| Google Chromebooks Coming to Six New Countries | | Google's Chromebooks from HP, Acer and Samsung will become available in six new countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Ireland and the Netherlands, Google has announced. The rollout, which will start Tuesday, will also include Chromebooks for schools and businesses. Google will organize a Hangout for each new country the Chromebooks are available in, explaining how Chromebooks can be used in education.
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| 'Paperman' Parody Shows Uncut NSFW Ending of Disney Short | | By now, most of us have seen and fallen in love with Paperman, the Oscar-winning Disney short that captured our hearts after going viral. The story is classic: Boy meets girl; boy loses girl; boy reunites with girl; then, romance ensues. The ending, however, is a little more ambiguous, as viewers are left to imagine exactly what happens after boy and girl get together.
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| Gmail App for Android Update Helps You Search and Reply Faster | | Gmail unveiled an update to its Android app Monday, enabling users to reply, archive and search messages more efficiently. Those who own a device running Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and up, can now reply and archive messages straight from their notifications by making a quick selection. In a blog post, Google software engineer Andy Huang includes an example of the update, seen below.
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| Repix Gives Your iPhone Photos a Fantastic New Look | | Tired of using Instagram to spruce up your smartphone photos? Meet Repix, a free iOS app that lets you remix your snapshots by "painting" on them using different preset brushes. The app comes with a number of free built-in brushes, including a "Cartoonize" brush for turning your photo into a cartoon and a "Charcoal" brush for making it a drawing.
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| 10 Personal Finance Experts to Follow on Twitter | | Monday, March 18, 2013 11:58 PM | The Daily Muse |
| When it comes to your personal finance, turns our there are some pretty awesome experts out there, specializing in everything from investing advice to living on a budget. If you’re looking for a constant stream of wise money posts, check our some of these finance feeds on Twitter. 1.
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| Verizon Awards $100,000 to Schools for STEM App Designs | | Monday, March 18, 2013 10:58 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Ten teams of middle and high school students across the United States won Verizon's National Innovative App Challenge on Monday, each receiving the opportunity to develop their own mobile apps and a $10,000 prize to further STEM education in their respective classroom. The challenge prompted students to address a social issue in their community.
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| I, for One, Welcome Our Google Glass-Wearing Cyborg Overlords | | Monday, March 18, 2013 9:08 PM | Chris Taylor |
| You may have noticed the Google Glass backlash is well underway. Once we were thrilled by the promise of the eye-level connected screen and camera technology; once we poked satirical fun at it. But no more. Now, it seems, we've reached the stage of being threatened by it.
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| Funny or Die to Release Steve Jobs Spoof Movie | | Monday, March 18, 2013 9:00 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Comedy website Funny or Die says they will release a spoof biopic movie about Steve Jobs online next month starring Justin Long, according to a report from the 'New York Times.'
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| BlackBerry Rocks Out Again to Celebrate the Z10 Launch | | Monday, March 18, 2013 8:38 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| If you were waiting for a sequel to BlackBerry's in-house band's rendition of "Keep on Loving You," this is your lucky day. The pretend band is back together for this rendition of Etta James' "At Last." Don't tune out early though, because things take a rockin' turn about midway through.
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| New Theft Tracker Is Like LoJack and OnStar for Your Bike | | Monday, March 18, 2013 7:17 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If you've ever had your bicycle stolen, you're probably familiar with the frustration of losing your two-wheeled mode of transport. A Chicago-based startup is addressing that pain point with a gadget that alerts your smartphone when your bike is tampered with and makes it easy to notify the police.
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| Facebook Updates iOS App With Cover Photo Control | | Monday, March 18, 2013 7:02 PM | Christina Warren |
| Facebook released version 5.6 of its iOS app Monday, giving users the ability to update their profile cover photo on the go. Users can now update their cover photo on the iPhone with a tap of their finger. Simply tap on the cover photo in profile view and you can choose to view your cover photo, choose a new photo from your photo library or take a new photo.
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| 12-Year-Old Makes Case for Marriage Equality in Inspiring Letter | | Monday, March 18, 2013 6:51 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Twelve-year-old Daniel Martinez-Leffew is hoping a similarity between his family and the family of Chief Justice John Roberts will help bring support to LGBT rights. When Daniel discovered the chief justice had previously adopted two children, he realized Roberts might have a soft spot for other adoption stories — namely, his own.
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| Mashable Rocking SXSW 2013: A Tent, a Party and a Grumpy Cat | | Monday, March 18, 2013 6:12 PM | Casey Brown |
| Mashable had an amazing South by Southwest this year. Lines wrapped around the block for Mashable House and a diverse crowd from the interactive community partied together at MashBash. We loved interacting with the community in Austin, and reading what you had to say using the #MashSXSW hashtag on Twitter and Instagram.
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| Social Media Sites Imagined as Party Goers | | Monday, March 18, 2013 5:39 PM | Neha Prakash |
| In today's ultra-connected world where the Internet is your bestest (and only) real friend, it makes sense to party it down with your favorite social media sites. While a roaring shindig with Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube and Reddit sounds like the soiree of the century, it turns out these social media sites have pretty irritating human personalities. At least according to this Cracked video.
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| Ryan Seacrest Test Drives 'Draw Something 2' | | Monday, March 18, 2013 5:34 PM | Emily Price |
| It looks like a new version of Draw Something is on the way. Ryan Seacrest tweeted an image of the game Monday morning along with the message, “I somehow convinced them to give me #DrawSomething2 first” and a drawing of American Idol judges Randy Jackson and Mariah Carey.
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| Can Content Marketing Save Journalism? | | Monday, March 18, 2013 5:07 PM | Sam Slaughter |
| The buzz is whether brand-sponsored content is ruining publishing. But what if publishers could take control of the trend?
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| EA CEO John Riccitiello Resigns | | Monday, March 18, 2013 4:51 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Electronic Art's Chief Executive Officer John Riccitiello will step down at the end of the month, according to a release EA sent to investors Monday afternoon. Riccitiello will also leave his post on the board of directors March 30. The board has promoted Larry Probst to executive chairman while the company looks for a new CEO, the release said.
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| T-Mobile Sends Invites for Mysterious Event | | Monday, March 18, 2013 4:49 PM | Pete Pachal |
| T-Mobile sent invitations to the press Monday for an "exclusive" event to be held next week. Although it didn't elaborate on details, it appears to be about the company's future after the wireless provider officially merges with MetroPCS. The invitations didn't say what the event is about, although the attached image had the following tagline: "We're still a wireless company.
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| Let Government Scientists Tweet More, Report Says | | Monday, March 18, 2013 4:38 PM | Nextgov |
| Many federal agencies are still failing to give government scientists adequate freedom to communicate their research and findings with the public, according to a new report by a scientific advocacy group. A report released Friday by The Center for Science and Democracy gave many federal agencies mixed grades for their media and social media policies.
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| NHL Upsets This Week's Social TV Rankings | | Monday, March 18, 2013 4:31 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| This was a week of upsets in social TV, as a few programs generated unusually high buzz that placed them at the top of the rankings. This week's Bruins-Penguins matchup made the NHL the most popular broadcast program on social media, a spot the NBA usually dominates. SEE ALSO: Top 25 Most Popular Celebrities on Chinese Social Media A&E program The First 48 saw a remarkable jump due to a flurry of Facebook activity.
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| Supreme Court Refuses to Hear $220k Music Piracy Case | | Monday, March 18, 2013 4:25 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Jammie Thomas-Rasset won't have her day in court at the highest judicial authority in the United States. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of the famous music pirate who was sentenced to pay $220,000 for downloading 24 songs with the now-defunct file-sharing software Kazaa.
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| Will Killing Google Reader Increase Global Censorship? | | Monday, March 18, 2013 4:15 PM | Chris Taylor |
| After Google unceremoniously announced it would be killing Reader later this year, much of the outraged response focused on its use in the U.S. But there's a whole other aspect to the service: for thousands of users around the world, it's one of the few ways they can get around their country's censors. A "save Google Reader" petition hosted by Change.org has received 125,000 signatures so far.
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| 'Lil Bub & Friendz' Brings Internet Cat Celebrities to Big Screen | | Monday, March 18, 2013 4:01 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Small cat, big screen. Internet-famous kitty Lil Bub is about to go mainstream with her first film role. Lil Bub & Friendz, a documentary from VICE, explores the web's purrculiar cat fixation through the bugged-out eyes of Lil Bub. SEE ALSO: 15 Best Cat Memes Ever [MEOW] The film debuts next month at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. It also features Grumpy Cat, Nyan Cat, Keyboard Cat and non-cat, Scumbag Steve.
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| 'Washington Post' to Go Behind Metered Paywall This Summer | | Monday, March 18, 2013 3:41 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Following the success of the New York Times' metered paywall (among others), the Washington Post announced Monday that it will begin charging for full digital access to its website and mobile apps. Come summer, readers will have to buy a subscription to the 135-year-old news publication if they want to read more than 20 articles per month online.
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| 'Gears of War: Judgement' Can't Sustain Its Solid Franchise | | Monday, March 18, 2013 3:37 PM | Lauren Hockenson |
| Gears of War: Judgment has plenty riding on it. This is the first game in the groundbreaking third-person shooter’s franchise that is missing developer Epic Games' magnanimous former design director Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski. It's also the first to feature Epic studio People Can Fly at the helm, not to mention the first prequel in the dystopic Gears universe.
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