Appcelerator’s Developer Platform: Now with Cloud-Based Tools

Mobile platform company Appcelerator launched the latest version of its popular Titanium platform Tuesday, with cloud-based tools to help developers build more dynamic apps for Android and iPhone devices.

Titanium 2.0, which includes support for HTML5 mobile web apps, aims to help brands create apps quickly and efficiently for their businesses…. read more

How to Stay Focused in a World of Distractions

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conferences, which bring together staff from Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga along with Zen teachers and others to explore living with awareness and wisdom in our modern age. You can follow him at @SorenG.

In our connected world, it is easy to… read more

Tell Twitter or Facebook Why You Love Books, Get an All-Star MP3 [VIDEO]

Pinocchio, Madeline, the Three Blind Mice, Little Red Riding Hood and a dozen other beloved storybook characters star in Reading Is Fundamental’s (RIF) latest PSA, which the organization released online Tuesday to kick off its “Book People Unite” campaign.

RIF is calling all story lovers to declare themselves “book people”… read more

Women: Calculate How to Achieve Your Target Salary Online

April 17 is Equal Pay Day — and for women in the workforce, it’s a stark reminder of the glass ceiling that still prevails in most industries. Full-time working women earned only 77% of what their male counterparts did in 2010.

That’s why the women of the Levo League, an online… read more

Elle Tries Facebook Commerce, Launches Shoppable Trend Guide

Elle has launched a shoppable trend guide on Facebook in the latest of several ecommerce initiatives within the magazine industry.

The guide, embedded as a tab on Elle‘s Facebook page, invites shoppers to navigate across six editorially chosen spring trends, including floral, nautical and ladylike.

Users can click “love,” “want, “own”… read more

21% of Brad and Angelina Tweets Asked: Weren’t They Already Married?

Wedding bells are on the horizon for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, after a seven-year relationship. But if you thought the Hollywood power couple were married already, you weren’t alone.

Some 21% of people who tweeted about the couple’s engagement after it was announced on Friday thought the duo were already… read more

Verizon’s 4G LTE Network Coming To 27 New Markets This Week

America’s largest 4G network is getting a little larger this Thursday. Verizon has announced it will bring its 4G LTE network into 27 new markets this week, and will be expanding the service in 44 of its existing markets.

The expansion makes Verizon’s 4G LTE network available in a total of… read more

Is Twitter Trying to End the Tech Patent War?

Twitter announced an internal patent agreement on Tuesday that it says will empower designers and engineers — as well as hopefully begin a movement to quell the tech world’s rash of patent infringement lawsuits.

Publicly revealed in a blog post and dubbed the Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA), the policy pledges… read more

Hide Your Wi-Fi From Prying Eyes (and Google Cars)

In case you had any doubt, the recent flap over Google’s Street View cars has made it clear that private data transmitted over Wi-Fi can quickly become not-so-private.

The good news is that there are ways to easily protect yourself, without going back to wired connections.

The easiest and most direct… read more

Meme Management: Meet the Man Who Reps Internet Stars

Ben Lashes is a meme manager — and as far as we know, he is the first and only of his kind.

Consider him an agent for the stars of the Internet. Lashes represents memes and their creators such as Keyboard Cat, Nyan Cat and Scumbag Steve, to name a few…. read more

Google Bike Isn’t What You’d Expect

The New GBike

Here’s the design of the new Google bike for the company’s Mountain View, California campus, which… read more

Chicago Police Use Social Media to Find Food Trucks Breaking The Law [VIDEO]

Chicago police are monitoring food trucks on social media, and it’s not because they want a juicy burger.

Instead, police are asking the trucks to pack it up and are issuing citations if they don’t, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. In the Windy City, by law, food trucks are… read more

Why You Could Be Prosecuted for Posting Olympics Photos to Facebook

For an event being hyped by organizers as the world’s “first social media Olympics,” the summer 2012 games in London have some pretty antisocial policies.

Athletes will not be allowed to tweet photos of themselves with products that aren’t official Olympics sponsors or share photos or videos from inside the… read more

Google Glasses Have a Stylish Rival: Oakley [VIDEO]

Google’s augmented reality glasses haven’t yet hit the market, but they already have some potential competition. Sunglass maker Oakley is also developing eyewear that can project information onto lenses, Oakley CEO Colin Baden told Bloomberg.

Oakley is working initially on products that would appeal to athletes, Baden said. The headgear… read more

Finally, a Rap Song About Being 24 and Awkward [VIDEO]

When a young man in a purple button-down shirt and khakis creates a rap song to tell you what it’s like to be 24 years old, gosh darnit, you listen.

In my case, you relate. As a 24-year-old myself, I can testify that, I too shop at Trader Joe’s because… read more

Facebook Meets Instagram: What It Means for Your Brand

Joshua Teixeira heads up the strategy discipline at Big Spaceship, helping shape engagements for active projects and prospective clients alike. Recent projects include work with clients like Crayola, Chobani, Google, Wrigley, General Electric, Urban Daddy, and Gilt Groupe.

When it comes to Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, details are still… read more

Prototype Apple Macintosh Computer Selling for $100,000 on eBay [PICS]

Prototype Apple Macintosh 128

What just might be the oldest Mac computer in the world is up for bids… read more

CISPA Foes Meet, Seek Common Ground

The Business Software Alliance, a group of top technology companies including Intel and Microsoft, met with Internet privacy advocacy group Center for Democracy and Technology Monday evening.

The goal: find common ground on the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as (CISPA). The big question: how best to… read more

Startup Turns Research Databases Into Searchable Notecards

Citelighter, a browser extension for collecting notes online, is teaming up with Cengage Learning to turn paid research databases such as Questia into a stack of free virtual note cards.

With Citelighter’s first product, students can highlight any text on any web page and click a “capture” button to save it… read more

Facebook: Auto Fans Have More Friends

Fans of auto brands have three times the average amount of friends than the average user, according to a new study by Facebook.

The social networking giant, eager to make its case to marketers, conducted a study of 15,938 Facebook users between December and March. The report found that the average… read more

Is Ikea’s New Home Entertainment System an iPod for the Living Room?

Ikea has offered a glimpse into its latest foray into consumer electronics, an all-in-one TV called Uppleva.

The system, which will go on sale in five European cities this summer, attempts to solve the problem of unsightly wires bulging from behind the HDTV and stray remotes strewn throughout the… read more

5 Ways to Use Pinterest for Recruiting

Sal Loukos is a sourcing manager at Seven Step RPO, where she builds and manages talent sourcing strategies for a variety of Fortune 100 clients. You can follow her @Sal_Loukos, or on Pinterest at sal_loukos.

Winning the talent war is a priority for every organization. Now, more than ever, it’s crucial… read more

Gfail! What the World Says When Gmail Goes Down

Carrier Pigeons

Some went retro.

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To the list of essential utilities we can’t live without… read more

Facebook Adds ‘Listen’ Button to Band, Artist Pages

Facebook added on Tuesday a “Listen” button to its band and artist pages that give users an easy way to listen to their favorite songs directly on the site.

As of now, fans can listen to songs from artists such as Justin Bieber and Linkin Park to former Guns N’ Roses… read more

5 Questions for IDEO’s Duane Bray

In just three weeks, Duane Bray, partner and head of IDEO’s global digital business, will take the stage at Mashable’s Connect conference in Orlando, FL to investigate how our present-day digital behaviors will affect us down the road, both as individuals and as a species.

IDEO is a firm that solves… read more

Makers of ‘Deus Ex’ Present Dark Assassin Game, ‘Dishonored’ [VIDEO]

Bethesda released the first trailer for Dishonored Tuesday, a game being developed by minds behind Deus Ex and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

The trailer shows the first glimpses into a world that features both industrial-age factories, giant walking robots, insatiable hordes of rats and magical elements. Think of… read more

2013 Ford Escape Can Park Itself, Unlock, Open the Hatch

2013 Ford Escape front-616

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I used to think hands-free driving meant you keep… read more

Pretty Your Pinterest With This New Photo Hack

Following Pinterest’s new design, we’ve discovered an exciting new way to “hack” your boards.

Inspired by our previous Pinterest board hack, Eugene Chen of Vitamin Creativity made an incredibly easy tool, designed specifically to splice up images for the new Pinterest design.

SEE ALSO: 10 Awesome Animated Google+ Profiles [VIDEOS]

Take a… read more

Tracky: The Most Useful Online Tool You’ll Use At Work Today

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 startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Tracky

Quick Pitch: Tracky is an application that boosts productivity by cutting Internet clutter. The web and… read more

Microsoft Reveals Its Plan to Sell Windows 8

Microsoft just told the world what it’s going to call the next version of Windows, and — shocker — the official name will be “Windows 8.” It also revealed how many versions of Windows 8 there will be, and what the company will call them.

There are three main editions. At… read more

ScoreBig Goes Mobile With Priceline-Style App for Event Tickets

Event ticketing service ScoreBig took a significant step Monday toward expanding its Priceline-style business model for live shows and sports games.

The site launched a free mobile app for iPhone and iPod touch. The ScoreBig Daily app — available here — currently only serves events in San Francisco and Los… read more

Ridiculously Photogenic Guy Answers Questions on Reddit

Zeddie Little knew how Reddit worked, and liked memes.

He just never thought he would become one.

Little, more commonly known of late as Ridiculously Photogenic Guy, found out four hours after he became a viral sensation that everyone suddenly knew his face.

In response to Redditors who asked for a Q-and-A… read more

Google Spends More On One Day of Lunch Than It Will On FCC Fine

The FCC is fining Google $25,000 for impeding an investigation into personal e-mails and other data collected via the company’s Street View cars.

But that’s far from a punitive fine for the search giant. In fact, it is less than the company spends on one day of lunch for its… read more

‘Terminator,’ ‘Rocky’ and More MGM Movies Unleashed on YouTube

YouTube is infusing its 15-month-old movie rental service with more than 600 MGM titles including Rain Man, Robocop, West Side Story, The Terminator and Rocky.

Media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — better known as MGM to film lovers — is now one of five major studios that allow people to rent flicks on… read more

How to Use Facebook Timeline Without Reworking Your Brand Strategy

Joe Chernov is the vice president of content marketing for Eloqua. He is responsible for creating, distributing, and measuring content that increases awareness and drives demand.

Within days of Facebook’s official launch of Timeline for brands, social strategists and brand marketers turned their Facebook strategies upside down and came up… read more

Study Investigates How Valuable We Consider Our Mobile Data [VIDEO]

Have you ever thought about the privacy concerns associated with smartphone apps?

Researchers at Queen Mary University in London certainly have. They’re starting a new project aimed at finding out just how valuable we consider our personal information.

The study asks volunteers to download a free Android app, which feeds… read more

Pulitzer Prizes Highlight Social Media’s Penetration Into the Newsroom

The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners reflect the rising role of social media and the Internet in today’s news coverage.

Online news sites The Huffington Post and Politico were recognized for their editorial content. Traditional news outlets integrated social media into their reporting of breaking news in real time.

“Social media appeared… read more

Which Social Network Should You Use — and When? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Want to make the most of the social web? It’s more complicated than just posting status updates at random and seeing what sticks.

When is Facebook most effective? When are you better off using Twitter, or LinkedIn? And what exactly is Google+ good for, anyway?

The business consultant network Zintro… read more

Millennial Consumers: Engaged, Optimistic, Charitable [STUDY]

A study comparing Millennials with non-Millennials sheds light on some of the key behaviors and attitudes of the generation.

Currently numbered at 79 million — and growing in influence — Millennials are expected to outnumber the Baby Boomer population 78 million to 56 million by 2030.

The Boston Consulting Group recently… read more

11 Expensive iOS Apps Worth Your Hard-Earned Cash

1. MLB.com At Bat

It’s no secret that Major League Baseball leads professional sports leagues in its ability… read more

Hilarious ESPN Ad Shows Why it Sucks to be Michael Jordan [VIDEO]

Seriously, how much would it suck to be Michael Jordan? No, not that Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time. We’re talking about the balding, bespectacled, middle-aged white guy Michael Jordan, the one who’s met with crestfallen looks from the delivery men, receptionists and limo drivers matching face… read more

Are Online Tools the Future of Disaster Relief?

When disaster hits, many people break the news on Twitter or Facebook, often to inform loved ones that they’re okay. During a crisis, social media users take on the responsibility of communicating news, especially when they are at the scene of an emergency.

But how are these online sites —… read more

Beyond 1080p: Canon Unveils $15,000 Camera with 4K HD Video

Canon has a message for everyone in pro video: 1080p is over.

The next big thing is 4K, a video format that pumps up the number of pixels to 4,096 x 2,160 — or more than four times as many as in 1080p — and Canon has just announced a… read more

Holographic Storage: Coming Soon to a Cloud Service Near You? [VIDEO]

Holographic storage, once a pipe dream, may be headed to the market soon. A company called HVault has plans to turn the high-tech concept into reality this year.

In most cases, holographic storage is a write once, read many times data archival technique. Unlike other types of storage, holographic storage… read more

Industry Events: 6 Ways to Make a Big Impact On a Small Budget

Ted Iannuzzi is the CEO of DIDMO. He is the co-creator of the company’s flagship product, the mobile content creation platform Magmito.

Conferences, large and small, remain great opportunities to meet prospective clients and partners. In fact, according to one study, more than half of business travelers say that between 5%… read more

Turn Your Friends Into Memes With This App

Have you ever wanted to turn someone into a meme? Do you know someone who would look perfect with a rage comic for a face?

The Memefier App might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

The app uses facial recognition to superimpose a rage comic over a person’s face. The… read more

Google Earth Helps Reunite Man With His Mother After 25 Years [VIDEO]

Saroo Brierly was separated from his older brother in a train station in India in 1986. For most of his life, he thought he would never see his family again.

Twenty-five years later, he has reunited with his mother, thanks to the magic of Google Earth.

Brierly was illiterate and… read more

How We Really Look at Politicians’ Websites [STUDY]

Voters checking out a politician’s website want a clean, easy-to-use interface that establishes an emotional connection with visitors and teaches them about the candidate — not links asking them to contribute financially to a campaign.

That’s according to a study that literally explored how we look at politicians’ websites —… read more

Are Memes Art? [VIDEO]

Are memes art?

To Mike Rugnetta at PBS Idea Channel, memes are people “creating images and sharing them with strangers for the purpose of communicating their experiences.”

Which, he says, “Is art. Plain and simple.”

In quoting famous philosophers, writers and thinkers such as Tolstoy, he may have actually convinced us.

Are you… read more

Make Your Gloves Touchscreen-Friendly With TapCaps [VIDEO]

A new Kickstarter project aims to bring touchscreen-friendly control to your favorite gloves.

If you’ve ever tried to use the touchscreen of your phone or tablet wearing gloves, chances are you had a little trouble. Designed to respond to your fingers not your clothing, touchscreen devices can’t tell you’re touching… read more

Huffington Post Wins Its First Pulitzer Prize

The Huffington Post won its first Pulitzer Prize Monday — becoming the first online-only daily news website to do so.

The prize, in the national reporting category, was awarded to veteran reporter David Wood. His 10-part series, “Beyond the Battlefield,” explored the lives of several veterans who were severely injured… read more

Last Chance to Get Your Tickets to Mashable Connect

This week is your last chance to get a pass to Mashable’s biggest conference of the year, Mashable Connect.

This three-day conference is a must-attend event for leaders of the Connected Generation. There, industry experts will discuss the ideas and trends that will impact the space in the coming years…. read more

Musk: Tesla Is a Success, on Some Levels [VIDEO]

By its own measure, Telsa Motors has sold around 2,100 of its electric motor Telsa Roadsters. At $100,000 a pop, that’s probably a pretty decent haul.

But is Tesla an automotive success? As cofounder and current CEO Elon Musk sees it, the answer is yes — on some levels.

Musk,… read more

Dating Site Finds You a Mate Based on Your Klout Score

Matchmaking service Tawkify now considers users’ Klout scores when pairing them with each other for phone dates.

Tawkify rolled out in January to set up singles, but on Monday, the service added a new twist to its matchmaking methods: connecting people with similar Klout scores.

Tawkify co-creator E. Jean Carroll, a… read more

Women at Work: Can Startups Level the Playing Field? [INFOGRAPHIC]

A woman’s place in the modern workforce is a hotly debated issue these days. Most likely that’s because the figures surrounding female pay rate, education and business experience don’t parallel male statistics.

The infographic below, based on compiled research from the University of North Carolina’s online MBA program, details where… read more

Brands on Pinterest: To $ or Not to $? [STUDY]

Brands should be wary of attaching price tags to the products they pin on Pinterest, a new study from analytics startup Pinreach and Joshua Yang, a MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, indicates.

The two parties discovered that pins with price tags are just as likely to be shared as pins… read more

11 Adorable Kid-Proof Device Cases

1. Toyota Creatures

Toyota Creatures like YetYet (pictured) protect your iPad and iPhone from rambunctious behavior. The alien “creature”… read more

10 Tech T-Shirts You Can’t Live Without

1. 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt

When you and your significant other wear these t-shirts, two and a half pixelated… read more

10 Indie Games Worth the Cash

1. Wizorb

… read more

5 User-Friendly Tools for Building Your Online Portfolio

Heather R. Huhman is the founder and president of Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for organizations with products that target job seekers and/or employers. You can connect with Heather and Come Recommended on Twitter and Facebook.

In today’s digital world, your job search has to be as… read more

14 Tech-Forward Concepts Reshaping Our Future

For the Global Innovation Series, presented by BMW, we’re focused on one simple question: In what ways is technology drastically changing our lives for the better? In a lot of ways, living in a city is challenging — urban citizens are constantly thinking about mobility, energy, shelter, safety and efficiency… read more

Cruises Then and Now: The Tech Behind Titanic [VIDEO]

The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank 100 years ago today, ending up in a watery grave 12,600 feet below the surface of the sea. But that was 100 years ago. Could that happen today?

Let’s take a look at the tech behind the Titanic, explore the innovations made since… read more

Mobile Mistrust: Are Texters Cheaters? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Do mobile phones make you suspicious? Do texters have something to hide?

That’s what a couple of recent studies suggest. College students trust text messages less than phone calls, video chats and face-to-face conversation when communicating with their peers. And it may be a case of guilty consciences — 35%… read more

Baseball Home Openers: Social Media’s Best Shots [PICS]

1. A head of the game

The New York Mets tweeted this photo of a fan with a Shea… read more

5 Retro Games Brought Back From the Dead By Kickstarter

Who can forget their first computer game? It wasn’t just kind of awesome, it’s what took up most evenings and every weekend. If you’re the type to have spent far too many hours playing these games in the 1980s and ’90s, you might want to clear your schedule now.

Some… read more

Where and When Do Most People Lose Their Phones? [INFOGRAPHIC]

If you’ve never lost a cellphone, you’re either very lucky or a big ol’ liar. With $30 billion worth of phones lost in the U.S. every year, we bet your phone has contributed to the heap at one time or another.

I can count on 47 hands the times I’ve seen… read more

Why Was Apple Meeting with Game Developer Valve? [VIDEO]

Apple CEO Tim Cook might want to consider sneaking around in disguise, because when he was spotted meeting with game developer Valve at the gaming company’s headquarters, rumors immediately began to fly. What should we make of this?

Could Apple be working on a game console to go into its… read more

J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore Site Is Now Open to the Public

With the books and movies all finished, are you suffering from Harry Potter withdrawal?

Maybe it’s time to head over to Pottermore, an online hub developed by J.K. Rowling for fans of the boy wizard. The free site is now open for all to join.

Users will be treated to… read more

Working Remotely: Is It Right For You?

Sara Ferraioli is a Manager in the Human Resources Contracts division at Winter, Wyman, the largest and one of the most recognized staffing organizations in the Northeast. Find out more on the Winter, Wyman blog or follow on Twitter .

More than 34 million Americans work at home at least occasionally,… read more

8 Hilarious ‘Titanic’ Parodies to Lift Your Sinking Spirits

1. Titanic Super 3D

… read more

5 Socially Conscious Startups Innovating for Good

In our new series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the people behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact.

It’s not easy to dedicate a business to a social cause. The challenges these companies have faced, whether it’s developing services for veterans of Afghanistan… read more

IndieGoGo’s Co-Founder Wants Kids to Launch 10 Startups in 10 Years

Slava Rubin, co-founder and CEO of crowdfunding website IndieGoGo, has an ambitious plan to plant the seeds of entrepreneurship in the minds of students: He wants them to launch a new startup every year for ten years in middle school through college.

“The best way for students to become entrepreneurs is… read more

Uranus Auroras Spotted by Hubble Telescope Scientists [VIDEO]

Conditions are bizarre on the peculiar seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus. Much is different from our planet, including auroras, which were spotted by the Hubble telescope last November.

The space telescope, Earth’s workhorse of observational power, snagged images of a couple of auroras on the surface of Uranus… read more

Is a Yacht Philippe Starck’s ‘Revolutionary’ Apple Project? [RUMOR]

World-famous French designer Philippe Starck told a French radio station on Friday that he’s working on a “revolutionary” secret Apple project that will surface in eight months. The designer said that he couldn’t reveal more details because of Apple’s “religious cult of secrecy.”

Apple flatly denied Starck’s involvement with… read more

New CISPA Draft Narrows Cybersecurity Language as Protests Loom

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee has released a new draft of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), narrowing the definition of “cybersecurity threat” in response to alarms being sounded throughout the technology community.

A “discussion draft” was posted to the committee’s website Friday afternoon. It shows amendments already cleared… read more

Google Doodle Pays Homage to Street Photographer Robert Doisneau

Today’s Google Doodle features photographs from the famed French photographer Robert Doisneau on his 100th birthday.

Born April 14, 1912, Doisneau was one of the original street photographers — he wandered the streets of Paris snapping away with his Leica camera decades before thousands of Brooklyn’s hipsters would do the same… read more

4 Ways to Outdo Your Competitors

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Do you ever feel like there’s a competitor around every corner? Budding entrepreneurs often hesitate to follow their business dreams because they believe their target market is… read more

72% of Adults Are Local News Enthusiasts [STUDY]

Social media connectivity and the digitization of news have not squashed American fervor for local news, a Pew study says. Nearly three quarters of adults are consistently plugged into local news — so much so that 32% of survey participants say the loss of local outlets would majorly impact their… read more

These Contact Lenses Give You Superhuman Vision

Contact lens wearers can get a new perspective on their environment with the latest vision technology — contact lenses that let the wearer focus on two fields of view at once. Wearers can keep an eye on a projected image while their surrounding scenery can also be looked at… read more

5 Things That Waste Your Time at Work [INFOGRAPHIC]

Aside from the time you purposefully waste at work — checking Facebook or playing Draw Something, as the kids do — there’s a lot of other stuff that can slow you down at the office. The productivity of a “knowledge worker” (read: non-farmer) hinges on communication and the ability to… read more

Explore Alien Planets With This Free App

Ever wonder what those planets orbiting far away stars are like?

Well, now there’s an app for that.

The free Kepler Explorer app for iPhone and iPad allows users to explore some 2,000 planetary systems discovered by NASA’s Kepler Mission. The Kepler Mission scans the Milky Way galaxy in search of… read more

How a Sports Fanatic Turned His Blog Hobby Into a Career [VIDEO]

Back in 2003, when blogs were just catching on with the mainstream, college student Matthew Cerrone started a GeoCities site called MetsBlog.com to track his favorite baseball team. Fast-forward nine years and he’s turned the hobby into a full-time job.

Cerrone’s story offers a window into how sports fans today… read more

Why Global Mobile Marketing Starts With Localized Apps

Liz Elting is co-founder and co-CEO of TransPerfect, the world’s largest privately held provider of language and business services.

The world’s population reached 7 billion in Oct. 2011, and according to an IDC report, one in every seven of those people owns a smart device. By now, we’ve all heard,… read more

HTC Titan II: The Other LTE Windows Phone Is Big, Beautiful, Pricey [REVIEW]

The HTC Titan II is HTC’s first LTE Windows Phone, and one of just two LTE Windows Phones currently on the market.

Debuting alongside the Nokia Lumia 900 on April 8th, the handset is HTC’s followup to the original Titan, a massive Windows Phone the company debuted in late 2011.

Under… read more

Now You Can Google Like It’s 1986

No, this isn’t the latest Google Doodle celebrating the anniversary of DOS.

Instead, it’s an imagining of what Google would look like if it was invented circa 1986. The design, by Squirrel-Monkey.com, has been kicking around for a few months, but an Austrian web design firm called Mass:Werk… read more

‘Who Needs Feminism?’ New Tumblr Promotes Gender Equality

Move over, Feminist Ryan Gosling — there’s a new Tumblr battling sexism.

On Wednesday, 16 undergraduate students at Duke University launched Who Needs Feminism?, a campaign that encourages feminist and gender egalitarian discussion over social media.

The Tumblr features posters and statements from individuals explaining why feminism is important. Statements range from… read more

Put the Phone Down: April Is Distracted Driving Awareness Month

Even the most LOL-worthy text message is not worth risking your life to read while driving. That’s the message of National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, or as you may know it, April.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) catchy slogan for its third annual campaign: “One Text or Call could… read more

Pinterest Users: What’s the World’s Most Beautiful Country? [INFOGRAPHIC]

The world has fallen in love with Pinterest, the social network with beautiful images at its core. Now Pinterest users get to decide where they most love in the world.

A crowdsourced project created by travel site First Choice — living in an interactive HTML5 infographic — is asking globally-minded Pinterest… read more

Angelina and Brad’s Engagement: The Toast of Twitter

News of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s engagement rocked the interwebs Friday — and briefly nabbed the top trending spot on Twitter.

The fact that “Brangelina” are finally making it official was confirmed by Pitt’s manager Cynthia Pett-Dante. She told the Associated Press: “Yes, it’s confirmed. It is a promise… read more

Mashable Is Seeking a Director of West Coast Sales

Are you based in San Francisco and looking for your next career opportunity? If so, there may be a place for you on Mashable‘s growing sales team. We’re looking for smart, resourceful candidates with ad sales and digital media experience for our Director of West Coast Sales opening.

The Director of… read more

Julian Assange’s TV Show to Premiere Next Week

Julian Assange

Julian Assange, 40, is an Australian-born political activist and journalist known for his controversial website WikiLeaks, which… read more

This Dog Jumps Rope Better Than You Can [VIDEO]

This is Geronimo — a dog who is not only able to jump rope, but can jump double-dutch.

Considering that a large majority of the staff at Mashable HQ are unable to do that, we are suitably impressed.

The video was posted to YouTube on April 4th, but went viral today due… read more

Life on Mars? NASA Wants Your Help Finding It

Right now, the Curiosity Rover is sailing through space en route to the Red Planet. The one-ton, car-sized beast should hopefully land intact on the surface of Mars in early August, and we can’t wait to see what it finds. Neither can NASA.

But after the robot rover has combed,… read more

Retro Digital Cinema Camera Is a Hit on Kickstarter [VIDEO]

Meet the Digital Bolex D16, a small hand-held video camera inspired by the cinema-quality Bolex cameras popular in the 1960s and ’70s.

The Digital Bolex mimics 16mm film, which essentially provides independent filmmakers an affordable alternative to shoot high-quality, raw images that aren’t compressed.

The project has raised more than… read more

RIM Almost Let Other Phones Use the BlackBerry Network [REPORT]

Research in Motion was on the verge of adopting a strategy that would have opened the company’s BlackBerry network to competing phones before a change in management led to its downfall, a new report claims.

According to Reuters, former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie wanted to allow wireless carriers in North America… read more

Apple Releases Update to Remove Flashback Trojan

Apple has issued a new software update that also serves to remove the most common variant of the Flashback Trojan.

The update, which was released via Software Update on April 12, supersedes the previous software updates issued to patch the Java vulnerability that allowed malicious software to track users on more… read more

‘Bully’ Director Takes Questions From Fans on Reddit

Lee Hirsch, the director of the documentary Bully, has taken to Reddit to do one of the site’s famous ‘Ask Me Anything’ crowdsourced interviews.

The filmmaker will be answering questions about the film, the concept of bullying, and any other question that Redditors may ask — which are known to… read more

Fans Topple Pane of Glass Onto NHL Player’s Head After Playoff Win [VIDEO]

A group of over-exuberant fans banging on a pane of glass knocked the section of spectator protection onto an unsuspecting NHL player Thursday night. The Boston Bruins had just scored an overtime goal to steal a Stanley Cup Playoffs win in front of their home crowd, when Krejci got caught… read more

Netflix’s Unlimited Employee Vacation Policy: Why It Works

Netflix employees have one less thing to keep track of: the amount of vacation days they take. Co-founder Reed Hastings recently told Bloomberg Businessweek that Netflix has an unlimited vacation policy.

In an effort to separate itself from bureaucratic corporations, Netflix, with its 900 employees, abandoned the typical vacation allotment… read more

5 Mobile Apps for Seasonal Allergy Sufferers

1. Allergy Advisor

Allergy sufferers can check their local weather and pollen forecast every morning with Allergy Advisor and… read more