Social bookmarking website Digg launched the first version of its new site on Tuesday after going back into startup mode to rebuild the site from the bottom up. V1, for version 1, was built on "fresh code" and the team says they plan to build it out ...
Independent journalist Guy Adams tweeted his outrage about NBC coverage of the Olympics and found his Twitter account suspended. (Update: Twitter later reactivated his account and apologized.) But it wasn't his criticism that caused trouble, it was h...
Anonymous, the loosely associated hacktivist group, is inherently anti-establishment. Their unofficial logo -- a suit without a head -- is testament to this. Now, in perfectly ironic fashion, French company Early Flicker is attempting to trademark bo...
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. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Dropbox Confirms Security Breach Dropbox has con...
The police officer who doused students with pepper spray during Occupy Wall Street protests at the University of California, Davis, is no longer employed by the University. "Consistent with privacy guidelines established in state law and university p...
Unless you're on a safari right now, this is probably the closest you'll get to seeing a baby elephant: Watch a herd cross the road, and just when you think they've made it to safety, a baby elephant scampers across to catch up with his family. If th...
A day after Hulu Plus landed on Apple TV, another player in the streaming video market, Amazon, has released a viewing app for the iPad. The free Amazon Instant Video for iPad app hit the App Store Wednesday morning. The app lets you buy and stream v...
Disappointed with the court's decision to exclude evidence that Apple borrowed from Sony for its iPhone design, Samsung decided to release the documents to the public. "The Judge’s exclusion of evidence on independent creation meant that even though ...
Anonymous is launching an operation against a French apparel manufacturer in response to the company's attempt to trademark one of the hacktivist collective's most well-known logos: A man wearing a suit with a question mark for a head. "There arrogan...
The chief technology officer of the City of Los Angeles has asked employees to stop watching the Olympics at work to avoid overloading the city's computer system. "We are experiencing a high volume of traffic due to people watching the Olympics onlin...
If you operate a website, you're currently tied to one of 22 different top-level domains. We're talking .com, .org and the ever-elusive .biz. In June, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) agreed to create new generic top-le...
Jesse James Garrett, who is a pioneer in user experience, sits down with Revolution to talk about why user experience deserves the attention of the c-suite. When we think of UX, we often associate it with the web, software and product development. Bu...
Want to build your own iPhone app? A new online course called Try iOS lets you do just that. The course, which combines screencasts, in-browser code challenges and gamification principles, is part of Code School, an online learning platform that teac...
Social TV platform ConnecTV has brought back four Olympic gold medal champions to weigh in on the 2012 London Olympics. Chatting live this month on ConnecTV's Watercooler, a 24-hour chat hub for TV and sports fans, are diver Greg Louganis (five medal...
In the U.S., NBC offers live coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games online and through its Olympics Live Extra app. Still, many have criticized this coverage, as the hashtag on Twitter, #nbcfails proves. However, there is another way to stream the...
TurboVote, an up-and-coming startup, wants to become the "Netflix of voting" by revolutionizing voter registration and vote by mail via the Internet and snail mail. The concept is simple: Users fill out voter registration or vote by mail forms on the...
If you're tired of working for the "man" and making boring video games, we want you! That's the message of this brilliant recruiting video created by Kixeye games. The San Francisco-based online gaming company pokes fun at both old-school game compan...
Oscar Pistorius, a member of South Africa's national track and field team, will make Olympics history as the first athlete to compete with a prosthetic limb. The sprinter will compete in the 400-meter race Saturday, using two high-performance carbon ...
More than a quarter of the average worker's day is spent answering and reading emails, according to a new survey. McKinsey Global Institute and International Data Corp. found that email is the second-most time-consuming activity for workers, next to ...
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Throughout history, women have strongly impacted buying habits -- they con...
Thousands of people have expressed a desire to see Justin Bieber get punched in the face. Today, they get their wish. A bloodied Bieber flexes his acting chops in "As Long As You Love Me," his music video that dropped Wednesday morning. Reservoir Dog...
The Denver Post's John Henderson wins the gold medal for tweeting out something pervy during the summer Olympics. In a tweet that was on his account for more than 24 hours -- but has since been deleted -- Henderson tweeted, "That was fun. First time ...
Boris Johnson earned the gold medal for awkward dangling Wednesday when the London mayor got stuck on a zip line in Victoria Park. Johnson swayed helplessly, Union Jacks still in hand, as he asked photo-snapping onlookers to fetch a rope. SEE ALSO: L...
Led by strong growth in the U.S., mobile ad spending will rise about 62% this year to $6.4 billion, according to a new report. Researcher eMarketer estimates that the U.S. mobile ad industry will grow 96.6% in 2012 to $2.3 billion, marking the first ...
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority recently announced that it plans to sell advertising on the front of the MetroCard. But can those ads actually be engaging... perhaps even fun? Wayne Congar and Brendan Bilko of creative and branding consulta...
Twitter is getting in on the social analysis game. The micro-blog will publish a daily measurement of Twitter sentiment surrounding the 2012 presidential election called the Twitter Political Index, the company announced Wednesday. The Index works li...
Graham Cooke is the CEO of QuBit, a technology company specializing in advanced website data collection, analysis, and optimization products. He was previously a senior product manager at Google. Follow him @thegrahamcooke. Times are changing for web...
The team behind Outlook.com revealed in a tweet that one million people signed up for the new email service in just six hours. Microsoft unveiled its Hotmail replacement Tuesday at noon Eastern, and by dinnertime it had cracked seven digits. That's a...
Are your Facebook friends too snap-happy with their baby photos? Use Unbaby.me to replace all those images with "awesome stuff." Unbaby.me is the brainchild (forgive the pun) of Chris Baker, Peter Marquis and Yvonne Cheng, a group of friends who were...
That distant sound you hear is Apple and Samsung slamming into each other in a San Jose courtroom like two bighorn rams vying for dominance. Apple says Samsung stole its ideas; Samsung says it had similar ideas first. For many, it’s a simple patent c...
