Foxconn, a company that manufacturers parts used in Apple's iPhone and iPad, said it aims to replace workers with 1 million robots in the next three years, Xinhuanet reports. The robots will be assigned simple tasks currently done by human workers, s...
Adobe released a public preview of Adobe Edge, its new web motion and interaction design tool, on Monday. Edge enables users to create animated content using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript -- not Flash. It's the first professional-grade HTML5 editing too...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ordered on Wednesday that the iPods.com domain name be transferred to Apple from parking site holder MP3Gold.com. Apple filed an official complaint with WIPO at the end of May, on grounds of tradema...
It was a tense weekend in Washington, but that didn't mean the rest of the world couldn't relax through the warmth of summer (or dead of winter for our southern hemisphere friends) this weekend. That slower pace didn't apply to us here at Mashable, h...
Google's web browser Chrome is now the second most-popular browser in the United Kingdom, according to web metrics company Statcounter. Chrome's market share has been on an upward trajectory globally, but in the UK Google's browser has been doing exc...
Welcome to this morning's edition of “First To Know,†a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on six particular stories of interest today. iPhone 5 Launching in October, Not September...
Contrary to some recent rumors, the next generation iPhone is coming in October, not September, All Things Digital reports quoting sources familiar with the matter. After Apple didn't reveal a new iPhone during its yearly Worldwide Developers Confere...
The original Yankee Stadium was demolished in 2010, but some of the seats have survived and are now being used in a Facebook Places campaign for MasterCard. Twenty such seats will be scattered around New York City starting Monday. Fans who find the s...
As Twitter increasingly becomes a tool for journalists -- and now a tool for political acts -- they must find ways to filter their streams to see relevant content. That's what Jen Preston, of The New York Times, did Friday after President Obama asked...
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. There is one rule that typically holds true for all small businesses -- th...
Google+ continued its dominance on our monthly most-shared stories list -- securing seven spots -- but news items about the comeback of 1990s Nickelodeon shows and Facebook's Skype-powered video chat also battled their way into the spotlight. Several...
Samsung has agreed to hold off bringing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Australia until it resolves its patent lawsuit with Apple, Inc. Apple and Samsung are battling it out in court in several jurisdictions, including the U.S., South Korea and now, Australia...
Each Monday, Mashable highlights an exclusive new video or song. Check out all our Music Monday picks. Ra Ra Riot's Mathieu Santos is out with a robot-themed video for the first single from his upcoming solo album, Massachusetts 2010 (out tomorrow) -...
Twitter launched in Dutch and Indonesian Monday, bringing the microblogging service's total count of supported languages to 11. Dutch and Indonesian were the first two languages to be fully translated by a team of volunteers, who worked through Twitt...
Air New Zealand is continuing its use of celeb cameos with a new video featuring Lindsay Lohan being interviewed by Rico, the airline's puppet mascot. The five-minute video shows Lohan playing the straight man to Rico, a Borat-like character who host...
In the world of social media marketing, Facebook and Twitter dominate -- but advertising on YouTube, LinkedIn and Foursquare is expected to increase in the coming year, according to research conducted at the May 2011 Pivot Conference. Of the marketer...
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. One week before her first live performance at Sweden's Way Out West, Jonna Lee (a.k.a. iamamiwhoami) is out with a new video -- a continuation of the vid...
Twitter confirmed Tuesday that it has raised a "significant round of funding led by the venture firm DST Global, with the participation of several of our existing investors." The announcement comes just weeks after rumors suggested that Twitter was i...
Already using Google+? Follow Mashable's Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform's new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates. Chris Schreiber is director of marketing at social video advertising company Shar...
The Twitter community saved a South African mother's life following a string of suicidal tweets Friday. Beginning at 9:17 p.m. local time, the distressed mother began sending troubling messages, quickly catching the concerned attention of her followe...
Despite a flood of new entrants, the daily deals category is still red-hot, as evidenced by Google's purchase of deals aggregator Dealmap. The acquisition was confirmed Monday; the terms were not disclosed. Formed in May 2010, Dealmap claims about 2 ...
Ad agency Wieden + Kennedy, which is behind the Old Spice "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" campaign, introduced "Human Twitter" last week during the X Games on ESPN. The program worked like this: Viewers who tweeted using the hashtag #humantwitter...
Apple has quietly enhanced iCloud support for the iTunes Store, allowing users to re-download past television purchases and access them from iTunes, on Apple TV and within iOS devices. In June, Apple rolled out iTunes and iCloud integration, which ga...
Among luxury and personal care brands, beauty brands -- a category that, for the purposes of this article encompasses cosmetics, fragrance, skin and hair care brands -- have emerged as among the most digitally savvy. This is partly because of beauty ...
Each Monday, Mashable highlights an exclusive new video or song. Check out all our Music Monday picks. Ever wanted to collaborate with your favorite musician? You could follow in the footsteps of L.A.-based musician AM, whose email to Shawn Lee helpe...
With 48 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute, 200 million tweets being posted every day and the average Facebook user creating 90 pieces of content each month, this generation is publishing an unprecedented amount of data that will l...
Words With Friends, the popular Zynga mobile game, is heading to Facebook, Zynga has confirmed. The new version of the word game will offer continuous play. That means if you start a game on your iPhone or Android device, you can continue it on Faceb...
At 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981, the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll" were spoken over a montage of the first space shuttle launch. And with that, the cable network MTV was born. Originally accessible by a few thousand people on a northern...
U.S. President Barack Obama's #Compromise campaign, which blasted his Twitter followers with the handles of reps to write to, may have cost him some 36,000 followers. (Although he has 9.4 million followers left, and the White House now says the drop ...
Expectant parents can announce the good news to their Facebook friends via a brand new Facebook family member status option. Facebook's 750 million users can reveal their soon-to-be bundles of joy by updating the "Friends and Family" section of their...
