Google Wave to Rise Aga...

Google Wave was once one of Google’s hottest projects, promising a new way of communication that might even replace email. Alas, it was not to be, and Google shut it down soon after public launch due to lack of user adoption – but not completely. Wave still draws interest...

Sony Takes Out Their Go...

Sony’s Internet TV is at IFA, demonstrating how Google TV might make your soccer—or football, rather—watching experience more interesting. No further details on the hardware side of things, but the UI looks polished, and more importantly, pretty useful....

Net Neutrality: 7 Worst...

Many consumer advocacy groups, web companies and startups are ranting about the perils of losing net neutrality. Net neutrality, they say, is what made the Internet what it is today by giving small companies the opportunity to become big companies, and it rightly puts the user in full...

Google’s Latest Acqui...

Google has acquired Ångströ, a service for delivering intelligent search results about a person’s professional network. It has also hired its founder, likely in an effort to build a legitimate competitor to Facebook . “With the help of investors like CommerceNet and...

H.264 Will Be Royalty F...

MPEG LA, the group that licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well, forever . But Mozilla thinks that the better part of forever could belong to Google’s WebM format. More » Here is the original...

Google Street View Car ...

Google Street View is in trouble with authorities again. This time, one of its vehicles was halted and searched yesterday near Paris. Google’s Street View service became highly controversial when Germany learned that Google was (inadvertently, it claims) collecting publicly...

Garmin Nuvi Recall Affe...

GPS device maker Garmin is voluntarily recalling 1.25 million of its Nuvi personal navigation devices, nearly 800,000 of which were sold in the United States. The Nuvi devices in question have a battery — manufactured by an unnamed third party supplier — that may be prone to...

HOW TO: Handle an Emplo...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Even the best organizations make missteps. Whether it’s a product that doesn’t work correctly or an...

Free iPad Scam Hits Fac...

Have you seen a message on Facebook or Twitter offering a free iPad? If you have, it’s likely some of your friends have fallen victim to the latest scam, which spreads through hacked accounts. Twitter’s security-related account @safety recently posted the following message:...

The State of the GeoSoc...

Jesse Thomas is the CEO and Founder of JESS3 , a Creative Interactive Agency. JESS3 designs products and experiences for brands like Google, Nike, Facebook, MySpace, C-SPAN, Microsoft and NASA. With constant news reports and studies regarding the adoption rates of social networking...