What Are the Presidential Candidates’ Stances on Important Tech Issues?

The 2012 race for the White House is well underway. During the numerous debates, campaign speeches and addresses, the five remaining presidential candidates have been outspoken about their stances on unemployment, education and foreign policy. But there’s one area they haven’t been very vocal on: technology.

Just where do these… read more

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

The Neo Geo is said to be making a comeback with a flashy hand-held gaming device resembling an iPhone.

Neo Geo who? Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of the over-priced hand-held gaming device that flashed through the late-’90s — many haven’t…. read more

Get Your Game On With These 30 New and Classic Boardgames for Mac

Are you looking for a good way to have fun on your Mac but don’t really consider yourself a gamer? Perhaps you’re nostalgic for the days when playing a game involved a couple of dice, a colorful board and some interestingly shaped pieces to move around that board.

Well you’re… read more

Anonymous Threatens Facebook Shutdown Jan. 28

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

And you thought a day without Wikipedia was bad.

“An online war has begun between Anonymous, the people and the government… read more

Nokia Ringtone Interrupts, Violist Plays Along [VIRAL VIDEO]

If you’ve ever been watching a movie or attending a concert and someone’s ringtone interrupts the proceedings, you’ll appreciate this video that’s recently gone viral on YouTube.

As Slovakian musician Lukáš Kmit played a beautiful piece on his viola, suddenly the obnoxious Nokia ringtone blasted through the reverie. What a… read more

China Launches iPad Alternative for Communists [VIDEO]

It’s the tech device communists have been waiting for — the 9.7-inch tall Android 3.2 tablet, China’s alternative to the Apple iPad, called RedPad Number One.

The device launched recently in China. The RedPad was built especially for Communist Party members and… read more

Charting the CES Chatter, Week-in-Review [STATS]

What topics, trends and websites dominated the conversation last week at CES 2012?

Tablet devices and ultrabook laptops were the hottest technologies in Las Vegas. Microsoft rode an early high as Twitter‘s most-mentioned brand but tailed off later in the week. Motorola, meanwhile, started slow but finished strong. And tech… read more

Rupert Murdoch Goes on Twitter Rampage Targeting Obama, Google

Well, Rupert Murdoch, you’re officially a Twitter celebrity now.

Going down the road well trod by the likes of Charlie Sheen and Kevin Smith, the News Corp. CEO let loose a multiple-message Twitter rant over the weekend, targeting President Obama and Google over antipiracy legislation that the White House said… read more

Charting the CES Chatter, Thursday Edition [INFOGRAPHIC]

Motorola, Twitter and OLED display technology ruled on Wednesday at CES 2012. Microsoft still has the largest share of overall tweets tagged #CES, but its grip on the conversation slipped again on the expo week’s third day. And Mashable became Wednesday’s most-tweeted news site for the CES scoop.

This is our… read more

Fisker Karma Electric Supercar Struts Its Stuff at CES 2012 [PICS]

LAS VEGAS — The Fisker Karma is an electric car on a nationwide tour, and one of its stops was at CES 2012. We got a chance to sit in it and experience all its luxury appointments, both interior and exterior.

Easing our 6-foot+ frames down into the vehicle, we… read more

Charting the CES Chatter, Wednesday Edition [INFOGRAPHIC]

What were the hottest topics among techies on Twitter during the first official day of CES 2012 on Tuesday?

OLED display technology has had people buzzing about its potential for HDTVs, while ultrabook laptops and tablet devices are also hot. Microsoft has the largest share of tweets tagged #CES this… read more

What Techies Are Buzzing About at CES [INFOGRAPHIC]

More people tweeted about Microsoft than any other tech brand Monday at CES 2012, but people who tweeted about Google had the most followers on average. Ultrabook computers, tablet devices and OLED display technology were by far the most-mentioned digital trends on Twitter. And Mashable had the second-most tweeted domain… read more

7 Social Media Predictions for 2012

With the year of 2011 in social media thoroughly recapped and analyzed by Mashable, it’s time to set our sights on the year ahead. While I recently shared my predictions for media and advertising, there are some broader social media trends with big implications that are worth identifying.

Be sure… read more

Teen Prodigy Recognized by Microsoft Now in Critical Condition

A 16 year-old girl who was once deemed one of the youngest Microsoft Professionals in the world, is in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest on Dec. 22.

Arfa Karim Randhawa, who received that recognition at age 9 after meeting Bill Gates, is currently on life support in a hospital in… read more

How to Make Your Website More Accessible

Constant improvement is imperative to a world of progress, including the web world. Designing an effective website requires a lot of techniques, skills and testing. Testing determines the usability of the website, which ties into accessibility. Thus, one of the most important things to consider when creating a website is… read more

How Mark Cuban Helps JungleCents Win at Daily Deals

Mark Cuban wins at many things, especially business and professional basketball. Now the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and film distributor Magnolia Pictures thinks JungleCents — the online deals site he’s invested in — will also be a hit.

Cuban’s involvement with JungleCents reflects the advantages that startups can find… read more

Instagram Is Coming to Android

Instagram, the hugely popular iPhone photography app that evokes 1970s style, has announced it’s finally developing an Android app.

The company believes its membership base of 50 million could double with its Android launch, CNET reports.

“We have two people working on Android now,” Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram said… read more

Verizon’s 4G Droid Tablets to Ditch Xoom Brand? [VIDEO]

Verizon is on the verge of adding two tablets to its Droid line, both with 4G LTE connectivity, CNET reports. The tablets, made by Motorola, are successors to the original Xoom, but will actually have the name “Xyboard.” Both tablets are… read more

Apple Will Remove Carrier IQ — How To Block It On Your iPhone Now [PICS]

As controversy continues to swirl around Carrier IQ, which stores data and sends it to cellphone service providers, Apple has confirmed that it stopped supporting the software in iPhones — and will remove it completely from future iPhone software.

“We stopped supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most… read more

Sprint Hopes to Resolve iPhone 4S Growing Pains Soon

When the iPhone 4S arrived last month, some Sprint customers began complaining about slow or inconsistent connection speeds with their new handsets. Now, the nation’s third largest carrier hopes to clear up the issue by initiating some much-needed network “enhancements,” according to CNET.

Using a combination of its own checks and… read more

Galaxy Nexus Now Available for Pre-Order Through Expansys

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

The price is steep: $749, contract-free, for the 16 GB variant. It will, however, get you the device in four working days, so if you… read more

3 Mistakes Web Programmers Need to Stop Making

Jonathan Goldford is a partner at JG Visual, an Internet strategy company that works with organizations to develop and implement their online presence. You can connect with Jonathan on the JG Visual Facebook page.

Sometimes as programmers, we forget that 99.9% of the population doesn’t care how a piece of text,… read more

Last Week Was Google+’s Third-Biggest Yet for Traffic [STUDY]

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You’ll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news.

Google’s addition of brand pages to Google+ seems to have helped the site’s traffic. According to Hitwise, the week… read more

Facebook and Google Team Up to Fight the E-Parasite Act

Just when we thought the battle lines had been drawn on the Stop Online Piracy Act, tech giants Facebook, Google and Zynga have announced their opposition to the proposed bill.

The companies joined the opposition with a letter to members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives about the Stop… read more

Did Change.org Petition Prompt Facebook Rape Fan Page Removals?

Several Facebook fan Pages encouraging rape and violence against women have been taken down. While the removal of the pages are in accordance with the social network’s policies, many people are giving credit to a change.org petition that has more than 180,000 online signatures.

Earlier this year, Facebook declined to pull… read more

Appstorm’s Beginners Guide to Usenet

There are a lot of ways for getting files (music, video, software) from the Internet. Some of you might use a peer-to-peer network, such as BitTorrent, or a dedicated file hosting service, like RapidShare. These services are great, but Peer-to-Peer can be slow, and a dedicated file hosting service can… read more

Apple Gives Its Key Execs $400 Million in Bonuses

Apple has awarded seven of its key executives with massive stock grants worth approximately $400 million in total.

Six Apple SVPs have been awarded 150,000 shares of Apple for their services, according to recent SEC filings. This includes Scott Forstall (SVP, iOS), Robert Mansfield (SVP, Hardware Engineering), Peter Oppenheimer (CFO), Phil… read more

Who Are You, Siri? We Ask One of Her Dads

“Who are you?,” I ask Siri, attempting to unravel some of the mystery behind the iPhone 4S virtual assistant by going directly to the source. No such luck. “Who I am isn’t important,” she tells me.

Let’s stop being coy, Siri. Who you are is important. We both know that…. read more

HP to Stay in PC Business, Apple Sales Spike in Asia and More: Today’s Top Stories

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

HP to Stay in PC and Tablet Businesses

On a conference call with analysts Thursday,… read more

Dropbox for Teams Offers a Terabyte of Space, Centralized Billing

If you have a crowd of people collaborating with large files synchronized by Dropbox, you might be interested in this new offering from the online file synchronization service, called Dropbox for Teams.

It works the same way as the regular Dropbox service, where if you put files into a Dropbox… read more

Why Coldplay and Adele Aren’t Bringing New Albums to Spotify

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

Fans will either need to purchase physical copies or MP3 downloads from places like Apple’s iTunes store, Microsoft’s Zune store or Amazon.

The reason for the decision isn’t entirely clear. An anonymous industry… read more

Nokia Shows Off Flexible Mobile Device of the Future [VIDEOS]

Look what Nokia has done with this mobile gadget — Nokia calls it a “kinetic device,” a prototype with a flexible display the company showed at Nokia World 2011 in London.

Instead of the pinch-to-zoom capabilities copied throughout the smartphone industry, Nokia has come up with a novel way to… read more

Yahoo Reports Dismal Earnings, Revenue Down 24%

Yahoo reported its third quarter earnings on Tuesday and the results weren’t pretty.

The company net earnings were down 26% from the third quarter in 2010 and its revenue, excluding traffic acquisition costs was down 5% from 2010. Yahoo’s GAAP adjusted revenue was down 24% from third quarter 2010.

All in… read more

Yellowgate? Some iPhone 4S Users Complain of Yellow Tint to Screen

The ultra-smooth launch of the iPhone 4S may have hit a snag, albeit a minor one: Some users are complaining about yellow-tinted screens.

The discussion thread “iPhone 4S Screen Tint” has gotten 39 replies so far on Apple’s support page. A user called Snowglider appears to have started the discussion by… read more

Create a Custom Gift Card for Any Store With Giftly

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: Giftly

Quick Pitch: Giftly lets users create custom gift cards for any store.

Genius Idea: Bypassing the merchant… read more

Conversation Techniques For Designers

Designers are visually literate creatures. We use visuals to express our ideas, whether by building wireframes, sketching interfaces or pushing pixels. As a result, the majority of knowledge captured when we design a product is some form of “corporate memory”: a combination of assets and documentation. This creation of visual… read more

Amazon Kindle Fire: iPad Killer or Ereader Substitute? [POLL]

As tablet after tablet fail to gain significant market share against the iPad, many have attached their iPad-killing dreams to the Amazon tablet.

Amazon unveiled that tablet, the Kindle Fire, on Wednesday. While its functionality is significantly more restricted than that of tablets like the iPad, some argue that its relatively… read more

Google+ Has 43 Million Users, Up 30% Since Opening Publicly [REPORT]

Facebook may have grabbed most of the headlines last week — but at the same time, behind the scenes, young and scrappy rival social network Google+ was grabbing a record number of new users.

According to a post by Paul Allen, Ancestry.com co-founder and unofficial Google+ statistician, Google+ is up to… read more

How to Enable the New Facebook Timeline NOW

You’ve been hearing about all the wonderful new Facebook features, and like us, you’re probably super-eager to get started with them.

If you’re willing to go through a series of eight steps, you can get into the brand-new Facebook Timeline right now.

Simply follow the instructions in our gallery below,… read more

HP CEO Meg Whitman Vows to Stay the Course, But Would You? [POLL]

In her first press conference after she took the helm of HP, new CEO Meg Whitman vowed to stay the course set by her predecessor, former CEO Leo Apotheker.

She wants to continue the purchase of British software company Autonomy for the eye-popping price of $10.3 billion, and continue to… read more

The PC: Old, Unsexy & Still King of The World

The Consumer Trends Series is supported by CBS Interactive, which helps you find the perfect audience with a network of #1 sites like CNET, CBS.com, CBS Sports and GameSpot. For more, visit CBSInteractive.com/ideal.

After the year that most of the PC industry has had, you would be forgiven for writing… read more

Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS [With Reviews]

Today I was surfing through the best selling cameras list on Amazon and noticed that the Canon Powershot Elph 300 HS was ranked as the #1 best selling camera on the site at present. I thought it might be worth taking a bit of a closer look at what the… read more

What the Front Pages of the Web Looked Like on 9/11/2001

Everyone has a 9/11 story, so here’s mine: I was riding the NJ Transit train across the Meadowlands on the way to my job in Manhattan when a woman stood up and broke the morning silence. “A plane just hit the World Trade Center,” she said. Someone had called and… read more

Samsung to Use Windows on Its Tablets [REPORT]

Samsung is planning to start using Windows in addition to Android on its tablet PCs, according to a report.

The company is planning to make the announcement next week at a Microsoft developers conference in California, reports The Wall Street Journal. Samsung released its first tablet, the Galaxy Tab, in September… read more

8 Star Trek Gadgets That Are No Longer Fiction

Forty-five years ago, the first episode of Star Trek aired on NBC. It was five years after the Soviet Union launched the first human into space, and the franchise explored a fictional 23rd century “United Federation of Planets” through a crew based on the starship Enterprise.

Six television series… read more

How and Why Consumers Choose a Smartphone

The Consumer Trends Series is supported by CBS Interactive, which helps you find the perfect audience with a network of #1 sites like CNET, CBS.com, CBS Sports and GameSpot. For more, visit CBSInteractive.com/ideal.

It’s no secret that smartphone usage and adoption is exploding, not only in the United States, but… read more

Happy Birthday Google: Making Sense of the Web for 13 Years

What were you up to 13 years ago? Maybe you were perfecting the ideal AIM screen name. Or you might have been surfing the “WestHollywood” neighborhood of GeoCities. Chances are, you had been using Yahoo! or AOL as your primary search engines. But Google’s debut on this day in 1998… read more

Secure your Passwords on the Cheap with MyWallet

Think fast, how many web app accounts do you have? Now, how many software licenses? What about bank accounts or email addresses? I’d wager at least several dozen. That’s a lot of user names, passwords and numbers to remember. To help Mac users keep track of their myriad digital profiles,… read more

What Is Apple’s Next Big Thing?

The past decade has been a remarkable one for Apple. They’ve revitalized and reinvented their product line several times and have even shifted a large portion of their vision and focus to devices that didn’t exist in the 90s.

Innovation has been the name of the game since Jobs took… read more

Extensive Collection Of Useful jQuery Plugins For Working With Tables

jQuery plugins are quite in these days in the field of web designing and are extensively used because of their aesthetically appealing results. Through jQuery tables plugins, you can attain the maximum results in terms of functionality and flexibility. The level of flexibility and functionality that jQuery provide cannot be… read more

HP’s TouchPad May Be Resurrected

The TouchPad, HP’s ill-fated tablet PC, may have a second life after all.

The head of HP’s soon-to-be-spun-off Personal Systems Group, Todd Bradley, told Reuters the new company could resurrect the TouchPad. “Tablet computing is a segment of the market that’s relevant, absolutely,” Bradley said.

Meanwhile, HP is planning an… read more

The Future of Mobile Marketing with Smartphones

As the technology for mobile devices grows, so does the opportunity for development. Many companies are not creating their own apps, but instead utilizing HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 to aid in the creation of web apps and mobile websites. Reducing the initial investment, companies can get the most out of… read more

How Steve Jobs’ Reign has Changed the Web

Steve Jobs is perhaps best known for the groundbreaking, market-leading products he has introduced under his reign as Apple CEO. He and his team created products that have literally revolutionised industries, or even nearly created new markets for tablets and media players, and that’s what the general public recognise his… read more

Why QR Codes Are Here to Stay [OPINION]

This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication.

Hamilton Chan is CEO and founder of Paperlinks. With the free Paperlinks iPhone app, featured previously by Apple as the #1 New & Noteworthy app, consumers can scan and view QR code content with… read more

Baseball Everywhere: How MLB Is Innovating With Digital Media

On August 26, 1939, Major League Baseball did something historic: It broadcast on televisions for the first time. It’s not known how many people tuned into see that telecast, a doubleheader between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds, though it couldn’t have been many since only a few hundred… read more

Google+ Begins Verification Badge Program [VIDEO]

Google rolled out a new verification badge program Saturday, making it so celebrities, public figures and those who have amassed vast numbers of people in their circles can verify their identities with a check mark and a small banner that rolls out next to their names.

According to a Google+… read more

TouchPad is the iPad’s First Victim, But Likely Not The Last

Spare a thought for the unlucky customers who purchased a TouchPad. After Thursday’s announcement that HP would be discontinuing support for this and other WebOS devices, these users are saddled with a tablet that will never live up to its initial promise.

How many users are we talking about? HP hasn’t… read more

Batch Processing: 25 Tools and Techniques for Images and Documents

Converting images or files by hand can be a hugely time-consuming process. But how often do clients send us files in formats that can’t be directly used on their website or project? If you’re like most designers, your answer is probably “pretty often.”

Batch processing takes a lot of the headache… read more

30 Cool Die Cut Business Cards Worth Checking Out

30 Cool Die Cut Business Cards Worth Checking Out

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Google Acquires Motorola Mobility, BART Website Hacked: This Morning’s Top Stories

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on five particular stories of interest today.

Google Acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion

Google has acquired handset manufacturer Motorola’s Mobility division… read more

San Francisco Blocks Cell Service To Thwart Protest, Draws Ire of Anonymous

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) shut down cell service at four San Francisco stations Thursday night to thwart a protest attempt. The decision has drawn the ire of many, including members of hacker collective Anonymous.

In July, a BART police officer shot and killed Charles Blair Hill, a transient who reportedly… read more

Walmart Subverts Apple With iPad-Optimized Movie Streaming

Instead of launching an iPad app for its video-streaming service Vudu, Walmart has launched an iPad-optimized website — bypassing the 30% cut in revenue that Apple takes from all in-app purchases.

Customers can now browse, rent or watch a movie by launching the Vudu site on their iPads’ browsers. From the… read more

Walmart To Shut Down 7-Year-Old MP3 Music Store

Walmart MP3 Downloads, the retailer’s 7-year-old iTunes competitor, will go dark at the end of the month.

The company plans to silence the site on August 29, according to The New York Times. Once viewed as a serious threat to iTunes, Walmart’s online music store never made huge inroads against Apple,… read more

Why Metadata Will Define the Future of TV

Ron Frankel is the CEO of Synacor, the leading provider of authentication and information management technologies and TV Everywhere services for cable, telecommunication and satellite providers.

Today’s consumers want TV content not just in the web browser, but on smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles — you name it. However, for “TV Everywhere”… read more

Researchers Discover How To Use Square for Credit Card Fraud

Researchers attending the Black Hat security conference on Thursday demonstrated two ways in which Square — a mobile gadget that enables Android, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users to accept credit card payments — can be hacked to accept stolen credit card data, with very little technical hardware required and… read more

Facebook’s Photo Archive Can Identify People in Real Life [STUDY]

Facebook has had its share of problems over face recognition — a feature that connects a photo of a person’s face with their Facebook profile, making it easier to tag people in photos — but researchers from Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University recently proved that Facebook’s vast photo archive can… read more

5 Free Tools for Recording Google+ Hangouts

Google+ Hangouts are proving one of the most popular features of the new social networking service, but there’s no built-in option to record them.

Until Google adds such functionality, we’ve found five workarounds to help you record your next Hangout — free. While we’d strongly suggest any G+ pros invest… read more

The State of the Tablet and Ereader Market

The Consumer Trends Series is supported by CBS Interactive, which helps you find the perfect audience with a network of #1 sites like CNET, CBS.com, CBS Sports and GameSpot. For more, visit CBSInteractive.com/ideal.

For relatively recent innovations, commercial tablets and ereaders have taken the market by storm.

In the tablet category,… read more

Google Puts In-App Web Purchases On the Web

Back at Google I/O earlier this year, Google announced it was bringing in-app purchases to web applications through its somewhat popular Google Checkout product. A few days back, Google finally launched their Google Checkout-powered system, allowing web app developers to open to door to their virtual shelves.

The service gives web… read more

What Twitter Can Learn From Facebook [OPINION]

This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication.

Tom Anderson is the founder and former president of MySpace. MySpace sold in 2005, and Anderson left the company in early 2009. You can find him on Google+, Twitter or Facebook.

Sometimes when you follow… read more

The History of WebKit

Look back six years ago, to the year 2005, and the Web is a different place. The Browser Wars are still raging, and while Netscape is putting up a valiant fight, Microsoft and Internet Explorer are looking more and more invincible. It looks like the Web will fall to the… read more

T-Mobile Offers iPhone Users Micro SIM Card To Access Service

T-Mobile this week began offering a Micro SIM card that lets iPhone users access the network.

The card, available here, carries a $9.99 suggested retail price, but is free with a two-year contract with the carrier. iPhone users have been able to access T-Mobile with an unlocked iPhone since June…. read more

FBI Arrests 16 in Anonymous Hacking Investigation

The FBI is cracking down on the loosely affiliated hacking group Anonymous, whose members have claimed participation in just about every recent notable hacking attack.

Suspected members of the group were arrested Tuesday in Florida, New Jersey and California, FoxNews.com was the first to report.

U.S. government officials told CBS News that… read more

This Week in Politics & Digital: Cyber Security in The Spotlight

The U.S. Department of Defense relies on an enormous system of networks, with 7 million computing devices and 15,000 networks in dozens of countries. These networks support the U.S.’s military, intelligence and business operations.

The security of those systems was a major issue this week, and we delve into it… read more

Can Google+ Sustain Growth Beyond Early Adopters?

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable News for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as our top social media and technology updates.

The Social Analyst is a column by Mashable Editor-at-Large Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they… read more

HOW TO: Import Your Facebook Contacts on Google+

A new Google Chrome extension makes extracting Facebook contacts a lot easier, helping users more easily reconstruct their respective social graphs on Google+.

The extension, called Facebook Friend Exporter, lets you to export details that your Facebook friends have already shared with you, including their names, email addresses,… read more

Review Roundup: HP TouchPad Is No iPad Killer, But It Has Potential

The TouchPad, HP’s first webOS-based device for the tablet market, hit U.S. stores Friday.

The dual-core 9.7-inch tablet looks very similar to the iPad — the original iPad anyway — but has specs that are more closely aligned with the iPad 2, Galaxy Tab 10.1 or Motorola Xoom.

The… read more

Designing For Android

For designers, Android is the elephant in the room when it comes to app design. As much as designers would like to think it’s an iOS world in which all anyones cares about are iPhones, iPads and the App Store, nobody can ignore that Android currently has the majority of… read more

Leveraging Social Content for SEO

More and more, search and social media are converging. Not only are users using social recommendations to find things, but the major search engines have started using “social signals” to determine the relevance and authority of different sites.

What this means is that if you want to continue (or start) to… read more

Recent Graduate? 5 Steps Towards Your Internet Marketing Career

In the world of Internet marketing, many students are stepping into a side of social media, Google and other search engines, and web development that they never saw before. Who would have thought that the same tools that you use to communicate and keep in touch with friends are some… read more

American Airlines Giving First Class Passengers the New Samsung Galaxy Tabs

Attention American Airlines passengers: Some of those in first class are getting Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1s to play with during the flight.

Earlier this month, the airline began offering the tablet as an entertainment option, according to numerous online reports.

Around 6,000 of the tablets are being disbursed on… read more

Steve Jobs Set To Become Comic Book Hero

If you already have the Steve Jobs action figure, it’s possible that you’ve been lusting after an Apple-flavored comic book for a while now. Well, lust no longer.

This August, Bluewater Productions will be shipping a new comic book, Steve Jobs: Co-Founder of Apple, which will be on… read more

Woman Gets Facebook Friend Sleeve Tattoo [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Friends are a many splendored thing — and it’s natural to carry them in one’s heart throughout one’s ever-storied life. It seems a little extreme, however, to tattoo them on one’s arm.

Apparently, this… read more

Rumor Roundup: All About Apple’s iCloud Streaming Service

The launch of Apple’s much anticipated streaming music service is rapidly approaching. There have been a lot of rumors flying around about iCloud — as it could be named — so we thought it would be prudent to gather them all together.

The cloud-based music race has been… read more

Apple Signs Deal With Universal for iCloud Music Service [REPORT]

Apple has reportedly signed a deal with Universal Music Group, a move that could very well herald the arrival of a cloud-based music service from Steve Jobs’s company.

Sources were already saying that Apple had inked deals with EMI, Sony and Warner Music Group, with UMG being the… read more

3 Pressing Questions Facing the Future of Social Media

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brings 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. He is SorenG on Twitter.

The conversation about social media in… read more

12 Facebook Pages Every Photographer Should be Following

Facebook has become one of the most popular websites on the Internet. For photographers it is a great place to connect with other photographers, display your work, and obtain and share photography information and tips. Whether you’re a novice photographer, a professional photographer or just someone that likes… read more

Get a Job in Social Media, Web Development or Design

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable‘s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How… read more

Barnes & Noble To Launch Low-End Nook Next Week?

Barnes & Noble plans to announce a new ereader, possibly a lower-end Nook to counter Amazon’s Kindle, next week.

The bookstore chain has invited press to a May 24 event — this date coincides with information in an SEC filing regarding “the launch of a new ereader device.”

Last… read more

Facebook Dislike Button Scam Gets More Sophisticated [WARNING]

Facebook does not have a dislike button, but that hasn’t stopped spammers from trying to use it to scam users.

Online security firm Sophos rang the security alarm Monday with a post warning users about a scam that asks people to enable the dislike button.

Clicking it takes you… read more

Turkey Protests New Internet Filters

Disgruntled Turkish Internet users marched through the streets in more than 30 cities on Sunday to protest a new Internet filter system that they consider censorship.

The system will ask all users to choose from a selection of filters, including “family,” “children” and “domestic,” before browsing the Internet in Turkey. It… read more

In Trying to Plant Google Privacy Story, Did Facebook Have a Point?

Facebook has admitted it authorized an effort to raise privacy concerns about a Google product, but says it was not intended as a smear campaign.

The social networking giant released a statement acknowledging that it hired PR firm Burson-Marsteller to alert the media about the questionable use of… read more

Bin Laden Video Released by Pentagon

While images of Osama Bin Laden‘s dead body are still under wraps, the Pentagon released five unflattering home videos seized by the Navy SEALs when they attacked his compound on Monday.

The five videos, released without audio, are small part of what officials told the AP is the “largest collection of… read more

Will the PlayStation Network Hackers Strike Again?

Sony is quickly preparing to return the PlayStation Network to active status after an attack took down the network and compromised user accounts two weeks ago. As it does, more information is surfacing on the identity of the culprits behind the attack.

Infamous hacker group Anonymous has been… read more

As Sony Recovers, It Faces Challenges From Hackers, Customers & Congress

By now you’ve probably heard about the cyber attack that took down the PlayStation Network and compromised user account information. The attack revealed security flaws so gaping that Sony has been working for the past two weeks on a completely redesigned system with additional firewalls, encryption… read more

Lawsuit Accuses Google, Apple, Lucasfilm & Others of Fixing Employee Wages

Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm and Pixar are the target of a new lawsuit that claims that the companies conspired “to fix and suppress the compensation of their employees.”

The class action lawsuit (PDF), filed yesterday by former Lucasfilm software engineer Siddharth Hariharan, focuses around “no solicitation”… read more

How 3 Companies Took Content Marketing to the Next Level

Shane Snow is a Mashable contributor and cofounder of Contently.com, an “agile publishing” platform for brands and professional bloggers.

It goes by many names: branded content, custom publishing, content marketing. Cheap and ubiquitous web technology has become fuel for a rising trend of businesses becoming publishers and brands… read more

Hipster Retro Digital Camera Shuns Zoom

Fuji recently released the hotly anticipated FinePix X100, a $1,200 digital camera that combines the best elements of classic rangefinder cameras from the 1970s with today’s digital sensors.

But if you like zooming in on your subjects, you’re out of luck.

Fuji first showed off the X100 at September’s… read more

Will Google Partner With Spotify on a Music Service? We Doubt It [REPORT]

Word on the street is that Google, due to its alleged inability to come to an agreement with labels on its new cloud-based music service, is in talks with Spotify to partner on the much-whispered-about product.

It’s like a rumor wrapped in a murmuring wrapped in a “someone… read more

HBO Customers Will Soon Be Able to Watch on iOS & Android Devices

Starting next month, HBO subscribers will be able to access streaming content via iOS and Android devices.

The premium cable network started running teaser advertisements for its HBO GO iOS and Android apps earlier this month. The latest spot touts “instant and unlimited access” to “every episode of every season of… read more