Mashable: Latest 29 News Updates - including “Nokia’s 41-Megapixel Phone May be Headed To The U.S.” |
- Nokia’s 41-Megapixel Phone May be Headed To The U.S.
- Manage Your Money, Get Deals at Your Favorite Stores with Budgetable
- L.A. Kings Are NHL’s Twitter Champions Too [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Tumblr To Launch iPhone App
- Tweet Bieber a Question, He Might Answer it on YouTube
- Happy 25th Birthday, .GIF: This Week’s Faves
- CBS Sketches ‘Draw Something’ TV Show
- Watch Triumph Go Paw-to-Toe With the World’s Meanest Hot Dog Seller
- How Much Battery Life Do Your Apps Zap? This Tool Will Check
- Meet the Daily Caller, Home of Obama Heckler Neil Munro
- Facebook CTO to Leave This Summer
- GoPollGo Puts Polls in Your Twitter Feed
- Shark Tank Collapse Pic Is Too Fishy to Be Real
- YouTube Adds Auto Captions in Spanish
- How Literary Agents Find Talent on Twitter
- Obama Takes on Heckling Reporter [VIDEO]
- MashTags: 25 Funniest #FailedTechBands
- Reach for the APPS Brings iPads to Children With Autism
- Ingenious iOS Game Aims for Success on Kickstarter
- 15 Developers Help Atari Re-Imagine ‘Pong’ [VIDEO]
- Vizio Dives Into PC Market With Sleek Laptops, All-In-Ones
- Half of Small Businesses Not Concerned About Security Breaches [INFOGRAPHIC]
- Smart Car Seat Alerts Parents of Danger [VIDEO]
- Facebook Confirms Testing ‘Call’ Button for Online Video Chats
- The Pros and Cons of 4 Personal Branding Sites
- Wiki Wars: The Ultimate Web Scavenger Hunt [VIDEO]
- 5 Lessons From Obama’s Twitter Town Hall
- Greece’s Social Media Users on the Euro: We Want Out
- Beauty Editorial Depicts Beat-Up Women, Sparks Outrage
- 5 Ways Brands Can Shine on Viddy
| Nokia’s 41-Megapixel Phone May be Headed To The U.S. Posted: 15 Jun 2012 09:19 PM PDT    
Announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, the phone combines a high-resolution sensor with Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia-developed algorithms to create a smartphone camera like no other out there. While the 41-megapixel number certainly sounds impressive, what's really fantastic about the Nokia PureView 808 is what it does with those pixels. The 808 uses a new pixel oversampling technology that captures seven pixels of information, and then condenses all seven into one single pixel. The result is an exceptionally sharp 5-megapixel pictu…
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| Manage Your Money, Get Deals at Your Favorite Stores with Budgetable Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:26 PM PDT 
Quick Pitch: Budgetable gives you deals for the stores you shop at most. Genius Idea: A free tool that helps you save at your favorite stores, manage your money and see which purchases you're wasting money on. Are you tired of receiving deals for stores that you don't even shop at? Budgetable, a free money management tool, offers you personalized deals from only your favorite stores. By connecting to your credit and debit cards, the site detects which… More About: bizspark
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| L.A. Kings Are NHL’s Twitter Champions Too [INFOGRAPHIC] Posted: 15 Jun 2012 07:32 PM PDT 
Over the course of the playoffs the Kings were mentioned in 1.4 million tweets. Which team had the second-most mentions? The Boston Bruins, at a lowly 830,000. There's a pretty simple lesson here: Combine the most improbable playoff run in NHL history with a departure from pro sports teams' typically staid social media approach to dominate the digital conversation. A first round tweet from the official @LAKings account -- reading, "To everyone in Can… More About: infographics, sports, Twitter
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| Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:37 PM PDT 
While Tumblr currently has an iPhone app available, Karp made it sound as though the new version would be a complete overhaul of the product. Following in the footsteps of its current Android app, the Tumblr iOS app will offer a number of the features currently available on Tumblr, while customizing that experience specifically for a mobile environment. "I'm incredibly proud of our Android development today," Karp said at the event. "I think that app is worlds beyond a lot of the stuff going on on that platform today, and I think its an incredibl… More About: android, iphone, tumblr
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| Tweet Bieber a Question, He Might Answer it on YouTube Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:03 PM PDT 
Jimmy Fallon and Justin Bieber posted a video (above) on YouTube's blog on Friday asking fans to tweet Justin questions using the hashtag #AskJustin, or by visiting youtube.com/kidrauhl and clicking the "Ask Justin" tab. Tweet the questions before Bieber's album release date next Tuesday, June 19 and Fallon just may choose to ask Bieber one of those questions for an interview that will be live streamed on YouTube Presents on June 21 at 7:15 p.m. ET. YouTube users can also vote on which questions they like, in addition to submitting their own. As of this wr… More About: Beliebers Unite, jimmy fallon, justin bieber, YouTube
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| Happy 25th Birthday, .GIF: This Week’s Faves Posted: 15 Jun 2012 04:17 PM PDT 1. Cry Me a River Strange but beautiful. Click here to view this gallery. 
Despite the tech sector's ever-changing nature, the GIF file format has some serious staying power. On June 15, 1987, CompuService, the first major online commercial service in the U.S., introduced the graphics interchange format (GIF). According to a recent Daily Dot article, the first-ever GIF pictured an airplane. Now, 25 years later, the Internet still can't get enough of GIFs. In fact, an art gallery in London is currently featuring a project called "Born in 1987: The Animated GIF," which showcases more than 4… More About: features, GIF, memes, viral
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| CBS Sketches ‘Draw Something’ TV Show Posted: 15 Jun 2012 03:34 PM PDT 
Sony Pictures Television, Ryan Seacrest Productions and Embassy Row are developing a primetime version of the hit Zynga game. Teams made up of celebrities and regular users will play the game in front of a studio audience for cash and prizes. The show will also have a play-at-home element. Now, Variety reports that CBS has won a bidding war on the project. Although the network hasn't made any on-air commitments, it's expected to fast-track the project. Draw Something seems like a natural fit for television. Game show aficionados will remember the syndicated version of Pictionary -- as… More About: cbs, Draw something, game shows, social games, social tv, Zynga
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| Watch Triumph Go Paw-to-Toe With the World’s Meanest Hot Dog Seller Posted: 15 Jun 2012 02:55 PM PDT  Apparently there's a famous hot dog shop in Chicago where part of the charm is a verbally abusive staff that M-F's you while you try to order and invites you to dish the abuse right back. So what does onetime Mashable CEO and erstwhile late night host Conan O'Brien do? He sics 30 Rock star Jack McBrayer and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on the place. First, McBrayer goes in and the staff pretty much eats his lunch, so to speak. But when McBrayer returns with Triumph, the hilariously hateful hound lays the smack down in a major way. Words can't do the ensuing confrontation justice, so just trust us and press play. More About: conan o'brien, viral videos
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| How Much Battery Life Do Your Apps Zap? This Tool Will Check Posted: 15 Jun 2012 02:17 PM PDT  A group of UC Berkeley scientists has turned their research about battery life into a handy app that can extend yours. Carat, which is available for iOS and Android, measures your phone's energy use and suggests actions that will make it more efficient. It tells you which of your apps are using the most battery and which may have energy-hogging bugs that can be fixed by re-downloading them. Carat also tells you how your average battery life compares to that of other users. What is hogging battery life on your phone? Let us know in the comments. More About: App, Carat, UC Berkeley
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| Meet the Daily Caller, Home of Obama Heckler Neil Munro Posted: 15 Jun 2012 02:00 PM PDT  Neil Munro, White House correspondent at online news organization The Daily Caller, broke with protocol to interrupt President Obama during a Friday morning press briefing about immigration reform. A statement released by the Caller claimed Munro wasn't trying to heckle the president, but rather was trying to time his question to arrive at the end of Obama's remarks. SEE ALSO: Obama Takes on Heckling Reporter [VIDEO] But what, exactly, is The Daily Caller? We're glad you asked. The website was launched by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel in January of 2010. Patel formerly served as chief policy advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. Carlson is a journalist who formerly worked… More About: 2012 presidential campaign, barack obama, News, Politics, US
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| Facebook CTO to Leave This Summer Posted: 15 Jun 2012 01:45 PM PDT 
In a note posted to his Facebook page, Taylor said he was eager to begin work on another startup with his friend Kevin Gibbs, a senior staff software engineer at Google, on a yet-unnamed project. "I had always been upfront with Mark that I eventually wanted to do another startup," he said in an interview with AllThingsD's Kara Swisher, which was published at the same time as Taylor's Facebook note. "And we felt it was the best time after the IPO and the launch of some recent things for me to do that." Taylor has overseen Facebook's platform and mobil… More About: bret taylor, Facebook
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| GoPollGo Puts Polls in Your Twitter Feed Posted: 15 Jun 2012 01:26 PM PDT  Startup GoPollGo has become the first polling company to integrate with Twitter's newly launched expanded tweets feature. Now entire polls can be viewed in the details of Tweets. "Before, you tweeted out a question and didn't have space for all possible options," Ben Schaechter, founder of GoPollGo, tells Mashable. Now, "GoPollGo will give users a preview of all the options." Seeing those options have increased clicks to companies' polls hosted on GoPollGo. "The people who are running the polls typically see three-to-four more times engagement," Schaechter said. The startup's clients include ESPN, AppleInsider, The Weather Channel and Hotels.com. Schaechter highlights the… More About: analytics, GoPollGo, Twitter
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| Shark Tank Collapse Pic Is Too Fishy to Be Real Posted: 15 Jun 2012 01:05 PM PDT  A jaw-dropping photo of a "collapsed shark tank in Kuwait" has been virally circling the web for the past 24 hours. Normally the fear of sharks doesn't leave the beach, but in this case, Internet users might believe that a shark attack could happen anywhere. Fortunately, the photo is not real. SEE ALSO: 15 Photoshopped Transformations of Celebs and Models In fact, the photoshopped picture is not in Kuwait at all, it's in Toronto. According to Globe and Mail, the flooded shopping center is real, however there were no sharks at the original scene. Update: Jamie King, who photoshopped the sharks into the image, has also confirmed that it's a fake. @christerickson The sha… More About: image, Photoshop, pics, trending, viral
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| YouTube Adds Auto Captions in Spanish Posted: 15 Jun 2012 12:45 PM PDT  Want to watch a YouTube video in Spanish, but don't speak the language? The company has rolled out automatic captions in Spanish with the ability to translate the subtitles to about 50 languages, from English and French to Arabic and Afrikaans. Adding to its existing lineup of automatic captions in various languages including English, Korean and Japanese, YouTube announced on Friday that its voice-recognition software now supports a fourth language, Spanish. The auto-captions feature, which was first added in 2006, aims to make the site more accessible for everyone, including the hearing impaired. SEE ALSO: YouTube Improves its Automatic Captions [VIDEO] Here's how the auto-cap… More About: Google, Video, videos, YouTube
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| How Literary Agents Find Talent on Twitter Posted: 15 Jun 2012 12:36 PM PDT 
"An otter was following me on Twitter," recalls agent Brooks Sherman with FinePrint Literary Management. The otter was a character whose Twitter account was managed by a British illustrator. Sherman's interest spiked when the character, appropriately named Otter, unfollowed him. He decided to view the illustrator's profile, and was impressed by his several thousand Twitter followers, some of whom were notable illustrators, and even more impressed after viewing the man's online portfolio. Sherman found the author's e-mail address and contacted him. "The other day an otter started following me on Twitter and I did nothing of it than remark on the oddity," he wrote. "Sad… More About: contributor, features, Marketing, trending, Twitter
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| Obama Takes on Heckling Reporter [VIDEO] Posted: 15 Jun 2012 12:14 PM PDT 
"It is the right thing to do," insisted the president after the reporter's interruption. "Excuse me sir, it's not time for questions sir. Not while I'm speaking." "And the answer to your question, sir, and the next time I prefer you let me finish my statements before you ask that question, is this is the right thing to do for the American people," added Obama at the end of his prepared remarks. "I didn't ask for an argument, I'm answering your question," he said, after the reporter tried to engage the president in a debate.… More About: 2012 presidential campaign, barack obama, Politics, trending, US, Video, viral, YouTube
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| MashTags: 25 Funniest #FailedTechBands Posted: 15 Jun 2012 12:04 PM PDT 1. @JeffreyCampbell
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More About: comedy, Entertainment, hashtags, humor, Music, Tech, Twitter
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| Reach for the APPS Brings iPads to Children With Autism Posted: 15 Jun 2012 11:47 AM PDT  Does Apple's freshly announced iOS 6 have you hankering for an upgrade? Instead of letting your old iPad collect dust on the shelf, you might consider donating it to Reach for the APPs. Reach for the APPs, a non-profit organization that launches today, is partnering with school districts nationwide to provide children on the autistim spectrum with access to iPads. Apple has long touted its device's assistive technology as a powerful tool for the educational development of physically and mentally disabled children. The iPad's touch screen makes it easier to manipulate than more traditional educational tools. For children with autism, "the iPad is not a toy, but a tool that work… More About: apple, autism, charity, donation, ipad, non-profit, reach for the apps
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| Ingenious iOS Game Aims for Success on Kickstarter Posted: 15 Jun 2012 11:36 AM PDT 
This is how the team describes the game: In Bumpin' Uglies, players design their own Ugly, a hapless, adorably ugly little creature with the intellect of a block of wood, and fling it head first into the gene pool. Players use skill, logic and luck to navigate their Ugly through worlds of quizzical physics-based puzzles, all so that they can "bump" with the Uglies at the other end of those worlds. When they do, magical things happen and they get a gaggle of little Bumplings that blend their Ugly's physical traits… More About: Bumpin' Uglies, indie games, indiegogo, iOS games, kickstarter, trending
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| 15 Developers Help Atari Re-Imagine ‘Pong’ [VIDEO] Posted: 15 Jun 2012 11:20 AM PDT 1. Mad Ruse - Pong TournamentCandidate: Mad Ruse Game Name: Pong Tournament Description The object of the game is to steal energy to buy defensive upgrades and special abilities. Energy is stolen by breaking through your opponent's defenses and blocking attacks. Click here to view this gallery. 
As part of Atari's Indie Developers Challenge, game devs are thinking of creative ways to reinvent the two-paddles-and-a-ball mechanic that was the grandfather to today arcades and consoles. Out of 87 that entered, 15 finalists have been chosen to try and recreate Pong for iOS devices. The developers were tasked with also making trailers for their games, which you can view in the gallery above. Along with competing for glory and a chance to win up to $100,000, they'll have the opportunity to score a publishi… More About: atari, Entertainment, Gaming, pong, Video
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| Vizio Dives Into PC Market With Sleek Laptops, All-In-Ones Posted: 15 Jun 2012 11:04 AM PDT  Vizio just jumped into the PC market in a big way. As it had promised, the TV manufacturer officially launched its line of Windows machines: a laptop, an all-in-one desktop model and an ultra-thin notebook. And they all sport the silver finish and beautiful modern lines that are the big design trend in laptops today. Vizio says it applied its experience with TVs to the screens on these machines, giving them the best contrast and viewing angles it possibly could. Almost all of them sport full-HD monitors with 1,920 x 1,080 resolution (the one exception is the smaller "Thin+Light" laptop, whose 14-inch screen is 1,600 x 900). While that's no Retina display, full HD is more than enoug… More About: All-in-One, intel, laptops, trending, Ultrabooks, vizio
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| Half of Small Businesses Not Concerned About Security Breaches [INFOGRAPHIC] Posted: 15 Jun 2012 10:52 AM PDT 
On the heels of the news that nearly 1.5 million passwords were compromised from LinkedIn and eHarmony, information security firm Shred-It released an infographic that looks at how companies view both paper and electronic data breaches. Shred-It conducted a survey among 1,136 U.S. small business owners with companies of fewer than 100 employees, and 100 corporate-level executives who work for companies with a minimum of 500 employees. It's import… More About: linkedin, security
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| Smart Car Seat Alerts Parents of Danger [VIDEO] Posted: 15 Jun 2012 10:51 AM PDT  Keeping babies and toddlers safe is a top priority for driving parents. TOMY International is unveiling a new car seat that will send cellphone alerts when the car seat is installed improperly, if the child becomes unbuckled and when a child is accidentally left behind. The smartphone-connected car seat is called The First Years Convertible Car Seat with iAlert. It's designed to help parents avoid auto-related disasters that claim the lives of thousands of children every year. From within the downloadable app, parents can see if the car seat is placed at optimal angles. A "check seatbelt" warning will flash if a child is unbuckled while the car… More About: android, application, iphone, parents
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| Facebook Confirms Testing ‘Call’ Button for Online Video Chats Posted: 15 Jun 2012 09:47 AM PDT  Facebook is reminding users how to make video calls via the social network by testing a "Call" button on member Timeline pages. The button, which was first spotted by TechCrunch, is located next to the "Message" option on Facebook Timeline's layout. The "Chat" button would replace the subtle video-camera icon now used to start an online video chat. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to Mashable that the button is only a test, so it's unknown at this time if it will become a permanent part of Timeline. In the meantime, some members using a desktop version of Facebook will be able to test the feature. Although Facebook partnered with popular online chat service Skype nearly a year… More About: Airtime, Facebook, Google, Google Hangouts, Skype, trending
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| The Pros and Cons of 4 Personal Branding Sites Posted: 15 Jun 2012 09:34 AM PDT 
Here are four top personal branding sites and the pros and cons to each. 1. About.Me More About: brands, contributor, features, trending
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| Wiki Wars: The Ultimate Web Scavenger Hunt [VIDEO] Posted: 15 Jun 2012 09:34 AM PDT 
SEE ALSO: Hit Tumblr Mocks Wikipedia's Most Ridiculous Claims The Gregory Brothers, famous for autotuning the news and introducing the world to Antoine Dodson's "Bed Intruder Song," have made a scavenger hunt out of Wikipedia's vastness. "WikiWars," as they call it, require the participants to begin on one specific topic page, then only use links within the article to get to the final designated topic page. For e… More About: viral, viral videos, wikipedia, YouTube
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| 5 Lessons From Obama’s Twitter Town Hall Posted: 15 Jun 2012 09:16 AM PDT 
Twitter town halls have become a popular campaign tool during this presidential election season. That's why campaign strategist David Axelrod followed President Barack Obama's economic speech in Ohio yesterday with a power-packed Q&A, sending 28 tweets and re-tweets through the @BarackObama account in as many minutes. Certainly, an endless stream of presidential and congressional candidates have tried their own variations of this medium, but Axelrod's was the most effective execution to date. Here's why. 1. Created a Controlled Venue More About: barack obama, contributor, features, Social Media, Twitter
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| Greece’s Social Media Users on the Euro: We Want Out Posted: 15 Jun 2012 09:01 AM PDT 
Official opinion polls are banned for two weeks leading up to elections in Greece, but unofficial polls indicate a rising support for pro-bailout parties. However, social media-using Greeks say just the opposite. Social media analysis firm Crimson Hexagon looked at almost 33,000 opinions posted by Greeks on Facebook and Twitter about the elections, bailouts and the Euro in general from May… More About: economics, elections, Euro, europe, eurozone, Facebook, greece, Social Media, Twitter, World
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| Beauty Editorial Depicts Beat-Up Women, Sparks Outrage Posted: 15 Jun 2012 09:01 AM PDT  An online magazine editorial, portraying female victims of violence, is receiving a huge backlash on the Internet. Online Bulgarian magazine 12's latest beauty editorial called Victim of Beauty shows photos of models with a black eye, slit throat, severe burn and torn flesh. In Bulgarian -- a warning for the online photo spread translates: "Recommended Parental Controls: pictures are not recommended for persons under 16 years. And for the faint hearted." The editorial was shot by photographer Vasil Germanov. Makeup on the six models was by Daniela Avramova. Angry viewers are taking to the website's comment section, Twitter and other outlets to voice their dismay with magazine.… More About: magazine, Social Media, Twitter, viral, women
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| 5 Ways Brands Can Shine on Viddy Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:46 AM PDT 
Viddy is the popular video app that is often called the Twitter equivalent for sharing video because of the 15-second time limit placed on each video. The app has quickly grown to 30 million users, which presents an opportunity for brands to interact with a new audience by utilizing a familiar form of media in an innovative way. There are many brands utilizing the Viddy platform using a variety of strategies. Here are a few of the best methods that will help to gain more followers, bolster engagement, and utilize your video content to its fullest. 1. Offer a Behind-the-Scenes Look Getting a look at the inner workings of a company, brand, or celebrity is one of the many del… More About: brands, contributor, features, Marketing, viddy
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