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Sonic and DivX Merge to Deliver Video to Millions of Living Rooms
Sonic Solutions will purchase DivX for $323 million this September, forming a union that will greatly expand online video viewing options on millions of consumer electronics devices.Sonic Solutions is...
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Google Acquires Advertising Platform Invite Media
Google has purchased advertising technology company Invite Media according to a report published by AllThingsD. Invite Media bills itself as a “universal buying platform for display media.” In other...
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Design and Build an Attractive Personal Homepage with Flavors.me
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The...
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Even Dolphins Love the iPad
It seems that yet another member of the animal kingdom has taken a liking to the iPad — dolphins.Cats love it and dogs aren’t so sure, but apparently a bottlenose dolphin named Merlin is now an iPad...
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Flotilla Raid Inspires @BPGlobalPR Imitators on Twitter
It’s official: The @[insert name here]GlobalPR Twitter account is a true blue meme. Following a raid by the Israeli navy on an aid flotilla headed to Gaza that left 10 aid workers dead, another...
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New Facebook Clickjacking Attack Uses Justin Bieber as Bait [WARNING]
Earlier this week, we reported on a new Facebook clickjacking scheme that takes advantage of the service’s “Like” buttons; today a variation of that attack is starting to appear, this time using...
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Recreate Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on Foursquare with Chicago Tourism Promotion
The city of Chicago’s tourism office, Explore Chicago, has been avant garde in its approach to mastering Foursquare, especially with the On Location badge that challenges users to recreate the movie,...
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New Toshiba Screen Lets You Bend to Zoom in Google Earth [VIDEO]
Toshiba is showing off a novel user input case for its flexible LCD screen: you can physically bend the screen to zoom in or out in Google Earth. Shown off at the Society for Information Display 2010...
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Bing Envy? Google Now Lets You Create Custom Homepages
Ever think that Google’s homepage was just a little too sparse? If all of that white space bothers you, your prayers have been answered: Now you can customize your background on Google.com.You can now...
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PHILO Is Twitter + Foursquare For TV Fanatics
A new web and iPhone app [iTunes link] called PHILO makes watching TV interactive by having users “tune in” to TV programs as if they were checking in to venues on Foursquare or Gowalla, then discuss...
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Pepsi’s New iPhone App Rewards Restaurant Patrons for Checkins
Soda drinkers who show their love for Pepsi by checking in to venues that carry its products can now earn rewards in the process thanks to the newly released iPhone app — Pepsi Loot [iTunes link].This...
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4 Social Media Efforts to Aid the Gulf Coast
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.The far-reaching Gulf oil spill tragedy has left many people...
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Facebook Fans to Pick Next Face of Levi’s
Levi’s is holding a video contest on Facebook to find the first online “face and voice” of Levi’s womenswear, who will be known simply as “Levi’s Girl.”Aspiring virtual spokeswomen of the American...
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YouTube Dance-Off: Conan O’Brien vs. Stephen Colbert & Jon Stewart [VIDEO]
Conan O’Brien and Stephen Colbert decided to resolve a dispute with an epic yet awkward dance-off at New York’s Radio City Music Hall last night, and Jon Stewart joined the battle wearing what Conan...
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Hello Kitty Has Her Own iPhone Twitter Client
After Twitter purchased and relaunched Tweetie for the iPhone (now known as Twitter for the iPhone), many people expected the race for the ultimate iPhone Twitter app to slow down. Those individuals...
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Google Mobile Search Results Now Include Apps, Too
Starting today, when you conduct a Google search on your iPhone or Android device, you’ll get apps as results along with regular search results.These special links will take you directly to the app’s...
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Twitter Rolling Out New Annotations Feature for Apps
Twitter is beginning a preliminary run of annotations, a feature that will add an almost infinite range of data types to tweets.Developers building apps using Twitter’s Streaming API will be the first...
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Google’s Pac-Man Logo Perplexes Scores of Firefox Users
While a goodly chunk of society was squandering away roughly $120,483,800 in productivity messing about with Google’s playable Pac-Man logo the other week, some less technologically inclined Internet...
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Mark Zuckerberg on Privacy and the Stupid Things He Did in College
At the D8 Conference outside of Los Angeles, another well-known tech CEO was grilled on stage: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Yesterday, Steve Jobs took the stage and was hit hard with questions on...
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Twitter Testing New “You Both Follow” Feature
Twitter is apparently testing a new feature that helps you figure out how you know — or if you want to follow — a given account.If you catch a glimpse of this feature in the wild, you’ll see a slim...
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