Apparently, Amazon has been crunching its own internal data this week in order to tout the traction surrounding its various products. Only yesterday, the company was talking about numbers related to its Prime two-day delivery, and today it’s boasting about Kindle title downloads. The company now says that its Kindle-exclusive books have been downloaded over 100 million times, and the number of exc

The Samsung Galaxy S III Is Now Available In Brown, Red, Black And Grey Every once in a while a press release comes by that overflows with needless bullshit. Like this one from Samsung. The story is described in the headline above: The Galaxy S III is now available in several new colors. But that’s not good enough for a press release. Samsung just can’t say “Yo, the GSIII now comes in brown, red,

During the summer, my kids and their friends enjoy using technology for fun and games. But as the summer ends, it is time for me, and them, to get serious about a home technology setup that supports the dreaded "H" word: Homework. With the right environment, kids can more easily transition from the fun of summer to the rigors of school and put their technology to work. Here are the five main compo

SNAP Interactive is re-launching its Facebook-synced dating site AreYouInterested.com as a social discovery website as of Tuesday. AreYouInterested (both the site and the app) lets you sync your Facebook information to your profile and meet other people with similar interests -- no friending required. "Several months ago we saw a much bigger opportunity to redesign our product," Clifford Lerner, C

How do you make education interesting and, more importantly, beautiful? When it comes to the work of NASA, attracting enthusiasts isn't difficult with the usual visuals of bright stars and colorful planets on hand. Look no further than the recent awe over Mars rover Curiosity's high-res pictures to see proof of humanity's fascination with space. But not all of NASA's data is packaged into a neat l

8 Samsung Phones Apple Wants to Ban and Two Other Stories You Need to Know Apple Lists Eight Samsung Devices It Wants to Ban in the U.S. Apple has identified eight Samsung products it wants to ban from sale in the United States. The list is as follows: Galaxy S 4G, AT&T Galaxy S2, Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, Galaxy S2 T-Mobile, Galaxy S2 Epic 4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Droid Charge and Galaxy Prevail. Apple

By Jessica Bruder August 28, 2012 7:00 am August 28, 2012 7:00 am For new graduates, shifting from college to a full-time job can deliver a jolt of culture shock. That’s doubly true for those who join start-ups, where teams are small and newcomers are often expected to acclimate quickly, finding their way without much formal training. Enter Boston Startup School. Designed as a “finishing school” f

LG has unveiled its Optimus G, a powerful Android smartphone with LTE connectivity. The device has a 4.7-inch, 1280 x 768 pixel touchscreen, a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor, a 2,100 mAh battery, 2 GB of RAM and a 13-megapixel rear camera. An interesting thing about the screen is that it's exceptionally thin (the entire device is only 8.45 mm thick), and has a very small bezel, which might mean it us

Science-Backed ‘Baby Birchbox’ Wittlebee Makes Its First Acquisition: Cottonseed Clothing Wittlebee, a “Birchbox for babies” backed by LA’s Science incubator, is diving deeper into the products that form the core of its subscription-based kids’ clothes service: today it is announcing its first acquisition, the baby clothesmaker Cottonseed Clothing Company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The

Windows 8 changes a lot of things about how the operating system works, but one of the features Windows traditionalists will find jarring is the lack of a Start button. Although the button's functions are still present in various places, users may miss its easy click-and-start-typing familiarity. Well, Samsung's bringing it back. The all-in-one PCs Samsung unveiled this morning are the first Windo

Patent Case Aftermath: Samsung Down By $12B (And Still Slumping) While Apple, Nokia, RIM All Gain We still have to wait and see how the jury’s ruling against Samsung over Apple patents will play out for the company in terms of actual fines, injunctions — and crucially — future device design for the handset giant. But for now the markets have spoken. Share prices for Samsung Electronics fell by 7.5

With the growing use of smartphones, tablets and other gadgets, the Federal Aviation Administration is reassessing its rules around the use of portable electronics during flights. The FAA, a U.S. agency that governs aviation safety, announced Monday that it is forming a "government-industry group" to study current policies and procedures surrounding portable electronics, and whether they can be us

The pool of tutors available to teach high school and college-aged students just became a whole lot more accessible. Online tutoring site InstaEDU, which launched in public beta in May, announced new features to its site on Tuesday. Now students can schedule tutoring sessions in advance, including SAT prep courses. Previously, InstaEDU was kind of like a reliable Google search for homework questio

Twitter holds a special place in the hearts of many people. If you're one of them, why not show your love of the short-form social network with a terrific Twitter t-shirt?

'Wall Street Journal' Launches Hub for Mobile Video From Journalists It's called WSJ WorldStream, and it's a hub for mobile video shot via smartphone by the Journal's award-winning team of more than 2,000 journalists around the world. The platform launched Monday in conjunction with the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Every video posted to the page undergoes editorial review. Nothing

UPDATE: After receiving information from Mashable about an even older user on Facebook, the company has walked back its claim that Florence Detlor is the oldest registered user. Read our full story here. There are 955 million active users on Facebook -- and not all of them are in their teens or 20s. The fastest-growing demographic on the service, for at least the last two years, has been women ove

Bad news for Hootsuite, Tweetbot, Ecofon and a host of other third-party Twitter clients: your services are about to get a lot less free advertising. The social media giant, already accused of making life harder for such services, has quietly made another change: when browsing Twitter.com, you will no longer be able to see how each tweet was posted. The change already happened in Twitter's mobile

Twitter.com has stopped displaying the names of third-party Twitter clients in tweets. It’s an outward sign of the service’s growing pains as it transitions away from a consumer client free-for-all. Twitter.com — as well as Twitter mobile apps — used to display a tweet’s app of origin in small, linked letters below each tweet, down with a smattering of other metadata. Under a tweet from VentureBea

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Entrepreneurship is a method anyone can learn. Decades of research into how expert entrepreneurs think and act led to Effectuation, a powerful, proven set of principles created by UVA Darden Professor Sarasvathy for startup success.

Reddit Gets Two New Donation Options Powered By Crowdtilt And Dwolla Dwolla, the web-based payments platform, and Crowdtilt, the web-based crowdfunding platform, are formalizing Reddit’s capacity to tap into the power of the Internet as a force for good with today’s introduction of reddit Donate and reddit.Crowdtilt.com. To be clear, neither of these are official reddit products, but were built in