Mashable - Mashable is proud to present the fourth annual Mashable Awards (formerly known as Open Web Awards). The Mashable Awards celebrate major innovations and achievements in the digital and social media landscape by companies, people and projects via an open, multilingual, international, community-nominated voting platform. Millions of votes will be cast in 25 categories ranging from âBest New Gadgetâ to âBest Music Discovery Serviceâ to âMust-Follow Brand.â Following three months of competition, the Mashable Awards Gala will kick off the 2011 International CES convention week on January 6, 2011 at Cirque du Soleilâs Zumanity stage in Las Vegas. The venue capacity is 1,200+ and the event will be streamed live. Tickets are now on sale exclusively through Eventbrite. For sponsorship opportunities, please contact sponsorships at Mashable.
Digital Trends - Sony has quietly released a firmware update to the PlayStation 3 that, according to initial reports, blocks the now-infamous PSJailbreak exploit that enabled users to copy games to local storage devices and run home-brew applications on their game consoles. Sony is offering no specific information about the update, saying only that it “includes additional security features.”
Appolicious - Create simple project mockups quickly and effortlessly right from your iPad. iMockups brings a complete concept design experience to the device in an easy app that can quickly produce results.
Appolicious - Wandering around a massive convention center looking for the right speaker or booth is enough to drive anyone crazy. But instead of struggling with a paper map and an inaccurate itinerary, download the free Conventionist iPhone app and be on your way.
PC World - Intuit announced the release of QuickBooks 2011 for the Mac Tuesday, targeting small businesses that want to spend less time on bookkeeping and more time on making money. New features in the latest version of the software include multi-user support, the ability to set user permissions, improved handling of everyday tasks like tracking vehicle mileage and better integration with Apple's spreadsheet program, Numbers.
Macworld.com - If youâve ever wanted to spice up your iOS deviceâs e-mail messages with a little styled text, youâve run up against one of the limitations of Apple's mobile software. But if youâve got proficiency with the Markdown markup languageâinvented by Daring Fireballâs John Gruberâthen youâre in luck, thanks to Second Gearâs new MarkdownMail app.
Macworld.com - Nike has released Nike+ GPS, a new app for runners, in the App Store. As the name promises, this new appâs main advantage is live GPS tracking while you run. It can track your route and upload itâalong with the rest of your run dataâto Nikeplus.com, Nikeâs Web service and community for gadget-enabled runners.
PC World - The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) practice of searching laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders.
Appolicious - Android continues to poach away market share from the iPhone and other mobile platforms, now accounting for 25 percent of mobile operating systems in North America. That’s a 2 percent increase, month-over-month, and an 18.6 percent increase year-over-year.
Mashable - Mashable is proud to be partnering with the UN Foundation, 92Y, Livestream.com, CNN and a host of teams and organizations to produce a unique opportunity to make UN Week accessible to the public -- both online and offline.
PC World - Web-based polls and views express online show popular opinion is against the censoring of adult services ads on Craigslist. A poll at Mashable shows 71 percent of the respondents voted no to the question "Should Craigslist's Adult Services be censored?" Meanwhile, the Washington Post asked its readers, "Do you agree with Craigslist's decision?" to block access to its Adult Services section. Fifty-two percent of them said no.
PC World - Web-based polls and views expressed online show popular opinion is against the censoring of adult services ads on Craigslist. A poll at Mashable shows 71 percent of the respondents voted no to the question "Should Craigslist's Adult Services be censored?" Meanwhile, the Washington Post asked its readers, "Do you agree with Craigslist's decision?" to block access to its Adult Services section. Fifty-two percent of them said no.
Macworld.com - Apple announced last week that more than one million users signed up for Ping in the serviceâs first 48 hours of availability. Ping, as apparently a million of you already know, is the music-focused social network built into iTunes 10, which the company released just last week.
Appolicious - News app Blancspot is truly taking advantage of iPhone 4’s retina-display and giving visual news a social twist. In addition to headlines, Blancspot ($1.99) offers specialized categories in the areas of sports, business, politics, culture, war and the environment. Within each category, users will be treated to high-resolution images displayed with a “Ken Burns”-style movement and backed with a variety of songs, available for purchase through the iTunes cart icon. ...
Appolicious - The iTunes App Store was full of good stuff this week for the iPad, including some great new magazines with awesome presentation designed specifically for the digital medium, a couple of fun games to help pass the time, and yet another Facebook app.
PC Magazine - Search engines are all about finding the information you want right now, and the next step is to do that automatically before you even think to conduct that search, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Tuesday.
NewsFactor - If the measure of a good logo is that it is memorable, Google is setting new records. On the day after Labor Day, the search giant is featuring a new variation on its well-known name in which the logo breaks up and runs from your cursor -- and people are wondering why.
PC World - A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.