SingStar or Guitar Hero for hip hop and rap is an obvious idea, but nobody's done it right — or really at all — before today. Now PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii gamers have Def Jam Rapstar, an intriguing mash of hip hop sensibilities and so...
Turkey has lifted its ban on YouTube after two years of blocking access to the popular video site. Back in March 2007, a Turkish court ordered YouTube to be banned in that country because of offensive comments about the founding father of the Turkish...
As previously announced, the Samsung Galaxy Tab is now available for purchase in the UK. The tablet is available at a variety of prices with various contracts attached, ranging from £99.99 and a £40 monthly plan with a two-year contract, to £499.99 a...
Acquia, a company that sells products and services for popular open source content management system Drupal, has announced an $8.5 million round of funding led by by North Bridge Venture Partners. Although open source and capitalism may seem fundamen...
Welcome to November, Mashable readers. We hope you had a scary and candy-filled Halloween weekend, but it's time to return to the land of the living. Admittedly, Mondays are pretty scary themselves, so to minimize the terror and help you catch up we'...
Apple has filed a patent application for improving the physical characteristics of stainless steel with nitride coating, which may mean the company plans to release scratch and impact-resistant devices in the future. Dubbed Nitriding Stainless Steel ...
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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. When Facebook overhauled its Groups this month, users responded with a hea...
Here's a little taste of politics (or mock politics... depending on how you look at it) to get you amped for tomorrow: The Gregory Brothers, of Auto-tune the News fame, recently released this remix of Jon Stewart's speech at this past weekend's "Rall...
In an update to one of the more iconic “year-end†magazine editions, People has launched a “Sexiest Man Alive on Facebook†campaign to complement its “Sexiest Man Alive†issue, which hits newsstands later this month. For the campaign, People has chos...
The holiday season is officially underway. And now, one of our favorite apps for grabbing price comparisons, Big in Japan's ShopSavvy, has just been updated for the iPhone. The free ShopSavvy 4 for iPhone is a pretty big overhaul of the app. In addit...
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StumbleUpon has just signed up its 12 millionth member according to a tweet from CEO Garrett Camp. Camp also indicated that the service is now seeing 500,000 new members join the site each month. The milestone metric and the accelerating signup rate ...
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As the worldwide smartphone market continues to expand, the battle between the two primary players, iOS and Android, continues to sizzle. Market research firm Canalys has thrown some fuel on that fire by noting that Apple is now the leading smartphon...
The annual Xbox Live fall update is rolling out now. It includes ESPN, Netflix Search and Zune Music. The release comes just before the Microsoft Kinect motion capture gaming controller hits stores on November 10. In addition to the above features, K...
If you're on a budget but still want to give a loved one the gift of Android this holiday season, T-Mobile has you covered. The wireless provider is offering a variety of Android-powered smartphones priced at less than $100, plus some new data and te...
Fresh off of an $8.5 million round of funding that was announced earlier today, Acquia co-founder Dries Buytaert is feeling pretty good about the open source business model. The company that he co-founded in 2007 sells software and products that leve...
BlackBerry users in India, you're in the clear. India's Ministry of Home Affairs confirmed in an announcement that discussions with BlackBerry maker RIM have led to an interim agreement. Under this agreement, BlackBerry Messenger services can continu...
Twitter will begin today expanding its ad platform, Promoted Tweets, to the individual streams of its users. The new ads, like their Twitter Search counterparts, will be targeted based primarily on keywords; it's designed to only serve ads that are r...
Facebook has once again teamed up with app developer Involver to release the Facebook Polling Place Locator on the U.S. Politics Facebook Page as part of the Voting Information Project. Application users can input their registered home address to fin...
Leveraging the continuing popularity of food blogging and its own vast content collection, WordPress.com has just launched FoodPress, the service's first swipe at niche content aggregation. FoodPress is a hand-curated collection of food-related posts...
Are you excited about the upcoming video game, Michael Jackson The Experience? If you said no, you obviously haven't heard the latest news: Users who pre-order the Wii version of the game will get a free white sequined glove. The game will be availab...
LinkedIn is looking to get brands more involved with the site's users through the launch of a suite of features designed to give them a stronger presence on the business social network. The new features add product and service recommendations to comp...
In response to increasing concerns about teenagers' safety on Facebook, SafetyWeb.com, a web-based monitoring site, has introduced a new "Find Help" application on Facebook. The app allows users to report any violation or cyberbullying to Facebook of...
Esteemed game development studio Bungie concluded its direct involvement in the franchise this year with Halo: Reach, but the era ended with a bang — $200 million in sales in just one day, and 2,000 man years played in the first week. Want to know th...
Target is set to become the latest big chain retailer to offer Apple’s iPhone, with both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS arriving at the company’s stores on November 7. The company will handle activations in-store. In a statement, a Target spokesperson s...
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Hotmail has released a cool new feature today: the ability to receive and send e-mails from other addresses, including ones from Gmail or Yahoo Mail. The new feature, announced by Microsoft earlier today, is pretty straightforward. Users just have to...
Some folks are seeing a new, Places-based, checkin-focused module on Facebook. "Popular Places" shows locations at which friends in your network frequently check in. It appears for some users on the right column of the web interface, where you might ...
