One Web Day is September 22; University of Michigan Law professor Susan Crawford is organizing it, with events and participation from around the world. It's "Earth Day for the Internet". Around the world, we're focusing attention on the importance of the internet to political participation - that's ...

I’ve been busy trying to lose weight over the last month, and although progress has been made, it has been frustrating.  Here are some things I’ve noticed which are impeding progress: family commitments. Visiting family members and doing errands for them requires extra driving and t...

An article in yesterday’s New York Times talks about the recent phenomenon of netbooks and the challenge they pose to the traditional PC manufacturers and outmoded ways of thinking about computers. For as long as personal computers have been around, the push has always been toward faster, more...

You don't have to venture far from home to find eco-friendly places to eat, shop, and play. Here are several dozen of our favorite spots around the United States. If we've missed something in or around your town, let us know.  ALABAMA Highlands Bar & Grill American South meets the S...

Los Angeles rocked out at the third stop on Mashable’s U.S. Summer Tour! Over 500 people joined us for a great evening of conversation and networking at the Rubicon Project Headquarters, where Rubicon was gracious enough to open their courtyard for our use and show off the office from TV’...

Replacing a well known, trusted and perhaps even loved brand with something new is a high risk strategy in itself, but not enough for Heinz who, under the cover of such a rebrand, attempted to hide a 70 per cent price increase for its baby milk formula. Not surprisingly the move has provoked fury am...

(NaturalNews) Sales of anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals are a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet as we've learned with the Vioxx fiasco and all the tens of thousands of deaths surrounding that drug, anti-inflammatory medications can be extremely dangerous. Sure, it stops the pain, but sometimes it ...

There's no time like a recession to reassert the conventional economic wisdom that making money is harder than those guys on cable pretend. Viral marketing was huge in the mid-90's before the dotcom bubble burst and everyone realized that eyeballs didn't necessarily translate into dollars. It was on...

There's no time like a recession to reassert the conventional economic wisdom that making money is harder than those guys on cable pretend. Viral marketing was huge in the mid-90's before the dotcom bubble burst and everyone realized that eyeballs didn't necessarily translate into dollars. It was on...

…flies Spirit, that is. Chris Elliott notes the latest fee from the winner of the unofficial Upgrade: Travel Better fill-my-inbox-with-complaints award for lousy airline customer service. Their latest transgression: A $10 per roundtrip “web convenience fee” for making your air tick...