Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship, the Titanic app is getting ready to set sail into the App Store. The iPad app, created by Britain's The History Press, arrives on March 12. Since her maiden voyage sinking on April 14, 1...
Lionsgate announced a campaign Wednesday for fans of The Hunger Games to unlock free advanced screenings of the upcoming film by tweeting specific hashtags related to their nearby cities. To generate buzz for the upcoming film, the studio launched th...
Dolphin Browser for mobile devices received a voice-control feature on Wednesday for Android users, allowing them to search the Web with just their voices. The new feature -- called Dolphin Sonar -- allows you to open new tabs by speaking to the brow...
The recent major changes in Google's privacy policy go into effect today, March 1. In January, Google announced a new master privacy policy that replaces more than 70 different documents and governs all of Google's products. Google promises the new d...
Leaving your dog at a kennel can be heartbreaking, and asking a friend to dog-sit can feel intrusive. So what is a traveling dog owner to do? A new site called Dog Vacay hopes you'll instead find a local home for your dog while you're away. On Thursd...
Of the three major devices we connect to our TVs -- gaming consoles, DVRs and DVD players -- DVRs get by far the most use. While we're watching less live TV than a few years ago, we now watch a full 19 minutes more per year of programming, just on ou...
With Windows 8 hovering on the not-so-distant horizon, there's been plenty of curiosity about Microsoft's newest operating system. After previewing an early version of Windows 8, we've now had a chance to use Microsoft's Consumer Preview and have a f...
Andrew Breitbart, a former editor of Drudge Report who also helped launch The Huffington Post, has died. Breitbart's website, Big Government, announced the news Thursday morning. "With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce the passing of An...
As promised, social newsreading magazine Flipboard is bringing Cover Stories to its iPad app via an update released Thursday. The feature, which was first launched on Flipboard's app for iPhone and iPod touch devices, pulls up stories that are determ...
Instagram photos have evolved into an art form, and now they have an art dealer. A site launching Thursday called Hashpix sells prints of Instagram photos on behalf of their creators. To sell on the site, photographers need to apply. It's starting ou...
Got some spare time today? How about putting aside that game of Bejeweled Blitz and instead lend a hand in what could be the most important discovery of all time? It's no joke -- the people behind the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) p...
Bridging the online and offline worlds, Zynga has inked a deal with Frito-Lay that rewards buyers of snacks such as Lay's Classic potato chips and Doritos with virtual items. The items apply to three Zynga games -- FarmVille, CastleVille and CityVill...
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- You may not be shocked to learn the founder of LinkedIn thinks the key to career success is understanding the dynamics of networks and how to leverage them to your benefit. But Reid Hoffman took that truism a step further at TED...
Google's new privacy policy went into effect Thursday, and after hacking through the document and comparing it to the old policies, two things are apparent -- the document has been re-crafted with a strong emphasis on mobile and cross-platform sharin...
Instagram's latest update boasts a faster camera and support for China's Sina Weibo and Japan's Mixi. The new camera option is impressively fast. Instagram now shows an instant preview while it saves the image. Previously, users such as myself would ...
Facebook Timeline just got the presidential seal of approval: Barack Obama enabled the new profile design Thursday morning. Visitors to Obama's Timeline are greeted with a smiling photo of the president alongside his cover photo, a graph often shared...
Microsoft has a cutting edge prototype that may soon bring the virtual and physical worlds together and shorten the distance felt between people video chatting from miles apart. At Microsoft's TechForum 2012, the company showed Mashable and a handful...
Now the Lytro camera is here, you no longer have to worry about taking out-of-focus pictures -- you can shoot first, and then pick what to focus on later. That signature feature is much more than just a convenience. It allows you to tell stories in a...
Foursquare and VH1 are teaming up to offer music lovers a way to help "save the music" when checking in to assorted music venues. Starting today, fans that follow VH1 on Foursquare can earn a special limited edition VH1 Save The Music badge. All fans...
The BBC, The Huffington Post and The Guardian are the three most viral news sources on Facebook and Twitter, according to a new report. The rankings, compiled by Dublin-based Newswhip, were determined by the number of stories that received more than ...
Facebook plans to roll out analytics that will for the first time give Page administrators visibility about real-time activity on the site. The addition to Pages Insights is expected to roll out over the next few weeks, a rep from the company says. T...
We have previously highlighted some really striking animated Google+ profile pages. Now we're showing you how you can make your own animated profile with a simple online tool. While some Google+ users have highlighted their methodology, and InMotion ...
Justin Bieber, pop megastar and social media maven, turns 18 today. To celebrate his birthday, Bieber announced on Twitter Wednesday night that he'd be giving up his birthday for charity: water. This is the second-consecutive year Bieber has asked hi...
Ecommerce websites have several inherent qualities -- shallow copy, duplicate content and a large product catalog -- that make it challenging to achieve a high Google ranking. But there are some best practices you can employ, in addition to tradition...
Twitter came to the rescue for an engaged UK couple whose hired wedding event company folded just six weeks before their big day. Lauren Lane and Daniel Welch lost their nearly $7,000 deposit and all of the details that had been planned. Lane tweeted...
Microsoft has demonstrated an early prototype of a Kinect-powered shopping cart, which is being developed for Whole Foods by Texas-based company Chaotic Moon. The project is called the “Smarter Cart†and it uses a tablet and scanners to read the item...
Police in the U.S. can legally search mobile phones discovered at the scene of a crime, a federal appeals court has ruled. After police in Indiana discovered a batch of cellphones at the site of a drug bust, they did some digital sleuthing and search...
Zynga is trying to diversify beyond its signature Facebook games. Zynga.com will no longer be just its corporate website -- it will also be a platform that features the company's most popular games as well as titles by other publishers. The site, whi...
Criminals might be taking to the web, but police are meeting them there. Facebook has proved to be a powerful tool for law enforcement to locate criminal activity. All Facebook communication leaves a trail, which can come in handy when police need to...
Social game distributor Viximo announced a platform called Social Zone that will allow mobile game developers to simply integrate social media features into their games. Social Zone works with APIs of the players' social networks, allowing them to in...
