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The Pentagon is reportedly preparing for a weeks-long ground operation in Iran.

The International Skating Union has dismissed the British Ice Skating challenge of the 2026 World Figure Skating Championships ice dance results. Unpacking t...

Sean McVay explains why he’s interested in learning from Kliff Kingsbury and how the Rams’ new assistant head coach could impact the offense.

The world economy is experiencing the most severe oil shock in decades. The worst could still be on the way.

Surging oil prices continue to ripple through the global economy due to the war with Iran.

The world economy is experiencing the most severe oil shock in decades. The worst could still be on the way.

Surging oil prices continue to ripple through the global economy due to the war with Iran.

The world economy is experiencing the most severe oil shock in decades. The worst could still be on the way.

Surging oil prices continue to ripple through the global economy due to the war with Iran.

The world economy is experiencing the most severe oil shock in decades. The worst could still be on the way.

Surging oil prices continue to ripple through the global economy due to the war with Iran.

The real world gets an “Online Tipjar” with the Flattr Android app

Flattr, the service that lets visitors “tip a dime” to their favourite websites, is now easy to use in the real world too thanks to the launch a new Android ...

California Gold Rush 2.0: Are Twitter and Facebook Overvalued?

We’ve written often this year about the growth of social media as a whole, but I want to look at the valuations of the 2 biggest social networks. A couple of...

Instagram Expands the Definition of a Check-In with the Help of Foursquare

If you’re reading this blog, you’ve probably heard the whispers. “Yeah, Foursquare is growing like crazy, but their retention rate is lousy.” “Facebook Place...

Hotmail users report empty inboxes, flood official Microsoft forums

Owners of accounts on Microsoft’s Hotmail email service have been flooding the company’s official forums complaining of missing emails, stating that emails h...

Facebook’s 50 billion valuation, in perspective [Infographic]

Read about Facebook’s 50 billion valuation this morning? I did but had a hard time visualizing that number. That is why I decided to create a little graph vi...

Hacker defaces Kenyan Police website, dedicates it to Mark Zuckerberg

A hacker has managed to gain access to the official Kenyan Police website, dedicating the hack to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the process. The website, k...

Comparing the Two Fastest Selling Gadgets of All Time

As 2010 draws to a close, we can reflect on another fantastic year for gadgets. Technology has advanced to a point where we can now watch 3D programming in o...

Bell Canada violates do-not-call list; fined $1.3 million

Bell Canada, a major telecommunications company in Canada has just been fined $1.3 million for not following the rules of the do-not-call list. A few years b...

Gowalla Keeps Innovating – Invents Private Geo Messaging

Remember Gowalla? The innovative, early geosocial service with the gorgeous UI and fabulous icons? In recent months it seems that they’ve been losing ground ...

5 Essentials For Your Laptop Bag

There is a ton of stuff you can throw into your laptop bag (besides the laptop and the power cord), but what are the things that are really useful that you c...

At age 9, Samuel Sevian is the youngest National Chess Master in U.S. history

Samuel Sevian has been playing chess since he was 5. He comes from a family of “chess-philes,” in Santa Clara, California. On December 11th, 2010, Samuel off...

Chinese mobile operators’ war of words escalates

The battle between China’s two largest mobile providers, China Mobile and China Unicom is hotting up as each tries to win over the lucrative iPhone market. C...

Can Facebook Help Addicts Quit Drugs?

While many people may mock the idea of accepting Facebook friend requests from strangers, that might be just what a long-term drug addict needs. An experimen...

Canadians Design a Portable Radio Station in a Box

Two Canadians have designed a portable FM radio station that is small enough to fit inside a briefcase and will transmit a broadcast from 30 to 100 kilometre...

Harrods’ closure of compensation scheme for survivors of alleged sexual abuse called ‘neither fair nor just’

Scheme for accusers of store’s former owner Mohamed Al Fayed to close before end of retailer’s internal investigationHarrods has been accused of being “neith...

MetroPCS expands its LTE network and has a phone available now

While all of the headlines today will belong to Verizon and its December 5th launch, you should know that another player in the LTE game made a pretty signif...

Video: How the MySpace and Facebook mashup works

MySpace just posted the video below explaining how the just announced MySpace and Facebook “mashup” will work. For more info on this announcement, read our f...

LeWeb Announces its 1st Prize Winner: Everybody

It feels like kindergarten tonight at LeWeb, when Loic Le Meur announced the 1st Prize winners tonight in Paris. Why? Because everybody wins! 1st Prize for V...

Rupert Murdoch’s iPad Newspaper, “The Daily” Set To Launch January 17th

One month from today, Rupert Murdoch will unveil “The Daily,” his much-discussed iPad newspaper. While the date has been pushed back a few times now, inside ...

Windows Phone 7 goes ‘buy one get one free’ on AT&T

Late yesterday news broke that T-Mobile was moving a Windows Phone 7 handset (along with a number of Android devices, it must be said) in a buy one get on fr...

Virgin Media goes after Sky in new “Stop The Broadband Con” advert

Virgin Media has Sky clear in its targets as it rolls out its new Christmas advert to promote its “Stop The Broadband Con” campaign. The campaign is aimed at...

Wired’s iPad readership revealed, averages 32,000 copies each issue

When Wired launched on the iPad, it come in for some deserved praise. Taking the popular print issue and adding interactive elements, vibrant colours and iPa...

Video: Snow lightning in New York City!

It’s sunny and snow in New York City today. City workers are blowing snow in the street and my friends are sledding in Central Park. Just as I posted a time ...

George Clooney & Google Team Up to Stop Genocide in Sudan

Technology giant Google has partnered up with Hollywood star George Clooney to launch a Satellite Project that will monitor Sudan’s borders to possibly help ...

Apple reportedly refreshing iPad in January; April will bring MacBook Pro with light peak

Around the backchannels here at TNW, we’ve been discussing the pros and cons of a late-year purchase of new Apple products. According to what we’re reading o...

Last Minute: Drop Dead Gorgeous Geek Gifts

You left your shopping til the last minute didn’t you? Don’t worry. We’ve got you covered. Here are 6 great last minute items that are guaranteed to keep you...

Gorillaz album recorded on iPad arrives free on Christmas

One of the men behind Gorillaz, Damon Albarn, revealed last month that he’d been creating a new Gorillaz album. Normally not a newsworthy event unless you ar...

Stephen Colbert wins Twitter’s first-ever Golden Tweet Award

Twitter has published its latest instalment of its #Hindsight2010 series, this time awarding US TV personality Stephen Colbert it’s first-ever “Golden Tweet ...

HyperStage Proves Podcasts Popular in the Middle East

What started out as a small podcast by two brothers with a passion for technology and the web, has turned into a full-blown network of podcasts that’s growin...

Kuwait DSLR Camera Ban Now in Effect

The image you see could get it’s photographer in serious legal trouble in Kuwait after authorities there have banned the use of DSLRs in public places unless...

Christmas was Angry Birds’ biggest day ever with over 1 million downloads

It was a very merry Christmas for Angry Birds. Rovio Mobile, the company behind the popular games, controlled the two top paid spots in the iOS application s...

Status Update: Resting In Piece.

It used to be that when you died you left your body and identity behind. These days however you also have an ever expanding online identity and there really ...

Man solves MENSA-worthy math problem, wins Chrome notebook from Google

Oh Google, your hijinks are legendary. As the company is presently running a riddle-turned-scavenger hunt for the Nexus S phones, there was apparently anothe...

The Dell Venue Pro: $149.99 in two weeks

Dell may be late to the Windows Phone 7 party, but at least they are talking (at long last) about just when their much-anticipated Venue Pro smart phone will...

Why Google Acquiring Groupon Is NOT The Way To Go

Who knows if the rumors about Google lining up to buy Groupon are true or not but there is usually no smoke without fire in these cases. The rumored figure f...

Students at Harvard Business School help step up its start-up game with a $50K MVP Fund

Is Harvard Business School giving Stanford and Wharton a run for its money? It seems that yes, the prestigious business school is finally driving its own tec...

Investment fund set to use Twitter to judge emotion in the market

Research that suggested Twitter could be used to predict movements in the stock market is set to be put to the test with millions of pounds of real money. In...

TNW Mobile Review: MyTouch 4G

Slightly more than a month ago, T-Mobile released the MyTouch 4G, the latest addition to the their Android phones with the MyTouch moniker. The device offers...

Sony’s streaming music service: Promising, but UI flaws frustrate

Sony recently launched its own streaming music service with the tongue-twister name of ‘Music Unlimited Powered By Qriocity’. Is it any good though? We dived...

The Social Guardian points to the future of real-time news sharing

It was only last week that we looked at the sad demise of Readness, a promising service that allowed users to share the news articles they were reading in re...

Visualizing thanks: ThankfulFor and JESS3’s Gratitude Index 2010

Take one part “thank you” and one part social media. Mix well and pass it out to the world for a tasty bit of infographic from JESS3 and ThankfulFor. The sit...

ESPN: Only 0.11% of cable subscribers really cut the cord last quarter

ESPN, the sports television network, using data that Nielsen uses for its TV ratings, has determined that only 0.11% net US households really cut the cord in...