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Ericsson’s Future Vision: Better Broadband, Tweeting TreesLAS VEGAS — Ericsson, the Swedish company that invented Bluetooth and whose technology provides 40% of the world’s network infrastructure, gave its first-ever CES keynote on Wednesday to share its vision of a connected world. CEO Hans Vestberg was big on mobile broadband, and not jus... Privacy Watchdog Complains to FTC: Google’s Social Search is UnfairTwitter isn’t the only party that thinks merging Google+ with Google search results is an abuse of its monopoly power in search. Privacy watchdog EPIC filed a complaint with the FTC on Thursday, saying that Google is using its search engine to create an unfair advantage for its social net... Old Spice Ad is Literally Mind-Blowing [VIDEO]Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Old Spice is continuing its experimentation with new approaches and rotating spokesmen with a new campaign breaking on YouTube and Facebook that features Terry Crews’s exploding head. In the vi... I Can Has Cheezburger Turns 5, Plans to Go Black to Protest SOPAExactly 14,683 “lolz” after launching in 2007, I Can Has Cheezburger is celebrating its fifth anniversary this week, just before all Cheezburger sites will go black Jan. 18 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The humor website features the lolcat meme — photographs of ... Can Siri Control Your Home? [VIDEO]A small company in Arkansas is showing an unexpected side to Apple’s voice-based intelligent assistant Siri. This YouTube video shows various home appliances being controlled via voice command on the iPhone 4S, from adjusting the thermostat and light dimmers to turning on Blu-Ray DVD players.... Nuke the Net: How to Get the Mainstream Talking About the Dangers of SOPAIf you’re like most Mashable readers, you know plenty about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sister bill in the Senate, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). And you’re probably plenty outraged about it, too. And rightfully so. If enacted, SOPA/PIPA could have disastrous consequences f... Enter the Google Maps Labyrinth [VIDEO]Google Maps gets the low-tech treatment in a new ad that imagines the app as the classic Labyrinth game. The online video spot, the first for Google from San Francisco ad agency Venables Bell & Partners, uses a wooden gyroscopic structure to help two players navigate a blue ball. The camera f... Use an Alias, Leave Better Comments [STUDY]Commenters who use pseudonyms tend to offer better comments, a study Disqus suggests. The study, drawn from commenting platform Disqus’s 60 million-plus user base and nearly half a billion comments, finds that pseudonymous users — that is, those who use an alias on Disqus rather than ... 3 Major Concerns for Brands Over ICANN’s New Domain Registry OptionsJeff Ernst is a principal analyst at Forrester Research, serving CMOs and marketing leaders. One thing’s for sure: ICANN’s gTLD program is a game-changer. The introduction of new .brand and .category gTLDs represents the biggest change to the Internet naming system since, well, since we’ve ... Foxconn Resolves ‘Mass Suicide’ Dispute With WorkersAfter reports that some workers threatened to throw themselves off of a roof in protest of unfair treatment, the largest technology manufacturer in the world says it has solved the dispute. Foxconn Technology said in a statement that the dispute involved about 150 workers and was resolved peacefu... |