Google Sponsors Free In-Flight Wi-Fi for the Holidays
This holiday season, there’s no longer the need to debate whether to pay $9.95 for Wi-Fi on your flight home; Google is stepping up to offer free inflight Wi-Fi from Gogo on Virgin America, AirTran and...
View Article3 Tips for Maximizing Engagement With Facebook “Likes” and Shares
David A. Yovanno is the CEO of Gigya, Inc., a leading social optimization platform for online business. He can be found on Twitter at @daveyovanno or e-mail dave(at)gigya(dot)com.When it comes to...
View ArticlePlayStation Move Gets Visualized [INFOGRAPHIC]
Last week, Sony announced that more than 1 million PlayStation Move units have been shipped in North America. That’s a pretty solid start for Sony’s take on motion-controlled gaming, a category that is...
View ArticleE-Book Market Surges to $1 Billion [REPORT]
Customers will have bought $966 million in e-books by the end of 2010, according to a new report from Forrester.The report says the e-book market still has tremendous room to grow, as only 7% of online...
View ArticleGoogle’s Nexus One to Get Gingerbread Android Update Soon [RUMOR]
According to a tweet from the Open Handset Alliance’s Alvaro Fuentes Vasquez, those with a Nexus One in their possession should be getting Android 2.3 (codenamed Gingerbread) in “the next few days.”The...
View ArticleTwitter “Pale Whale” Unveiled to Celebrate Tonight’s Premiere of “Conan”
It’s been a long road for Conan O’Brien (a.k.a. Coco) — from late night to Twitter to touring. But tonight the man the Internet has lovingly dubbed “Coco” is returning to the small screen with the...
View Article5 Big Brands That Are Rocking the Social Media Space [Mashable Awards]
As part of the ongoing Mashable Awards, we’re taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is “Must-Follow Brand.” Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las...
View ArticleSCVNGR Rewards Come to New York
When SCVNGR launched its rewards program earlier this year, it did so with the intention of bringing a create-your-own rewards system to local businesses in six markets by year’s end. That mission...
View Article5 Mobile Apps for Finding Great Movies
The Movie and Tech Series is supported by DVDVideoSoft. Discover Free Studio, a full collection of free software to process video, images and audio at DVDVideoSoft.com. Clean, free and...
View ArticleMashable Giveaway: Build Your Own Twitter Promotion With PromoJam [INVITES]
PromoJam is a platform that enables users to easily build customized Twitter promotions and contest pages for giveaways, and we’ve partnered up with them to give away 1,000 free invites so Mashable...
View ArticleNon-Profit Creates Foursquare Venues for Homelessness Awareness
Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD), a North Carolina non-profit organization providing food, shelter and clothing to the city’s homeless, is launching a Foursquare initiative designed to unsettle...
View ArticleNew Blog Takes on the Evil That Is Auto Correct
Ever had one of those moments when — after painstakingly composing a text and sending it off into the world — you realize that your phone has completely mangled what you meant? Yup. We all have. Which...
View ArticleLongtime Facebook PR Exec Leaving the Company
Facebook’s Director of Corporate Communications Brandee Barker has announced that she is departing the company she joined more than four years ago to start her own early-stage business consulting...
View Article5 Musts for Mobile App Marketing
Ken Yarmosh is the proprietor of a boutique mobile agency based in the Washington, D.C. area and the author of App Savvy (O’Reilly).Mobile is only getting bigger. Thousands of new apps are hitting app...
View ArticleFacebook Now On Pace to Serve 1 Trillion Display Ads Per Year
During the third quarter of this year, Facebook served up 297 billion display ads, representing 23.1% of the market and more than twice the share the company held at this time last year, according to...
View ArticleThe Future of Human Resources and Social Media
The Future of Social Media Series is supported by Gist. Gist provides a full view of the contacts in your professional network by creating a rich business profile for each one that includes the most...
View ArticleHere Comes the Droid Pro (And Here Are Our First Impressions)
Verizon Wireless has confirmed that November 9 is the pre-sale date for the Motorola DROID PRO. It will hit shelves on November 18 with the standard two-year for $180 after a $100 mail-in rebate.Last...
View ArticleVerizon’s First iPad Commercial Hits YouTube
Verizon has just uploaded a brand spanking new iPad commercial to YouTube.The clip shows the device being used with a Verizon Wi-Fi card, and it comes with the tagline, “All the magic of iPad. All the...
View ArticleColor Coming to E-Ink Devices in 2011
Chinese company Hanvon Technology is set to unveil the first full-color tablet using e-ink technology, at the FPD International 2010 trade show in Tokyo Tuesday.The e-ink tablet has a 9.68-inch color...
View ArticleKno’s Tablets Coming Later this Year for $599 and $899
Tablet maker Kno plans to launch a single and a dual-screen 14.1-inch tablet before the end of this year, the company has announced.The single-screen version of the tablet will go for $599, while the...
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