Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is the Best E-Ink Screen You Can Buy [REVIEW]

One thing Amazon is not afraid of is change. It alters product designs as often as some people change shirts or at least hairstyles. The point is: The way your Amazon Kindle looks today is not necessarily the way it’ll look tomorrow. The new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite e-ink-based e-reader is, for example, quite a...

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5 Mobile Photographers Capturing the World With Android

With advances in smartphone technology and camera resolution, it’s now easier than ever to capture quality images with the mobile device you carry everywhere. The rise of photo editing apps has added to this movement toward mobile photography, which is becoming a burgeoning and reputable art...

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Apple Cites Improved Working Conditions in Foreign Factories [REPORT]

Apple is making some progress toward correcting poor working conditions and human rights abuses at its supplier plants, including China’s Foxconn factories, which have initiated global criticism, on-site riots and worker suicides. Apple updated its Labor and Human Rights page to reflect...

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Sorry iPhone Users, Google Maps ‘App’ on iOS 6 Isn’t Great Either

I lost all patience with Apple’s Maps app when it directed me to the middle of a state park when it should have been taking me home. The turn-by-turn directions, supposedly the saving grace of the troubled iOS 6 Maps app, work wonderfully â€" but they’re only as good as the information...

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How Much Bandwidth Will the Vice Presidential Debate Need?

Centre College in Danville, Ky. is home to this year’s vice presidential debate. With thousands of attendees, campaign staff and reporters â€" and all of their smartphones, tablets, laptops and other connected gear â€" descending on campus Oct. 11, it takes impressive technology and a coordinated...

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New App Remakes the Tamagotchi for the Smartphone Era

The Spark of Genius Series is made possible by MicrosoftBizSpark. Each post highlights a unique feature of a startup. If you'd like your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.Name: Photogotchi Quick Pitch: Tamagotchi game meets camera app. Genius Idea: This...

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NFL Player Gains 90,000 Followers After Profane Viral Tweets

NFL player T.J. Lang wrote two tweets on Monday night after his Green Bay Packers lost under dubious circumstances to the Seattle Seahawks and the messages instantly went viral. How viral? This viral: As of Wednesday morning one tweet had garnered in excess of 68,000 retweets and 17,000 favorites....

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Protect Your Data With a Personal Cloud

This article is brought to you by Western Digital. Western Digital’s My Book Live â€" a personal cloud solution â€" lets you store up to 3 TB of photos, videos, music and files, and access them from anywhere on your tablet, smartphone, PC or Mac. For more information about BrandSpeak, click...

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Inside Adidas and Derrick Rose’s Digital ‘Return’

If you’re a sports fan who spends much time on the Internet, chances are high you’ve come across something called “The Return of D. Rose.” It’s a series of web videos, produced by Adidas, that chronicle the return of star point guard and sneaker pitchman Derrick Rose from a major knee injury. Last week, we did a short rundown of how the player and brand have used the...

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AOL’s Awesome Social Video Game is Like ‘Taboo With Friends’

If you like the board game Taboo, you’ll love AOL’s new mobile social game, Clucks. If you’re not familiar with Taboo, it’s a card game where you have a limited amount of time to describe a word to your teammate. The catch is you can’t use the word itself, or a selection of additional...

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Register to Vote for Internet Freedom

Would the fight for Internet freedom get you to vote? That’s the hope of a new voter registration drive labeled “Internet Votes.” Launched today, the initiative has been organized by the Center For Rights and Fight For The Future. The two non-partisan advocacy groups organized some of...

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‘XCOM’ Reboot Will Thrill Die-Hard Fans and Noobs

If you’re a fan of high-level strategy games and want to kick alien butt Will Smith-style, you’ll be excited to play XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The game, out in two weeks for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, is a reboot of X-COM: UFO Defense, a 1994 strategy classic gamers still reminisce about....

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7 Reasons Some Entrepreneurs Don’t Meet Their Potential

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. No one ever said being an entrepreneur is easy. Creating your own business and career path is tough â€" and succeeding...

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Graph Databases: The New Way to Access Super Fast Social Data

Emil Eifrem is the founder of the Neo4j graph database project and CEO of Neo Technology, the world’s leading graph database. Emil is an internationally recognized thought leader in new database technology, having spoken at conferences in three continents. Until the NOSQL wave hit a few years...

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Will Twitter Replace Your Follower Count?

There are two kinds of Twitter users: those who pay close attention to their follower counts, and those who are lying. Okay, that’s not quite accurate. (It doesn’t account for the vast swathe of inactive Twitter users who aren’t paying attention at all.) But it’s not far from the...

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How Microsoft Re-Invented Office for Touch, Social and the Cloud

The Tech Innovators Series is presented by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines -- super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways. In tech, apps come and go. Anyone working in publishing in the...

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