Google Celebrates Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday @ 07-02-2012 11:38
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of writer Charles Dickens. Born on Feb. 7 1812 in Landport, England, Charles John Huf…
Press Page Generator Hopes to Solve Startups’ Media Problems @ 07-02-2012 07:06
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…
The Top 15 Tweets-Per-Second Records @ 07-02-2012 06:33
Twitter records continue to fall left and right as more and more people —
100 million active users at last count — continue to flock onto…
20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART] @ 07-02-2012 05:55
It should come as no surprise which television event topped the charts in terms of social chatter. If you guessed
The Voice, you’re fired. That&…
Netflix Launches First Original Series, ‘Lillyhammer’ [VIDEO] @ 07-02-2012 05:07
Netflix has launched its
first original series,
Lillyhammer. The series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York gangster who finds himself…
Brand or Celeb? Social Media Shows Who Super Bowl Ads Helped Most @ 07-02-2012 04:34
Social media analytics provided to
Mashable show which endorsers — and endorsees — won biggest on Super Bowl Sunday. Getting a cele…
How Digital Tools Help Companies Offer Better Health Care @ 07-02-2012 04:10
Health risk assessment (HRA) is continually evolving to meet the ever-changing demands of the health care industry. It began humbly as a simple…
20 Best (or Most Annoying) Animated Super Bowl GIFs @ 07-02-2012 03:30
Are you ready for some GIF-ball? That’s right — the
Super Bowl XLVI moments you jabbered about before bedtime, and then again at work or…
Facebook Is Bringing Ads to Mobile Apps [REPORT] @ 07-02-2012 03:04
Users of
Facebook‘s apps — for Android, iPad and iPhone — may begin seeing ads as soon as early March, as the company looks to…
Twitter’s Ad Scrimmage Lets You Relive Super Bowl Commercials @ 07-02-2012 02:24
There’s usually one commercial during the Super Bowl that outshines the others for its creativity and laughter-inducing antics — an…
Jawbone Working on ‘Big Jambox’ Wireless Speakers @ 07-02-2012 01:41
Jawbone is working on a bigger version of its popular portable Jambox speaker, according to the company’s Federal Communications Commiss…
Google to Test Mystery Device in Employees’ Homes [VIDEO] @ 07-02-2012 01:07
No one is sure what
Google has up its sleeve, but it could be something you’ll have at home in years to come. Google applied for a
F…
Most Super Bowl Tweets Were Not About the Game [STATS] @ 07-02-2012 00:51
According to NBC Sports,
Super Bowl XLVI was the most-watched TV show in U.S. history, with 111.3 million viewers. But TV ratings weren’t…
Galaxy Note Super Bowl Ad Inspires Twitter Backlash @ 07-02-2012 00:25
Samsung has been hyping its campaign for its
Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet hybrid for the past few weeks, culminating in an ad shown toward the…
Google Earth Deletes Rumored Lost City of Atlantis @ 07-02-2012 00:12
The lost city of Atlantis — rumored to be discovered in a
Google Earth map — is once again lost, thanks to a maps update from the se…
Super Bowl Breaks Social TV and Broadcast Records @ 07-02-2012 00:00
Super Bowl XLVI was not only a big hit with broadcast viewers, it also excelled in the
social TV space. Hollywood news site
Deadline reports th…
How to Fix Best Buy @ 06-02-2012 23:45
Some people insist that
Best Buy is dying a slow death. Meanwhile, its CEO, Brian Dunn, maintains that
80% of consumer electronics sales stil…
How New York City Went Digital in 2011 @ 06-02-2012 23:15
Since 2010, New York City has strived to become a global digital leader. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and commissioner Katherine Oliver announced NYC…
Should Athletes Have Social Media Privacy? One Bill Says Yes @ 06-02-2012 22:45
Should universities be allowed to force student athletes to have their
Facebook and
Twitter accounts monitored by coaches and administrators? N…
Earthquake Strikes Philippines: The Rapid Social Media Response [VIDEO] @ 06-02-2012 22:33
Chaos struck the Philippines on Monday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the central island of Negros, causing fears of tidal waves and a tsuna…
How Social Media Could Improve Public Safety @ 06-02-2012 22:04
When it comes to public safety, forward-thinking government agencies are beginning to look at social media as a support tool for improved situa…
Deleted Facebook Pictures May Still Lurk on the Internet [VIDEO] @ 06-02-2012 21:47
Pictures users have deleted from
Facebook months or even years ago may still exist, it has been revealed. Facebook says it’s workin…
Super Bowl’s Most-Searched Term: Madonna [VIDEO] @ 06-02-2012 21:31
The Giants may have won the
Super Bowl, but Madonna won the
Google search competition. The 53-year-old halftime performer was Google’…
Woman Gets Jawbone Made by 3D Printer @ 06-02-2012 21:09
Need a new jawbone? Now you can print one. An 83-year-old British woman recently underwent the first-ever custom transplant of a lower jaw made by a…
Fed Up With Facebook Changes? Try Friendio [VIDEO] @ 06-02-2012 20:41
A group of former
Facebook users based in Orland Park, Ill., fed up with the mandatory changes that came with Facebook’s network-wid…
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Interactive Music Video Lets You ‘Look Around’ @ 06-02-2012 20:26
The Red Hot Chili Peppers just released an interactive version of the music video for the band’s latest single, “Lo…
LeVar Burton to Bring Reading Rainbow Back … in an App @ 06-02-2012 20:15
When
Reading Rainbow ended its 26-year run in 2009, it left behind decades of preschoolers for whom its theme song will forever surface nostalg…
Amazon to Open Retail Store [RUMOR] @ 06-02-2012 20:04
In what may be a sign that 2012 really is the year of the apocalypse, revered online retailer
Amazon is rumored to be opening a brick-and-mortar…
Chrysler Super Bowl Commercial Mysteriously Disappears, Returns to YouTube @ 06-02-2012 19:53
Someone had a sudden impact on Chrysler’s “Clint Eastwood” Super Bowl spot’s availability on
YouTube Sunday night. Chrysler…
Honeywell Sues Nest Labs Over Thermostat Tech @ 06-02-2012 19:23
When Nest Labs launched a round, self-adjusting thermostat
built more like an iPhone than an appliance, we didn’t think we’d seen an…
