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Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted a screenshot of his iPhone home screen over the weekend. And it's kind of boring.  Aside from some news apps, the only third-party apps he has are his own: Twitter and...

While Santa and his elves are preparing for their sleigh ride around the world, some impostors have been busy giving jolly old St. Nick a bad name.

A few years ago, when I was going back and forth to India for work, I’d routinely carry with me the eye prescriptions and a few old frames for some of my family members in the States. They didn’t want to pa...

Protests continue to sweep across India after the gang rape of a 23-year old woman on a bus in Delhi on December 16.  The extreme brutality of the assault, in which six men raped the victim, beat her with a metal rod ...

Flickr has a Christmas gift for all of you disgruntled Instagram users: three free months of its Pro service. While each month of Pro is worth just over $2 (or $24.95 per year), the offer still has its perks. You don't n...

My desktop and inbox are littered with items from across 2012. Here is a 3-dot list, my Dozen Shades of Mac and iOs rants that I hope you may find interesting here at year's end. (First of two parts)

Right on the heels of the kerfuffle over Instagram's privacy policy, food journaling and discovery app Burpple has released its new Burpple Camera, which features six filters (named Tapas, Loco Moco, Tiramisu, Teriyaki, ...

When Bret Taylor announced last June that he would be leaving his role as CTO of Facebook to work on a startup with another ex-Googler, Kevin Gibbs, little else was divulged about what that project would be – e...

Today, if Santa Claus solely relied on snail mail to communicate, things would never get done in time. That is why he sticks to texting when it comes to quick conversations. But ho, ho, hold the phone. Unfortunately, mos...

Mobile health is on the upswing but, to date, consumers have mostly gravitated to apps for fitness tracking and general wellness. In 2013, however, the field could make its biggest strides yet in the actual delivery of h...

One of the principal things that’s new about Nintendo’s new Wii U gaming console is its new WiiTV feature. WiiTV wasn’t quite ready when the console shipped last month, though — and even the v...

A New Jersey high school student was taken into police custody last week after he was turned in by a teacher for drawing pictures of weapons in his notebook. More »

Craig Mundie has left his role as Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer to become senior adviser to the CEO, as he winds down before retirement. Mundie had led strategy since founder Bill Gates stepped down fro...

Only a few years in, and already the mobile application ecosystem has become an unfathomable jungle of applications - some 700,000-plus in the two top mobile app stores, Apple's App Store and Google Play. And yet, we're ...

When we started talking about cloud computing five years ago, it meant one thing: Services such as Amazon or Salesforce that customers could self-provision over the Internet and pay as they go. That’s what we call...

Not sure that pushing out OS updates on Christmas Eve is the wisest of moves, but we're not going to knock them either. HTC's following in Motorola's footsteps today, pushing out the Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update for t...

You might remember that we hooked with Google last week and set up some giveaways for Nexus 7 tablets and Google Play gift cards. That's the kind of awesome stuff we do around these parts, and spreading the Android love ...

Launching a startup is tough, but moving past start-up and into phase two can be even tougher. More About: features, mashable, open forum, startup growth

A coming version of Google Chrome on Windows is going to prevent extensions that don't come from the official Chrome store from quietly installing without your say-so. [Read more]

Superhero entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX venture is working on something called the "Grasshopper Project," and the technology looks pretty impressive. "We’ve begun testing reusability with something called the Gr...

Now that 2012 is nearly over, the National Law Journal has rounded up the best legal quotes of the year. One of the wittiest came from the Ninth Circuit in its colorful opinion overturning California's ban on gay marriag...

Bryan A. Garner, a lawyer and writer, and Justice Antonin Scalia are, on the surface, on odd pair of friends. Garner is pro-choice and supports same-sex marriage, while Scalia is a conservative Catholic whose comments ab...