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HTC Phones to Get PlayStation Certification in 2012 [REPORT]HTC smartphones might be one of the first to get PlayStation certification, Pocket-lint reports, citing unnamed sources. The official announcement might come as soon as the end of February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, sources claim. If true, the certification will let users play PlaySt... Fun New App Reveals Your Twitter CrushLooking for love on Twitter? Your special someone is no further than a click away thanks to Twit Amore, an app that’s launched just in time for Valentine’s Day. Using your Twitter API, the app looks up who you follow, your timeline, and what tweets you’ve favorited. It takes all... Did Words With Friends Make You More Than Friends? [POLL]Perhaps they should call it Words With Friends With Benefits. On the face of it, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot that’s romantic about Zynga‘s Scrabble-esque word game, but a poll of 118,000 players reveals that L-O-V-E is lurking behind the tiles. You may want to take the... Inkling Takes on Apple iBooks With a New Tool for PublishersTalk with any digital textbook publisher and they’ll tell you why their competitor Inkling won’t cut it: The startup’s interactive digital books are pretty, sure, but it has only pumped out about 100 of them in three years. It turns out, however, that Inkling was never much int... Hotmail Top Spam-Stopping Email, Hotmail-Commissioned Study Says [VIDEO]Hotmail is the top spam-stopping major email service, says a study commissioned by Hotmail. According to findings released on Monday by Cascade Insights, Hotmail ranked ahead of Gmail by a hair in spam percentage. Hotmail inboxes used in the study were 48.57% spam, while Gmail inboxes were ... Stacy Green, Will You Marry Me? [INFOGRAPHIC]Drake Martinet is an associate editor at D: AllThingsDigital and teaches journalism at Stanford University. For the purposes of this post, however, all that matters is that he’s madly in love with Stacy Green, Mashable’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications. Love makes us do cr... ‘Baseball Boyfriend’ App Lets You ‘Date’ The PlayersIf you’ve ever been interested in participating in fantasy sports but also wanted to combine a teenage-like element of crushing on professional athlete, Baseball Boyfriend is just the app for you. For $2.99 you can create your own “BBBF” (that’s Baseball Boyfriend) through... Pinterest: How Do U.S. and UK Users Compare? [INFOGRAPHIC]If you’ve spent any time on Pinterest, the hottest new social network since sliced bread, you might have noticed its popularity among certain demographics — namely, women who are into fashion, weddings, home decor and puppies. But some data compiled by Visual.ly sheds light on the intere... A Teenage Jeremy Lin Imitates NBA Players on His Xanga Blog [PICS]1. “this is what a regular headband looks like on a sexy guy” Click here to view this gallery. As if Jeremy Lin’s status as an underdog everyman living out the dream of basketball fans the world over wasn’t already appealing enough. Now we can se... New App Tells Teachers When Students Are ConfusedMuch has been said about how connected devices, whether in college lecture halls or elementary school classrooms, can distract students. GoSoapBox aims to show how such devices can also help keep class on track. The startup, which is launching Tuesday, makes a web-based app that serves as a const... |