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RIM Considering New Chairmen [REPORT]A new report suggests that Research in Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry, is looking to make some changes to its board of directors, changes that could cast aside current co-chairmen Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. According to the Financial Post, a committee of independent directors ar... 6 Turnkey Tools for Content DistributionShane Snow is a New York-based tech journalist and co-founder of Contently.com, a marketplace for brand publishers and journalists. It’s never been easier to become a publisher, but being a publisher ain’t easy. Today, the scarce resource in the publishing world is not infrastructure; it’s ... KGB Spy Kit Is Not Just for the Movies [VIDEO]There may be more truth than you’d think to the James Bond-like spy gadgets in movies. Entertainment blog English Russia released photos of a KGB spy kit that includes a lip stick gun, pipe gun, cyanide gun and other various small firearms. Check out the video above to see some of ... Twitter Admits Verifying Fake @Wendi_Deng Was a MistakeOn Tuesday morning, the world learned that the account bearing media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s wife’s name, Wendi Deng Murdoch, is not run by her or anyone connected to her. And less than two hours after the revelation, Twitter admitted in a tweet that it had mistakenly verified the @We... Can Twitter Predict the Iowa Caucus?Can Twitter predict the outcome of the Iowa Caucus better than national polls? Mashable has partnered with Global Point Research to answer that question. According to the latest NBC News-Marist national poll, ex-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has a slight edge over Texas Rep. Ron Paul. Forme... 5 Best Practices for Digital Marketers in 2012Jonathan Gardner is director of communications at ad company Vibrant Media. He has spent nearly two decades as an innovator at the nexus of media and technology, having worked in communications leadership roles and as a journalist around the world. The egg nog’s been drunk, the bells are done j... RIM Slashes Price of All BlackBerry PlayBooks to $299Want a BlackBerry PlayBook? This might be a good time to buy one, especially if you were looking at the models with more storage memory. RIM has slashed the price of all PlayBook models to $299 in a limited-time offer that ends Feb. 4. The deal isn’t great if you are interested in the chea... Twitter Indicator Could Trump Polls for 2012 Election MeasurementWant to know who will win the Iowa Caucus? There may now be a more effective tool than exit polls. Twitter, which has already proved an effective tool for gauging reactions to everything from Osama bin Laden’s death to Kim Kardashian’s divorce, is now being used to track candidate b... HP Spectre Might Be a Beautiful UltraBook, According to This VideoA source at HP has sent us a mysterious teaser video for an upcoming product dubbed “Spectre.” The video gives away very little details about the device, but near the end we can clearly make out a thin laptop computer, with what appears to be the usual array of ports and connectors o... Mashable Weekend Recap: 38 Stories You May Have MissedWhile most of us shared in the revelry as the ball dropped in Times Square, some of us Mashable staffers just couldn’t stop sniffing out news, tips, features and techniques for you, our dear readers. Over this weekend, lucky for us, the news cycle kept us busy, with plenty of stories of wo... |