Apples Introduces iAds: “Mobile Ads with Emotion”

Apple has officially unveiled iAds, Apple’s new mobile advertising platform, the “seventh pillar” of the new iPhone OS 4.0.

The new iAd platform, which we learned about just two weeks ago, will be built directly into the iPhone OS interface. During today’s iPhone OS 4.0 reveal event at Apple’s… read more

60 Fascinating AppStorm Reader Setups

After featuring our huge roundup of stylish Mac setups last week, we then asked you to submit your own setup for inclusion in another post. We’ve gathered 60 of your setups over the past week, and found out about some great new gadgets and software in the process.

Without further ado,… read more

FTC Close to Challenging Google’s Acquisition of AdMob

Staff at the Federal Trade Commission are poised to recommend that the U.S. government challenge Google’s acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob for antitrust reasons, according to multiple reports.

Yesterday a report from the Wall Street Journal indicated that the FTC has assembled a litigation team that could be utilized… read more

Announcing Mashable Media Summit 2010 – Tickets Now On Sale

Mashable and CNN are proud to present our first joint one-day conference in New York City: Mashable Media Summit 2010.

The Mashable Media Summit is focused on the impact of social media on the news industry, big brands and advertisers. It’ll be unlike any other conference you’ve attended. … read more

HOW TO: Take Photos with Your iPad (Sort of)

Before the iPad even landed, pundits picked apart its palpable flaws, one of which is the device’s lack of a built-in camera. If you own both an iPhone and an iPad however, you can jimmy rig the former into a wireless iPad camera for $.99.

All that you need to… read more

Could Apple Actually Beat Google in Mobile Advertising?

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.

On Thursday, Apple will unveil iPhone OS 4.0. It’s not the only thing the company is expected to reveal, though. … read more

Wacom Intuos4 Wireless Review

As a graphic designer I have to admit that I am not good at drawing. At first it was something that always bothered me, but I never thought that to be a good graphic designer I had to master the craft of drawing too. So during these years I was… read more

Mashable’s Guide to Upcoming Events in Social Media

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event to establish… read more

The Perfect Office #31

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

One Step Closer to Minority Report: The Wireless Glove Mouse [VIDEO]

In the film Minority Report, Tom Cruise utilizes amazing technologies from the year 2054, including talking billboards, jetpacks, and most famously, augmented reality gloves that allowed him to interact with a computer interface without ever touching it. Needless to say, this very popular movie has spawned tons of… read more

SimpleGeo Launches As an iTunes for Geo-Data

SimpleGeo — which launches out of private beta today — offers a suite of sophisticated geo-data products for purchase. The service targets individual developers and businesses who want to immediately build or enhance location-based applications in minutes, and picks up where GeoAPI (acquired by Twitter) left off.

At launch, SimpleGeo… read more

An Introduction to Smoke Photography

In this post Amar Ramesh introduces us to the mystical world of smoke photography.

After I got hooked to smoke photography, the one question that has been constantly running through my mind these past few months has been ‘What else can I do with smoke?’. Smoke, otherwise an unwanted by-product of… read more

MapQuest Brings Free Voice Navigation to the iPhone

It’s quite inevitable, really: after Google announced free turn-by-turn GPS navigation for Android devices, followed by Nokia’s decision to offer the same on its smartphones, the price of full-featured GPS navigation apps on other platforms is hurling towards zero.

Case in point: MapQuest 4 Mobile, a free GPS navigation app… read more

A Look at the New MSN.com Design

Since March 9 of this year Microsoft has been rolling out their new design of MSN.com.

Backed by countless hours of testing and roughly 70,000 pieces of feedback from their users, the design has been tweaked over the last four months to its current state.

Visitors who cannot yet… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Calendar of Social Media Events

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… read more

The Perfect Office #30

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Daily Inspiration #468

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

iAd: Apple to Launch New Mobile Ad Platform? [RUMOR]

A new report suggests that Apple is poised to launch its own mobile ad platform — dubbed “iAd” — on April 7th.

According to a new report from Mediapost, Apple is close to unveiling a personalized advertising experience based on technology from Quattro Wireless, which Apple acquired two months ago…. read more

CTIA 2010 in Review: Top Trends in Mobile

The CTIA Wireless Association’s annual Las Vegas mobile-centric show has wrapped up for this year, and a few key trends emerged. We wanted to bring you some of the high points from the show that shed light on what’s hot now as well as what’s on the horizon in… read more

CTIA Roundtable: Biz Stone, Aneesh Chopra and James Cameron

Wrapping up this year’s CTIA mobile show here in Las Vegas is a special round table of thought leaders: Twitter’s Biz Stone, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra and filmmaker James Cameron came together with host and CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera to discuss the impact of mobile technology on business, media… read more

’69 GTO controlled by an iPod touch

<pParrot AR.Drone quadricopter was probably the coolest thing ever controlled via iPhone or iPod touch… until this. Dave Phipps has hooked up a '69 Pontiac GTO to his iPod touch — he's been rebuilding these cars for a long time, and this particular one was picked up out of a… read more

Audible.com downloads: there’s an app for that, just not on the iPhone.

<phere are very, very few things I miss about my Treo, but one of the few is my favorite app: AudibleAir.

AudibleAir is an application from Audible.com that would download audio books from your Audible Library directly to your mobile phone. It is available on just about every popular smartphone you… read more

Apple to make an HDTV within two to four years?

Unlikely, to say the least — the thinking around the virtual TUAW offices is that Munster’s way off base on this one. Not only is the HDTV market pretty darn price sensitive (Apple is, of course, not one to compete on price), but Apple has always considered television “a hobby,”… read more

Eye-Fi Pro X2 cards have arrived, and you probably want one

<pe have talked about the Eye-Fi before, but if you are not familiar with it, here's a basic summary: the Eye-Fi cards are Wi-Fi enabled, meaning that you can upload your pictures from your camera without a USB cable or card reader. You can set it to automatically upload to… read more

HTC EVO 4G: Sprint’s First WiMAX Phone

Sprint let some hot news fly at CTIA today: The first commercially available phone that will support the WiMAX next-generation cell network will be the HTC EVO 4G. It’s a powerhouse of a phone, running a 1GHz processor even more powerful than what’s under the hood of the Nexus… read more

iMac goes steampunk

Brian Chen over at Wired came across this sweet Victorian iMac mod. If you’re a steampunk fan, it’s a must have. The owner of Old Time Computer makes all the covers by hand. This iMac’s cover is hand crafted oak with brass and gold trim accents. A hand painted faux… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Events Guide

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… read more

Ask TUAW: DVD Sharing on an iMac, menubar calendar, network scanning, and more

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume that you’re running… read more

Make Online Purchases With Your Verizon Wireless Account

Looking to cash in on the increasingly lucrative social gaming and virtual goods market, Verizon Wireless is introducing a new mobile payment service.

Called Billtomobile, the service allows approved merchants to integrate a payment option into their checkout systems where purchases – both one-time and subscription – are added to… read more

Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Coming to AT&T

In a bid to increase its market share, Palm plans to offer its latest webOS smartphones — the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus — to AT&T’s 80 million customers very soon.

Despite launching fairly well-received next gen phones (starting with the original Pre back in 2009), the… read more

The Perfect Office #29

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Sprint features iPhone in 4G ad

Sprint has released an ad that features the iPhone with its Overdrive 3G/4G Hotspot mobile router. The Overdrive allows you to use Sprint’s 4G network with any WiFi capable device.

The ad features “Matt” and the appropriately-named iPhone-owner “Steve.”

“My friend Steve’s iPhone is cool, but it’s… read more

Sprint Makes Your iPhone 4G [VIDEO]

The iPhone 4G (next generation iPhone) is yet to be released, but Sprint is cleverly advertising “4G speeds” on your iPhone thanks to its Sierra Wireless Overdrive 4G WiFi hotspot.

The nifty device lets you browse the web “up to 10 times faster” by providing a WiFi hotspot that uses… read more

Coming soon: Lightsaber duels on the iPhone

Lightsaber Duel will expand on that idea. Rather than merely going all Star Wars Kid with your iPhone, you’ll actually be able to engage in duels with your fellow wannabe Jedi or Sith via a Bluetooth connection with their iPhone. You’ll also be able to play music during the duel…. read more

To wait, or not to wait? Macworld weighs in on the lure of the 3G iPad

<phursday's Macworld article from Jason Snell on the relative merits of waiting for the 3G iPad sets out a good case for the superiority of the more flexible — and expensive — AT&T-enabled units. If you can keep your powder dry during the interminable wait through most of April, while… read more

Attention, Star Wars Fans: the iPhone Lightsaber Duel is Coming

I sense a new trend emerging at geek gatherings everywhere – iPhone lightsaber duels. It’ll probably scare all the girls (far, far) away, but you’ll be able to show your iPhone wielding friends the true power of the dark side.

The upcoming Lightsaber Duel game is due to be released… read more

AT&T Intros Eco-Friendly Phone Charger

AT&T is offering folks the chance to be a small part of a big difference as it announces the launch of the ZERO Charger for phones.

When you leave your mobile phone charger plugged in when its not actually juicing up a handset, you waste electricity
– some estimates see… read more

Case-Mate’s Hug allows induction charging on the iPhone

There are a few features that I’d love to see added to the iPhone’s hardware (an IR transmitter would be nice, for one thing), but first and foremost among those is probably an induction charger. It’s a little lame to have a device that so easily goes wireless, and then… read more

Nexus One Sales Are Lackluster: Here’s Why

Ten weeks after the launch of Google’s Nexus One smartphone, sales continue to remain slow. Mobile analytics firm Flurry, who also projected first week and first month sales for the snazzy device, has just released its latest sales estimates, deducing that in 74 days, 135,000 devices have been sold.
… read more

Unlocked Nexus One Comes to AT&T and Rogers

Today, Google announced that it is now selling a new version of the unlocked Nexus One that will work on AT&T and Rogers Wireless in 3G.

Earlier today, we discussed the lackluster sales of Google’s Nexus One smartphone. One of the reasons we think sales are below expectations is… read more

FCC wants to know your mobile broadband speed

There is more information about this quality test available at Broadband.gov.

AT&T also released an app called Mark the Spot to simplify reporting of trouble spots, which is a nice gesture. I hope that there will be some noticeable improvement in frequently reported areas. When I look at the chart above… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Web Events

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… read more

Best of the Week #110

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Use DynDNS for better success with Back To My Mac

<po maximize your chances, you're supposed to use a supported router, but even that's no guarantee. At home I have an Airport Extreme Base Station (Wireless-N), and at the office I have an Airport Extreme Dual-Band model. I don't think it's possible to get a "more compliant" setup, yet I… read more

Barnes & Noble eReader for iPad coming soon

The reader will give B&N customers access to more than a million eBooks, as well as selected newspapers and magazines.

The Barnes 7 Noble Nook, which competes with the Amazon Kindle, has only been out a short time, but if the iPad is a success a heck of… read more

Google and Facebook Sued for Mobile Patent Infringement

Facebook may have secured a patent for its news feed technology, and Google for location-based ads, but that doesn’t make the two companies immune to other patent challengers. In fact, both Google and Facebook are being sued by Winksite over mobile social networking technology.

The complaint, first reported by Bloomberg,… read more

Don’t trust the critics: Four Apple products they thought would fail

Don’t you believe it, because the critics have been wrong before. Several times, actually, according to The Week, which provides a list of five Apple products the critics thought would fail. Out of those five, only one, the Newton, failed to find mainstream success. The other four were industry-defining products… read more

Daily Deals for March 9, 2010

Apple Store: [iPods] Refurbished Apple iPod touch MP3 Players from $139 + free shipping
iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Price Drops: Pocket Heart, Diner Dash, Magellan RoadMate, more
MacUpdate Promo: [Security/Anti-Virus Software] Lockngo 4 for Mac… read more

Apple patent: use your iPhone as an electronic “iKey”

While Ars Technica notes that “the patent application itself merely describes a unique way of using motion detection to generate an input, such as turning a virtual combination lock-style dial,” the patent itself, as reported by the Telegraph, says that the device could be “any suitable electronic device such as… read more

AT&T Warns Teens: Don’t Text and Drive

The growing popularity of text messaging — especially by young adults — has had a really negative impact on vehicular safety, as more and more people text while behind the wheel.

Earlier this year, it became illegal for bus drivers or truck drivers to text while driving, but the problem… read more

Apple prepping Wi-Fi iPhone for China

The iPhone has failed to thrive in China, due in part to an active black market and the Golden Shield Project (GSP), which censors certain Internet content. To comply with the GSP, devices that include wireless Internet have been required to use China’s own WAPI standard. Meeting that requirement forced… read more

The Perfect Office #27

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

14 Free Mobile Application Development Icon Sets

The gap between the desktop/laptop and the mobile device is becoming smaller and smaller, it has never been a better time for mobile app development – The market is huge, very lucrative and highly profitable. Our ever growing appetite for more powerful and better mobile devices has pushed the demand… read more

The Reader’s View: Best of your feedback, comments and opinions

To begin with, reader efinkGr had a comment for Sang Tang’s post “Mac 101: Going Commando with Command-key shortcuts in Mac OS X,” saying “You know i wish they never got rid of the apple icon on the command key. I miss it :’( ”

That prompted some… read more

Analyst: Apple will sell 35m iPhones next year, with or without Verizon

Craig anticipates that Apple could sell 33 million iPhones in 2010, and that number would rise to 35 million in 2011 even without a second U.S. carrier. However, the upside to Apple in selecting a second U.S. carrier — possibly Verizon Wireless — is that the number of 2011 sales… read more

Steve Jobs: iPad Won’t Support iPhone Tethering

Not one to mince words, Steve Jobs squashed all hope of the iPad supporting iPhone tethering for wireless internet access with one word — “No.”

The succinct answer was communicated by Jobs via email (from his iPhone) to Jezper Söderlund of Sweden who emailed Jobs to ask, “Will the wifi-only… read more

Daily Deals for March 5, 2010

<p Ending today, ExperCom offers the Apple iMac Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 21.5" Desktop, model no. MB950LL/A, upgraded to 8GB RAM and bundled with three years of AppleCare for $1,399.
The Apple Store again has six factory-refurbished Apple Mac Pro workstations on sale in its Special Deals… read more

Apple job listing hints at official App Store advertising

A recent Apple job listing for a Senior Interactive Web Developer pretty much confirms that Apple is entering the mobile advertising business head on. The listing begins “Apple advertising is an opportunity to redefine the advertising on mobile devices. It’s an exciting environment and a fast-paced development… read more

Wi-Fi Stumblers Disappear from Apple App Store

We wrote repeatedly about Apple’s odd and often unfair application approval process. Instead of fixing it, Apple is just getting weirder and weirder about what apps are allowed in the store. The latest example is the sudden disappearance of several Wi-Fi stumbler applications from the app store.

Cult of Mac… read more

Win an HP Officejet 4500 All-in-one printer from TUAW and HP

The Officejet 4500 All-in-one Wireless Printer is a slick unit that can print, copy, scan, and send color faxes. Like many HP products, it works very well with Macs and “those other computers,” so if you can use it even if you haven’t yet become a Mac fanatic like the… read more

TiVo Introduces New Internet-Connected DVRs

TiVo has updated its offerings, introing two new set-top boxes, the TiVo Premiere and the TiVo Premiere XL, which will finally bring high-definition to the DVR range.

In a nutshell, the web-connected TiVo Premiere boxes offer cable TV, movies on demand (from Netflix, Amazon and Blockbuster) and web videos from… read more

Google Secures Broad Patent for Location-Based Advertising

Google, the world’s largest search engine and the owner of the world’s largest online advertising platform, has been granted a major U.S. patent for “determining and/or using location information in an ad system.” In other words, Google now owns a key patent for location-based advertising.

The patent, which was… read more

Some things we may not see again from Apple

Conan O’Brien once had a recurring segment on Late Night called “Guests We Won’t Have Back,” during which he would look back at guests (who were fake) that he regretted having on the show. There was bug expert Sara Wiggins, who ate a live beetle in front of the camera…. read more

iPhone/iPod 101: How to get the most out of your battery

The iPhone page is the lengthier of the two, and most of its tips apply to the iPod line as well. Apple notes that the most important thing to do is keep iPhones and iPods away from heat sources like direct sunlight or the inside of a car on a… read more

Streamy Awards to Honor Web Video’s Best: Here Are the Nominees

The nominees for the second annual Streamy Awards were revealed in a live webcast today. The Streamys are awarded to web TV series by the International Academy of Web Television — they’re similar to the Oscars, Emmys or Grammys.

Nominees were selected from 190,000 public submissions spanning 2,000 shows and… read more

The Perfect Office #26

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

5 Best iPhone Apps For Controlling Your Mac or PC

With more than 140,000 apps in the iPhone App Store, finding task-specific apps or utilities for your iPhone or iPod touch (and soon iPad) isn’t the hard part. The hard part is finding the best app for the job. That’s why we’re launching a new series here at… read more

11 Tips for Making Your Home Office More Comfortable

Freelance designers will probably spend more time in their home office than anywhere else. Having a comfortable office that is conducive to work is essential in order to keep your working hours pleasant and productive.

In this post we’ll look at some things that you can do to… read more

Directly connecting and syncing content between your Mac and Apple TV

<pfter many years together, my Linksys WRT54G and I have parted ways. In its place, I'm now using an 802.11g-based Apple AirPort Express with AirTunes that was passed along to me. Besides not wanting to fork out the extra beans (c'mon, who here isn't saving up money for an iPad)… read more

AT&T rolling out MicroCell to five more markets

WMExperts is reporting that AT&T is adding five more markets to the short list of trial areas. If you live in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Las Vegas, or San Diego, you can have the opportunity to spend an additional US$19.99 per month on top of your existing iPhone service… read more

Clearing the air on iPhone terminology: 4th generation vs. “4G”

It made sense to call the second-generation iPhone the iPhone 3G, as the addition of a faster 3G wireless chipset and antenna was in many ways the defining feature of the device. The next iPhone, the iPhone 3GS, once again has its distinctive feature spelled out right in the name:… read more

First Glimpse of Nokia’s Symbian 4 Operating System [VIDEO]

Besides being the most awkwardly named mobile operating system ever, Symbian^4 (that’s the official name) is also a very important step for Nokia, who (although Symbian still dominates the worldwide smartphone market) has been struggling to make Symbian competitive with touch-friendly Android and iPhone OS.

Now, Fierce Wireless has managed… read more

PC World study: AT&T network has undergone “drastic makeover”

<pccording to AT&T's commercials, they provide both "a better 3G experience" as well as "the nation's fastest 3G network." And, based on PC World's latest 3G wireless performance study, they've got more meat and potatoes (as if Luke Wilson wasn't enough) to back up their claims.

The study, a collaboration between… read more

Smashing Newsletter Challenge… And Giveaway!

It’s time for something brand new and exciting on Smashing Magazine. Actually, we have quite a few things in the works, and today we are happy to reveal one of them. Over the years, we have published many lengthy articles, and now we want to write some shorter ones for… read more

Clueless Woman Calls Tech Show When Her Stolen Wi-Fi Disappears [VIDEO]

Yeah, everyone has stolen Wi-Fi at one point or another, but not everyone has called into a tech show in order to complain about the fact that someone put the kibosh on said stealing.

Meet Jennifer, she had been unwittingly yoinking Wi-Fi for more than a year and… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Conference Guide

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… read more

The Seven Deadly Sins Of JavaScript Implementation

Using JavaScript has become increasingly easy over the last few years. Whereas back in the day we needed to know the quirks of every browser, now many libraries such as jQuery, YUI, Dojo and MooTools allow someone who doesn’t even know JavaScript to spruce up boring HTML documents with impressive… read more

The Perfect Office #25

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Daily Inspiration #437

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Ask TUAW: Key remapping in Boot Camp, iPad tethering, file-sharing with a media extender, and more

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume you’re running Snow… read more

Polaroid PoGo Mobile Printer Review

A Guest Post review of the Polaroid PoGo Printer by Chris Folsom.

I really shouldn’t like the Polaroid PoGo printer. I can easily list off a number of problems with the device… small image size, average print quality and relatively expensive print media.

In spite of all of the valid… read more

Ngmoco cancels Rolando 3, says it can’t fit into a free-to-play model

<p's some unfortunate news out of Ngmoco: The company tells IGN that while there was a Rolando 3 (the second sequel to the very popular and excellent rolling iPhone platformer) in progress, the game has been essentially canceled, and will never see release in its current form. Why? The second… read more

Pinger’s Textfree delivers billionth free text message

Today, Pinger announced that they have reached a significant milestone. In the short 10 months that Textfree has been available on the App Store, over one billion messages have been delivered. This huge amount of messages represents a staggering savings to Textfree’s users and shines a spotlight on the innovation… read more

Street Fighter IV coming to iPhone

<p wondered before just how a fighting game on the iPhone would work, and now I'm going to find out: Capcom has announced that they're releasing the latest Street Fighter game (they're up to IV now) on the iPhone. You can see how it works over at IGN — there's… read more

Top 6 Myths About MMS Debunked

James Citron is CEO and Co-Founder of Mogreet, the worldʼs first mobile video marketing platform. The digital entrepreneur has more than a decade of experience in the mobile industry with a proven track record for introducing successful, cutting-edge technology into the global marketplace. Follow him at @jamescitron.

While it has… read more

Vodafone To Sell Sub-$15 Phone in Developing Countries

British carrier Vodafone has just unveiled a pair of ultra cheap mobile devices — starting at below $15 — that it will sell unsubsidized to customers in developing markets in India, Turkey and Africa.

The Vodafone 150 and 250 handsets will retail for less than $15 and $20 respectively. While… read more

It’s Official: Skype Calling Coming to Verizon Smartphones

On Saturday, we reported on rumors that Verizon and Skype would be announcing a partnership deal at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Well, it’s official. The two companies are announcing what they call a “strategic relationship that will bring Skype to Verizon Wireless smartphones in March.”

Here’s… read more

Notepod+ helps you sketch your iPad ideas

<p the makers of the Notepod comes the Notepod+, which does for the iPad what the original paper version of the iPhone accomplished. It allows you to sketch out any app ideas or UI insights you might happen to have laying around. One of the refrains we heard from at… read more

How To Control Multiple Flashes Wirelessly With A Canon 7D

Among the features listed on our recent review of the new powerhouse Canon EOS 7D is wireless flash control. Sought after by many photographers, this version 1.0 feature has some useful capabilities thanks to the addition of a popup flash to Canons X D line. Controlling flash ratios, as well… read more

Swede’s iMac takes a burnin’ and it’s still turnin’

Norman’s experience (translated from Swedish) follows: “Unfortunately, the whole house and all things in there completely destroyed, so even the iMac. What’s funny is that it is still in operation. While damaged from smoke and dust and partially melted, but yet, however in operation.

After I plugged in… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media & Marketing Event Guide

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish… read more

Verizon Plans to Put Skype on its Phones [REPORT]

Bloomberg is reporting that Verizon is planning on adding official support for Skype to its handsets. The two companies are expected to announce a partnership at the Mobile World Congress on February 16, which will allow Skype calls to be made from Verizon phones using the provider’s 3G data plan.
… read more

Tweeting Dog Collar Posts Your Dog’s Movements to Twitter

Mattel is about to launch a toy that will brighten the lives of some dog lovers — but act as a sign of the coming apocalypse for folks who aren’t so keen on cute pet gimmicks. It’s called Puppy Tweet, and it gives your dog the ability to send Twitter… read more

TED: Future of Mobile With Henry Tirri, Head of Nokia Research [INTERVIEW]

Disclosure: Nokia is a sponsor of Mashable’s TED Channel

We had a chance to sit down at TED with Henry Tirri, Senior Vice President and Head of the Nokia Research Center, to talk about what the mobile landscape of the future holds. Read on to find out what we might expect… read more

Use your iPhone your iPod touch as a flash drive

You can create, delete and rename folders on your iPhone. If your iPhone is jailbroken, you can access the real root and then recover things like your address book, emails and SMS messages.

if you want to do this over a wireless network there is Discover and Air Sharing…. read more

NetworkLocation: Simplify Your Network Config

With the days of the static desktop almost in the past, moving around with your computer has become easier than ever. However, getting everything set up right at home, work, Starbucks or an airport can be time consuming and repetitive. Enter NetworkLocation, an application with the goal of automating this… read more

6 Products to Watch from Macworld’s Best of Show

This week in San Francisco, CA, Apple geeks are gathering for the Macworld 2010 conference and expo to show off new products and geek out over — you guessed it — Apple.

While the conference is far more muted this year due to Apple’s decision to no longer participate in Macworld,… read more

What’s that menu item mean on my Mac?

<p since you've started using your Mac, you've been looking at those icons towards the top right of your display in your menu bar. These items can direct to many different things, from connecting to a wireless network, to finding items on your Mac. These items not only can be… read more

An ode to iPhone tethering

I’ve been using iPhone tethering since it became available in iPhone OS 3.0, and it’s saved my geek bacon many times. On a recent monthlong vacation where my wife, my mother-in-law, and I hopped all over both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, using my iPhone’s data connection… read more

Gearing up for Macworld: My 5 apps & packing list

The good news is, of course, that a few well-chosen apps can substitute for destination guides and navigational help. The bad news… there’s still a lot of stuff to bring along. Here are five-plus apps I loaded specifically for this trip, and a few hardware items that I couldn’t do… read more