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Twitter Acquires Malware Protection Company Gearing up for Twitter’s self-serve advertising launch — currently in beta stage with only a small selection of advertisers —…
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The Pirate Bay Wants You to Download Physical Objects Now File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is apparently expanding its reach into letting users pass one another physical objects to download. Well, that…
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Web App Makes Paying with Nine Credit Cards Okay The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…
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Dog and Brony Show and 3 Other Hilarious Memes I hope you all had a relaxing weekend, because we’re back with a bunch of Internet weirdness! This, folks, is the Meme Machine, and it de…
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Google Launches Feature to Find Hotels by Travel Time, Landmarks Looking for a hotel near the Eiffel Tower, but not too familiar with your Parisian neighborhoods? Google has unveiled a new feature for its …
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20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week [CHART] With 1.9 million instances of social media chatter, the CNN Southern Republican Presidential Debate generated more activity than any other debate to h…
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Super Bowl XLVI: Who You Need to Follow on Twitter The New York Giants. The New England Patriots. Super Bowl XLVI. The matchup is set, and the world’s biggest annual sporting event is upon us. A…
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4 Things RIM’s New CEO Can Do to Fix the Company Research in Motion, better known as RIM, used to be one of the most dominating smartphone makers in the world. But it’s seen its market sh…
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Academy Awards Launches Digital ‘Celebrate the Movies’ Campaign Just in time for the 84th Academy Award nominations, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is rolling out a digital campaign, entitle…
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Justin Bieber’s 5th YouTube Anniversary: The Road to Bieber Fever [INFOGRAPHIC] Whether you love or despise 17-year-old international pop star Justin Bieber, you have his mom to thank (or blame) for thrusting him into the sp…
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21 Essential Community Management Resources Today is Community Manager Appreciation Day, and we have plenty of resources for those who are managing their own communities. With a bevy of s…
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Anonymous Threatens Facebook Shutdown Jan. 28 [UPDATED] Update: Anonymous claims on Twitter that the video is fake, and they do not plan to take down Facebook. Anonymous is planning to target Faceboo…
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Portlandia Stars Talk Twitter and the New Face of Comedy Portlandia, IFC’s little sketch show that could, has moved from quirky sleeper hit to beloved comedy darling and one of IFC’s most-watched…
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Facebook Spent More than $1 Million on Lobbying in 2011 [REPORT] Facebook Inc. contributed $1.35 million to lobby various tech-related efforts last year, breaking the $1 million mark for the first time. During…
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6 Top Community Managers to Appreciate Happy Community Managers Appreciation Day! On this third annual CMAD, we celebrate community management, an industry that has become increasingly impo…
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Is This the Ultimate iPhone Car Stereo? [VIDEO] A new Kickstarter campaign can bring your iPhone‘s capabilities to the dashboard of your car — including turning it into a car…
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How to Register Your New Business Name You’ve brainstormed, polled your family and friends and conducted some kind of focus group testing. You’ve come up with a cool domain name.…
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The Most-Shared 2012 Super Bowl Ad Teasers So Far [VIDEOS] With the Super Bowl less than two weeks away, advertisers are following one of two plays: Remain completely mum about what they’re going t…
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Tumblr Hits 15 Billion Monthly Pageviews After an explosive 2011, Tumblr is rolling full steam into the new year with impressive numbers that highlight the microblogging platform’…
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Handle This: Google+ Finally Allows Pseudonyms The Google+ Common Name policy will never be the same. Google promised it would take a close look at the requirement that only real names and id…
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Consumers Want Online Video Ads No More Than 15 Seconds Long Want to capture customer attention with online video ads? They’d better not be more than 15 seconds long, a new poll suggests. According…
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FileSonic Blocks File Sharing After Megaupload Bust FileSonic, an online “digital locker” that provides users with 10GB of free storage for 30 days, has shut down the service’s f…
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Take That, Twitter: Chinese Site Beats Tweets per Second Record Sina Weibo, one of China’s premiere microblogs and alternatives to Twitter, saw a record number of messages sent per second Monday, in hon…
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Most Video Conferencing Systems Are Vulnerable to Hackers [VIDEO] An IT security professional showed in an independent investigation that the average person with coding knowledge could access the world…
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Which Politicians Are Getting the Tech Industry’s Money? Thanks to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), lots of tech junkies have become politics junkies, too. For that reason, we decided to figure out w…
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Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman Team up to Fight Famine Batman, Superman and the rest of the Justice League of America are about to start fighting the famine in the Horn of Africa as part of We Can…
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Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google’s Social Search [VIDEO] A team of engineers, drawn from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, have rebuilt Google to “focus on the user” and re-jigger Google…
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9 Best Practices for Social Networking in the Workplace If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably witnessed (or maybe even been a part of) office communication mishaps that have ranged from mil…
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Supreme Court: GPS Tracking Is Illegal Without Warrant If you’re a cop and want to use a GPS device to track a suspect, you better have a warrant, the Supreme Court said Monday. In the decisio…
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Megaupload Founder May Not Get Bail The founder of file-sharing site Megaupload — which was shut down last Friday after the New Zealand police raided the man’s home at…
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Rep. Giffords Announces Resignation on YouTube [VIDEO] Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) announced her resignation from Congress Sunday via a YouTube video posted on her website. Giffords,…
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NFL Player Gets Twitter Death Threats After Gaffes [UPDATED] Wide receiver Kyle Williams of the San Francisco 49ers made two costly mistakes in Sunday’s NFC Championship game that likely cost his te…
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Star Trek-Inspired Medical Scanner Will Soon be Reality [VIDEO] New nano-antenna technology means doctors are on their way to having the medical tools used aboard Star Trek‘s fictional USS Enterpr…
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Anonymous Hacks CBS, Universal Music — Not Colbert Report or Daily Show Twitter Accounts Hacktivist group Anonymous made the rounds over the weekend, attacking sites from CBS.com to (once again) Universal Music. In what looks like hacking…
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How iBooks Author Stacks Up to the Competition [CHART] With the announcement of iBooks Author last week, the world of self-publishing seemed to open up a little wider, especially for authors looking for an…
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Aviary’s New Facebook App Edits and Adds Effects to Your Photos Aviary’s photo editing tools are embedded in more than 300 partner apps. Now it’s bringing them directly to Facebook through an app…
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Canadian Engineer Building a Real Android Everyone knows robots are cool and useful, but they can also be creepy. Part of the reason is, even if the robot has a reasonable facsimile of t…
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Obama Wants to Answer Your Questions in a Google+ Hangout Never one to ignore new social networks, U.S. President Barack Obama will participate Jan. 30 in his first Google+ Hangout in which he’ll…
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10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers As a writer, you know how important the literary community can be for your work, but you don’t have to shut your creative front door as so…
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SoundCloud Reaches 10 Million Registered Users Music-sharing platform SoundCloud has reached 10 million registered users, the company announced. SoundCloud also boasts 5 million downloaded m…
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5 Flaws in Your Mobile Marketing Strategy The hyper-connected consumer of today has little patience for clutter or noise. His smartphone is the compass with which he engages the world,…
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RIM’s New CEO: No ‘Drastic Change’ Needed Is Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins in denial? The newly minted chief executive and company president told a teleconference audience that h…
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YouTube Users Watch 4 Billion Videos a Day, But Don’t Stick Around Long YouTube streams 4 billion online videos each day, more than one for every other person on Earth and a 25% jump over eight months ago. YouTube, a…
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Users Download 350,000 Textbooks From iBooks in 3 Days [REPORT] Apple’s textbook initiative is already paying off. Users have downloaded more than 350,000 textbooks in three days, according to Global Eq…
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Today’s Top Stories: New RIM CEO, 19% of Americans Own Tablets, Netflix Changes 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…
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Acer S3: A Fine Example of the Ultrabook Species Here’s how you know when a gadget is good — when it ruins you for other gadgets in its class. That’s pretty much what’s happened to me…
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Mashable Weekend Recap: 36 Stories You May Have Missed It was a blustery and snowy midwinter weekend in much of the northern hemisphere, and while many of you were hunkered down watching football thi…
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29% of U.S. Adults Own a Tablet or Ereader [STUDY] Nineteen percent of adults in the United States own a tablet, and 29% own either a tablet or an ereader, according to the latest study from Pew…
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RIM Co-CEOs Are Out, Heins Is In Following weeks of speculation, it appears Research in Motion (RIM) is finally ready to oust Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. The two a…
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9 Digital Ways to Become a Social Good Hero in 2012 January is already half-over, so how’s that New Year’s resolution to do more good coming along? If you haven’t made much progress, do…
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One Hello World: The Soundtrack to Your Voicemails If you think your voicemail inbox is intimidating when it’s full, try filtering through hundreds of voicemails on a regular basis. One Hello Wor…
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iPhotography Calendar: 12 Months Captured in 12 Stunning Snapshots [PICS] A new year doesn’t just bring a new start, it comes heavy with the potential of the next 12 months ahead. With the different seasons and all the…
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Iranian Court Upholds Death Sentence For Programmer An Iranian court has upheld its decision to sentence 35-year-old Saeed Malekpour to death for developing photo-uploading software used by porn w…
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Facebook Apps: Highlights of the 60 New Integrated Applications If you enjoy using Spotify or Foursquare on Facebook, imagine having the same integration with a bevy of other apps. Now you can share more than…
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Nokia Ringtone Interrupts, Violist Plays Along [VIRAL VIDEO] If you’ve ever been watching a movie or attending a concert and someone’s ringtone interrupts the proceedings, you’ll appreciate…
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Top 10 Action Games for Android While iOS is often home to many new releases, that doesn’t mean Android owners are without a fantastic selection of action-packed games to call…
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Is It Time to Finally Ditch Your Paper Business Cards? If you've ever returned from a business trip with a stack of business cards, you've no doubt wondered -- as you're manually typing in all those names, phone numbers...
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Twitter Reacts to Death of Joe Paterno Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died at age 85 Sunday after a bout with lung cancer, according to an announcement released by his family o…
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StumbleUpon: 10 Tips and Tricks for Power Users Thousands of websites are created every day, yet sometimes the Internet feels a bit stale. How do you filter through all of the junk when you…
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6 Things to Know Before Starting a Business An entrepreneur’s life can be a real roller coaster. Having started a few businesses in my career, I thought it would be useful to highlight some of the hard-won experience I’ve learned...
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5 Firefox Add-Ons for Increasing Productivity The Internet is a black hole of procrastination. It's a rare occasion when we open up our web browsers and just do work without checking Facebook or getting...
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How To Close The Books on Your Startup In the life cycle of an entrepreneur, shutting the doors on a business isn’t necessarily a gloomy situation. The end of one venture often signals the start of something...
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Crowdsourced ‘Star Wars Uncut: The Director’s Cut’ Debuts on YouTube [VIRAL VIDEO] Two years ago, a group of Star Wars fans decided to remake Star Wars: A New Hope out of fan-generated scenes. Now, that Star Wars Uncut project ha…
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Top 7 Comments on Mashable This Week We’re back again with another roundup of the top Mashable comments of the week. In this post, we showcase the week’s best comments o…
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CoTweet Gone: Here Are 7 Great Alternatives The popular social media management application CoTweet will no longer exist after Feb. 15, but we’ve found 7 free or low-cost alternative…
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Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS] The tech world continues to take giant steps forward with innovative devices, vehicles and gadgetry, and we’ve narrowed down the coolest of the…
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Super Bowl XLVI Gets a Social Media Command Center Super Bowl XLVI host city Indianapolis has concocted a new way to deal with the madness that comes with managing the world’s biggest annu…
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Top 10 Twitter Pics of the Week [PICS] There’s no need to go through 30 million pictures posted on Twitter last week when you have our top 10 Twitter pics of the week. Using a s…
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What Can Twitter Tell Us About the South Carolina Primary? What’s the social sentiment on Twitter saying about Saturday’s South Carolina Primary? Mashable teamed up with social media analysi…
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Collaborative Documentary Weaves Stories of Egyptian Revolution About 400 people gathered in Tahrir Square Thursday to launch a new kind of documentary about the Egyptian revolution. Instead of putting togeth…
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3 Social Learning Trends to Watch in 2012 According to the 2011 Training Industry Report from TrainingMag.com, total expenditures in training appear to be increasing. The amount...
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GO App Lets You Anonymously Share Photos, Videos or Comments [PICS] If you’ve ever wanted to post a photograph, video or brief comment without your real name or online moniker attached to the content, a fre…
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StyleSeat Is OpenTable for Beauty Appointments The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…
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Restore Your Faith in Humanity at the Nicest Place on the Internet You catch glimpses of sunny parks, busy street corners and various home dwellings as smiling faces step up to offer friendly hugs and a lullaby…
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The Week That Killed SOPA: A Timeline Ladies and gentleman, bid farewell to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. They’re both being tabled and sent to legislative…
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Advertisers, This Is What an NFL Fan Looks Like [INFOGRAPHIC] Just two NFL teams will remain after Sunday’s league semifinals, setting up a final showdown for Super Bowl XLVI glory. But the Super Bowl isn…
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Wear a Wi-Fi Hotspot With These Cutting-Edge Cufflinks [VIDEO] Wish Wi-Fi hotspots would grow on sleeves? A set of cufflinks available at Brookstone serves not only as a decorative man-sessory, it feat…
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Megaup-Lord of the Rings and 4 Other Hilarious Viral Topics Happy Friday! It’s been a long week of battles on the Internet, but the web has prevailed … for now, anyway. The Meme Machine team…
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Who Did the Most to Bury SOPA? [POLL] Ding, dong, the bill is dead — or at the very least buried, even if it may well rise again in another form in a year or so. Regardless, t…
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What Megaupload Teaches Us About the Cloud, SOPA and Backups The raid and subsequent shutdown of file-sharing service Megaupload not only hacked off members of Anonymous, it also underscores one of the in…
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Google Pulls the Plug on Picnik, Sky Map and More Google just rained all over Picnik’s picnic. The photo editing site got the ax on Friday and will shut down in April. Picnik — whic…
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Twitter Reacts to SOPA’s Burial The Internet rejoiced Friday after Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Texas) said that he would indefinitely pull the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) from considerati…
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It Only Takes a Click to Be Part of an Anonymous Attack [VIDEO] Anonymous‘s distributed denial of service attacks on the U.S. Department of Justice website and others Thursday were a new type of b…
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Why 2012 Is the Year of Mobile Advertising Mobile advertising is coming of age. In many ways, it has been driven by the sheer force of the consumer’s insatiable appetite for all t…
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Google Algorithm Changes Downgrade Sites With Too Many Ads [VIDEO] Got a lot of ads on your website? Google‘s new search algorithm, which looks for sites that maintain a good balance of content and a…
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Twitter Releases 2012 Sundance Film Festival Must-Follow List Twitter is getting into the Sundance Film Festival buzz with a list of must-follow accounts from top filmmakers, critics and interesting voice…
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The Pixel Renaissance: Pixel Art’s Place in 21st Century Expression My first experience with pixels occurred in second grade. During the rainy months, our teacher allowed us to stay inside, where we replaced rece…
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How Kodak Squandered Every Single Digital Opportunity It Had Kodak has finally formalized what had been expected for years — it’s gone bankrupt. In the past 15 years, digital technology changed…
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The Facebook Bed: Slumbering for Social Networking Fanatics For those so obsessed with social networking, behold the Facebook bed. This concept by Croatian designer Tomislav Zvonarić is only in model fo…
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Could SOPA Rise From the Dead? The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act may have been the two most hated bills in recent legislative history and no…
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Talk Tech With Fellow Gadget Enthusiasts at a Mashable Meetup Tech enthusiasts have a lot to be excited about right now. A plethora of new and innovative technology entered the arena during CES 2012, and w…
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Is Megaupload Back? [UPDATED] Megaupload, the file sharing website that was shut down Thursday, may have returned — but without a domain name. This new site appears t…
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RIP SOPA: The Internet Kills Its Attackers Be honest: When this week began, how much did you really know about SOPA? Five days ago, the Stop Online Piracy Act was still a relatively ob…
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FindTheBest Mobile Will Instantly Compare Anything Whether you’re looking for a daycare, ski resort or smartphone, comparison engine FindTheBest can provide the critical stats. On Friday, t…
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Obama Sings Al Green at the Apollo Theatre [VIDEO] President Barack Obama showed off his vocal chords Thursday at New York’s Apollo Theatre, singing some of Reverend Al Green’s R…
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Facebook ‘Relieved’ That SOPA Is Dead Facebook has responded to the death of SOPA, expressing its relief that the bill has been pulled and thanking its users for their feedback. Alth…
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European Politicians Didn’t Like SOPA Any More Than You [VIDEO] European politicians should be happy today. The Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act barely breathing (some would say they’re d…
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Samsung Super Bowl Ad Going for Apple Tackle [VIDEO] Samsung, which tweaked Apple fanboys and iPhone-mania with a well-received ad last November, will go after the tech behemoth again in an upcoming Su…
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SOPA Is Dead: Smith Pulls Bill Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, said on Friday that he is pulling the bill “until there is wider agreement on a solution.” &…
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Apple’s Hidden Museum Reveals Clashes in the Jobs Interregnum The period between when Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985 and the company’s eventual decline forced it to bring him back by buying his startu…
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