Microsoft “guru” Paul Thurott says the Zune HD launches on September 5. Mind you, this info comes fresh from the Zune forums, so we’ll slap a rumor on it for now with the caveat that it matches our earlier post about a September launch window. [ Zune Forums - Thanks Joel]
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Last week, we took a look at FileTwt , a file-sharing service for Twitter. After publishing that post, we heard from Bob Brinker, founder of TwitDoc , another Twitter file-sharing app. We did a couple cursory tests of his site, but were disappointed that sent files couldn’t be downloaded. We wrote Brinker with these concerns, … Read More

Over the past week or so, we’ve encountered several sites that offer file-sharing services via Twitter. Though some of our commenters are dubious about the userfulness, legality, and peer-to-peer nature of the services, we generally like the idea of using Twitter to send documents, presentations, and… Oh, let’s be honest. Each for our own reasons, … Read More

We know the Mini 1101 is the more business-centric of the new HP netbooks , but unless the company has a sudden change of heart, it looks like you’ll be getting the base configuration or nothing at all. Starting today, HP is enabling eager consumers to purchase one of the $329 machines, but the only … Read More

We always heard that where there is a will, there is a way. Said mantra has never been more exemplified than in the video past the break, as someone halfway across this great planet has seemingly procured what could be the very first shipping N97 . Still, we’d like to point out a few things … Read More

Filed under: Humor , OS , Odds and ends Being the Disney- Pixar fanatics that we are, my wife and I went to see Up Saturday night (in Disney Digital 3D, of course) at our local theater. Remembering the appearance of the Mac startup sound as Wall-E ’s waking noise in last year’s Pixar epic, … Read More

With the launch of MySears and MyKmart , it seems like the thing to do this week is to give your customers their very own social network. Can something like this be far behind? Sponsor More Noise to Signal Discuss
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Facebook will soon be allowing all users to claim a vanity URL pointing to their regular profile page, we’ve heard from a reliable source. The announcement should come sometime later this week. Afterwards, at a certain date and time, the landrush will begin. Users will be able to grab a vanity URL of their choice. … Read More

From Google Wave to Susan Boyle, social media has been in full swing this week. Both Google and Microsoft decided to launch new products, while the social media starlet Boyle sang her heart out on the finale of Britain’s Got Talent. There has been no shortage of social media buzz. We also served up a … Read More

Note: you can try out Mashable’s fTag page and chat with Mashable readers here . Twitter hashtags are great, but sometimes it’s hard to track conversations around a tag simply by using Twitter search . That’s where new service fTag comes along…it attempts to replace the hashtag with an “ftag” (a word with an underscore … Read More

There are two sides to this coin, the way we see it. On the one hand, the handful of pictures that have just popped over on UMPC Fever demo many of the features we’re expecting to see in new iPhone hardware this summer — magnetic compass , autofocus camera , video recording capability, and a … Read More

I’m looking at these images from a Hong Kong blog, and they totally look like The Real Thing™ to me. Sure they are blurry, but those applications’ user interface definitely screams Apple design. The gallery shows the video/camera screen, compass, and the autofocus, among other things. Yes, the more I look at these images, the … Read More

Less than two weeks ago, we brought to your attention 10 unique and fun easter eggs within Wolfram Alpha, the new computational knowledge engine that calculates answers based on your queries. You the readers though did your own sleuthing and found ten even better Wolfram easter eggs . And while that may have seemed like … Read More

Yes, Twitter is down. Yes, again. Yes, they’re looking into it . Yes, this is another Twitter post. But, I come bearing gifts. Spymaster , the somewhat controversial and addictive Twitter-based game obviously doesn’t work nearly as well when Twitter is down
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We’re not quite sure what all was wrong with the original ZEN Mozaic (Mosaic?) , but evidently it demonstrated just a bit too much Mondrian. This go ’round, the ZEN Mozaic EZ300 ditches the hodgepodge of button colors and sticks strictly to pink or black, though most everything else remains the same. There’s a 1.8-inch … Read More