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Diane von Furstenberg Staging Live Behind-the-Scenes Video at Fashion WeekFashion label Diane von Furstenberg is teaming up with mobile video app Viddy to stage a near-live, behind-the-scenes experience during New York Fashion Week. Staffers from DVF and its social media marketing agency will be using the iPhone app, which is often described as “Instagram for vid... XBox-Controlled Military Robot Can Lift 150 Pounds [VIDEO]Meet the Roomba’s hardcore sibling. The disc-shaped vacuum’s parent company, iRobot, has created a 450-pound military machine called the Warrior. The Warrior gets around on tank-like treads and features an approximately six-and-a-half-foot-long mechanical arm that is equall... Super Bowl XLVI Serves a Record 2.1 Million Live StreamsMore than 2.1 million viewers watched Super Bowl XLVI via live streams. While this paled in comparison to the game’s record-breaking 111.3 million broadcast viewers, it still set a viewership record for online sporting streams. NBC tells the Associated Press that the Super Bowl was the R... 10 Valentine’s Day Cards for Your Special Tech Geek1. You Are My Double Rainbow! What does this mean? It means you can send your sweetie a magnificent meme. Cost: $3.75 Click here to view this gallery.Do you have a special geek in your life? Then don’t send them an ordinary card this Valentine’s Day ... 7 Pinterest Clones: Can You Tell the Difference?“It’s like Pinterest, but…” Welcome to my inbox for the last several months. Just as the world now has a Groupon and a Birchbox for everything, so too is Pinterest creating a wake of copy-cat sites. We’re not talking about sites that merely incorporate Pinterest̵... ‘App Economy’ Has Created Nearly Half a Million Jobs Since 2007 [STUDY]That app you use to play Words with Friends on your phone or book a reservation using Open Table might be giving the American economy a nice boost, at least according to a new survey by TechNet. The new “app economy” has created about 466,000 jobs in the United States since 2007, acc... Brazil Sues Twitter Over Speed Trap, Roadblock TweetsIn what may be the first test of Twitter‘s new international censorship strategy, Brazil is suing the company over tweets that warn drivers of police roadblocks and speed traps. The suit, filed in a federal court in Goias by the attorney general’s office, is also going after users who... Sprint Reports Strong iPhone Sales in Q4 2011Sprint‘s Q4 2011 earnings report is out, and the results aren’t stellar, but strong iPhone sales are among the highlights. The company reported a $1.3 billion net loss on a $8.72 billion revenue, with much of the losses attributed to iPhone subsidizing costs. Sprint said its iPhone ... #Linsanity! Knicks Guard Is Social Media’s Newest Athlete DarlingWith the NFL season over and Tim Tebow long since bounced from the playoffs, social media users appear to have found their newest object of sports fascination, at least for now. His name is Jeremy Lin, and he is a career underdog who plays point guard for the New York Knicks. When Lin made his f... 8 Legal Steps for Starting Your BusinessThis post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. With each new year, budding entrepreneurs look to turn their vision into a business. These startups are often overflowing... |