Facebook for iPhone Updated to Support iOS 4 and Fast App Switching
Today Facebook has released an update to its popular iPhone application with support for iOS 4.Most notably, version 3.1.4 of Facebook for iPhone [iTunes link] now supports fast app switching and...
View ArticleiOS and Android Continue to Battle for Supremacy [STATS]
AdMob released its May 2010 Mobile Metrics Report today. In addition to giving the latest information on devices and usage share in the U.S. online, the report also looks at emerging trends over the...
View ArticleMozilla Submits Firefox Home to iPhone App Store
Mozilla has submitted Firefox Home, its first official iPhone app, to Apple’s App Store. It may be the closest thing we ever see to Firefox on the iPhone.Firefox Home is not like Fennec, the official...
View Article7 Hackathons Around the World and on the Web
This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.Sometimes, there’s nothing quite as entertaining and exhilarating as a 48-hour...
View ArticleHOW TO: Rescue Your Blog From Social Isolation
Let’s face it: You never really leave high school. The Internet realm is no different.It can be hard to get your freshman blog noticed among the teeming masses of digital domains. Why? Last year the...
View ArticleGay Social Network Fabulis Gets Backing from GeoCities Founder
Gay social network Fabulis is getting a quarter of a million dollars toward its seed round from David Bohnett, who founded GeoCities at the tender age of 16. This brings the network’s total seed money...
View ArticleBorrow, Rent, Buy and Lend with Your Neighborhood
Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft...
View ArticleApple and AT&T Slapped with an iPhone 4 Class-Action Lawsuit
The iPhone 4 has some reception issues when held a certain way. The problem — which partially stems from iPhone 4’s newly designed external antenna — can be viewed as more or less serious, depending on...
View ArticleKindle DX Gets a Better Screen, Lower Price
Kindle DX, Amazon’s e-reader designed especially for reading magazines and newspapers, made some sense before Apple introduced its iPad, but now it’s really hard to justify buying one. The iPad is more...
View ArticleYahoo Launches Mail and Messenger Apps for Android
Yahoo today launched Yahoo Mail and Messenger apps for Android, as well as Yahoo Search Widget for Android. It also created new, faster HTML5-based Yahoo Mail and News sites for iPhone and iPod...
View ArticleYouTube Lets Users Question BP Executive
Seventy-two days have passed since the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and the public is frustrated, to say the least. Well take a break from writing your...
View ArticleHow the Gulf Coast Benefit is Using Social Media to Rally Support
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.Today, the Gulf Coast Benefit will present the Coast to Coast...
View ArticleHP Confirms webOS Tablets Are in the Works
HP has closed on its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, and with it, confirmed that they plan to develop tablet computers and netbooks based on the webOS operating system. HP also plans to continue to...
View Article30+ of the Latest Social Media Job Vacancies
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....
View ArticleStarbucks Free Wi-Fi Now Available in U.S. and Canada
Today is the first of July and that means that Starbucks’s no-charge, registration-less and limitation-free Wi-Fi initiative officially goes live at all U.S. and Canadian retail stores.Starbucks first...
View ArticleGroupon to Offer Exclusive Deals through Local Newspapers
The quickly growing deal-a-day site Groupon has entered in to a partnership with The McClatchy Company — owner of The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and several other newspapers — to outsource...
View Article10 Beautiful Social Media Infographics
This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.Infographics help communicate information in a...
View ArticleLittle Kids Reenact the American Revolution [VIDEO]
If you’re an American — or just dig war, fireworks and red, white and blue — you’re probably prepping for the Fourth. Well, if JibJab’s latest diversion isn’t enough to get you in the three-day weekend...
View ArticleGoogle Building a Facebook Rival? Let’s Hope So
Google is working on a social service to rival Facebook, if Web rumors are to be believed.And while Google’s social networking efforts have so far fallen flat, even satisfied Facebook users should hope...
View ArticleTapulous Acquired By Disney [UPDATED]
Tapulous, the iPhone app development firm responsible for the Tap Tap Revenge games, has been acquired by Disney, according to our sources. We have since confirmed the news.Tapulous, founded in 2008,...
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