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Call of Duty’s popular zombie warfare mode has arrived as a separate iOS app. Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is available now for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad. Created by Activision Publishing, Inc., the $6.99 app is based on the popular console hit, but re-imagined for tablets and smartph...

It’s finally time for file-sharing buffs to pour a little liquor on the ground for Napster, the original gangster of major peer-to-peer music sharing sites. On Thursday, Napster will officially merge with Rhapsody, the largest on-demand music service in the United States. Rhapsody signed an...

Twitter‘s long-awaited self-serve ad platform was quietly introduced in November with a “handful” of advertisers, according to the company. The program, which Twitter announced in April 2010, is available to anyone with a credit card who wants to take advantage of Promoted Produ...

When it was discovered that Siri, Apple’s much-hyped voice assistant in the iPhone 4S, would not reveal the location of abortion clinics when asked, many wondered if it meant Apple was taking a stand in the divisive abortion debate. Now Apple has come out and said the omission is merel...

David Carey, president of magazine publisher Hearst Corp, expects the company will have more than 1 million paying digital subscribers by the end of 2012. “We do expect in 2012 at some point to be able to have more than a million on e-subscriptions,” he said on stage at Reuter’s...

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You’ll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. You might have heard Google is in the process of changing the design of its controversial black Google B...

Men, beware. The Wi-Fi from your laptop could be hurting the health of your sperm. A new study, published in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility by researchers from Argentina and the U.S., found that semen samples placed a little more than an inch under a Wi-Fi-connected lapto...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Objective Logistics Quick Pitch: Objective Logistics’ software, Muse, rewards wa...

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You’ll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. Google+ will allow multiple admins to manage a brand page “before 2012,” Kristoffer Sorensen,...

Yahoo‘s stock rose as much as 9% in pre-market trading Thursday and more than 3% after the market opened as rumors surfaced that Alibaba and Softbank Corp are in “advanced talks” to make a bid to acquire the company. The bid is rumored at $20 per share, approximately 24% times ...