s premiere microblogs and alternatives to Twitter, saw a record number of messages sent per second Monday, in hon…...

01:04 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Most Video Conferencing Systems Are Vulnerable to Hackers [VIDEO]

An IT security professional showed in an independent investigation that the average person with coding knowledge could access the world…...

12:53 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Which Politicians Are Getting the Tech Industrys Money?

Thanks to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), lots of tech junkies have become politics junkies, too. For that reason, we decided to figure out w…...

12:43 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman Team up to Fight Famine

Batman, Superman and the rest of the Justice League of America are about to start fighting the famine in the Horn of Africa as part of We Can…...

12:31 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Googles Social Search [VIDEO]

A team of engineers, allegedly drawn from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, have rebuilt Google to “focus on the user” and re-jig…...

12:18 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable 9 Best Practices for Social Networking in the Workplace

If youre anything like me, youve probably witnessed (or maybe even been a part of) office communication mishaps that have ranged from mil…...

12:07 am GMT - Tue, January 24, 2012

Mashable Supreme Court: GPS Tracking Is Illegal Without Warrant

If you’re a cop and want to use a GPS device to track a suspect, you better have a warrant, the Supreme Court said Monday. In the decisio…...

11:45 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Megaupload Founder May Not Get Bail

The founder of file-sharing site Megaupload — which was shut down last Friday after the New Zealand police raided the man’s home at…...

11:32 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Rep. Giffords Announces Resignation on YouTube [VIDEO]

Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) announced her resignation from Congress Sunday via a YouTube video posted on her website. Giffords,…...

11:24 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable NFL Player Gets Twitter Death Threats After Gaffes

Wide receiver Kyle Williams of the San Francisco 49ers made two costly mistakes in Sunday’s NFC Championship game that likely cost his tea…...

11:24 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable NFL Player Gets Twitter Death Threats After Gaffes [UPDATED]

UPDATE: The @javpasquel Twitter account was deleted sometime around 12 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday. Wide receiver Kyle Williams of the San Fra…...

10:35 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Star Trek-Inspired Medical Scanner Will Soon be Reality [VIDEO]

New nano-antenna technology means doctors are on their way to having the medical tools used aboard Star Trek‘s fictional USS Enterpr…...

10:14 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Anonymous Hacks CBS, Universal Music Not Colbert Report or Daily Show Twitter Accounts

Hacktivist group Anonymous made the rounds over the weekend, attacking sites from CBS.com to (once again) Universal Music.In what looks like hacking…...

09:55 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable How iBooks Author Stacks Up to the Competition [CHART]

With the announcement of iBooks Author last week, the world of self-publishing seemed to open up a little wider, especially for authors looking for an…...

09:38 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Aviarys New Facebook App Edits and Adds Effects to Your Photos

Aviary’s photo editing tools are embedded in more than 300 partner apps. Now it’s bringing them directly to Facebook through an app…...

09:26 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Canadian Engineer Building a Real Android

Everyone knows robots are cool and useful, but they can also be creepy. Part of the reason is, even if the robot has a reasonable facsimile of t…...

09:06 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Obama Wants to Answer Your Questions in a Google+ Hangout

Never one to ignore new social networks, U.S. President Barack Obama will participate Jan. 30 in his first Google+ Hangout in which he’ll…...

08:47 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable 10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers

As a writer, you know how important the literary community can be for your work, but you don’t have to shut your creative front door as so…...

08:18 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable SoundCloud Reaches 10 Million Registered Users

Music-sharing platform SoundCloud has reached 10 million registered users, the company announced. SoundCloud also boasts 5 million downloaded m…...

07:56 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable 5 Flaws in Your Mobile Marketing Strategy

The hyper-connected consumer of today has little patience for clutter or noise. His smartphone is the compass with which he engages the world,…...

07:36 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable RIMs New CEO: No Drastic Change Needed

Is Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins in denial? The newly minted chief executive and company president told a teleconference audience that h…...

07:19 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable YouTube Users Watch 4 Billion Videos a Day, But Dont Stick Around Long

YouTube streams 4 billion online videos each month, more than one for every other person on Earth and a 25% jump over eight months ago.YouTube,…...

07:08 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Users Download 350,000 Textbooks From iBooks in 3 Days [REPORT]

Apple’s textbook initiative is already paying off. Users have downloaded more than 350,000 textbooks in three days, according to Global Eq…...

06:50 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: New RIM CEO, 19% of Americans Own Tablets, Netflix Changes

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

06:29 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Acer S3: A Fine Example of the Ultrabook Species

Heres how you know when a gadget is good — when it ruins you for other gadgets in its class. That’s pretty much whats happened to me…...

05:28 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Mashable Weekend Recap: 36 Stories You May Have Missed

It was a blustery and snowy midwinter weekend in much of the northern hemisphere, and while many of you were hunkered down watching football thi…...

02:11 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable 29 Percent of U.S. Adults Own a Tablet or Ereader [STUDY]

19 percent of adults in the United States own a tablet, and 29 percent own either a tablet or an ereader, according to the latest study from Pew…...

02:11 pm GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable 29% of U.S. Adults Own a Tablet or Ereader [STUDY]

Nineteen percent of adults in the United States own a tablet, and 29% own either a tablet or an ereader, according to the latest study from Pew…...

07:47 am GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable RIM Co-CEOs Are Out [REPORT]

Following weeks of speculation, it appears Research in Motion (RIM) is finally ready to oust Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. The two a…...

07:47 am GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable RIM Co-CEOs Are Out, Heins Is In

Following weeks of speculation, it appears Research in Motion (RIM) is finally ready to oust Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. The two a…...

04:15 am GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable 9 Digital Ways to Become a Social Good Hero in 2012

January is already half-over, so hows that New Year’s resolution to do more good coming along? If you havent made much progress, do…...

03:20 am GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable One Hello World: The Soundtrack to Your Voicemails

If you think your voicemail inbox is intimidating when it’s full, try filtering through hundreds of voicemails on a regular basis. One Hello Wor…...

02:44 am GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable iPhotography Calendar: 12 Months Captured in 12 Stunning Snapshots [PICS]

A new year doesn’t just bring a new start, it comes heavy with the potential of the next 12 months ahead. With the different seasons and all the…...

02:04 am GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Iranian Court Upholds Death Sentence For Programmer

An Iranian court has upheld its decision to sentence 35-year-old Saeed Malekpour to death for developing photo-uploading software used by porn w…...

12:38 am GMT - Mon, January 23, 2012

Mashable Facebook Apps: Highlights of the 60 New Integrated Applications

If you enjoy using Spotify or Foursquare on Facebook, imagine having the same integration with a bevy of other apps. Now you can share more than…...

11:44 pm GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable Nokia Ringtone Interrupts, Violist Plays Along [VIRAL VIDEO]

If you’ve ever been watching a movie or attending a concert and someone’s ringtone interrupts the proceedings, you’ll appreciate…...

10:38 pm GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable Top 10 Action Games for Android

While iOS is often home to many new releases, that doesn’t mean Android owners are without a fantastic selection of action-packed games to call…...

10:00 pm GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable Is It Time to Finally Ditch Your Paper Business Cards?

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

09:24 pm GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable Twitter Reacts to Death of Joe Paterno

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died at age 85 Sunday after a bout with lung cancer, according to an announcement released by his family o…...

08:11 pm GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable StumbleUpon: 10 Tips and Tricks for Power Users

Thousands of websites are created every day, yet sometimes the Internet feels a bit stale. How do you filter through all of the junk when you wa…...

04:10 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable 6 Things to Know Before Starting a Business

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

04:00 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable Crowdsourced Star Wars Uncut: The Directors Cut Debuts on YouTube [VIRAL VIDEO]

Two years ago, a group of Star Wars fans decided to remake Star Wars: A New Hope out of fan-generated scenes. Now, that Star Wars Uncut project ha…...

03:58 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable 6 Things to Know Before Starting a Business

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

03:53 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable 5 Firefox Add-Ons for Increasing Productivity

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

03:50 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable Super Bowl XLVI Gets a Social Media Command Center

Super Bowl XLVI host city Indianapolis has concocted a new way to deal with the madness that comes with managing the world’s biggest annu…...

03:45 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable 5 Firefox Add-Ons for Increasing Productivity

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

03:35 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable How To Close The Books on Your Startup

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

03:14 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable Crowdsourced Star Wars Uncut: The Directors Cut Debuts on YouTube [VIRAL VIDEO]

Two years ago, a group of Star Wars fans decided to remake Star Wars: A New Hope out of fan-generated scenes. Now, that Star Wars Uncut project ha…...

02:28 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable Top 7 Comments on Mashable This Week

We’re back again with another roundup of the top Mashable comments of the week.In this post, we showcase the week’s best comments o…...

02:07 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable CoTweet Gone: Here Are 7 Great Alternatives

The popular social media management application CoTweet will no longer exist after Feb. 15, but we’ve found 7 free or low-cost alternative…...

01:35 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable How To Close The Books on Your Startup

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

01:20 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]

The tech world continues to take giant steps forward with innovative devices, vehicles and gadgetry, and we’ve narrowed down the coolest of the…...

12:44 am GMT - Sun, January 22, 2012

Mashable Super Bowl XLVI Gets a Social Media Command Center

Super Bowl XLVI host city Indianapolis has concocted a new way to deal with the madness that comes with managing the world’s biggest annu…...

11:18 pm GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week [PICS]

There’s no need to go through 30 million pictures posted on Twitter last week when you have our top 10 Twitter pics of the week.Using a s…...

09:58 pm GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable What Can Twitter Tell Us About the South Carolina Primary?

What’s the social sentiment on Twitter saying about Saturday’s South Carolina Primary?Mashable teamed up with social media analysi…...

09:20 pm GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Collaborative Documentary Project Weaves Together Stories of Egyption Revolution

About 400 people gathered in Tahrir Square Thursday to launch a new kind of documentary about the Egyptian revolution.Instead of putting togeth…...

09:20 pm GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Collaborative Documentary Weaves Stories of Egyptian Revolution

About 400 people gathered in Tahrir Square Thursday to launch a new kind of documentary about the Egyptian revolution.Instead of putting togeth…...

08:11 pm GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable 3 Social Learning Trends to Watch in 2012

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…...

10:03 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable GO App Lets You Anonymously Share Photos, Videos or Comments [PICS]

If you’ve ever wanted to post a photograph, video or brief comment without your real name or online moniker attached to the content, a fre…...

09:20 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable StyleSeat Is OpenTable for Beauty Appointments

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…...

08:41 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Restore Your Faith in Humanity at the Nicest Place on the Internet

You catch glimpses of sunny parks, busy street corners and various home dwellings as smiling faces step up to offer friendly hugs and a lullaby…...

08:11 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable The Week That Killed SOPA: A Timeline

Ladies and gentleman, bid farewell to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. They’re both being tabled and sent to legislative…...

07:24 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Advertisers, This Is What an NFL Fan Looks Like [INFOGRAPHIC]

Just two NFL teams will remain after Sunday’s league semifinals, setting up a final showdown for Super Bowl XLVI glory. But the Super Bowl isn&#…...

07:01 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Wear a Wi-Fi Hotspot With These Cutting-Edge Cufflinks [VIDEO]

Wish Wi-Fi hotspots would grow on sleeves? A set of cufflinks available at Brookstone serves not only as a decorative man-sessory, it feat…...

06:29 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Megaup-Lord of the Rings and 4 Other Hilarious Viral Topics

Happy Friday! It’s been a long week of battles on the Internet, but the web has prevailed … for now, anyway. The Meme Machine team…...

05:55 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Who Did the Most to Bury SOPA? [POLL]

Ding, dong, the bill is dead — or at the very least buried, even if it may well rise again in another form in a year or so. Regardless, t…...

05:31 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable What Megaupload Teaches Us About the Cloud, SOPA and Backups

The raid and subsequent shutdown of file-sharing service Megaupload not only hacked off members of Anonymous, it also underscores one of the in…...

04:55 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Google Pulls the Plug on Picnik, Sky Map and More

Google just rained all over Picnik’s picnic. The photo editing site got the ax on Friday and will shut down in April.Picnik — whic…...

04:09 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Twitter Reacts to SOPAs Burial

The Internet rejoiced Friday after Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Texas) said that he would indefinitely pull the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) from considerati…...

03:38 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable It Only Takes a Click to Be Part of an Anonymous Attack [VIDEO]

Anonymous‘s distributed denial of service attacks on the U.S. Department of Justice website and others Thursday were a new type of b…...

03:27 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Why 2012 Is the Year of Mobile Advertising

Mobile advertising is coming of age. In many ways, it has been driven by the sheer force of the consumer’s insatiable appetite for all t…...

03:16 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Google Algorithm Changes Downgrade Sites With Too Many Ads [VIDEO]

Got a lot of ads on your website? Google‘s new search algorithm, which looks for sites that maintain a good balance of content and a…...

03:04 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Twitter Releases 2012 Sundance Film Festival Must-Follow List

Twitter is getting into the Sundance Film Festival buzz with a list of must-follow accounts from top filmmakers, critics and interesting voice…...

02:47 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable The Pixel Renaissance: Pixel Arts Place in 21st Century Expression

My first experience with pixels occurred in second grade. During the rainy months, our teacher allowed us to stay inside, where we replaced rece…...

02:35 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable How Kodak Squandered Every Single Digital Opportunity It Had

Kodak has finally formalized what had been expected for years — it’s gone bankrupt. In the past 15 years, digital technology changed…...

02:25 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable The Facebook Bed: Slumbering for Social Networking Fanatics

For those so obsessed with social networking, behold the Facebook bed.This concept by Croatian designer Tomislav Zvonari is only in model fo…...

02:02 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Could SOPA Rise From the Dead?

The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act may have been the two most hated bills in recent legislative history and no…...

01:50 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Talk Tech With Fellow Gadget Enthusiasts at a Mashable Meetup

Tech enthusiasts have a lot to be excited about right now. A plethora of new and innovative technology entered the arena during CES 2012, and w…...

01:31 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Is Megaupload Back?

Megaupload, the file sharing website that was shut down Thursday, may have returned — but without a domain name. This new site appears t…...

01:31 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Is Megaupload Back? [UPDATED]

Megaupload, the file sharing website that was shut down Thursday, may have returned — but without a domain name. This new site appears t…...

01:18 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable RIP SOPA: The Internet Kills Its Attackers

Be honest: When this week began, how much did you really know about SOPA? Five days ago, the Stop Online Piracy Act was still a relatively ob…...

01:08 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable FindTheBest Mobile Will Instantly Compare Anything

Whether you’re looking for a daycare, ski resort or smartphone, comparison engine FindTheBest can provide the critical stats. On Friday, t…...

12:55 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Obama Sings Al Green at the Apollo Theatre [VIDEO]

President Barack Obama showed off his vocal chords Thursday at New York’s Apollo Theatre, singing some of Reverend Al Green’s R…...

12:36 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Facebook Relieved That SOPA Is Dead

Facebook has responded to the death of SOPA, expressing its relief that the bill has been pulled and thanking its users for their feedback.Alth…...

12:29 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable European Politicians Didnt Like SOPA Any More Than You [VIDEO]

European politicians should be happy today. The Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act barely breathing (some would say they’re d…...

12:00 am GMT - Sat, January 21, 2012

Mashable Samsung Super Bowl Ad Going for Apple Tackle [VIDEO]

Samsung, which tweaked Apple fanboys and iPhone-mania with a well-received ad last November, will go after the tech behemoth again in an upcoming Su…...

11:47 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable SOPA Is Dead: Smith Pulls Bill

Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, said on Friday that he is pulling the bill “until there is wider agreement on a solution.”&…...

11:39 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Apples Hidden Museum Reveals Clashes in the Jobs Interregnum

The period between when Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985 and the company’s eventual decline forced it to bring him back by buying his startu…...

11:27 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Is too Much Texting Giving You Text Neck?

Discomfort and muscle pain from texting has become so common that it now has a name: “Text Neck,” and there’s even a medical institu…...

11:02 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Hands-on With the Nike+ FuelBand [PICS]

Nike unveiled the Nike+ FuelBand Thursday, a new wristband that aims to track all physical activities and provide a common metric for tracking perform…...

10:51 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable 10 Tidy iPhone Cases to Replace Your Wallet

Whether you want to ditch your wallet for good, or have the option to travel light on occasion, an iPhone case with slots for credit cards, ID and cas…...

10:30 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Social Media Marriage Proposals: 10 Clever Ways to Pop the Question

Want proof that love spawns creativity? Look no further than these clever marriage proposals, which take advantage of mediums and tools that werenR…...

10:10 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable The White House Joins Google+

Following in the footsteps of President Obama, who joined in November, the White House on Friday launched a Google+ page.The page promises news…...

10:00 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Love With Food Gets You Hooked on New Products While Doing Good

Love With Food, an online food-subscription service, wants to introduce you to unique products you wouldnt find in your neighborhood grocer....

09:44 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Facebook Reportedly in Talks to Lure Vevo From YouTube [VIDEO]

Facebook is chatting with Vevo — the music video-streaming giant and top YouTube channel — to take their relationship to the n…...

09:32 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Facebook Bug Turns Random Codes into Profile Names

Looking for a way to waste some time this morning on Facebook? Here’s a new bug circling around the Internet that you can try out.If you post r…...

08:51 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable 3 Metrics that Will Change the Way You Market on Facebook

Facebook isnt just the largest social networking site on the web (with more than 800 million active users); it also collects a massive amoun…...

08:27 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Bing Ditches Decision Engine Tagline in New Ad Campaign [VIDEO]

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, is launching an ad campaign this weekend featuring winter sports athletes whose can-do spirit underscores the…...

08:16 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Senator Reid: PIPA Vote Postponed

The anti-SOPA Day of Protest ripples continue to spread. On Friday morning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) put the brakes on a PROTECT…...

07:36 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Space Agencies Put Moon Base Back on the Table

Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is considering the construction of a permanent base on the moon, according to a report. The agency is in talks w…...

06:12 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: iBooks Author, Google Quarterly Earnings, Anonymous Attacks

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

03:30 pm GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Can Screens With Solar Cells Solve the Smartphone Battery Problem?

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10:21 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Elton Johns Husband Apologizes to Madonna on Facebook for Golden Globes Gaffe

Elton Johns husband has apologized to Madonna on Facebook, following comments he made that the Queen of Pop didnt deserve the Golden Glob…...

10:01 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Brazilian Nightclub Lets You Party Like a Facebook User [VIDEO]

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09:49 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Googles Crawl Rate Slowed for SOPA; Bing Sped Up [VIDEO]

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09:34 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: Ron Swanson Fords the Oregon Trail on an Eel

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09:17 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Google Maps & World Bank Join Forces, So Why Isnt Everyone Smiling?

Google is now working with the World Bank to make Google Map Maker more accessible to government organizations, but some experts are questioning…...

09:04 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable LuxeInACity Means Free Luxury If You Can Score an Invite

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08:40 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Pinterest for Brands: 5 Hot Tips

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08:09 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Mitt Romney: SOPA is a Threat to Freedom of Speech

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07:34 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Why the iPad Wont Transform Education Yet

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07:04 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Newt Gingrich Posts Income Tax Return on the Internet During Debate

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06:26 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable This is How Apple Changes Education, Forever

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05:22 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable 5 Apps to Help Manage Your Twitter Account

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04:59 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Hands On: Apples iBooks Author App

Apple is hoping its new iBooks Author app will turn educators into authors, the same way iMovie and Garageband turned amateurs into audio and vi…...

04:34 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Everything You Need to Know About the Apple for Education Talk

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03:54 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Anonymous Attacks Justice Dept as FBI Shuts Down File-Sharing Site

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted seven people and two companies which ran the file uploading site Megaupload.com. The site, which b…...

03:18 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Larry Page: Google+ Now Has 90 Million Users

Google+, Google’s fledgling social network, now has 90 million users according to CEO Larry Page.Page disclosed the number in a press rel…...

03:12 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Whats Next for Digital Coupons?

Couponing had seen unprecedented growth in the past decade due to a combination of factors — one of which was the economic recession in t…...

03:01 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable We The Lobby Crowdsources Funds for an Anti-SOPA Lobby

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02:48 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable David Beckham Does First Google+ Hangout at Googleplex [VIDEO]

Fresh from signing a new two-year contract with the LA Galaxy, global soccer star and underwear model David Beckham flew to Silicon Valley earl…...

02:34 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Bioshock Infinites Difficulty Could Hurt So Good

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02:19 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable China Launches iPad Alternative for Communists [VIDEO]

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02:04 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Todays Kodak Moment: Bankruptcy

Eastman Kodak company, one of the Pioneers in both analog and digital photography, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday. Despi…...

01:51 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Twitter Gobbles Up Summify

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01:25 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Mustaches Prevail on Gentlemint, the Pinterest Site for Manly Men

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12:55 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Free Demos Coming to Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo eShop

The Nintendo 3DS, a portable, 3D-enabled gaming device, is getting its own crop of free demos and downloads, Nintendo announced on Thursday.S…...

12:44 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Internet Users to Congress: We Hate SOPA

With major websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit down Wednesday in protest of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), millions…...

12:34 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable 5 Things Publishers Need to Know About HTML5

Last November, Adobe announced its decision to halt Flash development for mobile browsers, chipsets and operating systems.Instead, the company…...

12:08 am GMT - Fri, January 20, 2012

Mashable Google Data Centers Get High Marks for Green and Safety Practices [VIDEO]

Google announced Thursday that a number of its U.S. data centers received recognition for green practices and safety methods. Google is th…...

11:51 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable How a Startup Is Revolutionizing the Outdoor Ad Space [VIDEO]

When a client at his creative firm asked to buy outdoor ad space adjacent to locations of every Bed, Bath and Beyond store in New York Cit…...

11:43 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Teach What You Know: How to Make a Living on Skillshare

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11:29 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Online Ad Spending to Surpass Print for First Time in 2012 [STUDY]

For the first time in U.S. history, marketers are projected to spend more on online advertising than on advertising in print magazines and newsp…...

11:16 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Is it Time for Apple to Get Social?

Over the past decade, many have pondered Apples closed-door, top-down culture, and now with the passing of its CEO, Steve Jobs, some specula…...

11:05 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Apple Patents Design for Wearable Tech [VIDEO]

Think Nike+, but not just for sneakers — for shirts, sweatpants, skates or skis. That’s the future of wearable tech, or “…...

10:55 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Social Media Campaign Finds Tech Entrepreneur a Bone Marrow Donor

Amit Gupta, founder of photo-resource Photojojo and telecommuters social network Jelly, successfully found his perfect bone marrow match through…...

10:44 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Priceline to Drop William Shatner From Ads After 14 Years

William Shatner‘s 14-year mission with Priceline has come to a close.The actor, best known as Capt. James T. Kirk, the commander of Star …...

10:32 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Foursquare Will Bring 250,000 Restaurant Menus to Your Phone

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10:22 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Google+ Now Lets You Share Straight From Search Results

Google just beefed up the search capabilities on Google+ to allow users to start conversations directly from search results. The change makes it…...

10:07 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Nike Unveils FuelBand for Tracking All Physical Activity

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09:42 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable View of Lightning Storms Over Africa Will Knock Your Socks Off [VIDEO]

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09:23 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Mashable Moves Sharon Feder to Chief Operating Officer

We’re excited to announce today that Sharon Feder, Mashable’s publisher, has assumed the role of chief operating officer. Sharon j…...

09:14 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Apples iTunes U Morphs Into a Tool for Full Online Classes

Apple is turning its academic audio and video app, iTunes U, into a platform for creating full online classes through its iPad.The company laun…...

08:54 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Facebook App Lets Sam Adams Fans Crowdsource a Tap

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08:39 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Apple iBooks Author App Lets You Make Your Own Books, for Free

Apple announced a new iBooks Author App on Thursday that makes creating an Apple ebook a drag-and-drop process.Using the app, which was announc…...

08:25 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Apple Announces a New iPad Textbook Experience

Apple’s Phil Schiller announced a new textbook experience for the iPad called iBooks 2 on Thursday.Schiller said the iBooks store’s…...

08:22 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Orkut App Finally Arrives for iPhone, iPad

Popular Brazilian-based social networking site Orkut has finally gotten its own app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.The free app for Orkut…...

08:05 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Volkswagens Super Bowl Teaser Is Here and Its a Howler [VIDEO]

How do you follow up the most-shared ad of 2011? In Volkswagen’s case, you do a sly nod to the original ad, only with dogs.The German…...

07:44 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable The Meme Machine: Blackout Strikes Back

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07:33 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Hollywood Studios, MPAA to Attempt to Neutralize SOPA Protests With Ad Campaign [REPORT]

The Motion Picture Association of America is looking to fight back against Wednesday’s Internet protests over SOPA with an ad campaign aim…...

07:18 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Live From the Apple Education Announcement

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07:00 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable SOPA Explodes on Twitter, Generates 2.4 Million Tweets

More than 2.4 million SOPA-related tweets were sent between 12 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET Wednesday, Twitter announced. The top five terms that day wer…...

06:46 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Textbook Makers: Were Not Afraid of Apples Education Announcement

Apple is set to make an announcement regarding education on Thursday, and it will likely involve electronic textbooks. The latest rumor claims t…...

06:15 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: SOPA Loses Support, PSN Maintenance, LoveFilm on LG Smart TVs

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

12:58 pm GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi Gets Ice Cream Sandwich

Motorola has started rolling out Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich to Motorola Xoom owners in the U.S., but only those who have the Wi-Fi versio…...

10:12 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Rockstar Games Delays Max Payne 3 Release Until May

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10:00 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Mozilla Challenges Prove Crowdsourcing Still Works for Fundraising

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09:35 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Voices of the Debate: Where Media Sites Stand on SOPA

Many news sites, tech blogs and media companies have openly expressed where they stand in regards to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Prote…...

09:18 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Deep-Sea Diving Robot Can Do Dangerous Work

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09:00 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Wrapp Lets You Post Free Gift Certificates On Friends Walls

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08:46 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Some Senate Websites Overwhelmed by SOPA Response

Some U.S. Senate websites appear to be lagging Wednesday due to a blackout of their own — personal contact pages for several senator…...

08:35 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Wikipedia Traffic Increases During SOPA Protest Blackout

Wikipedia experienced increased traffic Wednesday, despite blacking out its English language content to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA…...

08:22 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Pinterest Fans Rejoice: Facebook Adds Pinterest Plus 59 New Apps

Your Facebook news feed is about to become a bit more crowded. Facebook’s big announcement on Wednesday evening was the unveiling of 60 ne…...

08:04 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable How iPhone 4S is Helping Apple Close in on Android

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07:40 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable 5 Fun Ways to Find New Videos on YouTube

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07:05 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Facebook Announces Tight Integration of 60 Apps to Timeline, More on the Way

In a press event in San Francisco, Facebook Director of Platform Products Carl Sjogreen announced further extension of the Open Graph, which wil…...

06:39 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Rob Lowe Tweets QB Manning Will Retire, Ignites Hysteria

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06:08 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Why SOPA and PIPA Wont Stop Real Piracy

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05:22 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Facebooks Big Announcement [LIVEBLOG]

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04:57 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable SOPA and PIPA Protest Takes It to the Streets in NYC [VIDEO]

On the same day that major websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit went dark, the NY tech community gathered on a cold January afternoon to…...

04:26 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Is There a SOPA Alternative Both Sides Can Live With?

The Internet giants have weighed in and the message is clear: SOPA is bad. Yet so is Internet piracy. Is there a SOPA alternative that could rec…...

04:05 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable How Microsoft Is Creating Minority Report Storefronts for Real [VIDEO]

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03:27 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable TED Takes on SOPA: Why it Would Create a Consumption-Only Internet [VIDEO]

TED has posted an “emergency” TED Talk called “Defend Our Freedom To Share (Or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)” by Internet writer…...

03:17 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Huffington Post to Launch 24-Hour Online News Network

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03:06 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable How Celebrity Appearances at CES Backfired [INFOGRAPHIC]

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02:54 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable YouTube Launches Action Sports Channels, Starring Tony Hawk

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02:41 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Hey Zuckerberg, Take Facebook Down for a Day

So now we know how Mark Zuckerberg feels about SOPA. The Facebook founder made his opposition to the “poorly thought out law” clear…...

02:29 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable How Crazy Is Ron Paul Right Now? GQ Will Tell You

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02:17 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Will Apple Stick to the Steve Jobs Plan for Textbooks?

Apple is set to make an announcement regarding education on Thursday, and it will likely involve e-textbooks. The latest rumor claims the compa…...

02:06 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Artists: SOPA Would Hurt More Than Help

A group of artists including Hollywood actors, Saturday Night Live comedians, comic-book authors, musicians and others signed an open letter opp…...

01:58 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable How to Grow Your Business With Mobile Paid Search

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01:47 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Supreme Court Wont Hear Digital Free Speech Cases [VIDEO]

Should schools be allowed to censor students who create fake social media profiles that defame other classmates or authority figures? I…...

01:36 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Want to Avoid Getting Banned on Social Media? Learn the Rules

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01:26 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Its Not Over: SOPAs Chief Sponsor Isnt Backing Down

Even though a co-sponsors of SOPA and PIPA pulled their support for the bills on Wednesday, SOPA’s lead backer says he’s not backing…...

01:20 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable How Do the Latest Ultrabooks From CES 2012 Measure Up?

If there was a star product from CES 2012, it was the Ultrabook. Not excited? It’s hard to blame you — the whole move toward slim,…...

01:20 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable The Best, Worst and Craziest Ultrabooks From CES 2012 [PICS]

If there was a star product from CES 2012, it was the Ultrabook. Not excited? It’s hard to blame you — the whole move toward slim,…...

01:09 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable How to Train Your Plants to Tweet for Water [VIDEO]

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12:59 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Get on Board: Italian Cruise Ship Meme Goes Viral [PICS]

Italian cruise ship Captain Francesco Schettino won’t be able to leave behind the backlash his actions created on the Internet. “…...

12:46 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Google Apologizes for Stealing Customers From Kenyan Startup

Google has apologized — via Google+ and by phone — to the CEO of an African startup whose databases were compromised by a Keny…...

12:34 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Mass Effect 3 Gets XBox Kinect Function and Demo Date

A new Mass Effect 3 trailer has hit the Internet showcasing the highly-anticipated action role-playing-game’s new Kinect functionality.The vi…...

12:24 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Making Light of a Dark Day: 6 SOPA Memes Worth Seeing

As many popular websites go dark on Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), amusing memes about the situation are making the rounds o…...

12:13 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable How Toshiba Uses Social Media to Make Products Its Customers Really Want [VIDEO]

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12:03 am GMT - Thu, January 19, 2012

Mashable Zuckerberg: SOPA Is Poorly Thought-Out Law

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg voiced his opinion about SOPA and PIPA for the first time Wednesday, calling the legislature poorly-thought…...

11:44 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Google Thinks OPEN Is a Rational Alternative to SOPA

The tech industry isn’t against all legislative attempts to fight piracy. In fact, Google for one has even endorsed an alternative bill to…...

11:29 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable The Day The LOLcats Died Song Clobbers SOPA Supporters [VIDEO]

With Wednesday’s protest of SOPA and PIPA in full swing on the web and in person, the play button on “The Day The LOLcats Died…...

11:23 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable PIPA and SOPA Co-Sponsors Abandon Bills

The widespread Internet blackout Wednesday, in which sites such as Wikipedia and Reddit went dark to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) a…...

10:44 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable 9 Awesomely Beautiful Apple Store Designs

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10:25 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Reddit Fights SOPA With Blackout and Call to Action [VIDEO]

You’ve likely noticed the effects or heard of today’s Internet blackout in protest of the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA). One…...

10:16 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Curated Commerce: How Retail Brands Can Cash in on the Latest Craze

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09:53 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Is Your Child Ready to Design Googles Next Doodle?

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09:33 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Live Tweeting From the NYC SOPA and PIPA Protest

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08:51 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Womens Wear Daily Launches on iPad

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08:35 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Professional Development: How to Stay on Top of the Latest Marketing Trends

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08:10 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable SOPA Will Take Us Back to the Dark Ages

I had an epiphany today. The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, was not written by people who fundamentally misunderstand how the web works. They…...

07:57 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Heres How to Protest SOPA on Pinterest

Though social sharing site Pinterest hasn’t gone dark to protest SOPA, a user has suggested a way that members can effectively create a Pi…...

07:39 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable How to Access Wikipedia During the Blackout

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07:25 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Which Super Bowl Ads Get Shared the Most? [INFOGRAPHIC]

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06:44 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Gmail Experiments With QR Code Login [VIDEO]

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06:29 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: SOPA Blackouts, Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo

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06:06 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Top 7 CES Gadgets for Your Small Business

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05:20 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Google Joins Anti-SOPA Protest by Censoring Its Logo

Although it didn’t black out any of its sites entirely, Google has joined the anti-SOPA protest by putting up a censored version of its lo…...

03:18 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable This Is the Internet After SOPA [PICS]

Today, many popular websites are going “dark” in protest of Stop online piracy act (SOPA). The consensus among many experts, internet use…...

01:50 pm GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Wikipedia Goes Black in Protest of SOPA

As announced, Wikipedia’s main page is “blackened” today in protest of the controversial Stop online privacy act (SOPA). &#…...

11:09 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Summer Coding: U.S. CTO Wants You to Get Tech Skills This Year

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07:49 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Meet Friends of Your Friends and Expand Your Social Network With 3Degrees

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…...

07:38 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Italian Cruise Ships Dangerous Path Posted to Facebook Before Crash

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07:28 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Quora Now Has an Off-Site Follow Button, Just Like Twitter

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07:17 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable CES Unveils 8 New Tablets: Which Will You Choose?

The tablet market continues to expand this year, and many new versions were introduced at 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas thi…...

07:05 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Google Contractors Vandalize OpenStreetMap Project [VIDEO]

Two contractors working for Google have vandalized one of the biggest group online projects on the Internet, Open Street Map. The project&…...

06:52 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: SOPA Edition

Today’s Meme Machine is going to try to bring light to a dark situation — a number of sites will undergo a blackout on Wednesday to…...

06:23 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Wikipedia Blackout: Survive with These 12 Alternatives

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are landing in the U.S. Senate next week and a whirlpool of online protest has fired…...

05:58 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Facebook Stats Analysis: Is Fan Page Growth Slowing?

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05:30 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Fruit Ninja Slices Into Plush Toys and Electronics

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05:09 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable 6 Tips for Handling Breaking Crises on Twitter

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05:01 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Facebook Makes You Smarter, Thanks to Friends You Dont Talk To [STUDY]

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04:41 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Interactive Textbook Makes Reading Social, Braces for Apple Announcement

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04:28 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable What Will You Do Without Wikipedia? [OPEN THREAD]

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04:12 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable New Facebook Cover Designer App Takes Photos With Your Profile in Mind

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03:58 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable These Websites Are Going Dark to Protest SOPA Wednesday

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03:49 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Facebook Recycles Feel-Good Timeline Video

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03:36 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Reuters Expands its Original Content on YouTube

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03:21 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Yahoos Jerry Yang Resigns

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03:17 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Katy Perry Goes Virtual in New Sims Game

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03:06 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Why SOPA Is Dangerous

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02:55 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Facebook Finally Beats Googles Orkut in Brazil

Facebook, following a year of whirlwind growth, overtook Orkut as Brazil’s most-popular social network in December. Orkut is a social net…...

02:44 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable SOPA Author Attacks Wikipedia, Schedules Debate on Bill

The architect of SOPA, Rep. Lamar Smith, has scheduled a markup session next month in which the bill might be altered. In a markup session, a…...

02:30 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Look at That Crazy Honey Badger, Trying to Get a TV Show

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02:25 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Twitter Suspends Popular Tweet-Filtering App

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02:10 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable BlackBerry PlayBook Lets Hackers View Your Email

Researchers have exposed a security hole in the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The vulnerability has to do with the BlackBerry Bridge software that…...

02:04 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable How One of New Yorks Hottest Coworking Spaces Got Started [VIDEO]

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01:55 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable 5 Ways Businesses Can Use Social Media as a Tool for Progress

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01:44 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Sacre Bleu! Upcoming French Apple Store Is Basically Naked

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01:34 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Show Us Your Best Google+ Memes

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01:24 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable CBS Opens App Store for Sports Geeks

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01:12 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable What Is SOPA? Startup Offers One-on-One Tutorials

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01:03 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Beyond Choose Your Own Adventure: Coliloquy Ebooks Give Readers an Active Role

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12:54 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Microchips Repair Brain Damage in Rats [VIDEO]

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12:42 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Lady Gaga Joins Google+ [VIDEO]

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12:31 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Hollywood: SOPAs DNS Blocking Off The Table

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12:21 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable Airbnb Gets More Mobile, Launches Android App

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12:08 am GMT - Wed, January 18, 2012

Mashable The First Album Recorded Entirely on the iPhone is Here

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11:52 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Google to Use Homepage to Protest SOPA on Wednesday

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11:35 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable How the DOJ Forced an Online Poker Savant Into Fantasy Sports

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11:20 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

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11:09 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

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10:56 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Netflix Slammed With Class-Action Suit by Misled Investors

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10:42 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable CES 2012: Post-Game Live Chat

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10:19 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable On the Street: Do You Understand SOPA? [VIDEO]

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10:07 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable 4 Community Management Predictions for 2012

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09:56 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Mashable Rocked the House at MashBash and CES 2012 [PHOTOS]

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09:38 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable STOP SOPA Code Turns Any Site Dark to Protest Stop Online Piracy Act

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09:23 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Meet Mashables Newest Faces

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09:00 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Google+ Now Lets You Create Memes [PICS]

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08:27 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Irony Alert: Google Good to Know Ad Campaign Educates Users About Privacy

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07:52 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable China Has 500 Million Web Users, Half of Them Are Microbloggers

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07:17 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Facebook to Introduce New Open Graph Apps, Gestures Wednesday [REPORT]

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07:02 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable 20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART]

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06:45 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Will One WikiLeaks Supporter Drop Her Case Over Twitter Account Info?

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06:30 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: Apple Ebook Rumors, Wikipedia Protest, Woz on Android

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06:15 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable New Tool Helps Politicians Advertise on Facebook

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06:00 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable HootSuite Reaches 3 Million Users, 700 Million Sent Messages [INFOGRAPHIC]

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02:48 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Apple to Introduce GarageBand for E-Books [RUMOR]

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02:48 pm GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Apple to Introduce GarageBand for Ebooks [RUMOR]

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07:20 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Farfetch.com Raises $18 Million to Bring High-End Fashion to the Web

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07:05 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Twitters Take on the 2012 Golden Globes [INFOGRAPHIC]

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06:45 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Charting the CES Chatter, Week-in-Review [STATS]

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06:45 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable CES 2012: Who Were the Biggest Winners? [STATS]

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06:30 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Facebook Gets a Public Square in MingleWing [EXCLUSIVE]

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06:12 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Meme-Based Board Game Uses Kickstarter For the Win

The interpipes are leaking thanks to For the Win, a new, meme-based board game that’s hit Kickstarter in the hope of getting funded. The g…...

05:58 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Finished Angry Birds? 8 More Games to Keep You Busy

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05:32 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Wikipedia Going Dark to Protest SOPA

Wikpedia will go offline Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), according to Co-Founder Jimmy Wales. Wales made the announcemen…...

05:13 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable This Headgear Puts Your Moves On-Screen [VIDEO]

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04:47 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Sanyo Protest in Shenzhen: Sign of Things to Come for Factory Workers in China?

Media outlets in China reported on Monday that between 3,000 to 4,000 people staged a protest over the weekend at a Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. plan…...

04:47 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Sanyo Protest in Shenzhen: Sign of Things to Come for Workers in China?

Media outlets in China reported on Monday that between 3,000 to 4,000 people staged a protest over the weekend at a Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. plan…...

04:24 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Cheap Eats: 5 iPhone Apps for Frugal Foodies

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04:05 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Steve Wozniak: Android Is Better Than the iPhone in Some Ways [VIDEO]

One of the co-founders of Apple has some love for Android, it turns out. My primary phone is the iPhone, Steve Wozniak says. I lo…...

03:37 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable CES 2012 Recap: Everything You May Have Missed [PICS]

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03:05 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Martin Luther King Jr Quotes: 12 Inspirational Excerpts on Tumblr

Many in the United States got the day off work Monday in celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights leader and minister…...

02:54 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Birds and Mice Come to Life on Your Plate With Augmented Reality App [VIDEO]

Ever imagine a bird hopping around your plate or a mouse walking across it? A new augmented reality iOS app makes wall plates painted with…...

02:42 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Want Half-Off Facebook Ads? Keep Users On-Site [VIDEO]

Facebook offered advertisers a discount of as much as 45% on cost-per-click rates if they directed users to other Facebook destinations…...

02:25 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable NYC to Open Its First Software Engineering High School

New York City is taking another step toward becoming Silicon Alley — the East Coast’s own tech hub — with the grand opening of…...

02:11 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable The White House & SOPA: Reading Between the Lines

The White House has finally given a detailed explanation of its stance on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA).In a blog…...

01:57 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Rupert Murdoch Goes on Twitter Rampage Targeting Obama, Google

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01:43 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Hacked Zappos Customers: Beware Phishing Scams

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01:29 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Tablets Will Transform the Classroom [OPINION]

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01:14 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Beepl Adds a Personalized Twist to Q&A

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01:00 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable 9 Tech Millionaires Under Age 30 [INFOGRAPHIC]

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12:52 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable New Tech Could Protect Your Phone From Death by Toilet Bowl [VIDEO]

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12:28 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: Hitler Skewers Googles Social Search Plus 4 More Viral Topics

Monday’s medley of memes latches onto several of January’s hottest topics: Google’s Search Plus Your World, Beyonce and Jay-Z…...

12:00 am GMT - Tue, January 17, 2012

Mashable How to Pick the Right Name for Your Business

Abstract or dead simple? Clever irony? Cute and playful? There are endless paths to take when brainstorming your new business name. But for many…...

11:24 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Ashton Kutcher Swears Revenge On His Twitter Hacker

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11:20 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Twitter to Play Crucial Role in South Carolina Republican Debate

Televised Republican debates are about to heat up — not only between the remaining five party presidential candidates — but between…...

10:22 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable 5 Useful iPad Apps for Doctors, Patients and Med Students

The days are gone when a doctor walked into a patient’s room and grabbed the paper chart at the end of his bed to check his medical history. iPa…...

09:58 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Smash Pilot Lands on iTunes and Amazon 2 Weeks Before TV Premiere

NBC is offering the pilot of its upcoming television series Smash for free download from iTunes, Amazon Instant Video and other online video ser…...

09:36 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Ricky Gervais Pokes Fun at Bieber, Kardashian During Golden Globes Monologue [VIDEO]

The 69th Annual Golden Globes were live Sunday, and the biggest story was whether Ricky Gervais was going to be a hilarious jerk or a not-so-…...

09:19 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Amazon Lovefilm Inks Deal With ABC, Following Netflix UK Launch

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08:55 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Facebook IPO Hitting in Late May [REPORT]

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08:42 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable 10 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Sports Fans

The sports media Twitter party is overcrowded and a bit overwhelming. Voices bombard — and often bludgeon — the intellect with ̶…...

08:09 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Google Doodle Celebrates Martin Luther King Day

Google is commemorating Martin Luther King Day for the seventh year in a row with a Doodle. The illustrated logo depicts Dr. King surrounded…...

08:00 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Hulu to Introduce Scripted Series, Battleground [VIDEO]

In a move illustrating the blurring lines between content distributors and producers, Hulu is planning to launch a scripted series, a political…...

07:25 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable White House Responds to Anti-SOPA Petition

President Obama’s administration has issued a public response to petitions protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). “While we…...

06:57 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable CES 2012: The End of Planned Obsolescence

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05:16 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Hackers Steal User Names and E-Mails from Zappos and 6PM.com

Hackers have broken into the data servers of online retailer Zappos and affiliate site 6PM.com, stealing sensitive user data, the companies have…...

02:18 pm GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Russian Space Probe Crashes Into Pacific Ocean

Phobos-Grunt, the failed Russian space probe that was slated to visit the Martian moon Phobos, crashed into the Pacific Ocean, Russian news agen…...

07:13 am GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Tina Fey Photobombs the Golden Globes

Even with Ricky Gervais hosting, the 69th Golden Globe Awards have remained a relatively mild affair. Fortunately for all of us, Tina Fey is a l…...

04:29 am GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable 33 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

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04:21 am GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable How Klout Found Success by Focusing on Users

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03:38 am GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: Top 5 Viral Topics This Week

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03:22 am GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Square Lets Entrepreneurs Round Out Their Payment Options

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02:25 am GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable CESs Quirkiest Gadgets [VIDEO]

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02:07 am GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable Rent the Runway Partners With Iconic Dressmaker for Capsule Collection

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01:33 am GMT - Mon, January 16, 2012

Mashable 6 Mind-Blowing Dance Videos on YouTube

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10:52 pm GMT - Sun, January 15, 2012

Mashable Inside the Recruiters Head: What Hes Really Asking You During the Interview

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07:29 pm GMT - Sun, January 15, 2012

Mashable 4 Tips to Keep Your Website Ahead of the Curve in 2012

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03:12 am GMT - Sun, January 15, 2012

Mashable Tim Tebow: The Meme that Wont Die

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03:06 am GMT - Sun, January 15, 2012

Mashable iPhone Emoji Fun: Can You Decode Our Emoticon Film Titles?

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01:45 am GMT - Sun, January 15, 2012

Mashable Mentos Game Lets You Punch Spider from a Recent Ad

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12:52 am GMT - Sun, January 15, 2012

Mashable Top 10 Tech This Week: CES Edition [PICS]

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12:01 am GMT - Sun, January 15, 2012

Mashable The Job Search and Confidentiality [INFOGRAPHIC]

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11:31 pm GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable How Nations Can Be United With Social Media

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10:15 pm GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable The 10 Most Noteworthy Photos on Twitter This Week [PICS]

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08:28 pm GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable 6 Apps Worth Downloading This Week

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10:13 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable 10 Creative Ways to Use QR Codes for Marketing

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09:54 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Paul McCartney Fans: Meet Your Nirvana

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09:33 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Charting the CES Chatter, Friday Edition [INFOGRAPHIC]

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08:18 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Apple Mini-Stores Coming to Target

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07:40 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Why Companies Need to Iterate Based on User Feedback

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07:06 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Internet Overuse Could Cause Structural Brain Damage [STUDY]

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06:58 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: 5 Hilarious Viral Topics Trending Right Now

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06:40 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Career of the Future: Data Scientist [INFOGRAPHIC]

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06:30 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Intels Social Cockpit: A Command Center for CES Buzz

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06:14 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable After Labor Criticism, Apple Releases List of Suppliers for First Time

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04:51 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Finding Nemo Leads Charge of Classic Pixar Films Turned 3D

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04:18 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

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04:01 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Victory for SOPA Opponents: DNS Blocking Struck From Bill

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03:47 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

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03:34 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable 5 Digital Publishing App Trends to Watch in 2012

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03:23 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

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03:06 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

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02:44 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

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02:32 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

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02:13 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

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01:53 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Apple Is the Worlds Top PC Vendor If You Consider an iPad a PC

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01:43 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Rdio Invades Europe, Brings Unlimited Ad-Free Digital Music to Germany

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01:17 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

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01:05 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

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12:42 am GMT - Sat, January 14, 2012

Mashable Lawmakers to Homeland Security: Monitor More Social Media

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11:59 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable ARM Shrugs Off Intels First Smartphone

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11:26 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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10:58 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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10:31 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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10:12 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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09:28 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Facebooks Buggiest Page Was Created on Purpose

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09:14 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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08:31 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable How Social Media Is Changing Consumer Electronics, and CES

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08:15 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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07:49 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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07:23 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Apple Temporarily Stops Selling iPhone 4S in China to Protect Store Employees

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07:00 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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06:38 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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02:54 pm GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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09:49 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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09:32 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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08:40 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable How the Australian Open Is Acing Digital Media

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08:22 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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08:08 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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07:51 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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07:35 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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07:22 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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06:54 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Google: Sorry, Twitter, We Dont Index the @ Symbol

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06:44 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Apples Offshore Accounts Could Double its Cash by 2014

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06:05 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable 4 Short-Form Blogging Networks Perfect for Customer Engagement

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05:43 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Facebook Sees Its First Live Theater Performance

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05:20 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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04:59 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Privacy Watchdog Complains to FTC: Googles Social Search is Unfair

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04:34 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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04:06 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: 5 Hilarious Viral Topics Trending Right Now

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03:53 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Can Siri Control Your Home? [VIDEO]

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03:29 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Nuke the Net: How to Get the Mainstream Talking About the Dangers of SOPA

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03:22 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Enter the Google Maps Labyrinth [VIDEO]

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03:06 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Use an Alias, Leave Better Comments [STUDY]

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02:39 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable 3 Major Concerns for Brands Over ICANNs New Domain Registry Options

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02:29 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Foxconn Resolves Mass Suicide Dispute With Workers

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02:20 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable College Football Recruiting via Twitter? Check Out DirectSnap

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02:10 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

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01:50 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Klout Founder Joe Fernandez Answers Your Questions [LIVE CHAT]

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01:45 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Indian Court to Facebook, Google: Censor Content or We Will Censor You

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01:25 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the Number Two Search Engine [STUDY]

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01:13 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Girl Scouts Call for Cookie Boycott Goes Viral. Is It Hate Speech? [VIDEO]

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12:50 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable SOPA Sponsor Has a Copyright Violation of His Own

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12:36 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable 10 Essential YouTube Tips and Tricks

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12:23 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Facebook Launches Listen With, Lets You DJ for Friends

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12:01 am GMT - Fri, January 13, 2012

Mashable Facebook Campaign for Bald Barbie Gains Steam

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11:48 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable How a Professional Pain Point Led to a Disruptive Business Idea [VIDEO]

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11:38 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Designers Print 3D Buildings, Make Models Out of Metal Powder [VIDEO]

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11:17 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Verizon FiOS TV App, Live Streaming Content Heading to Samsung Smart TVs

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11:02 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Top 10 Self-Published Writers Make 449% More Money Through Amazon Lending Library

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10:41 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable SoLoMo Revolution Picks Up Where Hyperlocal Search Left Off

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10:34 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Foursquare Brings Explore Tab to Desktops

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10:12 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Technology Costs Trump Utility Bills, Discrepancy Rising [STUDY]

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09:52 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Michelle Obama Joins Twitter

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09:38 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Soapy: Can This Plug-In Kill SOPA?

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09:18 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Politico Taps Into Facebooks Data Gold Mine

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08:57 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

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08:28 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable 36 Digital Tools That Make Long-Distance Relationships a Little Easier

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08:11 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Facebook to Hit 1 Billion User Mark in August [STUDY]

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08:00 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable VH1 Leaps Into Social TV and Second Screen for Critics Choice Movie Awards

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07:30 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable How Two Cave Men Brought Major League Baseball Into the Social Media Age

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07:20 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: Facebook Comments Box Goes Mobile, No Twitter for Olympics Volunteers

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07:11 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Do You Want Social Media Comments Included in Your Searches? [POLL]

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06:03 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Facebook Comments Box Plugin Comes to Mobile Sites

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04:55 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Old Spice Ad is Literally Mind-Blowing [VIDEO]

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01:52 pm GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Astronomers Discover Three Alien Planets Smaller Than Earth

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09:33 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable London Olympics Restrict Volunteers Twitter and Facebook Use

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09:33 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable London Olympics Restricts Volunteers Twitter and Facebook Use

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08:51 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable 5 Alternatives to Consider After Spotifys Free Music Cutoff

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08:30 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Army Uses Web Tool to Track Bradley Manning Mentions

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07:17 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

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06:55 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable FarmVille for Change: New York Times Columnist to Launch Social Game

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06:25 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Fisker Karma Electric Supercar Struts Its Stuff at CES 2012 [PICS]

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06:01 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Sh*t Nobody Says: Will This Video Stop the Viral Madness?

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05:35 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Apples Textbook Venture: Whats the Big Idea?

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05:02 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

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05:02 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Ericssons Future Vision: Better Broadband, Tweeting Trees

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04:38 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Swivl Robotic Cameraman Keeps You Framed Up Wherever You Roam

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04:15 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable 8 Apple Accessories at CES [PICS]

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03:13 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

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03:02 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable In Tiff With Google, Twitter Turns to Wrestling

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02:53 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Ford Brings iHeartRadio to Vehicles

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02:40 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable What to Expect From Mobile Marketing Tech in 2012

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02:26 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Cadbury UK Uses Google+ for Product Launch

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02:15 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: 5 Hilarious Videos Trending Right Now

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01:46 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Web Chat Brings Tea Party and Occupy Movement Together

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01:08 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Google Fires Back at Twitter: You Took Yourself Out of Search

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12:58 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable Facebook Kills Universitys Historical Profiles

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12:36 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable High-End Brands Are Missing the Boat on Mobile, Study Finds

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12:26 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable SPIN to Review Most Albums Via Twitter

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12:18 am GMT - Thu, January 12, 2012

Mashable 10 Social Good Kickstarter Projects Seeking to Change the World

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11:48 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Prime-Time TV Network News Ignoring SOPA [REPORT]

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11:36 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable WARNING: Invitations to Change the Color of Your Facebook Profile Are a Scam [VIDEO]

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11:25 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable LL Cool J Drops Track at CES to Promote His Music Social Network [PICS]

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11:13 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Apple Announces Education Event for Next Week

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10:39 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Risk for Facebook Pits Cats Against Zombies Against Robots [REVIEW]

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10:10 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable How an Injured NFL Hopeful Made a Fortune on LinkedIn Instead [VIDEO]

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10:10 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable How an Injured NFL Hopeful Made a Fortune on LinkedIn Instead

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10:00 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Can You Tweet Me Now? Verizon Gets Gamified

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09:44 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Announcing a Live Chat With Klout Founder Joe Fernandez

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09:29 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Shazams New App Wants to Be Your Music Player

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09:17 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Is the iPad 3 at CES?

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09:08 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Samsung 55-Inch OLED Display Is Ultra-Thin, Super Sharp [VIDEO]

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08:19 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Dine With a Stranger: GrubWithUs Launches First Mobile App

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08:06 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Groupons Clicky the Value Wheel Lets You Spin for Discounts

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07:56 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Universal Celebrates Centennial With New Logo, Social Campaign

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07:30 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable GetGlue Hits 2 Million Users and Rolls Out New Guide Page

GetGlue announced Wednesday that it has signed up 2 million users and is launching new features on its iPhone app and website. Together the new…...

06:58 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: Apple Acquires Anobit, Boxee to Bring Netflix to UK

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

06:20 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Pioneer AR Heads Up Display Augments Your Driving Reality

LAS VEGAS — Augmented reality is showing up in everything from portable gaming consoles to smart phones, but here at CES 2012, it…...

04:01 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Google Goes Underground for Nicolas Stenos Birthday

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 374th birthday of Nicolas Steno, often called the “father of geology.”Born on January 11…...

02:45 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable This Swiss Army Knife Comes With a 1 TB USB Flash Drive

Victorinox has unveiled a Swiss Army knife with a USB flash drive that holds 1 terabyte of data. The company has had a USB knife in its line of…...

12:37 pm GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Parrot Zik: Best Bluetooth Headphones Ever? [HANDS ON]

LAS VEGAS — There are several reasons Bluetooth headphones haven’t taken off — lousy designs, poor execution, that cumbersome…...

09:41 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable How Humans Copy Animals on Facebook and Twitter [VIDEO]

Forget the Winklevoss twins. The next suit accusing Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the Facebook idea might just come from Flipper. A study…...

09:24 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Cellphone Users Like to Be Drunk [STUDY]

If you’re trying to drink less booze in the New Year, you might want to put down your cellphone. A study released Tuesday by the Centers…...

09:24 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Cellphone Users More Likely to Drink [STUDY]

If you’re trying to drink less booze in the New Year, you might want to put down your cellphone. A study released Tuesday by the Centers…...

09:01 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Find the Status of Job Applications and Improve Your Search for Employment on StartWire

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…...

08:49 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable 20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART]

It’s safe to say that we’ve never encountered such a strong juxtaposition in all past social TV charts. The social activity surrounding AB…...

08:41 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Twitter Accurately Predicts Romney Victory in New Hampshire Primary

Mitt Romney clinched the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, falling in line with Twitters prediction that the former Massachusetts governo…...

08:29 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable What Techies Are Buzzing About at CES [INFOGRAPHIC]

More people tweeted about Microsoft than any other tech brand Monday at CES 2012, but people who tweeted about Google had the most followers on…...

08:22 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Sharp 80-Inch HDTV Just Got Even Better, Still Value-Priced

I like what Sharp is doing with its HDTVs. Every new model the company is releasing in 2012 will be 60 inches or larger.The flagship of the…...

07:43 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable First Intel Smartphone Will Be Lenovo K800 for China, Motorola Devices Coming

LAS VEGAS — Those Intel smartphones we caught a peek at in Intel’s booth aren’t just “reference” anymore. Intel an…...

07:06 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable The Top 10 News Organizations With the Most Google+ Engagement

A list published Tuesday reveals which news organizations on Google+ instigate the most reactions from their followers. Since Google+...

06:50 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Why Targeted Ads Must Account for Changing Consumer Context

Millions of parents have bought Hannah Montana albums online for their young daughters and nieces. Marketers seized the opportunity to launch a…...

06:22 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Will Twitter Predict the New Hampshire Primary?

All of the candidates duking it out for the Republican nomination have a social media presence. But can the activity surrounding their accounts…...

06:06 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Your Smartphone Is One Step Closer to Becoming Invincible

It seems technology companies are finally tuning in to that most basic of tech consumer problems: dropping devices in the toilet. Unveiled this…...

05:48 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Reddit Announces Blackout to Protest SOPA

Reddit, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), will be shutting down normal operations on Jan. 18 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET. During t…...

05:04 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Cut the Rope Hits the Web via Internet Explorer 9

Popular mobile video game Cut the Rope is coming to the Web by way of Internet Explorer 9.Microsoft announced during its keynote at the 2011 Consume…...

04:46 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Tell Us A Story On Facebook [CONTEST]

Calling all armchair novelists: Facebook isn’t just a place to waste time anymore. In a move seemingly contrary to the deliberate brevity…...

04:29 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Spotify to End Unlimited Free Streaming for Some Users Next Week [POLL]

Spotify’s unlimited free streaming and sharing service was music to American ears when it launched in July 2011. Now comes a dissonant no…...

04:29 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Spotify to End Unlimited Free Streaming for Some Users Next Week

Spotify’s unlimited free streaming and sharing service was music to American ears when it launched in July 2011. Now comes a dissonant no…...

04:14 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Did 300 Workers at an Xbox 360 Factory Threaten Mass Suicide?

Three hundred Chinese factory workers who manufacture Microsoft Xbox 360s threatened mass suicide last week, according to unconfirmed reports.T…...

03:56 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable 10 Classic Video Games You Can Play Online for Free

Fire up your time machine and visit your 12-year-old self. Tell him that all the computer games he’s saved his hard-earned allowance for will on…...

03:45 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable The New Hampshire Primary on Social Media

It’s primary day in New Hampshire, and social media networks have been ablaze with posts, tweets and videos from the Granite State.Politicians…...

03:34 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable How to Get Into the Sold-Out MashBash Party at CES

Bummed you didn’t get a ticket to the sold-out MashBash event at CES? You may be in luck.Skullcandy is giving away 20 passes to Mashable…...

03:20 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Twitter Slams Google: Social Search Changes Are Bad for People

The social networking war just heated up a few degrees. After Google announced Tuesday morning that it would more closely integrate Google+ in…...

03:14 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Google Maps Game for Google+ Revealed in Video

Google has quietly released a promotional video for a Google Maps-driven game for Google+ Games. In the video, Google pimps a “Play your world…...

03:02 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Tablets Will Replace Laptops, Say 46% of Americans [STUDY]

A full 46% of Americans think tablets will replace laptops in the future, according to a poll of 1,155 American adults.This is especially true…...

02:56 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Comcast App for iPad Lets Users Watch Live TV

Comcast has started rolling out a new service that allows subscribers to turn their iPad into an extra TV screen to watch live shows.The compa…...

02:35 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Twitter Revealed Epidemic Two Weeks Before Health Officials [STUDY]

Health providers have suspected for some time that social media might be an early indicator of an epidemic. Now they have proof.In particular,…...

02:07 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: 5 Hilarious Viral Topics Trending Right Now

Welcome back, boys and girls! The Meme Machine is sizzling hot today, with the latest topics that tickled our fancy from Twitter, Tumblr, YouTu…...

01:47 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable How a Niche Email Newsletter Grew to a Million Subscribers [VIDEO]

CEO Geoff Bartacovics launched Tasting Table in 2008, to bring the world of niche and gourmet dining to discerning foodies. Four years, f…...

01:36 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable How Technological Justice Can Fight Global Poverty

Human development has gone hand-in-hand with technical change. Technology (defined for these purposes as both knowledge and tools) enables peop…...

01:16 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Facebook Spam and Cybercrime on the Rise: How You Can Avoid It [INFOGRAPHIC]

Just how much cybercrime happens on Facebook? About 4 million Facebook users experience spam on a daily basis, 20% of Facebook users have been exposed…...

12:43 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable Fox News, Google Join Forces for New Hampshire Primary

Fox News Channel and Google are teaming up to cover Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Fox News brings the highest viewership of any America…...

12:31 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable The Future of History Is on Facebook

When University of Nevada librarian Donnelyn Curtis set up fictitious Facebook accounts for two students from the 1910s, she was just trying to…...

12:31 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable The Future of History Is on Facebook [POLL]

When University of Nevada librarian Donnelyn Curtis set up fictitious Facebook accounts for two students from the 1910s, she was just trying to…...

12:14 am GMT - Wed, January 11, 2012

Mashable 5 URL Expanders to Help You Avoid Spammy Links

When URL shorteners first came about, spammers used them to disguise malicious links. Now that social networks like Twitter have propelled short…...

11:57 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable iPad App Lets Kids Publish Physical Books

Scribble Press has three brick-and-mortar stores where more than 30,000 children have created their own books. Now, with the help of the iPad, i…...

11:43 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Classic Fisher-Price View-Master 3D Images Go Digital

Remember those old-school 3D images you used to see through plastic Fisher-Price View-Master toys? Now the company is gearing up to give you th…...

11:23 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Aldos Tumblr Contest Targets Fashion Community

In an effort to target Tumblr’s highly engaged community of fashion and design enthusiasts, footwear company Aldo has launched a contest t…...

11:12 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable The Top Brands on Twitter in 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]

As longtime Twitter addicts know, there’s little that people love to tweet about more than Twitter itself.HootSuite, maker of its eponymous soc…...

11:00 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable 50 More Tickets Now Available for MashBash at CES

Due to popular demand, we are releasing 50 more tickets for MashBash at CES! With just over 24 hours until the party, you’ll need to purc…...

10:45 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable iHeartRadio Releases API for Third-Party Developers

Clear Channel Radio just unleashed iHeartRadio’s application programming interface, which will allow outside developers to infuse the musi…...

10:13 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable iPad-Only Newspaper The Daily Is iPad-Only No Longer, Launches on Android

After nearly a full year as an iPad-exclusive publication, The Daily is now arriving on some Android tablet devices.The News Corp.-owned public…...

09:57 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Iran Says U.S. Video Games Are CIA Propaganda

Is the CIA using video games as part of a propaganda campaign to indoctrinate Iranian youth? Iran thinks so.Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, a former U.S.…...

09:30 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable This Cute Rabbit Sends Tweets and Updates Your Facebook Status

These cute little bunnies are smart. They’re social too — they will update Facebook and Twitter pages, send emails and read texts.…...

09:13 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable 5 Ways Brands Can Use Pinterest to Boost Consumer Engagement

The surprise smash-hit social networking site of 2011 wasnt Twitter, Tumblr or Google+. In fact, it was a site that, even today, is still a…...

08:58 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Apple CEO Tim Cook Made More Than Twitter Last Year

Apple CEO Tim Cook received $378 million in compensation last year, which makes him the highest-paid CEO and puts his annual income at a level t…...

08:02 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Axe Launches Fragrance With a Graphic Novel on Facebook

Axe is taking a novel approach with the launch of its new fragrance line, Anarchy. The brand is introducing two scents, one for men and one for wome…...

08:02 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Axe Launches Fragrance With a Graphic Novel on YouTube

Axe is taking a novel approach with the launch of its new fragrance line, Anarchy. The brand is introducing two scents, one for men and one for wome…...

07:43 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Vizio Brings First Ultra Widescreen TVs to the U.S.

Vizio has announced three CinemaWide TVs with a 21:9 aspect ratio – the first devices of that kind in the U.S. market. The three TVs sh…...

07:30 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Google Merges Search and Google+ Into Social Media Juggernaut

Now we know Googles master-plan for integrating Google+ ever more deeply into the Google ecosystem: Pour the whole thing into Google search. Start…...

07:00 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable U.S. State Department Celebrates Social Media

Ever want to ask a question to State Department officials? Now’s your chance. January has been declared “21st Century Statecraft Mon…...

06:03 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Ballmer Exits the CES Stage Without a Bang

There was a moment, just one moment where the Microsofts last CES keynote transcended the mundane and skirted the edge of fantastic. If you…...

02:58 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Titan II is HTCs First LTE Windows Phone

HTC has announced HTC Titan II, the company’s first LTE Windows Phone. Like its predecessor, the Titan II is huge, with a 4.7-inch super…...

02:41 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Panasonic Still Believes in 3D, Convinces NBC to Use It for the Olympics

LAS VEGAS — Panasonic just won’t let 3D die. Despite a lukewarm response by the public to watching 3D in the home, Panasonic spun th…...

01:46 pm GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Hands On With the Sony Xperia Ions Fast Capture Camera [VIDEO]

LAS VEGAS — Sony debuted a smartphone at CES 2012 that counts as a first in many ways. The Xperia ion is the first 4G LTE smartphone…...

09:50 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Justin Timberlakes Appearance at CES [VIDEO]

Justin Timberlake, we learned Monday, is serious about bringing MySpace back. He’s so serious, in fact, that he actually showed up a…...

09:18 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Prepare Yourself: Kinect is Coming to Windows Feb. 1

Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer announced on Monday the company’s gesture-recognition technology Kinect will come to Windows on February 1. It…...

08:55 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Samsung Unveils a Motion-Controlled TV and the U.S. Galaxy Note [PICS]

During its keynote address at CES on Monday, Samsung unveiled a connected TV with voice and gesture recognition, WiFi-enabled cameras and its thinnest…...

08:34 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Frequency Makes Any Website a Video Channel

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…...

07:00 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable The Real and Virtual Worlds Are Melting Together

Social science studies increasingly suggest that the divide between the virtual and real worlds is narrowing. Our experiences of reality may no…...

06:45 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Flixster Lets You View Your Movie Collection On Select Panasonic Devices

Panasonic announced an app for its connected devices on Monday that could make your movie collection accessible on your friends’ televisio…...

06:07 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Is the HP Spectre a Real Ultrabook? [VIDEO]

Hewlett-Packard unveiled its version of an Ultrabook at CES today, called the Spectre. The laptop has been designed to the nines — t…...

05:29 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable 5 Free Homework Management Tools for the Digital Student

With a new school semester kicking off, it’s time for you (or your kids) to learn from past mistakes and utilize all the help available on the w…...

05:19 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Nokias First LTE Windows Phone is HereAnd in the U.S.

LAS VEGAS — At CES 2012, Nokia and AT&T announced the Lumia 900, a thin, powerful and LTE-enabled Windows Phone for the U.S. market.D…...

05:13 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Beyonces Newborn Makes Cameo in Jay-Zs New Song [LISTEN]

Beyonce and Jay-Z have yet to give us a visual glimpse of their newborn girl, Blue Ivy Carter, but on Monday they did dish out some revealing ea…...

05:02 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Bringing MySpace Back: Timberlake Unveils TV Service

Justin Timberlake just took the next step in his campaign to bring MySpace back. The pop super star and MySpace co-owner joined Panasonic on st…...

04:48 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable The Top Brands on Pinterest

There’s a hot new social networking property and, as usual, some brands have already colonized it.As we embrace the new year, Pinterest h…...

04:45 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Chameleon Computer: Lenovo IdeaPad YOGA Twists into Tablet [PICS]

Buy-one, get-one free. Half off. Two-for-one. Consumers love getting something extra. Lenovo‘s new IdeaPad YOGA is being marketed as a fo…...

04:37 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Clothes Shopping With Your Kinect Lets You Try It On for Virtual Size

Online shoppers may be able to buy clothes in their pajamas, but they never know just how well those purchases will actually fit. That problem…...

04:37 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Clothes Shopping With Bodymetrics Lets You Try It On for Virtual Size

Online shoppers may be able to buy clothes in their pajamas, but they never know just how well those purchases will actually fit. That problem…...

04:22 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Boycotting SOPA Supporters? Theres an App for That

If you refuse to support SOPA like Google, Al Gore, Paul Ryan and many Internet companies a new Android app called wants to help......

04:00 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Why Google Gives Its Search Projects Weird Names

Google made more than two dozen improvements to its bedrock search feature in December, and the projects had cryptic internal names — incl…...

03:48 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Stereotype Debunked: Women Buy More Technology Than Men

Women are more likely than men to purchase tablets, laptops and smartphones three out of the four top consumer electronics categories, acco…...

03:33 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable 13 Tips for Increasing Your Companys Google Rank

It goes without saying that entrepreneurs know the importance of search engine optimization, and how to boost their Google search rankings. Ri…...

03:22 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Apples to Apple: The Goofiest Infographic Youll Ever See?

Apple the company may be one of the largest on the planet, with more cash on hand than the U.S. government. But have you ever wondered about how it co…...

03:11 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable HTML5 Apps: The Future of AT&Ts Mobile Store

LAS VEGAS — AT&T unveiled new tools for app developers Monday, making it easier for them to create and distribute apps made with HTML…...

03:00 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Samsung Debuts a Boatload of Wi-Fi Cameras, Plus Cloud Storage

LAS VEGAS — Samsung loves Wi-Fi. That’s the message from the company’s 2012 line of point-and-shoot cameras, since the company…...

02:34 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Spike Takes a Stab at CES With All Access Live

The Consumer Electronics Show, can be a bit of a mess with all the major announcements, celebrities and new gadgets hitting the show floor. Bu…...

02:21 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable AT&T Shows Off a Slew of Android and Windows Phones

It’s one of the reasons why CES may be inching closer to extinction: so many products are announced at once that each one has a hard time…...

02:06 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Tim Tebow Pass Lands in Twitters Record Book

Twitter reaction to Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow’s 80-yard overtime touchdown pass Sunday night reached 9,420 tweets per second, p…...

01:59 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable DROID 4 Touted as Thinnest, Most Powerful 4G LTE QWERTY Smartphone

Motorola unveiled Monday at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show a new device its calling the thinnest and most powerful 4G LTE QWERTY smartph…...

01:36 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Meme Machine: 5 Hilarious Viral Topics Trending Right Now

If you’re the type that scours the Internet for the best/worst of the best/worst, this new series is for you. There are so many blogs, fo…...

01:10 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Wi-Fi Smart Scale Uploads Your Weight, Shares With Friends

A new wireless scale with Wi-Fi lets you track your weight and record the results online — and for those bold enough, even share your prog…...

01:00 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Paul Ryan, Target of Reddit Campaign, Wont Support SOPA

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will not support the Stop Online Piracy Act, according to a statement released by his office Monday.In the stateme…...

12:37 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Hipster Orchestra Plays Classical Hip Hop With an 808 [VIDEO]

The Hipster Orchestra was covering popular songs with classical instruments before it was cool. At least that’s what this band of class…...

12:19 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable FCC to Explore Helping Low-Income Americans Afford Internet Access

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Monday that he will be ordering sweeping changes to the Lifeline low-income telecommunications connect…...

12:08 am GMT - Tue, January 10, 2012

Mashable Designer Tech: 6 Beautiful Gadgets You Know You Want

In our recent Designer Tech Series, supported by Lincoln, Mashable wrote about the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship, business and social g…...

11:36 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Microsoft Rolls Out Windows Phone Update

Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows Phone update to clean up some of its mobile operating system glitches.Microsoft said in a blog post tha…...

10:31 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable A Refrigerator That Helps You Diet? LG Unveils High-Tech Smart Appliances

LG is paving the way for a new era in smart appliances. From a refrigerator that helps you diet and keeps track of your groceries, to a robot…...

10:23 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Tom Hanks to Debut His Animated Web Series Electric City on Yahoo

Electric City, a 20-episode science fiction series starring and produced by Tom Hanks, will be shown exclusively on Yahoo.Hanks, a two-time Osc…...

10:15 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable 10 Companies That Hit the Bullseye With Online Contests

Online contests and sweepstakes can be great for business. Besides creating a fun customer experience, consider the lure of increased publicity…...

09:50 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable LG Unveils Giant 84-Inch TV With Voice, Gesture Control

Now when you talk to your TV, it will actually listen. LG announced during the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show that it is adding voice recognit…...

09:43 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Vimeo Brings New Apps to Android, Windows Phone and iPad

LAS VEGAS — Just in time for the newest crop of tablets and smartphones at CES 2012, Vimeo is making its mobile app available for Android…...

09:33 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Fears of SOPA Unfounded, Says Bills Sponsor

Do you think the Stop Online Piracy Act will be the end of the Internet as we know it? Rep. Lamar Smith, the bill’s main sponsor, wants yo…...

09:17 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Slacker Radio to Live Stream BCS Championship Game, Sporting Events

Slacker Radio‘s long-teased initiative to air live sporting events comes to fruition Monday night with the live stream of the BCS Champion…...

09:17 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Slacker to Live Stream BCS Championship Game, Sporting Events

Slacker Radio‘s long-teased initiative to air live sporting events comes to fruition Monday night with the live stream of the BCS Champion…...

09:01 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable LG Smart TV With Google TV Revealed at CES 2012 [LIVE]

We’re kicking off our first liveblog at CES from the LG press conference — and all eyes are on the LG Smart TV with Google TV.The comp…...

08:52 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Motorized Shoes Let You Go for a Spin

For those hoping for flying cars and jetpacks, a new product is launching at the Consumer Electronics Show that is a huge step for personal mob…...

08:31 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable I Shot Asteroids With My Eyes [VIDEO]

LAS VEGAS — The concept of eye-tracking has been around for more than a century, but its only in recent years that weve seen i…...

08:18 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Huawei Reveals the Worlds Thinnest Smartphone

So far, “thin” has been the keyword for this year’s CES. We’ve seen the world’s thinnest tablet and ultrabook, a…...

08:05 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable 13 Essential Resources for Socially Responsible Companies

In our recent Commerce With a Conscience Series, supported by FedEx, Mashable wrote about the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship, business a…...

07:24 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Cobra Wants You to Tag and Find Your Lost Stuff

LAS VEGAS — Even the most conscientious person will occasionally forget something: keys, wallet, phone, gloves. Theyre all sittin…...

07:01 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Canon Unveils New Flagship PowerShot Camera, G1 X [HANDS ON]

Canon unveiled three new PowerShot cameras at CES today, led by the G1 X. Superior to most point-and-shoots but without the feature set of a ful…...

06:20 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable USB 3.0 Is Coming to Smartphones and Tablets

By the end of 2012 smartphones and tablet devices will sport a USB 3.0-based microUSB connector, which will allow speedier data transfer than th…...

02:08 pm GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Netflix Launches Video Streaming Service in the UK and Ireland

After months of preparation, Netflix has launched its online video streaming service in the UK and Ireland. Netflix is available right now for…...

11:41 am GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Go Ahead, Drop This Tablet Into the Toilet

LAS VEGAS: Admit it, you’ve used your favorite gadget gear in the bathroom and, at least once, that phone (or even your tablet) has…...

07:44 am GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Toshiba Unveils the Worlds Thinnest 10-inch Tablet

LAS VEGAS: Super thin, super light, rather sexy. Its hard to believe that those are the words one would use to describe a new tablet fr…...

06:57 am GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Acer Debuts Its iCloud Clone, AcerCloud

Not content with just being a PC and tablet maker, today at CES 2012 Acer announced a cloud service for its devices. Dubbed AcerCloud, it’…...

06:04 am GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Acer Unveils Aspire A5, Worlds Thinnest Ultrabook

Ultrabooks — compact and powerful Windows laptops — were promised to be big at CES 2012, and the show just saw Acer draw first blood…...

06:04 am GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Acer Unveils Aspire S5, Worlds Thinnest Ultrabook

LAS VEGAS — Ultrabooks, compact and powerful Windows laptops, were promised to be big at CES 2012, and the show just saw Acer draw first b…...

05:20 am GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Lenovo Rebrands Tablets, Unveils Ice Cream Sandwich Model

LAS VEGAS: Lenovo is raising its tablet game and rebranding it consumer tablet line. Its latest 10-inch slate, unveiled here at CES 2012, its…...

05:02 am GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable AR.Drone 2.0: Now This Toy is Serious Fun [VIDEO]

LAS VEGAS: AR.Drone was a fun, albeit expensive toy ($299) when it arrived two years ago, but the new flyer promises an updated design and fresh featu…...

03:11 am GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable A Recruiters Perspective: Job Boards and Career Websites

If youre looking for a job, youre probably using job boards and social networking sites. Having an online presence is an effective way to…...

01:58 am GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable Keenan Cahill: Whats Next For The Viral YouTube Celeb

Keenan Cahill, of YouTube fame, is hanging his hat on lip-syncing. At just 16 years old, he has his own clothing line, made an appearance on Ame…...

12:54 am GMT - Mon, January 9, 2012

Mashable One Laptop Per Child Debuts Rugged Tablet for Students in the Developing World

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11:50 pm GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable 6 Startups to Watch in 2012

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11:07 pm GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable Pinterest: 13 Tips and Tricks for Cutting Edge Users

Pinterest has been one of the hottest new social networks on the radar for a few months now. In fact, Pinterest has cracked the current list of…...

10:35 pm GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable PowerTrekk Offers Unlimited Water-Based Gadget Power

LAS VEGAS: Youre on the road, far from any outlet and your precious cell-phone is thisclose to running out of juice. You look around and the neares…...

10:07 pm GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable 10 Rock-Steady Rugged iPhone Cases

Chances are you take your iPhone everywhere. If you’re the adventurous type that means putting it in situations where it could get dinged, dropp…...

09:33 pm GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable Blue Ivy, Not Ivy Blue: Twitterverse Confuses Beyonc and Jay-Zs Baby Name

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08:24 pm GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable Social Media Guilt Trip: 10 Ways Networks Try to Make You Stay

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04:03 am GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable Top 6 Comments on Mashable This Week

We’re kicking off 2012 with a new roundup of top Mashable comments of the week.In this post, we showcase the week’s best comments o…...

03:38 am GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable The 10 Most Popular Photos on Twitter This Week [PICS]

What was the most popular pic on Twitter this week? We’ve narrowed down 30 million tweets to find the 10 pics that had the greatest impact…...

02:31 am GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]

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01:44 am GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable 46 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Get ready, because it’s time for another weekly serving of features.This week, we got ready for CES. Not making the trip out to Vegas? Do…...

01:10 am GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable Vizio to Roll Out Full Line of PCs at CES 2012 [PICS]

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12:31 am GMT - Sun, January 8, 2012

Mashable 3 New Tools for Promoting Your Interests

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11:07 pm GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Road Trip: Mashable Heading to CES 2012 [COMIC]

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10:29 pm GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Exhilarating Film Takes You Through 11 Countries in 1 Minute [VIRAL VIDEO]

Take a look at what director Rick Meriki did last summer: a spectacular one-minute video he made with two of his pals as they traveled to 11 count…...

09:26 pm GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Google Doodle Honors Charles Addams, Creator of The Addams Family

Those of you familiar with the ’60s comedy TV series The Addams Family will recognize the eccentric cast of spooky characters Google de…...

08:16 pm GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Celebrity Tech: 10 Stars Making Appearances at CES 2012

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08:17 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Mindbloom Helps You Grow Your Tree of Life

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07:35 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable How to Find the Right Digital Training Tool for Your Company

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07:09 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Indie Game Takes Social Media by Storm With One YouTube Video

On Thursday, a two-man game developer team called Sauropod Studio released the first video detailing what has quickly become a highly-anticipated PC…...

06:54 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable In Sign of the Times, Puma Sends Bloggers to Cover Sailing Race

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06:48 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable New ViewPhone 3 Accepts Dual SIM Cards

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06:13 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable How Did Students From the 1910s Get on Facebook?

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05:33 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable iPhone 4S is Twice as Data-Hungry as iPhone 4

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05:26 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Twitter Ordered To Hand Over WikiLeaks Supporters Account Information

Twitter has to provide the U.S. Department of Justice with all account information for three users who allegedly support WikiLeaks, a federal ju…...

05:21 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Al Gore Comes Out Against SOPA

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05:06 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable The Music Hasnt Died: Sales Up for First Time Since 2004

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04:17 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable 4 Execs Out in Sprint Reorganization [REPORT]

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04:06 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Is This the Ultimate Trench Coat for Gadget Lovers?

As we get closer to CES 2012, I’ve struggled with how to pack all of the requisite gadgets and electronics I’ll need on my trip wi…...

03:42 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Even in 2012, More Americans Own TVs Than Cellphones [STUDY]

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03:21 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Eventbrite Nearly Doubled Ticket Sales in 2011

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03:08 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable iPad Survives 100,000+ Foot Fall From Space [VIDEO]

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02:41 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Facebook Developers Explain the Making of Timeline [VIDEO]

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02:25 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Kelly Clarksons Album Sales Down After Ron Paul Twitter Endorsement

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02:02 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Twitter to Host Its First Live Streaming Concert, Starring DJ Tisto [EXCLUSIVE]

HP and Intel will be hosting the first-ever live stream of a concert on Twitter next week at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. The headliner:…...

02:02 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Twitter to Host Its First Live Streaming Concert, Starring Tisto [EXCLUSIVE]

HP and Intel will be hosting the first-ever live stream of a concert on Twitter next week at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. The headliner:…...

01:40 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Does Facebooks Timeline Violate Its FTC Settlement?

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01:28 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Words With Friends Opponents Get Married

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01:12 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Why College Is Still Relevant in the Age of Free Information

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12:48 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Iran Blocks Facebook and Twitter, Prepares Its Own Internet

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12:48 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable Iran Further Restricts Facebook and Twitter, Prepares Its Own Internet

Iran is testing a domestic Internet, a “Halal” network that will restrict citizens from penetrating foreign sites. Internet users th…...

12:15 am GMT - Sat, January 7, 2012

Mashable London to Get Europes Biggest Ever Wi-Fi Zone Before Olympics

London is set to roll out a massive Wi-Fi network as it prepares to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The best part? It’s absolutely free to us…...

11:54 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Confucius Comes to Life as Robotic Art Installation [VIDEO]

The ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius has returned. Artist Zhang Huan opened a new art installation in Shanghai that features multiple…...

11:43 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable CES 2012 Pre-Game Show [LIVE Q&A]

It’s OK to admit that you’re just a little bit excited about the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. CES it is one of the bi…...

11:33 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable 7 Social Media Predictions for 2012

With the year of 2011 in social media thoroughly recapped and analyzed by Mashable, its time to set our sights on the year ahead. While I re…...

11:17 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Sony to Name PlayStation Guru New President, Stringer Still CEO [REPORT]

Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer has stepped aside as president, and the company will name its current consumer products chief, Kazuo Hirai, to the…...

10:46 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable If I Die: Facebook App Lets You Leave Sweet Last Words

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10:12 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Shelby.TV Comes Closer to TV By Turning Your iPhone Into a Remote

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10:02 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable 10 Ways to Refresh Your Digital Life for the New Year

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09:50 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable U.S. Army Brands Gear for Gamers [VIDEO]

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09:28 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Positive Facebook Updates Get More Likes, Negative Get More Comments [INFOGRAPHIC]

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09:12 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Politicians Spending on Digital Ads Skyrockets

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08:59 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable 45,000 Facebook Users Hit by Ramnit Malware [VIDEO]

A worm on Facebook targeted the usernames and passwords of Facebook accounts in the United Kingdom, France and other parts of the world. I…...

08:36 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Everything You Need to Know About CES [INFOGRAPHIC]

Listen. Can you hear it?It’s the distant sound of thousands of AMOLED touchscreens being loaded into the Las Vegas Convention Center.That̵…...

08:27 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Nikon Debuts New Flagship DSLR, the D4, on Eve of CES

Nikon got a jump on the imminent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last night by unveiling its new flagship pro camera, the D4.Make no mistake, t…...

08:05 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Amazons LoveFilm Signs TV Streaming Deal With BBC Worldwide

Amazon’s LoveFilm has signed a deal with BBC Worldwide, giving its members access to BBC’s archive of shows as well as those commiss…...

07:35 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable From Fantasy to Reality: Scientists Create Time Invisibility Cloak [VIDEO]

You’ve probably seen fictional cloaks that can make people invisible, but now scientists have created a way to mask whole events in…...

07:20 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Why Tablet Publishing Is Poised to Revolutionize Higher Education

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07:02 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Google VP: Internet Access Not a Human Right

Internet access, while an enabler of basic human rights, is not itself a human right, says Google Vice President Vinton Cerf. “There is a…...

06:50 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: Thunderbolt on iOS, Fords Research Lab, Samsung Profits Up

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

03:59 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Google Translate for iOS Gets iPad Support

Google Translate app for the iPhone has hit version 1.3.0, bringing important news for iPad owners: the app is now universal for iOS devices, wh…...

01:31 pm GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Ford to Open Research Lab in Silicon Valley in 2012

Ford has announced plans to open a Research and Development lab in Silicon Valley in early 2012, the first such facility the company has ever op…...

10:17 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Former Homeless Woman Becomes Twitter Celebrity

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09:59 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Digital Detox Vacations: Dream Trip or Personal Nightmare?

Caribbean nation St. Vincent and the Grenadines is challenging travelers to leave smartphones, tablets and other gadgets behind as a part of th…...

09:33 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Facebook Shower Curtain Lets You Clean Up With Your Favorite Site

Your favorite social network offers another type of privacy! This Facebook Shower Curtain has a transparent square in the screen that lets yo…...

09:26 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable eBay Instant Sale Pays You in Seconds for Old Electronics and Unwanted Gifts

Out with the old and in with shiny new gadgets. If you’re among those gadget-owners getting rid of the “old,” plenty of retail…...

09:10 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable New Social Network Connects Travelers with Destinations, Experts

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…...

08:46 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable U.S. Wanted a Spanish SOPA

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08:27 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Instagram Photos Now Show Up Full Size on Facebook

Instagram has announced deeper integration with Facebook — now your Instagram pictures shared to Facebook will be displayed in full siz…...

07:55 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable 5 Predictions for Online Data in 2012

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07:32 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable LG to Roll Out Its Own Google TV at CES 2012 [PICS]

LG announced it will introduce its own Google TV-equipped HDTV at CES 2010. The company says its “LG Smart TV with Google TV” wi…...

06:47 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Mashables Digital Predictions for 2012

Spotify’s integrationstreams the tracks you’re listening to directly to Facebook’s activity ticker, and The Washington Post&…...

06:16 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable HBO Stops Discounting Discs to Netflix, Intensifying Battle for Content

The unspoken battle between HBO and Netflix got a little uglier on Thursday when it was revealed that the premium cable channnel had stopped off…...

05:41 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Google Chrome Beta Released, Now Even Faster and More Secure

Google Chrome has announced a new beta that speeds up the world’s second-favorite browser even more, as well as enhances its security.Acc…...

05:06 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Sprint Throttles Users with Its Truly Unlimited Data Plans

Sprint might claim it offers “truly unlimited” data for its smartphone plans, but the telecom admitted it still penalizes its heavie…...

04:42 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Smartphone Screens Get Ready: Gorilla Glass 2 is Coming

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04:01 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Celebrity Apprentice: Meet the Most Connected Cast Yet

Celebrity Apprentice host Donald Trump has been touting this season’s crop of contestants as “the best cast we’ve ever had.…...

03:30 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Reddit Gets 2 Billion Impressions in December, Leaving Digg in the Dust

Reddit raked in more than 2 billion pageviews in December, double the amount the site posted the year beforeThe network also disclosed that it…...

03:16 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable NewsRight: a Game Changer for Online Journalism?

The Associated Press, The New York Times Co., The Washington Post Co. and several other news organizations banded together Thursday to launch a…...

03:04 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Facebook Business Cards Are Here: 200,000 Users Get Free Bundles

MOO Cards, the makers of MiniCards—petite-sized business cards the size of a stick of gum—DIY business cards, and postcards, wants t…...

02:44 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Unigo Uses the Power of the Internet to Pick the Perfect College

Picking a college is one of the most important decisions in a young person’s life, and Unigo.com supercharges that process by helping pros…...

02:33 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Meet Tailbot: A Robotics Breakthrough Inspired by Dinosaurs [VIDEO]

Could the future of robotics actually lie somewhere in the ancient age of tyrannosaurus and velociraptors? That’s what the findi…...

02:22 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable How to Access the Best New Features in Google Analytics

In my last Google Analytics post, I talked about the 10 new Google Analytics features you need to start using. Now that you already know what these n…...

02:07 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable Facebook, NBC Joining Forces to Host Social Presidential Debate

NBC and Facebook are teaming up to co-host a Republican debate Sunday night with a unique social media component.The debate, moderated by Meet …...

01:51 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable RIM Cancels 2 BlackBerry 10 Phones, Now Working on Just 1 [RUMOR]

Things aren’t looking so good for BlackBerry. Amidst speculation on the phone company’s future, rumors are starting to surface that…...

01:43 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable NYC Mayor Bloomberg Vows to Learn Code in 2012

More than 170,000 people have signed up for Codeacademy’s challenge to learn how to code in 2012, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is…...

01:23 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable AT&T Switches on 4G LTE in 11 Markets, Including New York City

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01:16 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable This Online Coding Contest Could Get You a Job Interview With Facebook, Apple and Amazon

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12:37 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable CES 2012: What to Expect

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12:25 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable 4 Online Secrets for Getting Amazing Flight Deals

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12:07 am GMT - Fri, January 6, 2012

Mashable A Brief History of Kodak, American Tech Icon

A brand name that has come to define a photogenic moment, Kodak made the once expensive and complicated hobby of photography accessible and affordable…...

11:52 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable How 4 Business Students Took on the Eyewear Industry [VIDEO]

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11:43 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Cuba Slams Twitter for Letting Fidel Castro Death Rumor Flow

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11:32 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable How a Smartphone Microscope Could Change Global Health

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11:32 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable How Attaching Smartphones to Microscopes Could Change Global Health

To diagnose a disease like tuberculosis, you need two things: a good microscope and someone who understands medicine. Andrew Miller spent his s…...

11:23 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable 5 Predictions for Social Media Law in 2012

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10:53 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable 5 Things Yahoos New CEO Must Do Now

OK, Yahoo, now you’ve done it. You’ve gone with PayPal tech whiz Scott Thompson for your new CEO, and that’s fine. Picking a…...

10:40 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Startup Beats Microsoft, Brings Office to iPad for Free

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10:28 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable How the Internet Saved Buddy Roemers Presidential Campaign

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10:07 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable 10 Ways to Trade Your Old Electronics for Cash

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09:19 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Zynga Scrambles to Capitalize on Words With Friends Success

Zynga, clearly hitting the ground running in 2012, is releasing its second new game in as many days, Scramble With Friends, a successor to the m…...

09:14 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable How to Design an Ecommerce Site to Maximize Sales

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09:07 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable The Future of Nokias Solar-Powered Phone Isnt so Bright [VIDEO]

Nokia set out to see if a feature phone could be sufficiently powered by solar energy alone. The findings weren’t promising. After…...

08:51 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Sweden Recognizes File-Sharing as a Religion

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08:12 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Barnes & Noble Considers Spinning Off Nook Business Amidst Record Sales

Barnes & Noble’s Nook family of tablets experienced record sales during the nine-week holiday period at the end of 2011, the company…...

07:59 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable In 86-Tweet Dispatch, @KanyeWest Says New Company Will Pick Up Where Steve Jobs Left Off

Countless eyeballs were aimed at hip-hop superstar Kanye West’s Twitter account late Wednesday night and early this morning as he entertai…...

07:59 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable In 86-Tweet Dispatch, @KanyeWest Says New Company Will Pick Up Where Steve Jobs Left Off [PICS]

Countless eyeballs were aimed at hip-hop superstar Kanye West’s Twitter account late Wednesday night and early this morning as he entertainingly…...

07:46 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Apple Threatens to Sue Over Steve Jobs Action Figure [REPORT]

Apple is threatening to sue a Chinese manufacturer to block the sale of a Steve Jobs action figure, according to a report.The Telegraph reports…...

07:34 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable 11 Sports Writers You Need to Follow on Twitter

As one of ESPN’s most ubiquitous television personalities, pro football reporter Adam Schefter is easily recognizable to sports fans all over Am…...

07:18 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Lenovo Dives Into the Ultrabook Space and Goes Hybrid

Rumors of the death of laptops at the hands of tablets appear to be somewhat exaggerated. On Thursday, Lenovo introduced a pair of ThinkPad laptops th…...

07:08 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: Google Tablet Rumors, Android Fragmentation

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

06:49 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Marvell Will Power Next-Gen Google TV

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03:35 pm GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Gingerbread and Froyo Installed on 85% of Android Devices

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10:26 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable HopeMob Charity Website is the Reddit of Giving

New charity website HopeMob takes a cue from Reddit by letting users vote-up their favorite content. Or in the case of HopeMob, users vote for w…...

10:01 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Censorship: Belarus Makes Certain Web Behaviors Illegal

A new law in Belarus will restrict access to foreign websites, and will require Internet cafes and clubs to report users who visit forbidden pag…...

09:35 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable How to Get the Most Out of Google Analytics

After we published a primer for using Google Analytics, readers said they were hungry for more.Google Analytics has since revamped its design,…...

09:12 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Citelighter Is Like a Highlighter for the Internet

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08:16 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable 14 Essential Stops to Make on Your Tour of CES 2012

The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is less than a week away, and enthusiasts are gearing up for three days of exciting innovations…...

07:35 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Netflix Users Stream 3,000 Lifetimes Worth of Video in 3 Months

Netflix subscribers watched more than 2 billion hours of movies and TV shows streamed from the entertainment provider during October, November a…...

06:59 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Doctor Who Meets Total Eclipse of the Heart Literally [VIDEO]

If you’re a fan of the long-running UK sci-fi show Doctor Who and know your Internet memes, this video will strike you as a brilliant ma…...

06:32 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Facebook Timeline Customization: 5 Tools for Killer Cover Photos

Now that Facebook Timeline has rolled out to everyone, we’re seeing some great services that let you customize the new “Cover Photo”…...

06:06 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Hackers Port Amazons Silk Browser to Other Android Devices [VIDEO]

Amazons Silk browser is being ported onto other Android devices. Some are asking whether the port is fair game or theft.Check out the…...

05:38 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Roku Streaming Stick Aims to Make Dumb TVs Smart

Streaming media player company Roku just announced the new Roku Streaming Stick that will turn compatible TV sets into robust Internet-connected…...

05:02 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Top 2012 Social Media Resolutions: Share Less, With Fewer People

Did 2011 mark the high point of oversharing? That seems to be the lesson behind a couple of studies that examined the New Year’s resoluti…...

04:20 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Have 2 Minutes? Check Out Who Has Access to Your Social Media Accounts

There are more than 130 Facebook app developers with access to my profile. Sixty-eight apps have permission to post to my Twitter feed, eight of…...

03:33 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable U.S. Customs Denies iPad Passport Scan Got Canadian Across Border

You may have read about a Canadian man who got into the U.S.A. with no passport and only a scan of it on his iPad to show that he had one. After…...

03:09 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Warning: Scam Baits Facebook Timeline Haters [VIDEO]

Don’t like the new Facebook Timeline? Well, don’t fall for links or apps that claim to revert back to the old Facebook. New sc…...

02:57 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable 10 Things You Can Fit Into Your 63,206-Character Facebook Status

Following a slew of other major updates, Facebook announced in November that its users would be able to share status updates up to 63,206 charac…...

02:49 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Shorty Awards Opens Voting, Adds Best Presidential Candidate Category

The Shorty Awards, an annual crowdsourced contest that honors social media professionals, agencies and brands, launched its nomination phase Wed…...

02:24 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Verizon: CEO CES Keynote Cancellation Unrelated to Recent Travails

It’s been a tumultuous couple weeks for Verizon, and now company CEO Lowell McAdam has canceled his scheduled keynote appearance at the up…...

02:12 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Facebook Warning: App Profile Pages Set For Deletion

Facebook App Profile Page managers have begun receiving notifications that their Profile Pages will be eliminated Feb. 1. Administrators can tr…...

01:57 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Dear Rick Santorum: 6 Ways to Fix Your Google Problem

Rick Santorum, you’ve had a “Google problem” for years. A search for your last name reveals not your own website or Wikipedia…...

01:48 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Kodak Set to Declare Bankruptcy [REPORT]

Eastman Kodak will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over coming weeks unless it can sell its collection of digital patents, according t…...

01:33 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Samsung Pushes Galaxy Tablet With Same Child Actress From iPhone 4S Ad

Consumers and blogs are criticizing Samsung for not only stealing the look and feel of Apple commercials, but for blatantly borrowing the same child…...

01:21 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Microsoft Flight Soars Into the Digital Sky

Microsoft’s real-world flight simulator, Microsoft Flight, is finally seeing the light of day after weeks of teasers and a closed beta. Th…...

01:12 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Asian Social Media Users Create; Western Users Consume [STUDY]

Social media users in metropolitan China and India are much more apt to be “creators” on the platforms than their Western counterpar…...

12:52 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable How to Win Friends on Facebook With Music and Movies But Not Books [STUDY]

Want more Facebook friends? Then make sure you’re listening to the latest hit music. A recently published study by three researchers at…...

12:45 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable The Countdown Has Begun to MashBash at CES in Las Vegas

CES is less than a week away, so if you’re going to one of the biggest technology trade shows of the year, now is the time to decide whic…...

12:31 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable Why Building a Business in a Boring Industry Can Pay Off [VIDEO]

After MeetingBurner.com founder John Rydell talked with his friend Noah Kagan about his bright idea, Kagan deadpanned, I dont unders…...

12:17 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable New Banking Malware Spends Your Money, Hides the Evidence [VIDEO]

New malware hitting bank accounts will spend victims’ money, but won’t be obvious by looking at an online statement. Computer…...

12:00 am GMT - Thu, January 5, 2012

Mashable How to Mitigate Risk During Software Development

A software development client should complete a thorough due diligence before selecting a developer for his critical project. Then, he m…...

11:40 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Headphones Get Princess Leia Upgrade

For those looking to channel their inner Princess Leia, headphone covers with the Star Wars icon’s signature side buns are now available…...

10:55 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Google Punishes Chrome Over Paid Link Campaign [VIDEO]

Google violated its own search guidelines for the Chrome download page, by paying for flattering blog posts with links to the page. After…...

10:45 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable What Does PayPal President Scott Thompsons Departure Mean for eBay?

When Scott Thompson starts his new job as Yahoo’s CEO Monday, he’ll leave his post as the head of eBay’s payment division, Pay…...

10:35 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Portlandia Gets a Second Screen With IFC Sync

IFC is teaming up with ClipSync to provide a live second-screen experience to accompany the season two of the cult comedy, Portlandia.Dubbed IF…...

10:15 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Did Twitter Predict the Iowa Caucus Better Than Pundits?

In the closest Iowa caucus the nation has ever witnessed, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney edged out former Pennsylvania Senator Rick S…...

10:00 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable MIT Body Suit Makes You Feel Like Youre in Your 70s [VIDEO]

America is getting older. U.S. Census data projects that the last of the Baby Boomers will turn 65 in 2029, making up 16% of the total pop…...

09:49 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Barack Obama Joins Instagram

The GOP candidates campaigning in Iowa weren’t the only ones having fun Tuesday. President Barack Obama, or rather the Obama 2012 campaign…...

09:39 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Wants Yahoo to Innovate Again

Yahoos freshly minted CEO Scott Thompson is a believer, and he did his darnedest during his first public call as Yahoos new leader to conv…...

09:30 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Judge: No Warrant Needed for GPS Tracking on Vehicles [VIDEO]

A federal judge in Missouri has ruled that the FBI was in its legal right to use GPS tracking on a man’s car without a warrant.R…...

09:30 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Judge: No Warrant Needed for GPS Tracking on Vehicles

A federal judge in Missouri has ruled that the FBI was in its legal right to use GPS tracking on a man’s car without a warrant.R…...

09:20 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Velocity Micro Announces CES 2012 Product Lineup, Including Two Tablets

Velocity Micro announced on Wednesday its product lineup for the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 a week ahead of schedule, and it includes two p…...

09:06 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Zynga Enters New Gaming Genre With First Post-IPO Release

Zynga, best known for reality simulation games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, is entering the “hidden objects” genre with Hidden Chr…...

08:44 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Samsung DV300F Dual-Screen Camera Has Wi-Fi for Fast Sharing

Getting a jump on the imminent Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Samsung unveiled its latest DualView point-and-shoot camera, the DV300F, a few d…...

08:20 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Yahoo Names PayPal President Scott Thompson CEO

PayPal President Scott Thompson will become Yahoo’s new CEO, the company announced Wednesday. The role has been vacant since the company…...

08:11 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable iPhone 4S Coming to China and 21 Other Countries Jan. 13

Apple fans in China and 21 other countries can snag the iPhone 4S on Jan. 13 for the first time. The latest iPhone will land in mainland China…...

07:58 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Ron Paul Miles Ahead in Online Search, But Finishes Third in Iowa Caucus

Ron Paul may be getting short shrift in the traditional media, but the congressman is head and heels above his fellow GOP hopefuls in the online…...

07:45 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Samsung Announces Galaxy Ace Plus and Galaxy M Style

Samsung has announced Galaxy Ace Plus, an improved version of the original Galaxy Ace smartphone and another entry into the mid-range Android de…...

07:00 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Keep it Real: 8 Services to Make Your New Years Resolutions Stick

Making resolutions is easy. Keeping them is the hard part. If you made promises to yourself on New Year’s Day, you may well have discovere…...

04:55 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: Verizon CEO Bails from CES, Google Buys IBM Patents, Yahoo to Name New CEO

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

03:19 pm GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Mimbo the iPhone Robot Mimics Your Emotions

Interested in robotics, but building a robot seems too complex and you can’t afford an Asimo? The folks at Instructables have a solution:…...

08:59 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Skip the Research and Let Sortable.com Find the Product Thats Right for 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…...

08:41 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Google Gets 200+ IBM Patents, Including One for a Semantic Social Network

Google got a late Christmas gift in the form of 217 patents, acquired by way of IBM. While the patents cover a variety of topics, one in particu…...

07:33 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Follow The Quadrantids Meteor Shower Online [LIVE VIDEO]

If you’re a fan of stargazing, tonight’s your night. The Quadrantids meteor shower, potentially the best natural lightshow of the ye…...

07:01 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable 10 Easy Customer Engagement Ideas for Small Business

Business and technology writer Efraim Turban defines customer service as “a series of activities designed to enhance the level of custome…...

06:20 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Klout Confirms Mobile Component Is Coming

After announcing a new round of funding Tuesday, Klout told Mashable the undisclosed amount raised was a step up from previous rounds and that i…...

05:53 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Facebook Apologizes for Deleting Abortion Post

Facebook apologized Monday to a reproductive rights activist who posted detailed written instructions for a Do It Yourself abortion. The apolo…...

05:16 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable 6 Apps That Block Online Distractions So You Can Get Work Done

Perhaps sensing a shift in the zeitgeist, The New York Times has run no less than three stories over the past week about unplugging from the Int…...

04:43 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Google+ Experiencing Massive Membership Growth

Google+ may not have membership numbers as strong as Facebook, but it recently had its strongest-month ever and, at least according to one anal…...

04:43 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Google+ Sees Massive Membership Growth

Google+ may not have membership numbers as strong as Facebook, but it recently had its strongest-month ever and, at least according to one anal…...

04:15 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable The Iowa Caucus, as Told by Twitter

Twitter is on fire with tweets about the Iowa caucus. Politicians are reaching out to Iowans for their support, journalists are offering a behi…...

03:54 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Pizza Hut to Pick Stars of Super Bowl Pre-Game Ad Via Facebook

Like many marketers advertising in and around the Super Bowl this year, Pizza Hut’s game plan calls for a little Facebook. The pizza chai…...

03:32 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Codecademy Signs Up 97,000 People for Its New Years Resolution Coding Class

Codeacademy, a startup that uses interactive online lessons to turn anyone into a computer programmer, has signed up 97,000 students in less tha…...

03:15 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Internet Explorer 6 Usage Drops Below 1% in the U.S., Finally [VIDEO]

The end is finally nigh for IE6. Microsoft announced Tuesday that Internet Explorer 6 usage in the U.S. has dropped below 1% and is at 7.7…...

02:59 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable More Than 1 Million People Bought a Kindle Fire Instead of an iPad This Holiday [REPORT]

According to Amazon, the Kindle Fire led the Kindle line to record-breaking sales of 4 million devices over the holiday season. You have to thin…...

02:40 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Which Politician is Most Popular, Engaging on Social Media Sites?

President Barack Obama may be down in the ratings, but he still has a steady hold on social media popularity.In December, Socialbakers a s…...

02:20 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable 80+ New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Happy New Year! If you’re having trouble getting back to the grind at work today, or missed a few of our digital media resources while you…...

02:05 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Flamel Attacks! and More Atari Game Box Parodies [PICS]

Atari game box art was always sort of dramatically disproportionate to the games themselves. Action-packed illustrations of astronauts in space or a d…...

01:35 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Santorums Sweater Vests Spawn @FearRicksVest, Facebook Page, Blog and Music Video

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s sudden boost in the polls is more obvious on Twitter than in traditional national news p…...

01:35 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Rick Santorums Sweater Vests Spawn Internet Parodies

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s sudden boost in the polls is more obvious on Twitter than in traditional national news p…...

01:10 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Use YouTube As a Music Player With Tubalr

Chances are you’ve already used YouTube as a music player. But how much fun was that? You had to return to the page every time a song ende…...

12:33 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable The Pros and Cons of Android Fragmentation

My $99 Logitech Revue was just upgraded to the latest version of Google TV. My go to tablet these days is Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire…...

12:15 am GMT - Wed, January 4, 2012

Mashable Biscotti TV Phone is an Easy, Imperfect Way to Video Chat on Your HDTV

If you spent part of the holiday season trying, unsuccessfully, to get your grandparents on Skype, then Biscotti TV Phone may be the answer to your vi…...

11:52 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Twas a Merry Christmas for Rovio; Angry Birds Saw 6.5 Million Downloads [VIDEO]

Careening birds were a popular gift this holiday season. Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Seasons combined for 6.5 million dow…...

11:29 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Apple iOS Dominates Mobile Browsing Market in December

Apple dominated the mobile browsing market in December, far-surpassing competitors such as Android and BlackBerry. According to......

11:20 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Facebook Cited as a Problem in One-Third of UK Divorces [VIDEO]

Facebook may be a good way to bring people closer together, but according to a recent study it might also drive married couples apart. Th…...

11:12 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Video Conferencing Service iMeet Makes Evernote Its Virtual Notebook

In the physical world, people take notes and share documents during meetings. Video conference service iMeet is aiming to give virtual meetings…...

11:01 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable RIM Considering New Chairmen [REPORT]

A new report suggests that Research in Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry, is looking to make some changes to its board of directors, cha…...

10:29 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable 6 Turnkey Tools for Content Distribution

Its never been easier to become a publisher, but being a publisher aint easy.Today, the scarce resource in the publishing world is not i…...

10:04 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable KGB Spy Kit Is Not Just for the Movies [VIDEO]

There may be more truth than you’d think to the James Bond-like spy gadgets in movies. Entertainment blog English Russia released ph…...

09:47 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Twitter Admits Verifying Fake @Wendi_Deng Was a Mistake

On Tuesday morning, the world learned that the account bearing media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s wife’s name, Wendi Deng Murdoch, is not…...

09:36 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Can Twitter Predict the Iowa Caucus?

Can Twitter predict the outcome of the Iowa Caucus better than national polls? Mashable has partnered with Global Point Research to answer that…...

09:28 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable 5 Best Practices for Digital Marketers in 2012

The egg nogs been drunk, the bells are done jingling, and the mistletoe has been taken down. Its time to ring in the new year with resolu…...

07:41 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable RIM Slashes Price of All BlackBerry PlayBooks to $299

Want a BlackBerry PlayBook? This might be a good time to buy one, especially if you were looking at the models with more storage memory. RIM has…...

07:22 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Twitter Indicator Could Trump Polls for 2012 Election Measurement

Want to know who will win the Iowa Caucus? There may now be a more effective tool than exit polls. Twitter, which has already proved an effect…...

07:04 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable HP Spectre Might Be a Beautiful UltraBook, According to This Video

A source at HP has sent us a mysterious teaser video for an upcoming product dubbed “Spectre.” The video gives away very little det…...

05:38 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Todays Top Stories: Apple Mystery Event, Browser Wars, C64s 30th Birthday

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

03:45 pm GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Internet Explorer Still on Top, But Chrome Is Winning the Browser War

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still the world’s most popular browser, but it and Mozilla’s Firefox lost a lot of market sha…...

05:07 am GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable What Will Apple Announce at Its Event This Month?

People close to Apple have reportedly spilled the beans on a media-related event that will happen in New York City before January ends.The anno…...

04:13 am GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Need a Kidney? More Are Turning to Facebook [VIDEO]

Facebook is a place to catch up with friends, share articles and information, and now find kidneys.According to Seattle news station KHO…...

03:45 am GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Dark Knight Rises Parody Syncs Trailers Audio With Lion King Scenes [VIDEO]

The voice-over from the massively popular Dark Knight Rises trailer has been impressively synced with scenes from Disney’s 1994 smash h…...

03:10 am GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Steve Jobs Action Figure Is Eerily Realistic [PICS]

A toy company has set up a promotional page to tout the launch of its Steve Jobs action figure, showing the tech visionary in a signature black…...

02:25 am GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable 6 Tips For Building a High Quality Blog Following

In 2010, New York City startup, Birchbox launched a blog about beauty products before it had any customers. The beauty sample delivery service…...

01:42 am GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Rupert Murdochs Wife Urges Him to Delete Insulting Tweet And He Does [VIDEO]

We’ve all been there: You tweet something and then you delete it because you made a typo, included the wrong link or simply just had…...

12:53 am GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable 6 Steps for Protecting Corporate Reputation in the Social Media Age

It takes years to build a good reputation, but seconds to damage it beyond repair, as executives at companies from Dell to Dominos certainly…...

12:40 am GMT - Tue, January 3, 2012

Mashable Former British Prime Minister Gordon Browns Email Account Allegedly Hacked

London police are investigating an alleged email-hacking case involving former British Prime Minister Gordon Browns by British newspapers wh…...

10:44 pm GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable 4 Big Moves Google Should Make in 2012

In peeking ahead to predict what 2012 holds for Google, it’s informative to look back at the eventful year it had. While one can’t…...

10:12 pm GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable Are Text Messages Declining Worldwide? [VIDEO]

It may seem like everyone, everywhere is sending text messages these days. But according to a Forbes report, texting may be on the decline…...

09:41 pm GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable Reddits Guide to Fitness Dishes Out Diet and Exercise Tips [INFOGRAPHIC]

If you’ve made any New Year’s resolutions to get fit in 2012, this detailed infographic from health-content startup Greatist may com…...

08:33 pm GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable 1940 Census Report Goes Digital, Arrives in April

Following a 72-year wait period, The National Archives and Records will release the 1940 U.S. Census in April and make the search for photos and…...

07:58 pm GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable Top 25 Most-Shared Stories in December

Social media ended 2011 on a high note as Facebook rolled out Timeline to everyone and Twitter unveiled a new design, brand pages and embeddable…...

07:29 pm GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable Samsung Galaxy Note Coming to AT&T [RUMOR]

Samsung Galaxy Note might be arriving to U.S. under AT&T’s wing, according to a photo unearthed by SamMobile. In the photo, Samsung&…...

07:11 pm GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable Google Launches New Site With Resources for the 2012 Presidential Election

Google will officially announce its online information hub for political elections on Monday, a day before the Iowa Caucuses. It is the first we…...

06:48 pm GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable PostSecret App Discontinued Because of Malicious Posts

The secret is out: PostSecret has killed off its iPhone app just three months after putting it on the market in September.PostSecret founder Fr…...

05:33 pm GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable Mashable Weekend Recap: 38 Stories You May Have Missed

While most of us shared in the revelry as the ball dropped in Times Square, some of us Mashable staffers just couldn’t stop sniffing out n…...

04:49 pm GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable Facebook Timeline Doesnt Show in Internet Explorer 7

If you don’t like Facebook Timeline, all you have to do to get rid of it is use Internet Explorer 7 – but be prepared for a buggy ex…...

05:11 am GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable The Year in Mashable: What Its Like Inside a Fast Growing Media Company, And What to Expect in 2012

2011 was Mashable‘s most successful year to date, growing to 25 million monthly unique visitors and almost 60 staff. We expanded to a spa…...

04:13 am GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS]

Even though the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day seems like it might be bereft of technological excitement, those of us at Top 10 Tech …...

03:30 am GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable 8 Simple Digital Tools for Scanning Documents

Small business and startup employees are constantly on the go. They need quick, mobile solutions for scanning, storing, organizing and sharing…...

02:30 am GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable What Job Seekers Need to Know in Todays Digital Market

The 2011 job market is ending on a positive note. With unemployment shrinking to a mere 8.6% — its lowest level since May 2008 — an…...

02:00 am GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable OnePager, a Startup Making Websites Easy for Small Business

OnePager is a New York City-based startup that provides a simple drag-and-drop program to create a website that looks professionally developed.…...

01:30 am GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable 30 Best Google Doodles of 2011

This year, more than ever, visiting Google’s homepage became a bit of a surprise. Google Doodles have come a long way from the first one, which…...

12:30 am GMT - Mon, January 2, 2012

Mashable Republican Candidates Take to the Web in the Battle for Iowa

Republican presidential hopefuls are turning to the web and social media as weapons in the war to win Iowa. On Jan. 3, Iowa Republican caucus-g…...

11:50 pm GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable I Resolve: My Top 5 New Year Tech Resolutions

This year is going to be different. I resolve to change my ways — at least my tech ways — and make the world a better place for me…...

10:48 pm GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable LG Releases Gorgeous New Pics of the Worlds Largest OLED Screen

Korean electronics company LG caused a worldwide stir when it announced its 55-inch OLED panel last week, and now the company’s rolled…...

09:39 pm GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable Starting a New Years Resolution? Gympact Makes You Keep It or Pay

Happy New Year! Now it’s time to drag yourself out of bed, pop some aspirin and get started on that New Year’s resolution that seeme…...

08:19 pm GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable 3 New Digital Tools For Making Connections

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…...

04:01 am GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable YouTube in 2011: How Its Busy Year Affects You

Much has changed for YouTube since it launched in 2005. But in 2011, we saw Google’s video-sharing service undergo more tweaks, spit out m…...

03:38 am GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable Facebook Timeline Is Basically Your Digital Resume

For those of you who dont know (have you been living under a rock?), Facebook is slowly debuting the Timeline to its 800+ million users. Cur…...

03:16 am GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable Google Nails 2011: Portrait of a Banner Year

It has proven to be a monumental banner year for Google. It’s hard to believe that one year ago, things such as Google+, the now all-familiar +1…...

02:48 am GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable Top 4 Comments On Mashable This Week

For one last time this year, we are sharing the top comments posted on Mashable this week from our community. In this weekly post, we showcase…...

02:39 am GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable A 2011 Retrospective Through the Millions of Eyes of Twitter [VIDEO]

2011 was a year of big news. Political revolutions, natural disasters, astounding innovations, stories of inspiration, hope and loss — all of…...

01:50 am GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable New Years Eve Ball Drop Goes Even Higher-Tech [COMIC]

Seems like every year, there’s a new high-tech addition to the ball-dropping ritual in New York’s Times Square. Always on the loo…...

12:52 am GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable 5 Apps Worth Downloading This Week

With about 500,000 apps in the Apple App Store and an estimated 300,000 apps in the Android Market, finding the gems among the virtual haystack can be…...

12:01 am GMT - Sun, January 1, 2012

Mashable The 10 Most Popular Photos on Twitter This Week [PICS]

If you’re looking for the photos that were re-tweeted the most this week, you’ve come to the right place. Between December 23-29, th…...

11:00 pm GMT - Sat, December 31, 2011

Mashable Top 15 Most Shocking Social Media Disasters of 2011

Now, we don’t like to be negative, but social media inevitably lends itself to some epic fails. Whether it’s insensitive tweets or indecen…...

10:29 pm GMT - Sat, December 31, 2011

Mashable Typical Android User is Anything But Typical [INFOGRAPHIC]

What are Android users like? Are those who use Google‘s smartphone operating system and its associated gadgetry male or female? What sort of clo…...

09:53 pm GMT - Sat, December 31, 2011

Mashable Apples Jonathan Ive Is Now a Knight

Jonathan Ive, designer of Apple’s best products over the past 19 years, has been knighted. Whether you call him Jonathan Ive or Jony, y…...

09:20 pm GMT - Sat, December 31, 2011

Mashable Twitter Site Still Intermittent After 90-Minute Outage [UPDATED]

As you might have noticed, Twitter was down for about 90 minutes Saturday morning, with the service disruption affecting the entire Twitter si…...

09:20 pm GMT - Sat, December 31, 2011

Mashable Twitter Site Back After 90-Minute Outage [UPDATED]

As you might have noticed, Twitter was down for about 90 minutes Saturday morning, with the service disruption affecting the entire Twitter si…...

08:31 pm GMT - Sat, December 31, 2011

Mashable Mashables Biggest Stories of 2011

Curious which Mashable stories topped the charts this year? We’re here to share our 10 biggest stories of 2011, all thanks to our readers!We ca…...

08:31 pm GMT - Sat, December 31, 2011

Mashable Mashables Top 10 Biggest Stories of 2011

Curious which Mashable stories topped the charts this year? We’re here to share our 10 biggest stories of 2011, all thanks to our readers!We ca…...

08:57 am GMT - Sat, December 31, 2011

Mashable 10 Best Spoof Twitter Accounts of 2011

If laughter is the best medicine, Twitter certainly kept us in tip-top shape this year with its crop of spoof accounts.We’ve rounded up…...

08:40 am GMT - Sat, December 31, 2011

Mashable Instantly Turn Video Clips Into Movies With V.I.K.T.O.R

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08:17 am GMT - Sat, December 31, 2011

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