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Opera Mini 5 Beta Comes to Android
Opera Mini 5 Beta was first introduced about 5 months ago, but owners of Android-based smartphones had to wait until now to get their hands on Opera’s nifty mobile browser.This version is nearl...
Revamped Foursquare for iPhone Hits the App Store
Last week, an App Store error got the latest version of Foursquare for the iPhone into a few users hands a little bit early.That hiccup resulted in the app briefly disappearing from the App Store bef...
Share Your Latest Purchases With Scordit
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details he...
The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]
A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that most of its users...
15 Famous Tech Titans Hit Forbes? Billionaire List
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires and when it comes to technology, the list includes many of the same faces we see year after year.After regaining the throne last ...
Twitter?s Website Now Attaches Location to Tweets [PICS]
Twitter has just flipped the switch on geolocation within Twitter.com. Now at least some users can pull up location-based information from individual tweets on the microblogging website.While attach...
Sony Answers Wii Remote With PlayStation Move
Sony has named its forthcoming PlayStation 3 motion controller “PlayStation Move.” The controller is Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s Wii Remote and Microsoft’s Project Natal...
Google Reader Play Transforms Feeds into Entertainment Experience
Google has just released an alternative player for Google Reader that gives those with a penchant for browsing news the ability to do so in an image-heavy, TV-like fashion.Dubbed Google Reader Play, ...
Brizzly Launches a Guide to Twitter Trends and iPhone App
Web-based Twitter client Brizzly has three major developments to report: a new free iPhone app, a new Brizzly Guide (which gives trending topics on Twitter their own hub pages as permanent resources ...
Google Apps Marketplace: 6 Great Apps to Try Now
Last night at its Campfire One event, Google officially launched the Google Apps Marketplace. The Google Apps Marketplace offers third-party developers and services a way to integrate directly with t...
Moms And Social Media
There was a really interesting study last year by BabyCenter, an online community for expectant and new moms. The study called ?21st Century Mom? found that new mothers gravitate to social media site...
Measuring Your Social Media Efforts
I have to say I was not surprised to read that according to a survey by Mzinga and Babson Executive Education, that less than one in five marketers measured their ROI from their social media marketin...
A Successful Facebook Marketing Campaign
I received some interesting data today from Dessert Gallery (DG), a Houston-based cafe chain about their recent Facebook fan page campaign. Utpal Dholakia, associate professor of management at Rice U...
A Look At Twitter Demographics
I came across this interesting chart from Michael Brito this morning that shows the demographic breakdown of Twitter users by age. Interestingly the fastest growing segment on Twitter (other than bo...
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