Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: NeighborGoods Quick Pitch: Why buy ...
The iPhone 4 has some reception issues when held a certain way. The problem -- which partially stems from iPhone 4's newly designed external antenna -- can be viewed as more or less serious, depending on a number of factors. Is it serious enough to s...
Kindle DX, Amazon's e-reader designed especially for reading magazines and newspapers, made some sense before Apple introduced its iPad, but now it's really hard to justify buying one. The iPad is more powerful, has a more attractive screen and, at $...
Yahoo today launched Yahoo Mail and Messenger apps for Android, as well as Yahoo Search Widget for Android. It also created new, faster HTML5-based Yahoo Mail and News sites for iPhone and iPod touch. Yahoo Mail features push notification for new e-m...
Seventy-two days have passed since the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and the public is frustrated, to say the least. Well take a break from writing your satirical Twitter stream/crafting your web plugins/blowi...
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. Today, the Gulf Coast Benefit will present the Coast to Coast series of concerts in 60 different venues across th...
HP has closed on its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, and with it, confirmed that it plans to develop tablet computers and netbooks based on the webOS operating system. HP also plans to continue to develop smartphones using Palm’s technology. In a s...
If you're seeking a job in social media, we'd like to help out. For starters, Mashable's Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles ...
Today is the first of July and that means that Starbucks's no-charge, registration-less and limitation-free Wi-Fi initiative officially goes live at all U.S. and Canadian retail stores. Starbucks first revealed the news a little more than two weeks a...
The quickly growing deal-a-day site Groupon has entered in to a partnership with The McClatchy Company -- owner of The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and several other newspapers -- to outsource exclusive Groupon deals to McClatchy websites in 28 U...
This series is supported by Ben & Jerry's Joe, Ben & Jerry's new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here. Infographics help communicate information in a digestible manner as they creatively present data in an und...
If you're an American -- or just dig war, fireworks and red, white and blue -- you're probably prepping for the Fourth. Well, if JibJab's latest diversion isn't enough to get you in the three-day weekend spirit, check out Babelgum's newest vid, "Kids...
Tapulous, the iPhone app development firm responsible for the Tap Tap Revenge games, has been acquired by Disney, according to our sources. We have since confirmed the news. Tapulous, founded in 2008, is one of the best known developers of iPhone app...
Yan-David Erlich is the founder & CEO of photography app Mopho. He was also the founder and CEO of Social.im and a product manager in the digital media consumer web group at Google. Location-based social networks are currently enjoying a great deal o...
Lionsgate has partnered with Foursquare and local businesses to promote its upcoming action movie, The Expendables. Starting today, Lionsgate will use its Foursquare presence to provide followers with tips and specials -- all tied in to the "bad ass"...
MIT Media Labs researchers are field-testing a smartphone application and $1 plastic lens attachment system called NETRA -- Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment -- for eye exams. NETRA is designed for doctors in developing countries that may not o...
Google has acquired ITA, developer of the airfare search and pricing system QPX that is used by major airlines. The deal is for $700 million in cash and comes after months of rumors about Google buying ITA. Now that it's a done deal, Google plans to ...
An iPod is only as good as its speakers, even when what matters to you is cool factor more than audio fidelity. Apple has described the iPod touch as the "funnest" iPod ever, and in that spirit we've rounded up 10 unique iPod speakers to compliment y...
You can already write and publish WordPress blog posts from your iPhone, iPad, Android, e-mail and desktop, but now you can also post audio via your phone. Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg announced the new feature for WordPress.com earlier today. I...
Remember that rather rad 8-Bit Twilight game we covered the other day? Well, earlier today we were contacted by the creators, The Fine Brothers, who informed us that Summit Entertainment LLC -- the studio behind Twilight -- asked for the video to be ...
Tomorrow HISTORY -- otherwise known as the epoch-chronicling network, the History Channel -- will start promoting its Foursquare presence with a new spot. The ad in question puts Foursquare front-and-center and will be getting major airplay throughou...
Google is working on a social service to rival Facebook, if web rumors are to be believed. And while Google's social networking efforts have so far fallen flat, even satisfied Facebook users should hope that the search engine's efforts bear fruit -- ...
In something of a groundbreaking move, Google is giving its employees in same-sex relationships extra cash to cover their partners' health benefits. Currently, when receiving partner health care coverage, same-sex domestic partners are subject to an ...
The inaugural Social Media Day celebrated yesterday did exactly what it was intended to do: connect thousands of people face-to-face in their local communities, provide resourceful discussions around social media, and plant seeds for ongoing monthly ...
The 2010 Mashable Summer Tour is coming to a town near you, and we want to meet you. Next week we're starting with the West Coast. This summer we'll be coming to Seattle, San Francisco, Washington D.C., New York City and Chicago. Next week, we're exc...
For continuous World Cup coverage, check out Mashable's 2010 World Cup Hub, which will be updated throughout the games. Sales intelligence firm InsideView has been gathering data about our economy and productivity during the World Cup. Globally, we'v...
Facebook has begun testing face detection technology for Facebook Photos. This is the first of what seems like a series of new features for its popular photo product. The tests, which some users will see starting today, focus on decreasing the tediou...
Developer John Graham-Cumming was flattered, naturally, when someone on Hacker News said his code was "beautiful." He was also inspired to create UseTheSource, a Hacker News-like repository for other examples of beautiful code. If you're familiar wit...
One of the things that could make casual, social Q&A sites even more fun is "multiplayer" features that allow you to interact with groups of more than one person at a time. Formspring has just added such a feature. The site now lets you pose the same...
Yesterday, Amazon acquired Woot, the popular and incredibly quirky deal-a-day website network. The deal keeps Woot intact as an autonomous subsidiary of the Amazon empire (one that now includes Zappos). There are still a lot of questions and unknowns...
