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Google Nexus Q: Ready for Party Fouls, Not Prime Time [REVIEW]
Friday, June 29, 2012 10:23 PM
Google is calling the Nexus Q the "world's first social media streamer." When connected to your TV, this $299 ball can be used to stream tunes and videos from your favorite (Gingerbread or higher) Android device. If you have Android-toting...



Moms Are Biggest Brand Boosters on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]
Friday, June 29, 2012 9:48 PM
Moms lead the pack when comes to liking brands on Facebook, according to a recent survey by Burst media. Fifty eight percent of moms follow or like brands on social media sites. The survey showed that moms are the group of consumers most likely...



Livestrong CEO: 'Social Media Is Changing the World' [VIDEO]
Friday, June 29, 2012 5:45 PM
Mashable's third annual Social Media Day will bring together thousands of people worldwide to celebrate the digital revolution this Saturday. We talked with Doug Ulman, President and CEO of Livestrong, about how social media is mobilizing...



Smackdown: Google Voice Search vs. Apple's Siri [VIDEO]
Friday, June 29, 2012 4:44 PM
With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Google is taking a shot at iPhone digital assistant Siri. The next-generation Android OS, announced this week at Google I/O, offers the ability to search for and find information about anything you can imagine by...



Twitter Drops LinkedIn Partnership
Friday, June 29, 2012 4:07 PM
UPDATELinkedIn announced via a blog post on Friday that Twitter would no longer be partnering with the business-networking site to sync updates from one site to the other. This ends a partnership that began in 2009. LinkedIn users can still...



Facebook App Recommends Songs for Your Romantic Encounters
Friday, June 29, 2012 3:54 PM
Have you ever tried to create the perfect romantic evening only to fall flat when the wrong mood music plays? Durex -- yes, the condom company -- has an app for that. The Facebook app for connecting couples is called the Durex In-Sync Song...



MashTags: 24 Funniest #FacebookFilms
Friday, June 29, 2012 2:50 PM
You're likely familiar with The Social Network, an award-winning film about the birth of Facebook, and how it came to consume our lives. But could there be more movies about Facebook worth watching? We're not sure about that, but the titles are...



Wits Come Out of Hiding for Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes Split
Friday, June 29, 2012 2:09 PM
It didn't take long for Twitter users to crank out reactions to the news that actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are divorcing after five years of marriage. Following the news from People magazine that the couple -- who have a 6-year-old daughter...



Researchers Prove Drones Can Be Hacked
Friday, June 29, 2012 1:59 PM
A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin won a $1,000 bet with the Department of Homeland Security by hacking into an airborne drone and wresting control from the pilot. The researchers, headed by Dr. Todd E. Humphreys, got...



Google+ Creators: Stop Calling It a Social Network
Friday, June 29, 2012 1:15 PM
Google+ has a problem. It's not engagement or the lack of a clear way to monetize itself. It's not those sometimes-unwieldy friend-organizing circles, or even the perception that no one other than nerds uses the service. The problem, its creators...



Google+ Events Spam: Users Revolt, Google Promises Fix
Friday, June 29, 2012 12:17 PM
When Google+ heavyweights such as Los Angeles-based actor Wil Wheaton, with more than 1.3 million followers, were overwhelmed with Google+ Events spam, they didn't keep quiet about it. Google+ power users took to their walls to say they were...



Healthcare Ruling Sparks 13,000 Tweets Per Minute
Friday, June 29, 2012 11:45 AM
The Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as "Obamacare," set off a frenzy of Twitter activity on Thursday, peaking at 13,166 tweets per minute, according to @gov. Obamacare-related tweets narrowly missed...



Foursquare Gets More Robust With Connected Apps Integration
Friday, June 29, 2012 11:35 AM
Foursquare is about to become a lot richer, thanks to forthcoming apps built off of the location-based network's API. The NYC-based startup unveiled Thursday a developer preview for Connected Apps -- that is, "developer-crafted experiences that...



Is Facebook Testing a 'Want' Button?
Friday, June 29, 2012 10:55 AM
Facebook may be testing a "Want" button that would allow you to add products to a virtual wish list. According to Tom Waddington, a web developer for the site Cut Out + Keep, Facebook has a disabled "Want" button included in the Javascript coding...



Adobe Won't Support Flash in Android 4.1
Friday, June 29, 2012 9:02 AM
And thus ends the tale of Flash on mobile browsers: Adobe has announced it will not support Flash Player browser plugin for Android 4.1 and onward. "There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1," writes Adobe on its...



 
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