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Spotify’s unlimited free streaming and sharing service was music to American ears when it launched in July 2011. Now comes a dissonant note: ten-hour monthly caps will be implemented on all free accounts when the six-month promotional period comes to … Continue reading →

Three hundred Chinese factory workers who manufacture Microsoft Xbox 360s threatened mass suicide last week, according to unconfirmed reports. The Foxconn employees threatened to throw themselves off of a factory roof due to a payment dispute, according to Record China … Continue reading →

Fire up your time machine and visit your 12-year-old self. Tell him that all the computer games he’s saved his hard-earned allowance for will one day be free. Stick around to watch him cry, but try not to create any … Continue reading →

It’s primary day in New Hampshire, and social media networks have been ablaze with posts, tweets and videos from the Granite State. Politicians are taking to the web in the battle for votes in the nation’s first primary. Journalists are … Continue reading →

Bummed you didn’t get a ticket to the sold-out MashBash event at CES? You may be in luck. Skullcandy is giving away 20 passes to Mashable readers at CES who missed the ticket boat. Here’s how you can win them: … Continue reading →

The social networking war just heated up a few degrees. After Google announced Tuesday morning that it would more closely integrate Google+ into its regular search results, vocal opposition to the changes arrived Tuesday afternoon from an unlikely source: Twitter. … Continue reading →

Google has quietly released a promotional video for a Google Maps-driven game for Google+ Games. In the video, Google pimps a “Play your world, like never before” slogan and a link to “Start here,” which leads to entertaining demos on … Continue reading →

A full 46% of Americans think tablets will replace laptops in the future, according to a poll of 1,155 American adults. This is especially true among adults ages 30 to 64. Young adults (ages 18 to 29) and those older … Continue reading →

HTC has announced HTC Titan II, the company’s first LTE Windows Phone. Like its predecessor, the Titan II is huge, with a 4.7-inch super LCD screen. The rest of the specifications are quite impressive, too: a 16-megapixel back camera (and … Continue reading →

Comcast has started rolling out a new service that allows subscribers to turn their iPad into an extra TV screen to watch live shows. The company launched a set-top box called AnyPlay at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. The box … Continue reading →