| Dear Today Show, Here's Why You Need to Know Social Media | | Friday, December 28, 2012 10:07 PM | Andrea Smith |
| It’s not OK to know nothing about social media or the Internet anymore. It’s especially not OK if you are an anchor for a major network TV news program. This happened after a segment about Randi Zuckerberg’s private family photo being shared publicly.
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| 3 Apple Computer Designs That You've Never Seen | | Friday, December 28, 2012 9:28 PM | Kenneth Rosen |
| Some Apple designs never made the cut. They weren't always the sleek, ubiquitous devices we see today. They went through years of trial and error, some of which are much more bizarre and beautiful than you'd think. Before Jony Ive, Hartmut Esslinger was the lead industrial designer -- an innovator and a creative whiz.
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| Facebook and One Direction Among Top Wikipedia Articles in 2012 | | Friday, December 28, 2012 8:53 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Facebook, One Direction and the Mayan apocalypse-that-wasn't were among the most visited English-language Wikipedia pages in 2012, according to a list complied by Swedish software engineer Johan Gunnarsson.
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| Control This Roach Via Twitter | | Friday, December 28, 2012 6:34 PM | Discovery News |
| Artist Brittany Ransom explores the co-evolution between the living and budding technological innovation in her latest project.
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| Kate Winslet Is Going Into Space | | Friday, December 28, 2012 5:44 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Kate Winslet scored a nice gift from new uncle Richard Branson: a $200,000 ticket to space on a Virgin Galactic flight. The Titanic star married Branson's nephew Ned RocknRoll (yes, that's his legal name) earlier this week in a secret ceremony in New York. However, the ticket wasn't a wedding gift, or anything to do with RocknRoll's official job title: Head of Marketing Promotion and Astronaut Experience at Virgin Galactic.
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| Twitter Fans Marvel at Stan Lee's 90th Birthday | | Friday, December 28, 2012 5:13 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| Comics icon Stan Lee celebrated his 90th birthday Friday, inspiring a flood of congratulations on Twitter, where he posts as @TheRealStanLee. Fans, celebrities, colleagues and even a few superheroes sent their love to Marvel Comics' "Generalissimo," and Lee's trademark catchphrase, "Excelsior," got the hashtag treatment.
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| Instagram Didn't Lose a Quarter of its Users, But it Is at Risk | | Friday, December 28, 2012 5:13 PM | Chris Taylor |
| You can tell you've really become a part of the national discourse when the New York Post writes a sensationalist story about you. That's what happened to Instagram Friday morning, when the Post seized on numbers from AppData that showed the photo-sharing service had lost a quarter of its daily active users in the week since its Terms of Service debacle.
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| In-Flight Broadband Is Set for Takeoff | | Friday, December 28, 2012 3:53 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Aircraft are one of the few unconnected sanctuaries left in our lives. Unless you shell out the cash for an often-unspectacular bit of airborne bandwidth, a flight typically promises at least a few hours' worth of uninterrupted time to read a great novel, take in a fine film or just sit in deep, relaxing thought.
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| 11 Must-Have Games and Accessories for Your New Xbox | | Friday, December 28, 2012 3:31 PM | Lauren Hockenson |
| You're the proud owner of a shiny new Xbox 360. With scores of classic games and plenty of add-ons, there are so many different options available that it can be overwhelming to choose what's right for you. And as a new gamer, it's even more difficult to feel like you're making an informed decision. SEE ALSO: Unwrapped a PS3? Start With These 10 Tips and Tools Well, worry no longer.
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| 5 Ways to Backup Your Hard Drive | | Friday, December 28, 2012 2:53 PM | Kate Freeman |
| That sleek new laptop or PC you received this Christmas, with all those programs and apps, needs more protection from crashes than just occasionally clicking "save." To ensure your programs and apps are salvageable in the event of a crash, you might want to consider taking an image of your hard drive or cloning it.
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| Israeli Lingerie Company Uses Facebook Poke for New Ad | | Friday, December 28, 2012 2:10 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| It has only been a week since Facebook released its Poke app, a competitor to Snapchat, but at least one company has already tried to put the app to use for marketing purposes. The ad agency Grey Group used Facebook Poke to film and distribute a short video advertisement for Delta, a lingerie company in Israel.
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| 5 Fun Ways to Learn a New Language | | Friday, December 28, 2012 1:41 PM | The Daily Muse |
| For many of us, the start of the new year is the time we often dust off our language dictionaries and workbooks and resolve to learn a new language. We conjure up dreams of communicating seamlessly with locals during our next trip and impressing our friends with newfound skills. But most of the time, as we get caught up in work and life, our plans get shelved along with our books.
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| Chuckle at the Best News Bloopers of 2012 | | Friday, December 28, 2012 1:04 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Local news provides the perfect breeding ground for epic bloopers. Toss in a tongue-tied anchor or oddball local and you end up with a serious outbreak of oopsie-itis.
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| It's Easy to Save Videos From Facebook Poke Permanently | | Friday, December 28, 2012 12:31 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Apps like Snapchat and Facebook Poke let users send short messages, photos or videos that automatically self-destruct after a few seconds. However, it's actually very easy for a recipient to save some of those messages permanently -- and without the sender knowing.
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| Smartphones Will Replace Your Car Keys by 2015 | | Friday, December 28, 2012 12:05 PM | Joann Pan |
| Smartphones are set to replace more than our wallets. South Korean Hyundai Motor Company predicts by 2015 drivers will be able to unlock car doors and start the engine with a swipe of a smartphone over an embedded near-field communication tag. But, that's not all your smartphone can do.
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| Facebook in 2013: More Growing Pains Ahead | | Friday, December 28, 2012 11:29 AM | Chris Taylor |
| We'll get to our Facebook predictions for 2013 in a minute. First, here's a pertinent prediction from 2011. In January of that year, when Goldman Sachs had just become an investor, Facebook could do no wrong. A financial analyst called Albert Babayev made what he felt was a conservative and sensible prediction about the social network's value, presuming it stopped skyrocketing.
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