HOW TO: Score a Job in Social Gaming
Everyone likes to play games, especially when those games involve your social circle. “Social gaming” is a relatively new category of video game for a variety of reasons. The explosion of social media...
View ArticleiTunes 10.0.1 Update Improves Ping Experience
Apple launched an update to its iTunes software for Macs and PCs last night. The new version (10.0.1) mostly adds bug fixes, but the most important addition is an overhaul of how you share your music...
View Article11 Astounding Sci-Fi Predictions That Came True
Many literary forecasts of our technological future have already come to pass: the atomic bomb, the submarine, and even the iPad. Discovering passages of science fiction that turned out to be eerily...
View ArticleAshton Kutcher Has Little Twitter Influence [STUDY]
A study conducted at Northwestern University determined that celebrities like Ashton Kutcher with millions of Twitter followers are mostly ignored on the social media site, resulting in very little if...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Doesn’t Support Tethering
If you’re thinking of buying a Windows Phone 7 device and using it to connect your laptop to the Internet, think again. The company’s new smartphones will not support tethering at all.That’s another...
View ArticleTop 3 Stories in Tech and Social Media This Morning
This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and...
View Article7 Ways Mobile Apps are Enriching Historical Tourism
Some of the most famous historical sites would be just another old house or pile of rubble if you didn’t have any background information about their significance. Tourists have always had options for...
View ArticleSCVNGR Teams Up with Universities to Introduce Students to Campus This Fall
Location-based social gaming apps are making a major push to become the app of choice for university students during the back-to-school season.In mid-September, Foursquare announced the launch of its...
View ArticleDirecTV Sports Bar Finder App Finds The Nearest Game Fast
It’s not easy being a sports fan on the road. Sure you have a nice a home theater and a favorite neighborhood sports bar, but finding an agreeable place to watch your game out of town is often an...
View Article29 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed
We hope that you’ve enjoyed UN Week and kept up with some of the great events that Mashable, along with the 92Y and the United Nations Foundation, have presented at the UN Week Digital Media...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Launches October 21 [RUMOR]
Two web publications have independently reported that Windows Phone 7 will launch in Europe on October 21. They both cite sources “familiar” with Microsoft and its plans.While we’re keeping this in the...
View ArticleNetflix Adds “Saturday Night Live” and Other NBC Shows
Netflix and NBC Universal have struck a deal to load the streaming video site with tons of content from both NBC and its family of cable networks, including all 35 seasons of Saturday Night Live, and...
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Apple Mouse [PICS]
Apple’s product design is legendary in the industry for innovation, inspiration and imagination, but it’s often the more glamorous products such as the MacBooks, iPhones and iPods that get all the...
View ArticleInternet Pornographers Now Suing Pirates
Hollywood film studios and record labels aren’t the only people filing lawsuits against illegal downloaders. As of a few weeks ago, porn producers banded together to file lawsuits of their own, but...
View ArticleElmo of “Sesame Street” Pulls An Old Spice Too [VIDEO]
Sesame Street used Google Moderator to sort through questions from Elmo’s fans then put the red furry guy in a YouTube video to answer them. The resulting 20-minute interview is both adorable and...
View ArticleHappy 12th Birthday, Google
It’s Google’s 12th birthday today, and Google’s regular logo is replaced by an image of a cake, created by the American painter Wayne Thiebaud.Thiebaud is famous for his paintings of cakes and other...
View ArticleMashable Weekend Recap: 16 Stories You Might Have Missed
We hope your weekend was awesome, whether you spent it in the sun at your local beach or indoors with a latte and a good book. Now it’s Monday morning (in America, at least) and it’s time to get back...
View ArticleSharp Announces Two Android-based Tablets for December
Japanese tech giant Sharp announced it would launch a 5.5-inch and a 10.8-inch tablet named Galapagos, as well as an electronic bookstore in December — but only in Japan.Both tablets will feature Wi-Fi...
View ArticleTop 3 Stories in Tech This Morning
This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and...
View ArticleTech News Outlets Love Covering Apple, And Here’s Why
Apple dominates IT technology news. It’s obvious to anyone who follows the industry, but now a new study, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, shows just how...
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