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• Take a Virtual Walk Through Hong Kong With Google Street View
  If you’ve never been to Hong Kong, and you’ve heard legends about the busy streets of the city, you can now see how it looks for yourself without leaving your comfy chair, as Google has launched its Street View service for Hong Kong.The huge city has been covered extremely well; just zoom out of Street View, pull the little yellow Street View figure on the u […]
  Stan Schroeder
• Opera Mini 5 Beta Comes to Android
  Opera Mini 5 Beta was first introduced about 5 months ago, but owners of Android-based smartphones had to wait until now to get their hands on Opera’s nifty mobile browser.This version is nearly identical to the Opera Mini 5 Beta for other handsets; biggest improvements are speed dial, tabbed browsing, password management and better optimization for touchscr […]
  Stan Schroeder
• Revamped Foursquare for iPhone Hits the App Store
  Last week, an App Store error got the latest version of Foursquare for the iPhone into a few users hands a little bit early.That hiccup resulted in the app briefly disappearing from the App Store before finally returning early yesterday. Now the newly designed version of the app is in the App Store and available for everyone to check out.Foursquare 1.7 featu […]
  Christina Warren
• Share Your Latest Purchases With Scordit
  This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.Name: ScorditQuick Pitch: A social site where you share the stuff you’ve bought or want to get, and win prizes by […]
  Christina Warren
• The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]
  A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that most of its users aren’t very active.The study looked at around 19 million Twitter accounts (PDF) in order to figure out how people are using Twitter. It started with one assumpti […]
  Ben Parr
• 15 Famous Tech Titans Hit Forbes’ Billionaire List
  Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires and when it comes to technology, the list includes many of the same faces we see year after year.After regaining the throne last year, Bill Gates has once again been displaced as the world’s richest man — this time by Carlos Slim (who held that post back in 2007), but he remains the richest man […]
  Christina Warren
• Twitter’s Website Now Attaches Location to Tweets [PICS]
  Twitter has just flipped the switch on geolocation within Twitter.com. Now at least some users can pull up location-based information from individual tweets on the microblogging website.While attaching locations to tweets has been possible for several months now through third party apps, Twitter.com itself hasn’t done much geolocation until today. It was fir […]
  Ben Parr
• Sony Answers Wii Remote With PlayStation Move
  Sony has named its forthcoming PlayStation 3 motion controller “PlayStation Move.” The controller is Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s Wii Remote and Microsoft’s Project Natal for Xbox 360 — a way to use motion to play video games instead of (or at least in addition to) buttons.The controller was originally announced at the E3 interactive entertainment conference […]
  Samuel Axon
• Google Reader Play Transforms Feeds into Entertainment Experience
  Google has just released an alternative player for Google Reader that gives those with a penchant for browsing news the ability to do so in an image-heavy, TV-like fashion.Dubbed Google Reader Play, the new tool is an experimental Google Labs project that presents stories one by one — based on their Recommend Items technology — using enlarged photos and auto […]
  Jennifer Van Grove
• Brizzly Launches a Guide to Twitter Trends and iPhone App
  Web-based Twitter client Brizzly has three major developments to report: a new free iPhone app, a new Brizzly Guide (which gives trending topics on Twitter their own hub pages as permanent resources for information on the top Twitter discussion items over time), and the acquisition of WikiRank.The Brizzly Guide is a user-editable area that fleshes out the ba […]
  Barb Dybwad