Articles by Mashable from February 2012

Digital media is rewriting the rules of just about everything. When it comes to music, what most immediately comes to mind is the way we consume…...

Buddy Roemer, former governor of Louisiana, wants to be the Internet’s first candidate for U.S. president. Roemer was once aiming to beco…...

If you’ve always wished you could tweak Instagram so that it would show only unfiltered fashion photos, a service launching Tuesday might…...

Text messages that tell fans when their usual parking lot is full and where to park instead. Automated alerts that avoid dangerous overcrowding…...

Atari has invited indie game developers to create an iOS version of Pong for a chance to win $100,000 and a development contract with Atari. Fo…...

Apple just sent out invitations to an event next Wednesday to be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Besides the time…...

New York and London fashion weeks have drawn to a close, and the data is in.Fashion designer Jason Wu’s Fall/Winter 2012 collection garnered…...

Users spent just 3.3 minutes on Google+ in January compared to 7.5 hours for Facebook, according to a new comScore report.The gulf between usag…...

BARCELONA: Android is on a tear. It has now has, according to Google’s Mobile and Digital Content division lead Andy Rubin, 300 million…...

According to CNBC, Apple will reveal the iPad 3 at an event next week in New York City. Sources reportedly told CNBC that the next-generation iPad wi…...

UPDATE, 12:10 p.m. ET: Apple has sent invitations to the event, which will be March 7 in San Francisco. According to CNBC, Apple will reveal the iPad…...

Motorola Mobility is offering up to $200 to consumers who trade in their “business-ready” phones for a new Android model.The compan…...

Independent film and entertainment studio Lionsgate holds the majority (30%) of the market share of fitness DVDs. Naturally, the company decided…...

BARCELONA: Although it’s been out for a while – it was officially launched in November of last year – Tegra 3 is definitely on…...

Facebook has inked deals with some top wireless carriers to facilitate mobile payments, the company announced Monday. The company’s new p…...

BARCELONA: Spend enough time at Mobile World Congress and soon you find that you cant tell one gray slab, big-screen smart phone from the next. The…...

March Madness is right around the corner and an app released late last year could help you keep up with what your friends and fellow sports fan…...

There’s a trend in smartphones, and some might call it disturbing. Hand-in-hand with the recent surge of phones with gigantic screens com…...

Zmags launched an online shopping environment on Tuesday, aiming to blend the physical store experience with that of flipping through a magazine or c…...

BARCELONA: MTV Mobile has announced a new mobile TV app called MTV Under The Thumb at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The app offers MT…...

Foursquare tells people where you are. A new mobile app called Forecast, which is opening to Facebook users on Tuesday, instead tells them where…...

When the Daytona 500 ran into a protracted delay following an explosion and fire on the track Monday night, NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski did wh…...

When the Daytona 500 ran into a protracted delay following an explosion and fire on the track Monday night, NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski did wh…...

In a tech world where just 1% of startup founders are African American, it’s easy for young minority entrepreneurs to feel discouraged try…...

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…...

While it only earned one-third the social media chatter as the Super Bowl, this year’s Oscars broke serious records. According to Trendrr, the 2…...

The Hipster Orchestra is back in the studio, this time applying their talent towards famous film scores.Dubbed the “Hipster Orchestra …...

Ten years ago, Sundance DiGiovanni set out to standardize competitive gaming. He wanted to create a “world-class organization” type…...

The FBI shut down 3,000 GPS-based devices this week in a response to a court case ruling decided on Jan 23. The U.S. Department of Justice is…...

Its a week before launch and youre hoping to score some awesome traffic from a well-known publication. Here is what usually happens: You…...

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), told attendees of the GSMA Mobile World Congress on Monday that the…...

Adding photos to your Facebook map is a great way to chart where you’ve been and what you’ve achieved in your life. If you have added geo…...

The future of ecommerce looks bright. After topping $200 billion for the first time, online retail sales in the U.S. are forecast to reach $327…...

Yesterday I was subscribed to 271 newsletters. Today, after putting about 10 minutes of effort, I’m subscribed to just the 17 of them I f…...

Do you have what it takes to be a world-class pianist? If you’re like most people, the answer is no, but an interactive banner ad from MetLife…...

Facebook denied a report Monday from the Sunday Times in London that the company is reading text messages sent by users that have installed it…...

The suspect in a school shooting near Cleveland posted a macabre, ominous message on his Facebook wall months ago, closing with the sentence …...

If you are tired of seeing the pileup of social content from Google+ friends every time you use Google, you can now do something about it. Her…...

MasterImage 3D is showing off its glasses-free technology at the 2012 Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona this week on a tablet manuf…...

Angelina Jolie’s right leg has been everywhere since she first stepped onto the red carpet at the 84th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night. No…...

Angelina Jolie’s right leg has been everywhere since she first stepped onto the red carpet at the 84th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday nig…...

You’ve set up your company’s Facebook Page and Twitter account, pulled together a social media team to start generating engagement,…...

A Chinese company likes the iPhone so much that they named a stove after the Apple brand. This is the latest of many Chinese companies to sel…...

BARCELONA — Intel continues its steady march into the smartphone market with new international partners in Europe, India and China. The company…...

While the stars lit up the stage at the 84th Academy Awards, viewers set the social web aflame, posting just short of 2 million messages on Twitter. T…...

Niche Media, publisher of high-end regional magazines including Gotham, Hamptons and Ocean Drive, is launching yet another luxury lifestyle titl…...

To ring in the first day of Mobile World Congress, Google revealed some new statistics about how far its Android mobile operating system has com…...

A U.S. federal judge has ruled that Twitter users who threaten presidential candidates with violence can’t expect to stay anonymous. Chie…...

Many marketers have heard of Pinterest, but despite this, most brands have yet to hop on the hottest new social network. In this article, we…...

BARCELONA — The Monday announcement of the 41-megapixel Nokia 808 PureView represents a major leap in mobile camera technology.While more megap…...

Good news, tablet-owning politics junkies! The Washington Post has released a brand-new interactive iPad app that’s chock full of graphs, pollin…...

Groupon announced at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday that it experienced a record-breaking month in December among mobile…...

Just like the Super Bowl and the Grammys, Sunday’s Academy Awards generated a ton of social media buzz. If you were one to tweet about Ang…...

Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private accused of leaking classified U.S. information to WikiLeaks in 2010, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace…...

When Facebook filed for its IPO earlier this month, it revealed that it has 425 million mobile users. That massive presence on phones and tablet…...

Even with founder Julian Assange under house arrest in Britain, WikiLeaks’s engines are set to “full steam ahead.” And the whi…...

Matthew Ogston is the founder and CEO of JobPage.com, a hassle-free social recruiting and applicant tracking system for hiring managers and recr…...

YouTube sensation Julia Nunes is gearing up to release her fourth album — this one funded with a little help from her online friends.Nune…...

So what’s this iCloud thing all about? Apple attempts to answer that question in a new ad.The spot, from longtime Apple ad agency TBWA\Media…...

LinkedIn has announced a new program that lets brands embed a “follow company” button from the social network on their homepages.Th…...

BARCELONA — There are two big electronics companies in South Korea: Samsung and LG. Interestingly, both are now gravitating toward stylus-friend…...

BARCELONA — There are two big electronics companies in South Korea: Samsung and LG. Interestingly, both are now gravitating toward stylus-friend…...

We had a double-barreled weekend full of excitement at Mashable, with some of our lucky adventurers heading out to Barcelona for the Mobile Worl…...

BARCELONA — Opera has launched new versions of its Mini and Mobile web browsers at the MWC today: Opera Mini Next and Opera Mobile 12. Op…...

BARCELONA: Although HTC CEO Peter Chou said the company’s new strategy is to offer customers one device that has it all, HTC actually laun…...

BARCELONA: Nokia wove a convincing story this morning of success for the still-young and well-behind-the-competition Windows Phone platform, but it wa…...

BARCELONA: We didn’t get a new flagship Lumia from Nokia at the Mobile World Congress today, but we did get a low-end model: the Lumia 610…...

BARCELONA: Thought that Symbian was dead? Think again: at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia has just announced the 808 Pureview, a f…...

BARCELONA: Officially kicking off the Mobile World Congress with its first major press conference, Nokia introduced three new Asha devices, the…...

Samsungs newest 10.1-inch tablet, the Galaxy Note 10.1, is thin, light and powerful, but its also among a rather rarefied — but growing &#…...

Today, we bring you “Wrecking Ball,” the title track from Bruce Springsteen’s forthcoming album, streaming right here on Masha…...

Today, we bring you “Wrecking Ball,” the title track from Bruce Springsteen’s forthcoming album, streaming right here on Masha…...

BARCELONA: Here at Mobile World Congress, Adobe has unveiled Primetime Highlights, a powerful new tool for converting video highlights into publ…...

The Internet was quick to put together the best memes and GIFs from the 84th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night, from Robert Downey Jr. channeling…...

The Internet was quick to put together the best memes and GIFs from the 84th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night, from Robert Downey Jr. channeling…...

What once seemed like something straight out of The Jetsons has become a very common utility across all industries — 3D printing could very well…...

We have a treat for font fans with itchy thumbs in this super selection of five fabulous iPhone games that share a typographical theme. Can you easil…...

Sacha Baron Cohen dumping faux ashes of late dictator Kim Jong II on Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet of the 84th Academy Awards went viral Sund…...

The 84th Academy Awards airs tonight, and we’re capturing all the action for you from Mashable HQ in New York City. Join us as we dish the detai…...

The 84th Academy Awards airs tonight, and we’re capturing all the action for you from Mashable HQ in New York City. Join us as we dish the detai…...

The 84th Academy Awards airs tonight, and we’re capturing all the action for you from Mashable HQ in New York City. Join us as we dish the detai…...

Seven years ago a Texas company called NewTek launched TriCaster, a product that essentially puts all the equipment from a TV news truck into on…...

With the rumors churning about Google’s potential “heads-up display glasses” coming out at the end of the year, we thought it was im…...

Billy Crystal will host the 84th Academy Awards tonight on ABC. The Oscars begin at 8:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. PT, with red carpet festivities beg…...

BARCELONA: Besides showing us the drool-worthy flagship and king of the new One line of devices, the HTC One X, Taiwanese mobile giant HTC also…...

Do you need some last minute help with your Oscar pool? The 84th Academy Awards won’t start announcing the winners of its major awards until t…...

BARCELONA: HTC has launched a new flagship Android smartphone, the HTC One X, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The majority of mobile…...

BARCELONA: HTC has launched a new flagship Android smartphone, the HTC One X, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The majority of mobile…...

How well will the iPad 3 sell when it’s introduced next month? Who’s going to upgrade, and who will sit on the sidelines, enjoying their c…...

As expected, Sony unveiled its Xperia P and Xperia U dual-core smartphones at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona on Sunday. It was the fir…...

Google is ubiquitous in our digital lives. Its algorithms deliver search results, email and YouTube videos to us in the blink of an eye. But thereR…...

BARCELONA: If you’re one of the people whose gadgets often die a watery death, you’d feel really safe at this year’s Mobile Wo…...

Pinterest hasn’t just become a significant source of referral traffic for retailers; it’s also becoming a top traffic driver for wom…...

BARCELONA: Adobe Photoshop Express is a great, free and highly usable iOS app for quickly fixing up your digital photos, but it pales in compari…...

You don’t have to be in the market for a Super Bowl ad to learn the world’s biggest marketers. In fact, as a quick trip to Facebook…...

BARCELONA: A projector jammed inside a smartphone may seem awkward or crazy to some, but its not a new idea and the Samsung Galaxy Beam may…...

BARCELONA: The Mobile World Congress hasn’t even officially kicked off yet, and Samsung is already on fire, announcing devices left and ri…...

BARCELONA: Samsung is expanding its Galaxy Tab tablet line with the brand new Galaxy Tab 2 lineup: a 7.0-inch variant and a 10.1-inch variant.…...

BARCELONA: Samsung is expanding its Galaxy Tab tablet line with the brand new Galaxy Tab 2 lineup: a 7.0-inch variant and a 10.1-inch variant.…...

BARCELONA: We’re getting set for our first big meeting of Mobile World Congress, but Samsung is making no secret about what they plan on s…...

Eventually, Facebook’s 845 million users will have to climb abroad the Facebook Timeline hub.There will be plenty of challenges to consi…...

Mashable‘s top comments segment is back. Every week, the Mashable community team keeps a close eye on our comment section in search of particul…...

Each week there are even more Twitter photos to choose from, and this week our eagle-eyed researchers at Skylines used a trusty algorithm to browse t…...

It’s no secret that the Internet loves Pinterest. Now, most users are even spending more time, on average, pinning than they are on hanging out…...

YouTube videos encompass virtually every niche and genre known to man. Falling somewhere in between silly and educational, the PronunciationManual cha…...

This year’s Mobile World Congress is fast approaching — are you caught up on all of Mashable‘s digital media resources? If no…...

Users on the Yahoo-owned photo social network Flickr can now block Pinterest aficionados from tacking Flickr pictures onto their beloved online…...

With feet planted firmly on the ground (wearing a new kind of ultralight Nike shoe), we reach into space once again in this edition of Top 10 Tech Thi…...

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…...

When Parents Text was launched on Tumblr in the fall of 2010 by Lauren Kaelin and Sophia Fraioli, then recent college grads. Less than two years late…...

Portuguese artist Nuno Serro wants to make art viewing more stimulating by incorporating music through an iPhone app and QR codes.The artist&…...

Dyson, the company that makes all those expensive and attractive vacuums and fans, has done it again. That is, it’s rolled out another v…...

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

The roads in Nevada are ready for driverless robot cars. Earlier this month, Nevada’s Legislative Commission approved testing of autonomou…...

When most people think of tech-savvy social media users, they probably don’t picture fans of NASCAR. At this weekend’s Daytona 500,…...

Best Western International reservations are going where the customers are: Facebook. The hotel chain is the latest to let travelers book thei…...

Apple may be planning to replace the dock connector that’s been synonymous with iPhones, iPods and iPads for almost a decade with somethin…...

Quickly shooting up the social media pyramid, image sharing network Pinterest has gained a reputation for largely being a repository for photos…...

The quirky Fred Figglehorn, a high-pitched character who rose to fame on YouTube in 2008, has wiggled his way into a prime time TV slot on Nicke…...

You can subscribe to just about anything on the web — toiletries, beauty products, organic snacks — and now, one mom has created an…...

At last there’s some recourse for consumers upset about AT&T‘s decision to throttle their data: small claims court.A precedent…...

Trust: an essential quality for a good friend, especially if you’re sharing a private photo album with them via new app Popset.The app la…...

What makes a great political video? YouTube is attempting to answer that question by posting four of its favorites in a collection titled “…...

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…...

Many companies have mobile apps at the top of their to-do lists, but while churning out a quick app is fairly straightforward, developing a str…...

The Oscars are getting a big dose of social TV integration! From the official Oscar.com Backstage Experience to special promotions and activiti…...

Facebook users have to work harder to keep their friend count up these days. A majority of adults on social networking sites have no bouts wit…...

A pair of model makers — Vincent Rossi and Adam Metallo — are taking on the task of digitizing the Smithsonian Institute’s 1…...

A pair of model makers — Vincent Rossi and Adam Metallo — are taking on the task of digitizing the Smithsonian Institute’s 1…...

Barcelona is Spains second largest city and, arguably, its most cosmopolitan. The busy port city is home to the Picasso Museum and a thrillin…...

Leading up to the season finale of popular mining reality TV show Gold Rush airing Friday night on the Discovery Channel, the network will be showing…...

Today would have been the 57th birthday of Apple co-founder and visionary Steve Jobs, who died on Oct. 5, 2011, after a long battle with a rare…...

Want to access Netflix from your BlackBerry PlayBook? Don’t hold your breath. In response to customer queries, the subscription streaming…...

The weekend is finally here, and you’re ready for a great time with your friends. We’ve assembled a list of free mobile apps to help you p…...

Apple has launched a countdown to its 25 billionth app downloaded from the App Store, but more is at stake than the glory of a historic downlo…...

Apple has launched a countdown to its 25 billionth app downloaded from the App Store, but more is at stake than the glory of a historic downlo…...

Consumers aren’t the only ones getting Pinterest fever. About 9% of the top online retailers are offering Pinterest pins on their sites, a…...

Apple’s iPad trademark dispute, previously limited to China, has crossed the ocean and landed in Santa Clara, Calif. Proview Internationa…...

Are there people you’re friends with on Facebook who you’d rather not chat with? The good news is, you don’t have to. Facebook offer…...

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is getting more social media attention than any other Republican presidential contender, according to…...

Recently, Gap and J.C. Penney closed their Facebook storefronts because the retailers weren’t seeing immediate traction. The move has spa…...

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

Paris Hilton has a thing or two to say about drunk texts, sexting and Twitter. The pop heiress recently released her new song “Drunk Text…...

Paris Hilton has a thing or two to say about drunk texts, sexting and Twitter. A video by the pop heiress has recently surfaced for a song call…...

It wasn’t too long ago that Simon Ribeiro would have been considered an odd political candidate.Ribeiro’s de-facto campaign nerve…...

The new video of French electronic music producer Yuksek is all about mirroring. The old trick where you split the video image in half, then mirror o…...

Biz Stone, a cofounder of Twitter, told an audience in Montreal this week that spending up to 12 hours a day on the platform is not necessarily…...

We’ve all heard of solar power and wind power, but researchers at Wake Forest are developing another alternative form of power: thermoel…...

There’s no question that Pinterest is the hottest social network right now. From your friends and family to celebrities, athletes and designers,…...

Athletic apparel brand Under Armour calls the NFL Scouting Combine “the most important job interview” of football players’ liv…...

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…...

Apple’s iCloud and MobileMe push services have been taken down for users residing within Germany due to a patent lawsuit from Motorola, th…...

LG is gearing up to unveil a new line of smartphones that will be focused on sleek design.The company will be revealing three smartphones unde…...

Doctors at Houston’s Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital have made medical and social media history by live-tweeting an open-heart surgery…...

Audiophiles take note: Apple has quietly added a new section to iTunes called “Mastered for iTunes” that promises music the way R…...

A murder-for-hire plot that started with a Facebook message resulted in a prison sentence for Ohio residents Christine Metter and her 77-year…...

What do you do when you want Marty McFly’s hoverboard from Back to the Future so badly you can almost feel yourself floating around on…...

If you like memes and alcohol, you’ll love this new drinking game that uses 24 memes as spaces of a board game. Cheers to that! Reddit…...

Microsofts stock price today is approximately half of what it was in late 1999. While there are many reasons for the company’s stock…...

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The iPhone 5 might not be arriving any time soon, but that hasn’t stopped artists and design firms from creating their own mock-ups.After analy…...

Blackberry Playbook 2.0, which arrived earlier this week, is a marked improvement on the first-generation PlayBook platform released along with the 7-…...

Jennifer Borget might be a great sewer, but she hates cleaning. Her husband does most of it the dishes, vacuuming, laundry, bathrooms an…...

Harry Potter fans flocked to social media sites on Thursday to celebrate the news that author J.K. Rowling will be taking a crack at adult fiction.Th…...

At some point, Kickstarter became more than just a way to fund art, music and other creative endeavors. It became entertaining content in itself…...

Black holes may be invisible, but astute observers can find them by looking for the effect of their intense gravity on other nearby celestial…...

It’s an annual rite for college basketball fans to grumble about how they would have done a better job than the NCAA’s official sele…...

Are you reading this story on your phone via a link on Twitter, Facebook or some other social network? You’re not alone. A new study by r…...

Tumblr will release a new policy blocking blogs that promote self-harm — such as anorexia, bulimia, self-mutilation and suicide — in…...

Mashable’s largest conference, Mashable Connect, is returning to Orlando, FL from May 3-5, and this year we will explore the future of d…...

All the major browser makers plan to install a “Do Not Track” button this year — except for one, according to an attorney repr…...

Pfc. Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army soldier suspected of handing classified government data to WikiLeaks, deferred his plea Thursday at his mili…...

Words aren’t always enough to express your feelings. At least, that’s according to the makers of That’s So True, a new website…...

A familiar-looking site called Fancy has beaten Pinterest to the punch — by monetizing its user-curated collection of images.Fancy, which…...

It’s hardly news that young adults are the most digitally connected, but now Nielsen has come up with a new name for this group based on t…...

Smartphones and tablets have improved customer convenience and have fostered an economic boon for wireless carriers, ecommerce sites and app m…...

Are you an Android gamer who’s tired of flinging birds and cutting ropes? Looking for a cerebral experience on your Google phone or tablet of ch…...

The four remaining Republican presidential hopefuls went toe-to-toe in Arizona during Wednesday night’s CNN debate, dishing out terms like ̶…...

Viewers of this weekend’s Academy Awards telecast may want to have their smatphones handy when a Tide ad comes on. If you have the Shazam…...

As the U.S. presidential election 2012 ramps up, one of the best things you can do is to become informed about the candidates and the issues. That…...

Streaming movie-on-demand platform Prescreen announced on Thursday that it has integrated with Facebook’s Open Graph Platform to make it…...

It’s been two weeks since North Carolina dad Tommy Jordan uploaded his now-infamous YouTube video, “Facebook Parenting: For the troubled t…...

Concerned about the recent controversy about various companies (mainly Google) bypassing your phone’s privacy settings to serve you ads? L…...

T-Mobile USA announced on Thursday that it will be begin a major network transformation with the launch of a high-speed LTE network in 2013.CEO…...

A new campaign from Microsoft repeats what many reviewers have noted about Windows Phone: It’s comparable or better than its iPhone and Androi…...

There are many guides out there that teach businesses how to tactically use social media, but few that discuss how to adapt all your departmen…...

A small victory for Apple in a Chinese trademark dispute came Thursday as a Shanghai court denied an attempt to halt Apple iPad sales in that ci…...

The panoramic photo that now graces the top of every Facebook profile is pretty, but it’s a far cry from practical. Most cameras donR…...

Remember that experiment from last fall that appeared to show neutrinos can travel faster than light? It turns out the whole thing is probably a…...

Although it didn’t unearth any atrocities in the factories of Foxconn – the Chinese company that manufactures goods for several elec…...

Converse, long acknowledged for fighting above of its weight class in social media, offered another treat for fans on Thursday: A free, exclusive do…...

Ancient dinosaurs are coming to life, using the latest tech: 3D printing. Researchers at Drexel University in Philadelphia are creating 3D sca…...

In the wake of recent revelations about commercial appropriation of consumers’ online data, the Obama Administration has stepped in with a…...

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…...

How “green” is your smartphone? AT&T’s new program will rate the environmental impact of devices in its portfolio. The Eco-Ra…...

Thousands of user emails and passwords from pornographic site YouPorn were exposed in a security breach, the Associated Press reports. The secu…...

Google, PayPal and major credit companies are all making land-grabs for the emerging mobile payments industry. Mobile carriers — used to c…...

From the moment you wake up in the morning to the second you close your eyes at night, your smartphone is probably the first and last thing you touch.…...

Young people between the ages of 18 and 24 are even more connected to their mobile devices than you might think. Nine in 10 young adults spend…...

Like many artists before her, global pop star Adele experienced a post-Grammys album sales boost, selling 730,000 copies of 21 in the past wee…...

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

The Samsung Galaxy Note, a so-called “superphone” that has a massive 5-inch screen, gives quite a first impression. Not only is it huge,…...

An advanced camera could help save the lives of U.S. soldiers in combat. The new camera was developed to navigate dangerous war conditions …...

Tweets, apps and status updates will join the usual barrage of dunks, three-pointers and no-look passes more than ever this weekend at the NBA&#…...

Google is looking to get into the paid TV business.The company filed an application last week to provide video service to residents of Kansas C…...

What is it about video game worlds that etch themselves so vividly in our mind’s eye? A fun new user-generated blog aims to unearth the…...

Gearbox and 2K Games announced Wednesday that the sequel to the popular Borderlands will have a Sept. 18 release date for XBox 360, PlayStation 3 and…...

If 15 games available at launch for PlayStation Vita wasn’t entertaining enough, early adopters of the game system are in for a treat. Free Twit…...

He’s back. DRINK! The college student — whose 2007 photo of himself as a freshman catapulted into meme territory last year — has mad…...

Irony, thy name is patent law. Microsoft filed a complaint with the European Commission against Motorola for aggressively asserting its patent…...

ABC’s Nightline offered viewers a rare glimpse inside the Foxconn plants that produce Apple products Tuesday night.Apple has faced incre…...

Are you addicted to the Internet?If so, you’re not alone. Some 61% of people feel addicted to the Internet and are unable to quit browsing, acc…...

Your favorite mobile apps should soon be making it a lot more clear when they intend to use your data. The Attorney General of California, Kama…...

How is Pinterest inpsiring you to take action?As Pinterest looks to turn the corner from buzz-worthy startup to mainstream social network, ever…...

ABCs behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s supply plant in Shenzhen and Chengdu confirmed a lot of what we already knew: Conditions are grueling,…...

Google announced a Google Docs update for Android Wednesday, allowing for easy native editing from your smartphone and tablet.The new feature w…...

Sean “Diddy” Combs took to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook this week to announce the launch of REVOLT TV — a new socially connec…...

Nike+ is no longer for runners only.At an event in New York City Wednesday, Nike unveiled a line of digitally connected footwear — some d…...

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said Wednesday that failing to meet the “challenges” of cyber…...

The new PlayStation Vita, the portable gaming device, launches Wednesday in stores across the U.S., Europe and Australia. For gamers who haven’t…...

Driving isn’t exactly eco-friendly, but one company has found a way to make it as green as possible — by improving your driving,…...

Move over, Rebecca Black. Make room for Tommy Jordan. The heat-packing, tech-savvy dad who plugged nine rounds into his daughter’s laptop…...

Rapportive, a startup that makes a Gmail add-on that displays social media info about contacts as you email them, confirmed on Wednesday that it…...

Zipcar’s 673,000 subscribers currently share its fleet of 8,900 vehicles. But what if they could also rent yours? The company announced on…...

Pope Benedict XVI is bringing a segment of his daily papal message to Twitter, beginning Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, according to a Vatican Radio b…...

Phone companies missed out on $13.9 billion last year as more people opted to send free texts through SMS (short message service) applications…...

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playerIn case you missed last night’s report on ABC’s Nightline, the video above prov…...

On the list of things guaranteed to happen from Google getting caught circumventing privacy settings on the iPhone‘s web browser, you can…...

The microphone is in your hand, and it’s your chance to ask the 2012 Republican presidential candidates any question. What would you ask?…...

Six-year-old online ticketing platform Eventbrite issued its 50 millionth ticket on Tuesday night.More than 40 percent of those tickets were so…...

The highest court in the European Union has been asked to determine if the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, is legal. The move come…...

As more Twitter users flock to the site worldwide, it’s only natural that the social network roll out an option that allows you to read tweets b…...

Every time he drinks a cup of coffee, Dan Meyer makes a note on his phone. He does the same every time he opens a beer, turns on his TV or trave…...

Twitter may hit a huge landmark on Wednesday — welcoming the 500 millionth user to the social network at approximately 3 p.m. EST.The cou…...

Twitter may hit a huge landmark on Wednesday — welcoming the 500 millionth user to the social network at approximately 3 p.m. EST.The co…...

Apple defended its right to use the “iPad” trademark in China in a mainland Chinese court on Wednesday. In a David-and-Goliath lega…...

The Perfect Palette, a wedding blog that explores “the color palette possibilities for your wedding” and serves as a resource for other we…...

Yelp is ready to hit the marketplace with a $100 million IPO on March 2, and both investors and the tech community will be watching to see how the loc…...

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

Google plans to launch glasses with a heads-up display by the end of 2012, the New York Times reports citing sources familiar with the matter.T…...

Today’s Google Doodle barely resembles the usual company logo, as Google celebrates the 155th birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. The name…...

Social media storytelling tool Storify finally untethered itself from the desktop on Wednesday with the launch of a free iPad app.Like the web-based…...

Calling all supertaster space nerds: NASA wants your help to improve the bland food astronauts would have to eat while on a mission to Mars.…...

Eager to monetize the large followings they had built on Facebook, many large brands set up shop on the social network for the first time last y…...

Eager to monetize the large followings they had built on Facebook, many large brands set up shop on the social network for the first time last y…...

Twitter announced updates to its iPhone and Android apps on Tuesday, re-introducing some well-loved features and adding new improvements as well…...

The PlayStation Vita launches Wednesday with plenty of impressive features, but many may wonder if the system’s launch titles will be worth grab…...

LeBron James, you have officially been called out. By a kid. On YouTube. “Why won’t you play in the dunk contest this year, man?&…...

Comcast is hoping to prevent its cable customers from cutting the cord by introducing a new streaming video service.The service, known as Xfini…...

Whether we look too young, too old or too inebriated, we’ve all been there — tagged in unflattering Facebook photos. But if you…...

Netflix has signed a multi-year exclusive licensing agreement with The Weinstein Company that will give the streaming service first-run access t…...

Google Fiber Inc., a subsidiary of the search giant, is asking the FCC for permission to install 4.5 meter satellite antennas on 1,000 acres o…...

Among the cold, often critical world of the web, HelloGiggles is warming it up with fun and empowering, lady-friendly content. The website R…...

Touchscreens on everything from coffee makers to treadmills are intended to provide better user experiences, but they can create a navigational night…...

What’s a University of Alabama freshman to do after instant Internet fame invades his life because of a viral cardboard cutout of his fac…...

Flickr will be rolling out a number of changes in the coming months, beginning with a new photo stream design, Justified View, and a new uploading fea…...

A New Zealand court has granted bail to Kim Dotcom, the founder of file-sharing site Megaupload. Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz, was arrested last mon…...

Community is back. After months of speculation, a flash mob at NBC headquarters and fan campaigns on Facebook and Twitter, the quirky community…...

Iggy Pop may not need much help engaging listeners, but he’s trying a cool new tactic anyway: an interactive image on his...

Foxconn plants in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, where Apple makes a variety of best-selling gadgets, including the iPad. It will also be an oppo…...

Spectrum is going to be a hot issue in the upcoming year. Freeing up spectrum is a major part of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) N…...

Too Big to Fail is the albatross of the Great Recession. Now under the specter of a double dip, does the phrase apply to online content…...

Greece is about to take a $172 billion bailout from the rest of Europe, but there are strings attached. Greece will have to spend less on govern…...

Remember the TV show Moonlighting? Microsoft is hoping you do. Otherwise, you won’t get the main joke behind it’s latest smear against G…...

Apple’s iPad, which has already shown up in airplane cockpits and as loaners in at least one library, may soon be appearing in another unl…...

If the rumors are to be believed, Microsoft is on the verge of releasing a version of Office for the iPad. While an iOS version of Office may h…...

Lost the TV remote again? Don’t worry, says Google. In the future you’ll be able to verbally instruct your TV to turn off and on,…...

Two 22-year-old digital media dudes — who don’t own iPads or have babies — are the masterminds behind the adorable Babies With iPads…...

Twitter content is one step closer to being integrated into web search — in Russia, at least.Yandex, Russia’s largest web portal, a…...

The interest graph has been gaining increased attention over the past few months. With Google transforming itself into a social company, and ev…...

To win the future, we have to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world, tapping the creativity and imagination of our people,…...

Since the days of Google Buzz, the +1 button has been a mystery to users and content producers alike. It’s different from Facebook’s…...

Every election year breaks records for ad spending. The total spend leading up to the 2008 election in TV alone was over $450 million. But in 2…...

If you know the panicked and disconnected feeling of leaving your mobile phone at home, you might be one of the many suffering from nomophobia…...

Anonymous, the loosely affiliated group of “hacktivists,” have had a wide array of targets: The Boston and Oakland Police Department…...

Despite the continued growth of its online business, Barnes & Noble fell short of fiscal third quarter earnings expectations Tuesday. Tota…...

Following the revelation that Google bypasses built-in privacy protections on the iPhone’s web browser, Microsoft has come forward to decl…...

Can’t get enough Cristiano? Social media’s most popular athlete worldwide launched an official mobile app on Tuesday for all things…...

SeatGeek is blurring the line between content and commerce by integrating links to its ticket aggregator with sports content on third-party site…...

Apple‘s new data center in Maiden, N.C., will be one of the most energy efficient facilities of its kind, the company’s 2012 envir…...

Are you ready to secure a copy of one of the most coveted games of 2012 more than a week before its worldwide release? A copy that has touched t…...

RIM has announced the availability of BlackBerry OS 2.0 for its PlayBook tablet. The new version of the OS brings social integration with services…...

One of Facebook‘s most useful features is the way it alerts you to the birthdays of all your buddies. Did you know that you can export this valu…...

The days of shuffling that 10-pound textbook to class or those countless fiction novels in your backpack are slowly but steadily coming to a close. Wi…...

We’ve seen some great Google+ profile hacks, but there’s a new breed of design in town — the animated Google+ profile.Pioneered by…...

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…...

Earlier this week, we shared how to trick out your Pinterest Boards with a simple hack. Then, we asked you to share your own creations. And that’…...

Bio-inspired bees made from stacks of carbon fiber are buzzing right off the production line at Harvard’s Microrobotics Lab.Why build r…...

Redditors are well known for posting memes, self-referencing jokes and collecting upvotes and karma. But writing legislation to protect the Inte…...

Mashable is hiring! Were recruiting candidates for full-time positions based in our New York and San Francisco offices, as well as a remote…...

Hamburger meat could be grown in a test tube as soon October. In a bid to protect the environment, Dutch scientists are exploring lab-grown me…...

You shouldn’t be allowed to pick your own four-digit PIN numbers — and banks should start blacklisting the most common PINs, accor…...

Jeremy Lin fans can’t get enough of the NBA’s newest superstar on social media. Now they can get even more than before. On Monday…...

A 26-year-old software development student will spend eight months in jail for hacking Facebook, which his judge said could have been “u…...

When a twentysomething’s budget is tight, her smartphone is far from the first expense to go, suggests a new study from Nielsen.The surve…...

Is Barnes & Noble launching an 8GB Android tablet to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet?The bookseller is planning to release…...

With 845 million users, Facebook has become an increasingly useful tool for brands, and it’s important to have a strong presence on the s…...

Apple hasnt yet confirmed the existence of the iPad 3, but first and second-generation iPad owners are already rushing to sell their devices…...

Have you checked out LinkedIn‘s mobile site yet? No, not the mobile app — the in-browser mobile site. It’s very powerful and…...

Pinterest may be an Internet hit — especially with U.S. women and Facebook CEOs. But not all companies want to ride the pinboard wave o…...

Google rarely clutters its minimalist home page with extra buttons or gizmos, but it made an exception for its social network Google+. The comp…...

Unemployment numbers are down, but there are 220,000 military veterans who are still looking for work. Though these vets are having a tough time findi…...

Journalists are using Twitter in a seemingly unlikely place: Afghanistan.With about 1 million active Internet users out of a total population o…...

Panasonic gave its new smartphone for Europe a name on Monday. “The Eluga,” which will be the first Panasonic phone to debut outsid…...

Torrent search engine The Pirate Bay could be blocked in the UK after a judge in London ruled the site breaches copyright laws. The British Pho…...

ABC anchor Bill Weir of Nightline on Tuesday will take U.S. audiences inside China’s Foxconn Technology factories that have been closed off to…...

When I imagine “the cloud” where most of my daily interactions with web services such as Facebook and Google compute, I think of a f…...

embedSyndicatePlayer("syndicate-player-container", { width: 640, height: 359, language: "en", country: "us"});Burberry is taking its Tweetwalk to…...

Packages constructed of DNA dubbed “DNA origami” might one day be used to create nanorobots capable of finding and destroying canc…...

Are you more of an intellectual Helvetica person? Or a carefree Comic Sans type? Maybe you’d like your emails to harken back to days-of-ol’…...

Scientists from the University of New South Wales have created a single-atom transistor using a repeatable technique — a world first. Using a…...

Social media and technology had a great weekend, thank you very much. Even though it got off to a somber start with the funeral of pop superstar…...

LG has upgraded its LG Optimus LTE Android smartphone with NFC and a very unique feature, which automatically changes the device’s setti…...

Google is expanding its reach across social media — first with Google+, now with Leaderboard, a new feature allowing users to earn points…...

You don’t need a passport to travel around the world — you can travel the world right at home! Ok, watching videos from your laptop is no…...

Mona Abdel-Halim is the co-founder of Resunate.com, the worlds only resume builder to score and tailor your resume for every job. You can fin…...

Driverless cars? That’s some kind of futuristic fantasy, right? Think again. Driverless car technology has taken giant leaps in the past few yea…...

If youve browsed Pinterests “Everything” categories, you may have come across a scandalous photo or two. And some of you aren…...

Chinese blog Apple Daily claims to have leaked pictures of the iPad 3 before Apple officially planned to give its own sneak peek in early Marc…...

It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen Don Draper in action. Due to contractual negotiations betweenseries creator Matthew…...

In the dreamworld of a Super Bowl commercial, the Samsung Galaxy Note isn’t just a hot new phone — it’s pure gadget ambrosia…...

An African administrative chief uses Twitter to help solve problems and maintain order in his Kenyan village, showing another example of how soc…...

Zoomsphere has released a list of the 10 most-followed users on Pinterest. The most popular user? Co-founder Ben Silbermann’s mom, Jane Wang.Al…...

Did you know you can whip up tasty animated GIFs on your iPhone or Android handset, in seconds, free? We’ve found a superb app that will help yo…...

What better way to end Social Media Week than by catching up on all of the new Mashable digital media resources you may have missed?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…...

Actor Kevin Costner, music producer Clive Davis and musicians Stevie Wonder and Alicia Keys were among the friends and family that gathered for the fu…...

From the risque to the semi-offensive, there were many interesting new arrivals in app stores this week. We sorted through them to find the apps we co…...

“We’ve all had that feeling coming about, staring at the wall and nothing comes out,” raps musician Paul The Trombonist in his late…...

It’s been another big week for Top 10 Tech, with jaw-dropping devices that will make you feel like you’ve awakened in a future world.As w…...

President Barack Obama’s Facebook and Twitter following leaves Republican presidential candidates in the dust.The president has more than 25 mi…...

The past week was unusually eventful, and the pictures on Twitter reflected a lively week of Grammy awards, fashion news, protests and grieving the lo…...

A class-action suit against Apple for iPhone 4 antenna reception problems has reached a settlement in the “antennagate” case, with a…...

A class-action suit against Apple for iPhone 4 antenna reception problems has reached a settlement in the “antennagate” case, with a…...

The Whitney Houston funeral service takes place Saturday at Noon Eastern Time at the New Hope Baptist Church, her childhood place of worship in Newa…...

With the rise of Pinterest and Tumblr’s astounding growth, it seems that 2012 may be the year of the visual platform. Tumblr surpassed 15…...

London Fashion Week kicked off Friday — and fortunately for those of us outside the ropes at Somerset House, brands and media are making t…...

London Fashion Week kicked off Friday — and fortunately for those of us outside the ropes at Somerset House, brands and media are making t…...

When it comes to building an audience and driving traffic, bloggers are turning to social media with record results. Instead of relying on orga…...

Happy Friday, Mashable community! And for readers in the United States — happy three-day weekend! Huzzah!For people whose work is based…...

Since the release of System 1 in January 1984, Apple has played an integral role in designing and implementing the graphical user interface (GUI…...

Google is in a lot of hot water over recent revelations about how it tracks user activity on Apple devices — particularly iPhones and iPad…...

Netflix hasn’t been doing well communicating with its movie-loving customer base in the past six months (remember Qwikster?), and the co…...

In the wake of another celebrity social media meltdown this week, the question “where is his publicist?” has appeared from commenter…...

Word to the wise: If you’re a juror in a trial, don’t friend the defendant on Facebook, or worse, brag about being kicked off the…...

The days of all-you-can eat mobile bandwidth are already ending, and landline broadband could soon follow suit. You, my data-hungry friend, my n…...

For months now, it has been a foregone conclusion that the iPad 3 will feature a high-resolution retina display. Now further evidence has surfac…...

Video game publisher Square Enix held an exclusive preview of its forthcoming title Sleeping Dogs in San Francisco this week, giving Mashable a…...

As Microsoft frantically programs and polishes what may be its most important Windows update ever — Windows 8 — it has also revise…...

As Microsoft frantically programs and polishes what may be its most important Windows update ever — Windows 8 — it has also revise…...

YouTube has announced a new way to help non-profits better tell their stories on the video platform. YouTube Next Cause, the latest addition to…...

Sandwiched between Pins of clothes and crafts on Pinterest are pictures of breasts and butts.Every so often, a Pinterest Pin shows scantily cla…...

Groupon emailed a select group of the company’s “best customers” this week an exclusive invitation for Groupon VIP access.T…...

Ground Control to Commander Shepard! BioWare is turning up the buzz on its highly anticipated action/sci-fi adventure game Mass Effect 3 by laun…...

After more than a year in development and over 1 million downloads, MTV‘s answer to music discovery has emerged from beta. MTV Music Met…...

A new report says Apple will push out an update to iOS in the coming weeks. Although not much is known about it, iOS 5.1 will add Japanese-langu…...

Workers at Apple‘s Foxconn factories in China, the subjects of recent controversy, have received their third raise since 2010.The raise c…...

Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake unveiled her latest project on Friday, a startup called Pinwheel that lets users pin their notes to th…...

Calling all nerds! Pop quiz: What’s better than a meme? A meme produced by a 3D printer (duh). This week, I stopped by Shapeways HQ in New York…...

If you’ve tweeted a lot about the Occupy movement, the Syrian Protests or the Egyptian Revolution, Twitris may have considered what you sa…...

Choosing the right business structure can be a daunting task for the small business owner or entrepreneur. You may have heard that the tradition…...

Apple may have killed off iChat with Thursday’s announcement of OS X Mountain Lion, but the company replaced it with something even better…...

Twitter is about the here-and-now, but data aggregator Gnip thinks users might be interested in the past, too. Gnip announced on Tuesday it w…...

Both iPhones and Android devices unlock in the same way: with the user sliding his or her finger along part of the screen. That simple function…...

Yelp‘s $100 million IPO is set for March 2, according to a report.Dow Jones is reporting the company plans to sell 7.15 million shares to…...

Like campus gossip, memes are spreading throughout social channels — particularly on Facebook — at an unusually rapid pace this month. Students across the U.S. have created several dozen F...

If Congress passes a proposed payroll tax extension plan, it will have an unexpected effect on the world of mobile broadband. To partially fund the tax cuts, the government will auction off public air...

UPDATE: As of 12:25 pm. ET, Congress has passed the bill and it awaits President Obama’s signature. For more from the Associated Press, c…...

Burberry might be the hot ticket when it comes to pioneering digital initiatives during London Fashion Week, but that doesnt mean a wealth of other British brands arent giving it a go as well. Partici...

Atlanta-based hip-hop mogul Jermaine Dupri is passionate about technology. He checks his BlackBerry and iPhone incessantly, pops in his Bose earbuds every chance he gets and is addicted to the popular...

Are you a fan of TEDTalks? Then you’re going to love TED Quotes, a new Allianz-sponsored service that offers “salient bits of TEDTalks, on everything from activism to storytelling, from ch...

After making the platform available to just a few advertisers in November, Twitter will expand its self-service ad product to all small business…...

The FBI set up temporary, secure servers late last year to replace those created by seven individuals arrested for Internet fraud. “R…...

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, Mass., that makes a full platform of marketing software, including social media manageme...

James Hardman has a dream. A tech fanatic, he thinks tablets are amazing, but the ones currently on sale simply aren’t big enough for him.…...

Google and other companies have overridden the iPhone‘s privacy settings to monitor users’ web-browsing habits, according to a repo…...

Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton teamed up with pro snowboarder William Hughes for a very special snowboarding shoot. The vid…...

Amazon’s Kindle Fire has certainly proved a strong contender in the tablet market, but the iPad is still winning in that arena. For Appl…...

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…...

Apple sold 55 million iPads to date, CEO Tim Cook recently revealed in an interview with Fortune. The company also sold 37 million iPhones in Q1…...

If you’ve been following smartphones for any period of time, there’s a chance you’ve briefly misread Skype as Swype, or vice versa, at least once. So as not to confuse you with one o...

In 2012, Social Media will move beyond growth to saturation. This means that digital public relations is changing quickly.Recently, I had an…...

A select group of college students could get digitally cozier with their favorite NFL players. United Way is looking for social media interns t…...

You never know when you’ll stumble upon someone who makes your heart flutter or eyes stare. But when you do, you’ll likely find it hard to…...

You never know when you’ll stumble upon someone who makes your heart flutter or eyes stare. But when you do, you’ll likely find it hard to…...

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…...

Hey, at least it’s not a garment factory. The head of the nonprofit Fair Labor Association — which Apple hired to do audits of the c…...

Pinterest, the social image-sharing site that has exploded in popularity over the past few months, has found itself with a strange bedfellow: the U.S.…...

Two fake websites posing as Wikipedia and Twitter have been kicked off the Internet and fined 100,000 ($156,000) each.The companies behind…...

Remember when it took 23 clicks to find movie showtimes on your mobile phone? While that may seem like an eon ago, in reality its just been…...

Is it possible to quantify the astonishing, inspiring, almost mystical phenomenon known as Linsanity? Mashable contacted some number-crunching s…...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s monitoring of social media services could be a threat to civil liberties and online free speech…...

When shopping for a tablet, consumers often compare specs and the benefits of each device, including screen size and resolution, processor spe…...

At the “How to be Funny in 140 Characters or Less” panel Wednesday, I watched the full life cycle of a humorous trending topic on Twitter…...

Ive been trying to remember another time when Apple made such a major announcement with so little fanfare. OS X Mountain Lion is this year…...

Facebook launched its latest wave of media apps built with Open Graph Thursday, including a Mashable app. The media apps — joining veteran…...

Facebook launched its latest wave of media apps built with Open Graph Thursday, including a Mashable app. The media apps — joining vetera…...

It’s one small handshake for man, one giant handshake for robot-kind — and one entertaining video for robot aficionados and geeks…...

Like Rick Santorum before him, Mitt Romney’s got a Google problem. The second result when searching for the presidential hopeful is “…...

Photo-sorting app Pixable is bringing the Twitter-style hashtag to Facebook photos. The startup’s core service sorts images from your Fa…...

Badgeville, a gamification platform used by Samsung, eBay and Dell, among others, is integrating data from Klout to help brands identify, reward…...

Apple just unveiled the next major upgrade to its core software, OS X. It’s called Mountain Lion, and it’s a doozy, bringing a lot of the…...

Mobile application marketplaces, developers and service providers need to do a better job of protecting children’s privacy, according to a…...

Dear iChat,This isn’t really a eulogy. It isn’t goodbye. You’ve simply gone to a better place: iMessage for Mountain Lion.…...

AOL Venture, the venture capital arm of AOL, is one part early-stage investment firm and one part incubator of new and unique AOL products.…...

Will our robot overlords one day have appendages with five digits like us humans? We’d have to guess otherwise — could that really…...

So long, air bubbles. When we heard about a fool-proof screen protector kit for the iPhone — with promises that even those with the clumsiest o…...

Supermodel Kate Upton lends her good looks and apparent video game expertise to the latest spot for the popular 2K series of sports games. In the ad…...

Mashable’s largest conference, Mashable Connect, returns to Orlando, FL this year from May 3 – 5. Our annual destination conference…...

The U.S. Army placed its largest order of micro-robots ever with ReconRobotics, Inc. on Wednesday. A contract worth $13.9 million will supply…...

The Mashable Tech Talk meetup is less than a week away! Mashable community members have organized more than 150 Mashable Tech Talk events for…...

If you’ve already gotten into the habit of hiding your iPad from your kids, this should not come as a shock: New research from Nielsen sho…...

What is the social enterprise? Traditionally, the term has referred to an organization’s social mission of philanthropy, charity or furth…...

The publisher of Scientific American and Nature is stepping into a new genre with its first digital textbook, the company announced on Thursday.…...

Do you remember those awesome Facebook and Google+ profile hacks? Well, Nick McGlynn, a creative Pinterest user, has done something similar on the ne…...

People are talking about digital tech’s opportunity to improve the classroom. Much of the discussion has been focused on digital textbooks. Appl…...

Mashable is delighted to announce that 14 new publishers have joined the Mashable Publisher Platform, our editorially curated syndication offe…...

YouTube just got a remote. Clik, a new app from the makers of group messaging app Kik, lets you browse YouTube videos on your phone and control…...

Mountain Lion, the new version of Mac OS X which Apple announced Thursday, is deeply connected with the online world — Twitter, Flickr and…...

Hulu Plus became available as an option for the Wii on Thursday, making the service available on all three major gaming console platforms.Wii u…...

Engineers vs. ad operations. Product vs. public relations. Often, the “geeks” of the office operate differently than other departme…...

Will Jessica Biel wear an engagement ring at the Oscars? Who will win The Bachelor? Is designer Prabal Gurung destined to be named Best in S…...

Continuing a long tradition of “mudslinging” puns in campaign advertisements, Rick Santorum’s latest ad features a Mitt Romney look…...

The Chinese workers producing iPad 2s receive $8 per device sold, roughly 1.6% of the $499 price point of the cheapest model, according to a rep…...

Apple, which embraced Twitter in its iOS5 update last year, is expanding the palette of social sharing options with two new partners — Fli…...

The PlayStation Vita, Sony’s hotly anticipated handheld device, may not exactly be pocket-sized, but it certainly boasts an impressive array of…...

The London 2012 Olympics are going 3D in the UK — or a few parts of it at least. The BBC has announced that BBC HD viewers who have 3D t…...

Clicking a virtual cow gets you one point. Tweeting or Liking earns another 100 points. There are no prizes, and there is no point. Yet “…...

Apple developers, start your engines. Mac users, start dreaming of how much cooler your desktop or laptop experience could be this summer. That…...

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…...

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, a game spun off from the popular psychological thriller Alan Wake, will be released in less than a week,…...

Facebook will today start offering some users the possibility to verify their accounts, TechCrunch reports. The feature will start as invite-on…...

The opening scenes of Prototype 2 have got a lot of blood in them. The sequel to Radical Entertainment’s open-world, anti-superhero video game,…...

One of the Web’s oldest portals, MSN, is about to dive headfirst into one of the Internet’s hottest trends: Social Media. No, Micro…...

New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin has certainly taken the Internet by storm over the past week or so. But his legend has not yet birthed a single…...

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…...

Apple was just awarded 19 patents, one of which is for the design of the MacBook Air. In theory, Apple could leverage its patent on the Air to…...

A team of Swiss astronauts and university professors are working to create a robot spacecraft called CleanSpace One, which will grab inactive…...

Sports and social media are a marriage made in heaven. News and score updates break constantly. Heated debate is a big part of the fun. And fans love…...

Path released a list of Valentine’s Day stats Wednesday, just one week after a privacy controversy prompted Path’s CEO to issue an a…...

Move over Joan Rivers — there’s a new queen of the red carpet and she’s still in elementary school. You might remember ado…...

Wildlife enthusiasts, nature buffs and, most importantly, puppy cam lovers are in for a treat when they see the latest in furry live streams: t…...

Like most technology junkies, I am always ready and willing to try any technology that promises to simplify my life. QR codes seemed to presen…...

Throngs of Twitter users logged on to the site during the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, with over 10,000 tweets sent every second…...

Social gaming juggernaut Zynga released its 2011 Q4 earnings on Tuesday — its first public report since hitting NASDAQ in December.The numbers…...

Even golf — that centuries-old Scottish sport stereotyped as rich old white guys puttering around in goofy outfits — has hopped aboa…...

Facebook is planning to make its new Timeline format available for brands later this month, according to a report.Citing “executives brie…...

Google snuck out an update to its Google+ iPhone app Tuesday, adding a powerful feature that should make people interested in sharing photos and…...

The iPad 3 rumor mill is ramping up, with the latest report that Apple’s newest tablet offering will feature 4G connectivity.Many expect…...

Police lineups in Germany have gone digital, with Hanover Police asking people to identify photofits of crime suspects on its Facebook page.T…...

The 2012 Twitter Ad Scrimmage pitted Marvel superheroes against David Beckham, M&M characters and supermodel Adriana Lima. But Samsung’s &…...

Apple said Wednesday that iOS apps accessing users’ contact lists will require explicit permission, following a week of accusations that a…...

Users of social networks are getting tired of sharing — but that doesn’t mean sharing is on the decline. A new study analyzes sharing beha…...

Apple hasn’t yet officially announced the launch date of the iPad 3, or even confirmed its existence. But owners of the first and second…...

The stereotypical Google+ user is a male engineer, but that’s only half right. According to new research, Google+ is still definitely male-skewi…...

Twitter has acknowledged the “Find Friends” feature on its iPhone app stores contact lists on its servers, echoing a recent controve…...

Mari Smith has been deeply immersed in social media since 2007, but even before social media started to really pick up steam, she was evangeli…...

A new software tool will help journalists see breaking news tweets as they are happening. The program, called Seriously Rapid Source Review, i…...

Despite the fact that #RIPChrisBrown has become a Twitter trending topic, the hip-hop artist is alive and well Wednesday. His Twitter account se…...

Chill transformed from a Turntable.fm for video to a Pinterest for video when it launched its redesign last month. The startup completes its met…...

Following much speculation about which Twitter user first broke the news about the death of Whitney Houston, the site has unveiled new data tha…...

LightSquared, a planned U.S. nationwide cell carrier, has been blocked by the FCC due to the interference its signal causes to GPS devices.The…...

While social media can perplex a single business unit, imagine the challenges and multidimensional complications that can arise when a franchi…...

The former CEO of Sun Microsystems has reemerged in the tech world — this time at the helm of a seven-employee startup rather than a 28,00…...

The “What People Think I Do/What I Really Do” meme has overtaken the “Sh*t People Say” meme to become the latest sharing fad.…...

NPR is stepping its toes once again into the mobile music world with the launch of its new iPad app.The free NPR Music app — now availabl…...

Without a doubt, the Samsung Galaxy Note is the biggest smartphone you’ve ever seen. It’s still nice and thin (just 0.38 inches), so…...

The U.S. Senate released a comprehensive cybersecurity bill Tuesday after months of closed-to-the-public negotiations. If passed, the bill would…...

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Social games company Zynga has just reported its first financial earnings since going public back in December. For Q4 2011, Zynga reported reco…...

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So you’re unmoved by Valentine’s Day? Feeling all “bah humbug” about human relationships? Here’s something to me…...

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When President Obama released his 2013 budget on Monday, we looked for the science and tech winners of the proposal. But one part of the plan is…...

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The next time you need to identify a mysterious pain in your body, you could look it up in Google Search, and Google will tell you directly o…...

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Popular multi-platform game Angry Birds is now available on Facebook, hours ahead of the official launch in Jakarta at 12AM EST.The Facebook ap…...

Cupid’s big day is upon us again, and Google is celebrating the Feb. 14 holiday with an animated Doodle that demonstrates the limitations of th…...

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Samsung is excited to bring its Galaxy Note “superphone” to the U.S. It’s so excited that it’s giving Mashable a sneak p…...

Hamza Kashgari, the twenty-three-year-old Saudi blogger whose controversial tweets about the Prophet Muhammed last weekend incited controversy a…...

In an unusually intimate move, Google posted these photos on their Life at Google account Monday afternoon — offering Google+ users a glimpse at…...

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Minecraft creator Mojang has released highly anticipated updates for Minecraft Pocket Edition that should bring it more in line with the PC vers…...

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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) approved Google‘s proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility Monday afternoon. Earlier on Mo…...

The rumored name for the television set that Apple is supposedly working on is iTV. Trouble is, that’s also the name of one Britain̵…...

Newt Gingrich, ex-Speaker of the House and Republican presidential hopeful, has turned on Facebook‘s new profile option, Timeline. Maybe…...

So, you forgot about Valentine’s Day, huh? Whether you intended to or not, there’s still time to let your sweetheart know how much you car…...

Remember SOPA? Remember the urgency with which the bill’s backers were trying to convince us that its intended target, online piracy, was…...

“Rob and Sara love each other,” begins a promotional video for the Closer ToGetHer iPhone and Android app, “but work keeps the…...

Changing your Facebook status from “In a Relationship” to “Single” has become as much a part of the breakup ritual as eating a…...

Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock apologized for a comment he posted to Twitter about Jeremy Lin, the New York Knicks’ breakout phenom a…...

As a Valentine’s Day experiment, Facebook looked at the top 10 songs users are listening to as they make new relationships “Facebo…...

Apple just sued Samsung in a California court over alleged patent infringement. The offending product, according to Apple: the Galaxy Nexus, the…...

President Obama released his proposed 2013 budget Monday, and it gives us a glimpse into the president’s hefty tech and science wish list.…...

Researchers are trying to create a better battery with MRI scanning — looking at batteries from the inside out for the first time. Prev…...

Google announced on Monday that European regulators have approved its proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility. “This is an important mi…...

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Is Justin Timberlake really bringing MySpace back? Could be, according to data released by the company on Monday. MySpace claims that it now…...

Americans woke up Monday morning with the Grammys and Whitney Houston on their minds — and they rushed to Google’s search bar to ge…...

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Chinese authorities are grabbing Apple iPads off the shelves in Northern China stores because the domestic Shenzhen Proview Technology company…...

We post eight years of video to YouTube every day. We send 200 million tweets per day. And on average, 250 million photos are uploaded each day…...

SchoolFeed is the largest classmates network online, having garnered 7 million new users since its launch seven months ago. Numbers are expected…...

Samsung just launched the Galaxy Tab 2, the official sequel to its original tablet, the Galaxy Tab. Whereas the original Tab was criticized for…...

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Reddit, known for its freewheeling approach to content management, instituted a new rule over the weekend that banned suggestive or sexual conte…...

Greek parliament approved a controversial austerity deal Sunday so the indebted country can get a bailout from the European Union. After the vot…...

The Pirate Bay plans to stop serving .torrent files for most files in its database on Feb. 29. This does not mean that the resilient torrent in…...

Google has a confession to make: It does not understand you. If you ask it the 10 deepest lakes in the U.S, it will give you a very good result…...

Groupon, long criticized for a lack of filtering for deals, is addressing the issue with a new ‘thumbs up’ feature.Company CEO Andr…...

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Google has updated its YouTube app for Google TV with smoother navigation and several new features. YouTube for Google TV now has new channel p…...

The 54th Grammy Awards airs tonight, and we’re capturing all the action for you on scene in Los Angeles and remotely from New York City. Join us…...

The 54th Grammy Awards airs tonight, and we’re capturing all the action for you on scene in Los Angeles and remotely from New York City. Join us…...

Just when you thought you had mastered the job search on all social media platforms, along came Pinterest.Youve optimized your Facebook and…...

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It was a week of superlatives, where we found unique smartphones of the present and future, a new candidate for the world’s tallest building,…...

Europeans against Internet censorship staged mass protests across the continent on Saturday. They also took their opposition to Twitter in the latest…...

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Who’s going to win a Grammy on Sunday? Webtrends gives us a sneak preview, using Twitter as its crystal ball. Check out the prognostications in…...

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Take a look at your App Store icon, iPhone users, and if you’re an avid Instagram user, there’s a big surprise for you inside. Insta…...

Are you looking to make good use of your sizable Twitter following? Here are five simple services that can help monetize your account, potentially put…...

A year ago, Rebecca Black’s unforgettable viral tune “Friday” first appeared on YouTube. Since then, the massively autotuned Fri…...

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Google has been known to celebrate authors and encourage educators to write books. It even made finding authors of articles easier by improving…...

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There’s a rumor going around that Google is planning some kind of home-entertainment device — possibly and answer to the (also rumo…...

You may follow lots of interesting people on Twitter, but do you follow any Twitter employees?We’ve scanned the grid of Twitter’s current…...

More than a month after Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed their first child to the world, pictures of the newborn, Blue Ivy Carter, have emerged. A Tumblr bl…...

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Generation Y isn’t afraid to mix work and play. According to a new study, 18-29 year olds have no problem using their Facebook profiles for pro…...

Rumors of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s death took Twitter by storm Friday.The report, which originated on the Chinese microblogging…...

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Cult favorite video game developer Double Fine recently shocked investors by raising over $1 million in 24 hours on Kickstarter for its new adv…...

iTunes Store users have long reported curious problems with Apple‘s digital store — mysterious purchases, gift card money disappea…...

Internet users in Iran are reporting error messages when trying to access major websites from inside the country Friday.Gmail, Google Reader an…...

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Muppets fans are not happy. Following news that musical performances at this year’s Oscars were canceled, Hollywood blogger Perez Hilton…...

Anonymous, continuing an unusually active run of activity, took credit for bringing down the Central Intelligence Agency’s website Friday…...

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If you own a white MacBook, it’s now vintage. Apple officially ended its waning existence, reports say, pronouncing the product as ̶…...

Your company’s Twitter handle has a healthy amount of interaction, your status on Skype is set to chat with customers, and your email mar…...

One Pirate Bay user successfully ported the whole of The Pirate Bay onto a USB drive. This is made possible now that the site has transitioned…...

Protests against Internet censorship will blanket Europe this weekend, while Germany and Latvia announced Friday they would put the brakes on si…...

When Apple announced its initiative to bring iPads into schools and provide textbooks in digital format, the reaction among many was enthusiastic. iP…...

When Apple announced its initiative to bring iPads into schools and provide textbooks in digital format, the reaction among many was enthusiastic. iP…...

Facebook users have a love-hate relationship with Facebook Timeline, which encourages users to share their life story in photos and milestones.…...

Scientists have created a biological computer capable of extracting hidden images on a DNA chip. There’s nothing new about a computer r…...

On Thursday, a video of a father shooting his daughter’s laptop hit a nerve across the web, gaining more than a million views in 24 hours. His f…...

In another vote of confidence from Corporate America for Google+, Coca-Cola is planning to launch a Hangout on the network next week. Coke̵…...

Like the sharing bar to the left of this article? Tweet-timing app Buffer wants your site to have one just like it — but with a Buffer but…...

If youre a Generation X-er or older, you likely use social media to cut it in the real world. You may also use social networks for personal…...

Feeling down? Scientists are working on a mobile phone that notices when you’re depressed and intervenes with suggestions such as reachin…...

The 54th annual Grammy Awards is on Sunday and to keep you in the loop, we’re providing an extensive list of who to follow on Twitter.Fro…...

Chipotle’s first TV ad in the restaurant chain’s 18-year history will be the full version of a 2 minute, 20-second animated video that h…...

Chipotle’s first national TV ad in the restaurant chain’s 18-year history will be the full version of a 2 minute, 20-second animated vid…...

As we get closer to Sunday’s big evening at the 54th annual Grammy Awards, Twitter is already hot about the topic. Users on the social net…...

Once again, Google appears to be following Apple. Amid the continual and loudening buzz about a real Apple TV come reports that Google is plan…...

Classroom management is one of the most important tasks for teachers throughout the school year. With an organized and efficient workflow, and ways to…...

A woman who creates stuffed animals based on children’s drawings has defied Internet protocol by doing something really cool, posting it o…...

Despite the prevalence of social networks, consumers are still queasy about oversharing when it comes to credit card info.That, at least, is the crux…...

NASA’s dreams of a moon base may still be far from reality, but a deep-space outpost near the far side of the moon could be an intermedi…...

Apple may well have passed on the Super Bowl, but the brand hasn’t stopped trying to woo new consumers to experience the iPhone 4S and its key…...

Everyone knows the iPhone isn’t just for making and taking calls — it’s a slim supercomputer at your fingertips, with the potential…...

Adults know how to play nice online, according to a recent survey that asked U.S. adults who use social networking sites how many of their inter…...

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Just as QR Codes seem to be appearing in print ads everywhere, Zurich-based startup Kooaba wants to relegate them to history. “We belie…...

Online computational engine Wolfram Alpha has launched a Pro version of its service. Wolfram Alpha Pro essentially offers more options for both…...

Lonely hearts seeking love this Valentine’s Day, be wary. Online dating fraud rose by 150% percent in 2011 as scammers and hucksters turne…...

Tesla Motors has introduced the Model X, its third electric car, and like its brandmates, this one is an all-electric vehicle. Built on the…...

Next time you write an email subject line, think twice about the words you’re using.Loading your message with words such as “confirm,R…...

The disgruntled teenage daughter of a tech-savvy, gun-toting father just got a very public lesson in respecting one’s elders. “That rig…...

Hide your kids, hide your wife: YouTube sensation Antoine Dodson is climbing through your computer window and trying to snatch your attention once mo…...

The latest wave of online dating sites forgoes mysterious equations in favor of straightforward, sometimes unexpected, matching techniques.Wher…...

Most people who start this article won’t make it to the end — at least not in a way that they could pass a comprehension test.Studi…...

Twitter has announced a new partnership with major satellite providers to give their subscribers access to Twitter SMS, the original text-based…...

Ted Williams, the former homeless man with the golden voice who hit YouTube fame in early 2011, is back for a Twitter-based Valentine’s Da…...

Creating a legal entity for your startup will establish much-needed separation between you and your business. Shielding your personal assets is…...

Think about how you’ll describe social media to friends and family in 50 years. Now, watch this “Future Hipsters” video in which ba…...

Flickr Commons, a collaboration between the photo-sharing site and the Library of Congress that began in 2008, has released 17 of its most-popular pho…...

“Can you smelllllll….What the The Rock! Is cooking?!?” That became a ubiquitous catchphrase when Dwayne “The Rock”…...

Romantic math geeks, your moment has arrived. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, go ahead and type (or paste) this into Google search: sq…...

Microsoft described in detail Thursday exactly how Windows will work on ARM devices. The new strain of Windows, retooled from the ground up for…...

From bootstrapping his company, to raising a seed round last year, to his company’s recent $8 million A round, Neil Capel exemplifies the grit…...

TV personality, activist, and social media comedian Stephen Fry has taken sides in the Paul Chambers “Twitter Joke Trial,” saying th…...

LinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November.The figure was disclosed in a pre…...

If Angry Birds and Cut the Rope can have toys, why can’t FarmVille?Social gaming juggernaut Zynga is teaming up with toy maker Hasbro to…...

In conjunction with New York Fashion Week, iPhone photography app Hipstamatic has released a cool-toned lens (i.e., filter) designed to capture…...

Fair-labor organizers delivered 250,000 signatures to Apple stores in six cities around the world on Thursday in protest of the company’s…...

I Can Has Cheezburger plans to turn the 54th Grammy Awards into a laughing matter by giving viewers an outlet to write funny captions for red ca…...

HP Labs says it’s possible to know if your tweet will be a dud before you type the 140 characters. Researchers have developed a formula that p…...

Yahoo has launched a new webpage that visualizes what’s happening on the web in near real time — and it’s totally beautiful. The C…...

Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web, testified this week in a Texas courtroom against a company that claims it has a p…...

Mass Effect 3 is coming to an iPad near you in the form of Mass Effect Infiltrator, an iOS game aimed at expanding the game’s narrative an…...

U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and war reports to WikiLeaks, will be arraigned be…...

Social media analytics and tracking can be very time-consuming and expensive. You’ll find quite a few smart social media monitoring tools…...

Google planned to open its first-ever public store at its European headquarters in Dublin, if you believed a rumor reported by Bloomberg. But a…...

Fashion retailer H&M has beat out heavyweights Pepsi, Starbucks and Coca-Cola to become the most-followed brand on Google+.In a testament…...

The U.S. government wants to more aggressively track terrorists on social media — and it’s asking for your help. The U.S. Department of …...

President Barack Obama, or rather the Obama 2012 campaign, is using Spotify to share tunes with voters and constituents.The campaign tweeted a…...

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger is about to receive one of the Internet’s most thoughtful Valentine’s Day ecards from his girlfrie…...

The fine folks at Nerdist are teaming up with Lucasfilm, Octagon and Machinima to do the first ever “Lightsaber Run” in the days…...

A video game developer’s Kickstarter project has raised more than $600,000 in just 24 hours.When game veteran Tim Schafer put up a Kickst…...

The 54th annual Grammy Awards ceremony is imminent, and the nominations are in. This year, the Recording Academy continues to embrace digital a…...

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The typical soldier can only carry about 100 lbs. worth of gear, but not indefinitely. DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) new…...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a 191-page background check on late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs that was done in 1991, when Job…...

The tech world awoke today to a new batch of rumors about the iPad 3. First various sites reported on an alleged leak of some of the components…...

New technological and social media tools have a way of messing up relationships — and they can also be used for evidence when those relationshi…...

In a cost-cutting move and a signal of the company’s poor financial situation, Eastman Kodak on Thursday announced it plans to stop sellin…...

iPhones aren’t cool. You know what’s cool? Shooting your friends with your iPhone, mounted into a laser blaster.A couple of phone-…...

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It worked for Burberry, so why couldn’t it work for us?So seems to be the thought process of several prominent U.S. fashion labels during…...

DebtEye announced Wednesday it is now SpringCoin, a learning-focused financial planning website that gets more intuitive as you use it. John Su…...

DebtEye announced Wednesday it is now SpringCoin, a learning-focused financial planning website that gets more intuitive as you use it. John Su…...

Looking to earn back some of the $12.5 billion it’s spending to buy Motorola Mobility, Google sent a letter to the Institute of Electrical…...

NASA Wednesday upgraded the broadcast channels it operates to high-def. The two NASA TV channels, one for the public and the other for media, wi…...

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An unusual technology entered the patent lawsuit theater on Monday when Honeywell International announced it was suing Nest Labs: Thermostat tec…...

The new stable release of Google’s web browser Chrome brings several improvements, most importantly faster browsing and more protection fr…...

Fans of The Bachelor are all too familiar with this season’s over-the-top contestant Courtney, who makes snide comments at the camera and likes…...

Facebook revealed its roadmap for social games and mobile apps for the rest of the year at the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference on Wednesday i…...

We live in a world where new digital products are solving problems daily — from managing our finances to remembering the groceries. Often…...

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Walgreens is tweeting mobile coupons to customers who check in on mobile apps including Foursquare, Yelp and Facebook — letting customers in on…...

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Jersey Shore star Zucki … uh, I mean Snooki, has just unleashed her first Facebook game. Dubbed Snookis Match Game, it bears a striking rese…...

Until Tuesday, ESPN had a special section on its website for viewers to complain specifically about announcers who happen to be female. “…...

Silicon Valley’s tech scene still beats out Silicon Alley’s, at least as far as Meetup numbers go.Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman announ…...

Only six percent of Americans are getting their political news from Facebook while a meager two percent do the same on Twitter, according to a s…...

The BBC, Sky News and CNN are trying to figure out how to make Twitter play nicely with traditional newsrooms. Sky News and the BBC released new…...

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Facebook just amended its S-1 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the documents offer deeper insight into FacebookR…...

News that popular social bookmarking site Pinterest might be generating revenue by adjusting and tracking the links attached to user-generated…...

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Oh, drama! Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins is not pleased with LeBron James’ reaction on Twitter to Perkins’ victimiza…...

Online dating sites frequently trumpet their ability to corral the most compatible fish in your sea through sophisticated algorithms. But a psycholog…...

In its first quarter as a public company, Groupon on Wednesday posted a loss of $.08 per share, which sent the company’s stock sliding in…...

Dave Morin, the CEO of beleaguered social network Path, posted an apology today addressing the recent controversy over how the app accesses info…...

Microsoft chose a special day — Leap Day — for its special event: the official unveiling of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The Redm…...

A new project from Google is trying to learn “how everyday people use the Internet” — by looking over their shoulders while surfing…...

Mashable is excited to announce that Mashable Connect 2012 will take place May 3-5 in Orlando, FL. Registration is now open!Mashable Connect i…...

Tech blog GigaOm announced Wednesday it has acquired paidContent‘s parent company ContentNext.GigaOm founder Om Malik cited location and…...

Google announced its signature Chrome browser would start to roll out to Android phones on Tuesday. If you’re one of the lucky ones running Ice…...

With Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld console set for release in the United Kingdom and North America later this month, the picture of wha…...

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Aiming to increase its competitiveness, Nokia on Wednesday announced it will shed 4,000 jobs, or 7% of its global workforce, as it shifts device…...

Popular social bookmarking site Pinterest has become the hottest startup on the web, luring millions of people to the site to collect and share…...

What happens when Apple iPhone 4S’s mobile assistant Siri sprouts legs and holds a grudge? Take a look at the Youtube video being shared…...

UPDATE: Path has posted an apology to users and says it has deleted all address-book information from its servers. The iOS update, which has an …...

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Do you know a dominant Type-A personality like Mark Cuban but can’t seem to get on his radar? Do you work with sensitive touchy-feely people at…...

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In what may be the first test of Twitter‘s new international censorship strategy, Brazil is suing the company over tweets that warn driver…...

Sprint‘s Q4 2011 earnings report is out, and the results aren’t stellar, but strong iPhone sales are among the highlights. The comp…...

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That app you use to play Words with Friends on your phone or book a reservation using Open Table might be giving the American economy a nice boo…...

With the NFL season over and Tim Tebow long since bounced from the playoffs, social media users appear to have found their newest object of spor…...

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Brush off your pink tie and rustle up some sugar — Valentine’s Day is nearly here. To celebrate the season of love, we found some of the m…...

Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz wants Instagram users to translate his new song, “I Won’t Give Up,” into one image. The contest asks fa…...

Everyone knows that dreaded feeling of being out of town and realizing you left your phone charger at home. A new charging concept create…...

On the first page of its IPO prospectus, Facebook claims 845 million monthly active users and 483 million daily active users. But those…...

If you ranted and raved about the recent Oscar nominations on Facebook, but none of your friends seemed to care, its time to either A) find new fri…...

Apple may be working on a deal to open up a series of mini shops inside Sam’s Club locations, according to a new report.According to a re…...

Pop megastar Lady Gaga has pierced her powerful, digitally-willing paws deeper into the online world with the closed beta launch of her new social net…...

A federal court decided on Tuesday to uphold a ruling from 2010 that declared the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional — and it cause…...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s future tax rate is likely to be in Mitt Romney territory while more recent Facebook employees w…...

Skip college, work at a startup. That’s the idea behind a new two-year program called Enstittue that started accepting applications Tuesda…...

Yahoo‘s chairman of the board, Roy Bostock, is leaving the company. Bostock has been chairman since 2008.Bostock revealed the news to sha…...

Moda Operandi, the closely watched online retail operation from ex-Gilt exec Aslaug Magnusdottir and Vogue contributing editor Lauren Santo Domi…...

Apple says it will not tolerate manipulation of App Store rankings even if a third-party service is responsible for doing the dirty work.…...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been under fire from world leaders to step down this week. He’s also under fire from hacktivist group…...

What do you get when you combine an iconic movie with a buzz-winning Super Bowl ad? An overdose of awesome.The skilled editors at AkooTV jux…...

Even if you haven’t ever visited popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest, you might recognize its design elements — which have bee…...

An anonymous user, claiming to be a former Zynga engineer, has been posting allegedly internal information about the company to Reddit. Among o…...

Vigilante hacker collective Anonymous made public personal information of Oakland, Calif. city officials Tuesday, in response to what the group…...

Once upon a time, the future of streaming music rested squarely on the shoulders of Pandora Radio.Built on the Music Genome Project, a patente…...

The Federal Aviation Administration is finally making the leap from radio-based navigation to a modern GPS system. Congress passed Monday a $63…...

As the U.S. limps back from recession, the tech industry has been hailed as a boon for growth and job creation.But upon closer inspection of multi-bi…...

A 16-year-old accepted into Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched her admissions letter 91,000 feet to the edge of space and vide…...

When a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the Philippines Monday, residents and local media outlooks used Twitter and Facebook to alert residents a…...

Google Chrome, the search giant’s signature browser, has arrived for Android mobile devices — or some of them, at least. In an official…...

When Jeff Clavier founded SoftTech VC there weren’t too many investors doing small, seed-stage investments in next generation web co…...

Klout‘s mobile initiative is starting to take shape with its first-ever acquisition. The San Francisco-based startup has acquired BlockBoa…...

Your accountant can email a specialist for advice about a specific issue in your tax return. Your doctor, however, doesn’t necessarily hav…...

A rep for a Taiwanese company that claims to own the rights to the term “iPad” in China says Apple is about to be hit by a $38 milli…...

Collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer marketplaces, the sharing economy — it’s been called a few names by now, but no one is denyi…...

Millions of people will send their beloveds flowers this Valentines Day, but what if they could send a baby in a box — no, not a real baby. I…...

The Super Bowl’s first-ever social media command center was an “enormous success,” according to Taulbee Jackson, who managed t…...

You’d expect that it would be the other way around: Staid bankers would be reeling in those freewheeling kids at Facebook. However,…...

Wondering what games will be available in Microsoft’s Windows Store when the Consumer Preview version of Windows 8 hits the market? Wonder…...

Friskies, which rolled out an iPad game for cats last May, has restored human dominance with a Facebook-based live feed that lets humans remotel…...

Nikon keeps looking for more mountains to climb. A little after unveiling its new D4 flagship DSLR and a point-and-shoot with world’s long…...

Nikon keeps looking for more mountains to climb. A little after unveiling its new D4 flagship DSLR and a point-and-shoot with world’s long…...

This Valentine’s Day, don’t say it with chocolates. Don’t say it with flowers. Don’t even think of saying it with a stuffed to…...

If you’ve visited Starbucks lately, you may have noticed some heart-adorned cups designed to celebrate Valentine’s Day.What you might n…...

Syria has undoubtedly been swept up in the Arab Spring, popular uprisings against dictatorial rulers that have spread throughout the Middle East…...

Curious if you’re the only person at your job who got a small bonus last year? Wondering if your boss has ever taken credit for an employeeR…...

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Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of writer Charles Dickens. Born on Feb. 7 1812 in Landport, England, Charles John Huf…...

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

Twitter records continue to fall left and right as more and more people — 100 million active users at last count — continue to flock onto…...

Twitter records continue to fall left and right as more and more people — 100 million active users at last count — continue to flock onto…...

It should come as no surprise which television event topped the charts in terms of social chatter. If you guessed The Voice, you’re fired. That&…...

Netflix has launched its first original series, Lillyhammer. The series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York gangster who finds himself…...

Social media analytics provided to Mashable show which endorsers — and endorsees — won biggest on Super Bowl Sunday. Getting a cele…...

Health risk assessment (HRA) is continually evolving to meet the ever-changing demands of the health care industry. It began humbly as a simple…...

Are you ready for some GIF-ball? That’s right — the Super Bowl XLVI moments you jabbered about before bedtime, and then again at work or…...

Users of Facebook‘s apps — for Android, iPad and iPhone — may begin seeing ads as soon as early March, as the company looks to…...

There’s usually one commercial during the Super Bowl that outshines the others for its creativity and laughter-inducing antics — an…...

Jawbone is working on a bigger version of its popular portable Jambox speaker, according to the companys Federal Communications Commiss…...

No one is sure what Google has up its sleeve, but it could be something you’ll have at home in years to come.Google applied for a F…...

According to NBC Sports, Super Bowl XLVI was the most-watched TV show in U.S. history, with 111.3 million viewers. But TV ratings weren’t…...

Samsung has been hyping its campaign for its Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet hybrid for the past few weeks, culminating in an ad shown toward the…...

The lost city of Atlantis — rumored to be discovered in a Google Earth map — is once again lost, thanks to a maps update from the se…...

Super Bowl XLVI was not only a big hit with broadcast viewers, it also excelled in the social TV space.Hollywood news site Deadline reports th…...

Some people insist that Best Buy is dying a slow death. Meanwhile, its CEO, Brian Dunn, maintains that 80% of consumer electronics sales stil…...

Since 2010, New York City has strived to become a global digital leader. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and commissioner Katherine Oliver announced NYC…...

Should universities be allowed to force student athletes to have their Facebook and Twitter accounts monitored by coaches and administrators? N…...

Should universities be allowed to force student athletes to have their Facebook and Twitter accounts monitored by coaches and administrators? N…...

Chaos struck the Philippines on Monday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the central island of Negros, causing fears of tidal waves and a tsuna…...

When it comes to public safety, forward-thinking government agencies are beginning to look at social media as a support tool for improved situa…...

Pictures users have deleted from Facebook months or even years ago may still exist, it has been revealed. Facebook says it’s workin…...

The Giants may have won the Super Bowl, but Madonna won the Google search competition.The 53-year-old halftime performer was Google’…...

Need a new jawbone? Now you can print one.An 83-year-old British woman recently underwent the first-ever custom transplant of a lower jaw made by a…...

A group of former Facebook users based in Orland Park, Ill., fed up with the mandatory changes that came with Facebook’s network-wid…...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers just released an interactive version of the music video for the band’s latest single, “Lo…...

When Reading Rainbow ended its 26-year run in 2009, it left behind decades of preschoolers for whom its theme song will forever surface nostalg…...

In what may be a sign that 2012 really is the year of the apocalypse, revered online retailer Amazon is rumored to be opening a brick-and-mortar…...

Someone had a sudden impact on Chrysler’s “Clint Eastwood” Super Bowl spot’s availability on YouTube Sunday night.Chrysler…...

When Nest Labs launched a round, self-adjusting thermostat built more like an iPhone than an appliance, we didn’t think we’d seen an…...

Today alone, Tumblr has already seen nearly 62 million posts — overall, the site just surpassed 17 billion posts total.For a network that…...

Go ahead and play your favorite addictive smartphone gaming apps chances are they’re good for your brain.A new study from the Archive…...

Google India and Facebook have removed web pages considered offensive to India’s political and religious leadership to satisfy a court ord…...

Verizon announced Monday that it is taking a crack at the video streaming business. The company is joining forces with Coinstar, the parent co…...

Google just debuted a project dedicated to attacking some of the biggest problems facing civilization, such as global warming, and proposing “r…...

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During the third quarter of the 1984 Super Bowl, viewers witnessed one of the most memorable commercials ever, 1984. Twenty-eight years…...

Pinterest is perhaps the most buzzed-about service of early 2012 and an unexpected startup success story. For those who haven’t joined (th…...

The New England Patriots weren’t the only ones who choked Sunday night. Websites from Coca-Cola, Acura and film Act of Valor crashed Sund…...

If you like the sleek lines of Nokia’s Lumia 800, you might like that Nokia will soon launch an even more drool-worthy, white version of t…...

The Super Bowl XLVI isn’t only America’s number one TV event of the year; it also now claims top spots on Twitter‘s most-tweet…...

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…...

BitTorrent indexing engine BTJunkie has decided to shut its doors after 7 years of service. “This is the end of the line my friends. The…...

It was almost like a holiday weekend here at Mashable, but with the big Super Bowl game looming on Sunday, we weren’t just hanging around…...

The band OK Go is known for their imaginative and original videos, and their latest, for Needing/Getting, is no exception. This time the folks from…...

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There are two kinds of Super Bowl fans: those who watch for the football and those who watch for the advertisements. For those who prefer the sport,…...

If you use your phone as an MP3 player during workouts, or don’t want to go running without it, an armband case is the ideal solution to give yo…...

Snapshot from Nanette Lepore’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection.Fashion Week returns to New York Feb. 9, and once again designers and the…...

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So you’ve got a great job that’s waiting to be filled at your company, and you decide you want to tap into the already measured power of s…...

Some will go home heroes, some will fail miserably. Reputations will be built and destroyed tonight.No, we’re not talking about the guys…...

We’re back with our weekly top comments from the Mashable community.Each week we highlight a few of the outstanding comments from our rea…...

Facebook, despite having more female users, has zero women on its board of directors. A recent Bloomberg report compared the Facebook boa…...

A New England Patriots wide receiver who was shockingly released from the team less than a day before Super Bowl XLVI will instead tweet updates…...

Before, during or after the Super Bowl game, take a stab at turning Patriots coach Bill Belichick into a meme. We know football fans are full of wit…...

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As you watch Super Bowl 2012 (on NBC tonight at 6:30 p.m. EST), notice how high technology continues to ease its way into your favorite weeke…...

On Sunday night, millions of people will be watching Super Bowl 2012 on their televisions, while others might be watching it on their smartphon…...

Even in the richest countries on the planet such as the U.S., not everyone has easy access to this cornucopia of connectivity, the Internet.The Inter…...

Its never been easier to get your pigskin fix on the internet than Super Bowl XLVI. The NFLs biggest sporting event, airing Sunday at 6:30…...

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The New York Giants official website accidentally announced the winner of Super Bowl XLVI more than 24 hours before Sunday’s big game eve…...

If Internet memes were turned into movies, their promotional posters might resemble the designs London-based Stefan van Zoggel conjured up. …...

We’ve sifted through tens of millions of pictures posted on Twitter during the week and narrowed them down to the 10 most popular, and here they…...

The 54th Grammy Awards ceremony is only eight days away and the Recording Academy is kicking off the next phase of its digital and social campai…...

Super Bowl 2012 is blitzing us like a crazed linebacker, coming up in a matter of hours, and the numbers are stacking up quickly. It’s a w…...

Were you too busy this week to read everything on Mashable? Maybe you’ve been planning your Super Bowl party, or maybe you were figuring…...

It’s been an unusual week in the tech world, yielding gadgetry and innovations that are surprising and altogether unexpected. Here are the top 1…...

I’ve been on Facebook for 2,561 days, having joined during the first year of its existence and my first year of college.As the worldR…...

If you’re like us, you’re obsessed with Pinterest. You get excited when you find pictures you love and pin them to your online bulletin bo…...

Stop-motion animation used to be a complicated, time-consuming process, but the emergence of easy, automated apps make it something creative that anyo…...

The Google Chrome Web Store has made it easy for anyone to stay organized, and the browser has gotten much faster, as we’ve noticed in th…...

This year’s Super Bowl marks a digital first: The game will be the first Super Bowl that you can watch online — legally. NBC, the br…...

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Crowd-sourced social photo sharing appears to be the latest community engagement trend among professional sports teams, largely powered by the o…...

If you’re not aware of Kim Dotcom, the man who changed his last name to pay homage to the World Wide Web, we offer you this brief history…...

In 2010, branded content was one the largest trends among retailers and brands. In 2011, branded content shifted to branded entertainment. Now,…...

Century 21 has enlisted a team of celebrities for its first-ever Super Bowl commercial. Reality TV star and business mogul Donald Trump, Pro…...

Travel is so much easier when you’re prepared and know what to expect. Airfare shopping website CheapAir.com now lets you find out which f…...

News of Facebook‘s IPO swamped the Internet earlier this week, when the company’s 213-page S-1 document went up on the SEC’s w…...

If you bought a smartphone in 2011 — and didn’t buy a PC — you were part of a history-making trend. For the first year ever,…...

Stephen Colbert asked his fans to share his passion for space by donating to NASA to support its work with the International Space Station…...

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Virgin Galactic, the aspiring space tourism company founded by Sir Richard Branson, is on track to begin powered test flights of its spaceship t…...

Apple has updated the End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) for its iBooks Author app, clarifying its terms and ownership conditions.Immediately…...

If there’s one thing we learned after Facebook dropped its S-1 to file for an IPO this past week it’s that the company makes a…...

GE’s Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock sat down with Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore to talk about her role leading busi…...

Two international cancer prevention groups think the online community can — and should — take a stab at the worldwide cancer epidemic. In…...

The online storm surrounding Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood came to a close on Friday when…...

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Modern technology can’t actually fix the weather — at least not yet. However, social networking and mobile devices can certainly he…...

Red Bull sponsors several extreme sports pros who produce videos with gnarly titles such as “Wakeboarding in the Swamps of Louisiana”…...

Steve Appleton, the chairman and CEO of Micron Technology, has died in a plane crash, the company confirmed Friday. He was 51.Appleton was repo…...

When Twitter recently launched the newest version of its iPhone app, the company focused on streamlining and simplifying the user interface. R…...

Anonymous released sensitive documents Friday from the law firm that represented the U.S. Marine who led the 2005 Haditha massacre, which left 2…...

Roseanne Barr — known for her decade-long stint on the eponymous ’90s hit sitcom — recently announced on Twitter that s…...

Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning has unveiled a follow-up YouTube video to its wildly successful “A Day Made of Glass,” providing anoth…...

The good old 8-bit band is getting back together. Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of Microsoft’s Xbox, has assembled a super team of Atari…...

If you’re planning a wedding and knee-deep in collecting ideas for the perfect dress, hairstyle and invitations, there’s a good chance you…...

The Huffington Post Media Group revealed more details about its upcoming online news channel, the Huffington Post Streaming Network.The announc…...

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In December, millions of readers laughed along with Damn You Auto Correct‘s funniest entries of the year, based on Facebook shares, tweets, comm…...

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Facebook users receive more comments, messages and likes — the hugs and high-fives of social networking — than they give, acco…...

SCHEDit wants to answer the question “what is going on tonight?” in the same way that Twitter answers the question “what is ha…...

Anonymous is on the move. The hacker group has claimed credit for coordinated attacks and leaks against the U.S. government and international la…...

Forget the Apple iTV — there might be an Apple-branded treadmill in the works. At least that’s the thrust of a patent the company ap…...

Facebook took social media by storm on Wednesday after the company filed the preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited initial public offering. The…...

The future of books may be here. Augmented reality book Between Page and Screen is an innovative art project that seeks to renew the reading experien…...

Schools are on a short list of organizations that have been notoriously slow to adopt emerging tech. But within the last few years, as social media be…...

Pinterest is unquestionably the hot social service of early 2012, with mainstream outlets such as Good Morning America covering it and brands wo…...

Among a sea of weird content floating daily on YouTube, Sidney Raskind has been making videos for five years, and it only took dancing in a turk…...

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It’s finally here! After more than a year of planning, scheming, profile-photo gathering, office moving and, at last, settling in, Mashable̵…...

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For many people, Apple‘s iPad is a magical device that appeared out of thin air. The iPad, however, is the culmination of decades of advancement…...

Skype for Windows version 5.8 is out, bringing several interesting features, including full HD video-calling, group screen sharing and Facebook…...

If you live near a Microsoft retail store, you can now pre-order a Nokia Lumia 900 with a $25 down payment, the Verge reports. Unfortunately, e…...

Facebook’s slew of newly wealthy employees could “significantly impact” California’s economy during the next few years,…...

Bouncer scanning software, developed by Google, is designed to search the Android market for software that could be malicious, the company annou…...

American prosecutors have shut down 16 websites they accuse of illegally broadcasting live sports games and pay-per-view events over the Interne…...

An avalanche of devices, platforms, channels, and information is crushing consumers as they go about their daily lives. Im crying uncle…...

Google is suiting up for Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday by launching a set of football-focused features and services to help you get your gam…...

Facebook filing for IPO Wednesday did good for more than just the social network. Companies associated — even tangentially — saw their sto…...

HBO is partnering with Miso to bring Game of Thrones fans an awesome second screen experience.Miso launched its new SideShow platform at the en…...

App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug simulator? So high! Heck, with j…...

In the latest evolution of Old Spice‘s “what will they do next?” social media ad campaign, spokesman Terry Crews literally crashes…...

With Tim Tebow‘s NFL playoff run over and with Major League Baseball spring training starting this month, a new meme inspired by Miami Marlins o…...

Facebook‘s $5 billion IPO filing yesterday took the social media world by storm, but if you woke up today and logged into the social netwo…...

Kieron-Scott Woodhouse was fed up with cellphones all looking alike, so he took the matter into his own hands, building his own brand o…...

The explosive growth of social media over the past four years has drastically changed how the Giants and Patriots market themselves and connect…...

In a hard-hitting interview (sarcasm), I dug up some exclusive responses from Groundhog Day‘s world famous critter, Punxsutawney Phil.Tw…...

Facebook, if nothing else, is on a social mission, wrote Mark Zuckerberg in a personal letter filed within the company’s preliminary pros…...

Google has been busy documenting how the 2012 Republican primary affects search results. Newt Gringrich, for instance, experienced a huge surge in se…...

Apple is unintentionally censoring rap music and other explicit tracks downloaded using its iTunes Match service — by replacing them with…...

While playing for the Tennessee Valley Vipers in the Arena Football League, and pursuing his dream of playing football professionally, Lew…...

Brace yourself, Windows Phone users, because everything’s going to change. An internal Microsoft video that was supposedly leaked to a we…...

If an individual or activist group broke into an organizations office, raided confidential materials and then burned the building to the gro…...

Zynga, aiming to expand its advertising revenue without annoying users, is quietly experimenting with “reward advertising” on CityVi…...

Tumblr may have lost a fashion director, but it has now gained an editor-in-chief.The blogging platform told The New York Times Thursday it bro…...

Mitt Romney dropped the gloves on Barack Obama Tuesday night by launching an online-only donation drive. The goal? Collect $1 million to make Ob…...

Touchscreens are so yesterdays news, but 40-inch HD displays that can handle 20 or more fingers of touch and real-time interaction with…...

Amazon has expanded its sales reach into sports memorabilia, the company announced on Thursday.Its new Sports Collectibles Store offers m…...

A glitch with an Apple store employee’s iPhone SIM card has allowed his personal life to be spied on by tech bloggers.The incident…...

Super Bowl Sunday is right around the corner and players from both the New York Giants and New England Patriots are getting pumped for the game…...

Steve Jobs, sporting a halo and wings, extols the virtues of an Android tablet in a Taiwanese ad that’s getting attention in the U.S. for its…...

Punxsutawney Phil saw its shadow on Groundhog Day morning, which historically is a sign predicting six more weeks of winter. But what does it…...

Will an IPO change Facebook? The sudden influx of $5 billion (and more) will certainly give it lots of opportunity, though it’ll also mea…...

Twitter has started rolling out its enhanced brand pages to more advertisers.The social networking site — which announced in December th…...

Net Promoter, a mainstay of marketing measurement, is being adapted to the social media age with a Klout-like rating system based on the ratio o…...

The musician responsible for exposing 11 million YouTube viewers to the catchy tune “United Breaks Guitars” — contributing to…...

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The 150-plus page Facebook IPO S1 filing could turn out to be one of the most extensively read documents since Walter Isaacsons Steve Jobs biogr…...

The website of Susan G. Komen for the Cure was briefly tampered with by hackers early Thursday morning. Komen, the highest-funded breast cancer…...

Sony‘s slump continued on Thursday as the company raised its loss forecast for fiscal 2011 to $2.9 billion, more than double what had prev…...

Today in Apple rumors, the company is expected to hold a “strange” event before the possible launch of the iPad 3 in March, accordi…...

Google has taken a dewy-eyed approach with its “Good to Know” ad campaign to address users’ privacy concerns. The multi-milli…...

It might strike you as strange that Brian Snyder’s series of coloring books teach children how to draw cartoon characters by starting with…...

NASA‘s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has revealed some very alien material outside our solar system. “We’ve dir…...

At least 74 people were killed during brutal fighting Wednesday between fans of rival soccer clubs in Port Said, Egypt, according to state media. Vid…...

Apparently unable to wait until Facebook introduces Timeline for brands, Lexus has rolled out its own Timeline-like experience in an app.The Po…...

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The Daily, the News Corp publication that launched exclusively on the iPad one year ago Thursday, is setting its sites beyond tablets in 2012.T…...

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Apple has leapfrogged LG to become the world’s third biggest phone manufacturer, an IDC report claims. According to IDC’s numbers,…...

The Daily isn’t the only media entity celebrating its first birthday this month: Atlantic Wire editor Gabriel Snyder is also commemorating…...

One of NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecrafts has captured a video of Moon’s far side for the first time. Earth’s tidal forces have…...

The NCAA’s popular March Madness basketball tournament is annually a cause of groans from know-it-all fans who think they they could have…...

Google doesn’t want you to believe everything Microsoft is writing about its privacy policies — especially not in the ads for altern…...

When you’re looking for a job, who are the first people you turn to? Glassdoor, the careers site that regularly serves up lists of odd intervie…...

Social networks are flooded with potential customers. Therefore, today’s companies need to foster a socially engaged culture within compa…...

Instagram and Tumblr photographers frequently turn everyday occurrences into beautiful digital images. So what would happen if you unleashed them upon…...

From last year’s Super Bowl to the upcoming big game, here are the 20 most-shared ads from January, 2012.Advertisers are increasingly cat…...

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Journalists can find some pretty weird things interesting, but I never thought a 207-page government-mandated document would keep me turning th…...

It shouldn’t be hard to guess what the largest discussion in the social space was Wednesday — the Facebook IPO. While Facebook certainly…...

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Do you ever wonder how people react when they see your Twitter updates? Odds are, most would fall under the category of “meh,” accor…...

The 2012 race for the White House is well underway. During the numerous debates, campaign speeches and addresses, the five remaining presidentia…...

Have you been wondering what’s going through 27-year-old billionaire Mark Zuckerberg‘s head as the company he started in his Harvar…...

Now that Facebook has filed paperwork for its Initial Public Offering, the world will be watching the company’s value. Assuming the SEC approves…...

Clear as day, Facebook acknowledges its competition in the social media marketplace in the SEC filing document released Wednesday. Despite Googl…...

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As soon as Facebook filed the papers for its initial public offering with the Securities Exchange Commission, thousands of people began pouring over t…...

Here’s one of the more painful parts of taking a company public: You have to make an honest public assessment of all the things that coul…...

One video game developer is hungry to see a “Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” as soon as possible.Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC…...

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, got paid $30.87 million last year, making her the most highly compensated employee at the…...

Lots of interesting numbers emerged from Facebook’s IPO filing Wednesday — including that one client, game-maker Zynga, accounts for…...

Facebook filed for initial public offering today, and simultaneously announced that it is planning to raise $5 billion, a more conservative number tha…...

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The world got a peak into Facebook‘s inner workings on Thursday when the Securities and Exchange Commission published the company’s…...

Facebook just filed the preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO).As rumored, the company is seeking to raise $…...

Facebook just filed the preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO).As rumored, the company is seeking to raise $…...

About 82% of all adults will receive most of their election news online. The ways U.S. voters are using social media have changed drastically since 20…...

Nearly half of Super Bowl XLVI viewers will check their mobile device as many as 10 times during the game, and almost a third of viewers under a…...

A French court has found Google‘s Maps application guilty of unfair competition and ordered the search giant to pay damages and a fi…...

Pinterest is social media’s rising star — and now has the traffic stats to prove it. The darling network of brides-to-be, fashionis…...

Nikon just unveiled a swarm of new compact cameras, but let’s cut right to the chase and target the real highlight: a point-and-shoot mode…...

Smacked with yet another subpoena, Twitter must submit an Occupy protestor’s account information to the Manhattan District Attorney’…...

At this point, it seems imminent: Facebook will file paperwork for its long-awaited IPO at some point today or tomorrow.According to reports, most in…...

Want to help the New York Giants get pumped up for Super Bowl XLVI and learn more about their pregame preparations? You can do that on Thursday…...

Rumors have been circulating for months about the next-generation iPad. Now they’re really ramping up. Wednesday saw the release of its s…...

Our final day at Davos found the Mashable team standing feet away from black-clad riot police, a row of armored vans blocking our path and the chan…...

It’s version 10. Do you know where your Firefox is? Yes, rev up your update engines. Firefox 10 — the latest in a dizzying series o…...

Cute alert: U.S. President Barack Obama has met Internet celebrity Keyboard Cat in a Google+ Hangout. We wish this adorable encounter were t…...

A number of U.S. senators are opposed to amending the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act to let Netflix automatically publish user views on…...

Amazon is pulling the plug on its PayPhrase program, which was originally set up so you can check out of the online retailer faster.Amazon announced…...

Enterprise software has shifted from boring, client-based software to sexy SaaS products. This consumerization of enterprise brings the u…...

A BlackBerry enthusiast site claims to have an image of the Research In Motion‘s BlackBerry 10 smartphone, called the “London.̶…...

If you’ve been thinking Google’s privacy changes have gone too far, you’re not alone — Microsoft is with you.Frank X. S…...

Motorcycles may be sexy, but the industry is crowded with fierce competitors like Yamaha, Suzuki, KTM and Honda. How did Kawasaki, a relat…...

Facebook who? On the same day the tech world awaits the social network’s IPO filing, fledgling rival Google+ is set to break 100 million u…...

For some people, flying robots are a dream; for others, they are a nightmare from a dystopian sci-fi novel. Whichever camp you fall in, you’ll…...

Windows users can’t get enough of Internet Explorer 9. That’s the message Microsoft is driving hard, releasing statistics that show…...

Shopify, which powers more than 20,000 online stores, announced Wednesday that it has acquired a mobile studio in Canada called Select Start (S3…...

If you’re in the mood to contribute to the viral “Sh*t People Say” madness, head over to Has Anyone Said This Shit. The simple…...

Julian Assange, the embattled 40-year-old founder of ...

By collecting 1 billion photos in two years, Foodspotting has proved that some people really do want to share what they had for lunch. But even…...

Tony Bennett has been on a bit of a tear supporting his new album of all-star duets. Now, Bennett is premiering his video for “One For My Baby…...

Best Buy’s Super Bowl ad will celebrate mobile technology inventors by featuring the creators of the camera phone, Instagram and Square.T…...

Its true, people are getting very excited about the idea of Kinect coming to desktops and laptops (it’s available now): Imagine b…...

Augmented reality could soon be used to solve crimes. Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have created AR gog…...

Fresh off reaching 3 million users in January, social media management dashboard HootSuite is adding three apps to its App Directory and releasi…...

As Steve Ballmer promised in January, Microsoft has released version 1.0 of the Kinect for the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). Improvem…...

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

Searching for images on Google isn’t always an easy task using words alone. Your search is going to rely on how images on the web ar…...

What if the 232 million people who log into Zynga’s Facebook games each month instead spent hours working through online learning resource…...

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A chubby dog gets in shape to chase a Beetle in Volkswagen’s long-awaited sequel to its “The Force” Super Bowl ad from last year.…...

Kazuo Hirai is Sony‘s new CEO and President, replacing Howard Stringer, the company has announced. The change is effective April 1st, and…...

How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling? NASA has launched a multi-player Facebook game to test just that. Space Rac…...

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The Super Bowl isn’t just the biggest day in American football. It’s also the advertising world’s shining moment. Brands and agenci…...

People would like to have their own Rosie the Robot — think The Jetsons — and would even borrow money to buy a robot that coul…...

In the world of social media, discovering that worthwhile original idea for your app or website is by far the hardest thing to get right. It’s s…...

Facebook broke a Guinness World Record this week — and no, this doesn’t have to do with the company’s much-anticipated IPO.Fa…...

Hulu is teasing its new Super Bowl campaign and its plot to turn human brains into “mushymush.”The ad will star Will Arnett (Arrested D…...

Gravitational pull on most asteroids is pretty low. That’s why NASA’s rover ATHLETE (All Terrain Hex Limbed Extra Terrestria…...

The way consumers access and consume media is changing rapidly, YouTube head Salar Kamangar believes, and YouTube is evolving to accommodate it.…...

Vevo generated $150 million in revenue last year, Vevo President and CEO Rio D. Caraeff revealed at AllThingsD‘s media conference on Tuesd…...

Yelp, TripAdvisor and Amazon user reviews aren’t enough anymore. Crowd insights are no longer meaningful to the individual simply because…...

Two online petitions beseech Apple to improve working conditions in the Chinese factories that make its products.The petitions, both filed with…...

Amazon is growing fast. But that growth is outpacing its ability to make money, if the company’s quarterly results are any indication.Vir…...

When news broke last week that Facebook Timeline was coming to all Facebook users, it answered the question many people had been wondering: “Wha…...

As you’d expect, Facebook‘s iPhone app is exteremely popular. App version 4.1 comes complete with the new mobile Timeline design, so we th…...

File-sharing site The Pirate Bay caused an Internet stir last week when it introduced a new content category called “Physibles,” ess…...

Tuesday is Primary Day in Florida, and thousands of social media users have been tweeting, sending photos and lighting up Facebook with posts ab…...

The Florida primary is shaping up to be an important battleground in the war for the Republican presidential nomination, and it’s getting…...

Facebook will file a preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited IPO Wednesday morning, but the company will raise less than expected — $5…...

If you watched President Obama’s Google+ hangout Monday night, you saw two interesting exchanges between the president and Jennifer Wedel,…...

eBay CEO John Donahoe sat down with Mashable CEO and founder Pete Cashmore to talk about the future of ecommerce and mobile commerce at t…...

Like McDonald’s before it, RIM has found there’s a reason open-ended Twitter campaigns are called “bashtags.” The troub…...

Martha Stewart is looking into producing web-only video programming, the TV personality and business magnate suggested on stage at AllThingsD…...

In a recent interview, MasterCard‘s chief emerging payments officer dropped a hint about the yet-to-be announced iPhone 5: the next…...

When Google first rolled out Hangout video chats for Google+, part of the plan involved allowing hanger-outers to watch YouTube videos together.…...

Google figured out Twitter‘s trick for avoiding universally censoring content weeks ago, but it managed to go unnoticed — for a whil…...

The speaker list at the Technology Entertainment Design conference, TED, has included well-known names such as Bill Gates, Al Gore and Jane Good…...

In 2011, Sundance Film Festival created The New Frontier Story Lab, an initiative created to foster the development of a new style of media pro…...

“Are you surprised at the speed [SOPA and PIPA] fell apart?” AllThingsD‘s Peter Kafka asked Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman at a ga…...

President Obama held the first all-digital interview from the White House on Monday night. Like a modern day reincarnation of FDR’s firesi…...

WikiLeaks might be looking for a lawless off shore place to keep its servers, according to a Fox News report — which also speculates that…...

While Harvard Business School grads Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna were looking for a business idea, they noticed that the beauty produc…...

Google sent a 13-page letter to Congress Monday explaining changes to its privacy policy that the search giant announced last week. Those chang…...

“We know what we do well,” Philippe Dauman, president and CEO of Viacom, said on stage at AllThingsD‘s Dive Into Media confere…...

You know who I’m tired of seeing on Facebook? Me. Whenever I post an update, no matter what idiotic thought pops into my head, it jumps r…...

A breakthrough in precision bullet technology for small caliber firearms will make striking a target an easier task. Two researchers at Sa…...

Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore sat down with David Jones of Havas to talk about the new responsibilities of today’s leaders…...

Just how important is original and exclusive content to Hulu? That was the question AllThingsD‘s Peter Kafka posed to Hulu CEO Jason Kilar…...

The world is anticipating Facebook to file for an initial public offering this week, and most indicators point to $10 billion in stock and a valuation…...

Blake Griffin’s gargantuan dunk over Kendrick Perkins was so big you need to see it to believe it — at least that’s what th…...

There’s no reason to determine your virtual worth based solely on the number of people who follow you on Twitter — not when you can…...

Eight years ago this week, Facebook was born. Do you even remember life before it?Once known as “TheFacebook” when it launched on Feb. 4,…...

The Obama administration is looking to super-charge the startup space by making it easier for new companies to raise money and easing the path t…...

Apple just released an update to its professional-level video editor, Final Cut Pro X, which brings back a major feature to the program: multica…...

What’s the best way to stop slavery? If you’re MTV, the answer is with $10,000 and a country of digitally minded students looking to…...

Mobile payment services have been a game-changer for small businesses and retailers, and now they’re about to change the political f…...

Jerry Seinfeld wants the new Acura NSX. He loves it so much, the new ad from Acura would have us believe, that he would do anything to be the first…...

We might one day be able to monitor our bodies’ internal functions — and prevent things like epileptic seizures before they ha…...

Apple on Tuesday named John Browett, CEO of British consumer electronics chain Dixons, as its senior vice president of retail.Browett will begi…...

“I really think 2012 is going to be the Twitter Election,” Dick Costolo said on stage at AllThingsD‘s media conference in Lagu…...

Printing a year’s worth of Facebook statuses would be equivalent to printing more than 500 million Oxford English Dictionaries, a new survey fou…...

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In a step toward extending its enterprise cloud software offerings to small businesses, Salesforce.com launched a customer service product for s…...

The data on Megaupload will not be erased for at least two more weeks, Cnet reports citing Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken.The data on the file h…...

“Twitter is not a media company,” Twitter CEO Dick Costolo declared on stage at AllThingsD‘s media conference in Laguna Nigel,…...

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A new career website that launched on Monday aims to be a one-stop shop for hiring managers and job seekers. GetHired.com was co-founded by Suki Shah…...

Even though President Obama didn’t much address tech or social media during the State of the Union, the event sure stoked the social media chann…...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage at AllThingsD‘s media conference in Laguna Nigel, CA, Monday evening to defend the company’s…...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage at AllThingsD‘s media conference in Laguna Nigel, CA, Monday evening to defend the company’s…...

The New York Giants and New England Patriots face off for gridiron glory this Sunday in Super Bowl XLVI. But the game’s real winners could…...

Spend a few minutes browsing through both the Android and Apple app stores and it’s easy to see the fierce competition for user attention…...

Ever wonder what athletes blast in their headphones to get hyped before big games? Well, wonder no more thanks to a Facebook post by New Englan…...

It’s increasingly difficult to build buzz around new mobile application studios, especially when the first app on deck is something thousa…...

Alt-rock band the Flaming Lips samples everyone’s favorite iPhone-based personal assistant, Siri, in its new song, “Now I Understand.…...

Codecademy hasn’t had much trouble attracting people who want to learn how to code — it has been used by more than 1 million people…...

Microsoft says it’s started a private preview program of the next version of Office to a “select group” of customers. Going fa…...

President Barack Obama called for the protection of intellectual property rights in a Google+ hangout Monday evening, but said such protection must b…...

Can’t part with your phone even when you’re in the bathroom? You’re in good company. About 75% of Americans admit they use th…...

Twitter’s viral job recruitment video took the web by storm over the weekend, already gaining nearly half a million views — and it d…...

Syrian pro-government hacktivists attacked Al Jazeera English‘s website Sunday, in response to the news organization’s “Syria…...

Although they’re played on small devices, mobile games are becoming a huge deal — and they’re not just confined to smartphones…...

Tired of Foursquare‘s busy roll of check-ins? A new app cuts out all the clutter and shows you exactly where your friends have arrived.…...

When the iPhone 4S first became available at Apple stores in China earlier this month, pandemonium ensued. Now, Apple has revealed a new…...

Republican Presidential candidates have expanded their campaigns into the digital realm anddocumented their journeys to today’s Florida…...

Working at Groupon is now cliche enough to work as the setting of a TV pilot.CBS picked up a pilot for a new sitcom called Friend Me. Th…...

A browser tool launched Monday transforms content from your Facebook Timeline into a fast-paced movie.In what will surely incite a roller coa…...

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) released a draft of a cellphone privacy bill Monday that would require providers to tell subscribers if tracking so…...

Leigh Van Bryan claims his tweets about “destroying America” and digging up Marilyn Monroe’s grave were jokes, but the U…...

The Swarm is all about shallow breathing, heavy petting and Xperia smartphones. The short horror film, shot entirely on Sony’s Xperia A…...

We’ve just entered the Year of the Dragon, but Super Bowl 2012 is shaping up to be the Year of the Dog. No less than five of the ads feat…...

Adopting Face.com‘s face-detection algorithm, a new program called Congressmiles analyzes the smiles of a group of people. His guine…...

It feels like it’s happening overnight, but Facebook has been marching toward an initial public offering (IPO) for almost eight years. Mark Zuck…...

Apple could move as many as 40 million iPhones in China in 2013, according to one analyst’s prediction.As first reported by AppleInsider,…...

Nigel Thornberry is back again. In what seems like an ongoing theme for The Wild Thornberrys character, Nigel keeps re-emerging on TV or online even t…...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is set to play himself in the 500th episode of The Simpsons, according to a report by Entertainment Weekly.As…...

During Twitter‘s official 2012 Hack Week, one project was to make the “best/worst recruiting video of all time.” Consider that chal…...

I love books, especially old ones. Recently I learned a simple dinner table trick from a 110-year-old magic book. It involves picking up a napk…...

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A half pipe in a skate park in Brazil turned from concrete to turntable to spikes, using 3D lighting. 3DM, an architectural lighting comp…...

Facebook is offering users a moment of glory on a Times Square billboard — all you have to do is tell them what you care about in the 2012…...