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It’s Official: Flash Mobile Player is DeadAdobe confirmed what reports were saying all morning: It’s done with the Flash Mobile Player and has now thrown its lot in with the HTML5 crowd — for mobile at least. “We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations... What Are You Doing This Weekend? Hotlist Wants To Help You DecideFor a simple question, “What do you want to do?” can take a long time to figure out. Hotlist, an app for iPhone and the web that launches Wednesday, wants to help users answer it without text messages, phone calls or marathon-length email chains. The startup has created a planning dashboard t... Bring Carwashers to Your Car With a CheckinThe car wash rarely lives up to the enthusiastic disco hit that Rose Royce once dedicated to it. It’s time consuming and inconvenient. But now — like groceries, car service and random tasks — it can be sent to you with the click of a smartphone. Startup Cherry.com launched a new... Up Close With Nest: The World’s Coolest Thermostat [PICS]Nest Thermostat Box Probably some of the nicest-looking thermostat packaging you'll ever see.Click here to view this gallery.Nest is just a thermostat — a wall-bound device capable of helping you manage the climate in your home. That’s it. It doesn̵... As Magazines and Retail Converge, Where Will the Editorial Line Be Drawn?Lauren Indvik, David Granger, Alexis Maybank and Maureen Mullen on stage at Mashable’s Media Summit. According to Forrester research, Americans will spend nearly $200 billion online in 2011, which accounts for about one-tenth of what U.S. consumers will spend on products and services all ... President Obama Threatens to Veto Law to Repeal Net NeutralityThe White House has threatened to veto Republican-sponsored legislation that would overturn the net neutrality rules the FCC passed last December. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on S.J. Resolution 6 [PDF], “Disapproval of Federal Communications Commission Rule Regulating the Internet a... Yelp’s $2 Billion IPO to Hit in Early 2012 [REPORT]Yelp has hired Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to lead its $1.5 billion to $2 billion IPO in the first quarter of 2012, according to a report. Yelp is expected to file its prospectus by the end of this year, reports The New York Times, which cites “several people briefed on the situation.”... First Quad-Core Tablet Unveiled, Gmail App for BlackBerry Discontinued: Today’s Top StoriesWelcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on six particular stories of interest today. Asus Unveils First Quad-Core Tablet Further details about the next-generation... How Barnes & Noble Stores Help the Nook Tablet Take on AmazonAmazon’s recently refreshed range of ebook devices — the Kindle, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G and Kindle Fire tablet — is coming to more than 16,000 retail locations in the U.S., the company announced Tuesday afternoon. Beginning Nov. 15, Kindle devices will be available for pu... Two Schools of Thought: The Key Difference Between Apple and GoogleApple and Google may look similar on the surface, but the companies couldn’t be any more different. That much has become clear to me after reading both the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson and Steven Levy’s In the Plex. Google and Apple are technology behemoths that bucked the... |