| Developers: Microsoft Wants to Put Your App in a TV Ad | | Microsoft unveiled a neat contest for developers, giving them a chance to have their app featured in a Windows Phone television ad. The contest, which officially started Monday, is called Windows Phone Next App Star, and is open to Windows Phone developers worldwide. Participation is easy: Just have a killer app, and you'll get a chance to be featured in a primetime TV ad in the U.S.
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| Watch This Touchscreen Transform Into a Physical Keyboard | | For tablet- and smartphone-owners who love their touchscreens but occasionally yearn for the tactile feel of a physical keyboard, Fremont, Calif.-based company Tactus has unveiled new technology that unites both features on one gadget. It developed a tactile user interface for touchscreen devices: transparent physical buttons that emerge from a tablet or smartphone's surface on demand.
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| Whale-Shaped iPhone Case Is Surprisingly Functional | | When it comes to designing a functional iPhone case, whales don't typically come to mind. With their wide bodies and protruding fins, it makes more sense for the ocean-dwelling mammal to stay under water than in your hand. But that didn't stop designer Seyook Lee from creating the iWhale, a case that "mimics the silhouette of a whale coming to the water's surface to breathe," according to Yanko Design.
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| Why You Can't Cry in Space | | Feustel and fellow astronaut Mike Fincke had just finished running power cables from the U.S. side of the International Space Station to the Russian, and — at the EVA's five-hour mark — some anti-fogging solution from the inside of Feustel's helmet had begun to flake. One of those flakes, swirling in the modified snow globe that is a spacesuit helmet, ended up in precisely the place you wouldn't want it to.
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| RIM Adds 15,000 BlackBerry 10 Apps in a Weekend | | One of the biggest struggles RIM will likely have with the release of BlackBerry 10 is on the app front. In preparation for the operating system's debut, the company held a Port-A-Thon this past weekend. The 36-hour event let developers port over their existing apps to the BlackBerry 10 platform, and earn cash -– and developer devices -– in the process. Starting at 12 p.m.
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| Internet Is First Stop for Many Ill People, Study Finds | | When you're sick or have a health concern, is the Internet the first place you turn to for information? A new study shows the web is just a starting place for finding health information — most people still see a doctor for serious concerns. In a Pew study released today, 35% of U.S. adults say they've used the Internet to diagnose themselves or someone else.
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| Spreecast Is Betting on the Rise of Online Live Video | | Monday, January 14, 2013 10:59 PM | Dani Fankhauser |
| The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Spreecast One-Liner Pitch: A live online video platform that lets entertainers interact with fans. Why It's Taking Off: Spreecast boasts a stronger feature set than similar apps and it serves the unique needs of the entertainment industry.
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| Want $20,000 in Student Debt Relief? Craft a Very Creative Tweet | | Monday, January 14, 2013 8:27 PM | Zoe Fox |
| The average graduate of a four-year university leaves school with $26,600 in student debt, according to the Project on Student Debt. In an effort to fight the growing debt trend, MassMutual launched "Down With Debt" on Monday, a Facebook campaign that will relieve one lucky young adult of some loan burden — while teaching all fans some important financial planning tips.
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| How an Ad Agency Used a 'LinkedIn Bomb' to Land a New Client | | Monday, January 14, 2013 8:01 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| As everyone who watches Mad Men knows, the ad business is tough. Winning over new clients is particularly challenging. But a Lexington, Ky., ad agency used a tool that didn't exist in Don Draper's day — LinkedIn — to grab the attention of a potential client in a way that would have made Draper smile, or at least smirk.
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| DARPA Eyes Pop-Up Deep Sea Sensors | | Monday, January 14, 2013 6:23 PM | Nextgov |
| In a proposal almost as fanciful as the fictional 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off a research project last Friday to develop sensor systems that could be placed miles below the surface of the ocean and activated when needed by a remote command.
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| Hacker Olympics Draws Top Students to Silicon Valley | | Monday, January 14, 2013 6:00 PM | Fran Berkman |
| Imagine a place where computer nerds are revered like jocks and rockstars. That was San Francisco this past weekend. A carefully selected group of 100 college students flocked to the Bay Area to powwow with veterans of the famed tech startup scene.
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| Another Sign Microsoft Surface Is Struggling | | Monday, January 14, 2013 5:47 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The Surface was supposed to be Microsoft's real answer to the iPad — a Windows-based tablet that would satisfy both casual users and digital workers. Now it looks like it's appealing to neither. UBS analyst Brent Thill estimates Microsoft has sold only 1 million Surface RT tablets, reported by Business Insider. He had previously estimated 2 million.
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| Listen to the Most Epic Musical Comebacks of All Time | | Monday, January 14, 2013 5:42 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| "Weekend Update" veterans Tina Fey and Amy Poehler anchored a show together over the weekend. No one can stop talking about the new albums forthcoming from Destiny's Child and Justin Timberlake. But, no, we haven't gone back in time to 2005. It just happened to be a very busy week for artists looking to make a comeback. We premiered last week "Nuclear," the first single from Destiny's Child in seven years.
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| 22-Year-Old's Sci-Fi Digital Short Gets Hollywood's Attention | | Monday, January 14, 2013 3:07 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Science fiction movies are among the hardest and most expensive films to make in Hollywood. You need a big budget and a lot of people working on it. But not if you're Kaleb Lechowski. The 22-year-old German who studies digital film design made his own animated Hollywood-style sci-fi short — and now he's headed to Hollywood.
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| Apple Drops Below $500 on Reports of Weak iPhone 5 Demand | | Monday, January 14, 2013 10:08 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Apple's stock briefly dipped below $500 a share on Monday for the first time this year, falling as low as $498 a share, a decline of more than three percent from Friday's closing price of $520.30. The stock's decline comes after reports in The Wall Street Journal and Reuters suggested demand for the latest iPhone has been lower than expected.
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