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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Should Spotify Users Be Required to Have Facebook Accounts? [POLL]
Monday, September 26, 2011 11:32 PM
Spotify has come under a lot of fire for a recent decision to force users to use Facebook to sign up for its streaming music service. The change, made not long after Facebook's f8 developer conference on Thursday, removes the option of signing up...



Sports Illustrated Puts Football Rivals on the iPhone and iPad
Monday, September 26, 2011 11:16 PM
Sports Illustrated continues its push into digital arenas that extend beyond the print publication. The company's latest iOS app, Sports Illustrated Football Rivals for iPhone [iTunes link] and iPad [iTunes link] successfully merges the robust...



Water Balloon + Face + Slow-Motion Camera = Art [VIDEO]
Monday, September 26, 2011 10:27 PM
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Summer may be over, but it's always the season for water balloon fights. Especially when those water balloons don't pop -- and are captured in super...



4 Key Considerations for Scaling Your Database
Monday, September 26, 2011 10:05 PM
Razi Sharir is the CEO of Xeround - The Cloud Database Company - that provides an elastic database-as-a-service for MySQL applications. Scalability is one of the biggest buzzwords around the cloud ecosystem. Scalability of the database tier,...



Now You Can Share Your Google+ Circles With Others
Monday, September 26, 2011 9:35 PM
Google has rolled out a new feature for Google+ that lets users share the circles they've curated with their friends. "Starting today, you can actually share your favorite circles with others," Google+ engineer Owen Prater said on Google+. "So if...



Facebook Forms A Social Network PAC
Monday, September 26, 2011 8:45 PM
Facebook filed paperwork Monday to form a political action committee, FB PAC, which will advocate for social networks to U.S. politicians. The PAC, supported by company contributions, plans to back candidates in future elections. "FB PAC will...



Is the Era of Music Video Games Really Over?
Monday, September 26, 2011 8:08 PM
Scott Steinberg is the author of the new book Music Games Rock (100% free to download online). He is a noted technology expert, the CEO of high-tech consulting firm TechSavvy Global, and a frequent keynote speaker and media analyst for ABC, CBS...



Amazon's Tablet: The iPad's Biggest Threat
Monday, September 26, 2011 6:55 PM
Amazon's tablet, reportedly named the Kindle Fire, could be the first Android device to effectively challenge Apple's iPad. Or it could end up as just another over-hyped, under-performing tablet steamrolled by the Apple juggernaut. With less...



6 Indie Games We Can't Wait to Play
Monday, September 26, 2011 6:30 PM
As we approach fall and the holiday season, game companies will release many attractive big-name titles. But while you're deciding between the latest incarnations of Gears of War, Modern Warfare and Madden, don't forget that the best surprises...



Android Outnumbered iPhone 2 to 1 in Summer Sales [STUDY]
Monday, September 26, 2011 5:48 PM
The delay in Apple's usual summer iPhone rollout has been good for Android: Google's mobile OS has outsold Apple's iOS two to one in the last three months, finds Nielsen. Fifty-six percent of smartphones sold since June have been Android. That...



Facebook to Launch iPad App at Apple's iPhone 5 Event [EXCLUSIVE]
Monday, September 26, 2011 5:31 PM
Facebook will launch its long-awaited iPad app at Apple's iPhone 5 launch event on Oct. 4, Mashable has learned. In addition to the iPad app, Facebook is also expected to release a revamped version of its iPhone app and may unveil an HTML5-based...



Google Veteran Asks Obama to Raise His Taxes
Monday, September 26, 2011 4:44 PM
Doug Edwards' greatest claim to fame is that he was Google employee number 59, and the author of a memoir called I'm Feeling Lucky. He retired from the Silicon Valley search giant in 2005, shortly after its IPO, with a significant amount of...



President Obama Talks Jobs at LinkedIn Town Hall [PICS]
Monday, September 26, 2011 4:16 PM
President Obama talked about his plan to restart economic growth, cut the deficit and get Americans back to work at a LinkedIn town hall Monday. Obama spoke and answered questions at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. During the...



Twacked: When Twitter Accounts Go Bad [INFOGRAPHIC]
Monday, September 26, 2011 4:15 PM
Twitter's biggest users are no strangers to hackers. Whether due to malicious email attachments or weak passwords, everyone from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama to Ellen DeGeneres has been a target. Having your account hacked is invariably...



Google+ Has 43 Million Users, Up 30% Since Opening Publicly [REPORT]
Monday, September 26, 2011 3:52 PM
Facebook may have grabbed most of the headlines last week -- but at the same time, behind the scenes, young and scrappy rival social network Google+ was grabbing a record number of new users. According to a post by Paul Allen, Ancestry.com...



 
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