This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. As a business owner, you know your product, service, market and customers. But sometimes one of the most challenging aspects of operating a business is employees. Not because the employees … Read More

Here’s a phone that ought to sharpen the mobile handset lover’s eagerness for them - AT&T will spread the 7.2 HSPA and Mobile TV-capable LG Arena starting from next month. The gadget will also come with AT&T’s full HTML mobile browser, AT&T Navigator and AT&T Social Net. The phone sports a 3” WVGA touchscreen and 3D … Read More

Filmmaker Kevin Smith sent a series of exasperated Tweets this weekend claiming that he’d been kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for being “too fat”. Proving, perhaps, the speed at which Twitter can spread messages about your brand, the Tweets have been picked up by the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, ABC and other major … Read More

If you’re both ready and set, then you’ll be pleased to know that Microsoft has major Windows Mobile goings-on to discuss tomorrow at 9AM ET (3PM here in Spain). What does that really mean? Well based on the torrent of circumstantial (and actual ) evidence we’ve seen, it looks like the big M is set … Read More

In cell phone news today, LG not just revealed the LG mini which is said to be the skinniest touchscreen phone of its kind on the market, but they are also introducing the LG GT350. This phone is said to be the successor of the KS360 or also known as the Neon, with tons of … Read More

In cell phone news, the device manufacture LG has just launched today the LG Mini GD880. LG claims that this Mini cell phone is the smallest and slimmest 3.2 inch touch screen phone on the market. Some features that you will find on this LG touchscreen device are 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity, FM radio, 5 megapixel … Read More

In today’s cell phone news, Texas Instruments introduced a new chip called the 65nm WiLink 7.0 solution, a single chip that integrates wireless technologies such as WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, and FM transmitter/receiver. This is the first of its kind, where a chip combines all aforementioned radios, in a size that has been cut in … Read More

The 2010 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off tomorrow in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk shop about innovation, change, and what the future holds. As social media has become a game changer for industries across the board, you can bet the experts at this year’s … Read More

Today in cell phone news, with all the focus on the new Google OS called Android, Motorola has been focusing on developing hardware to take full advantage of the operating system. There has been talk in the cell phone world of a new device being developed by Motorola that has a codename of “Zeppelin”. I … Read More

Samsung has newly hurled its eye catching Shark variety of mobile handsets. Three good looking phones, the Shark S5350, Shark 2 S5550 and Shark 3 S3550 are part of the novel launch. These candy bar handsets particularly objective the social networking clusters. The novel mobile phones offer one touch access to social networking sites. With a single click you can access Facebook, GoogleTalk, Bebo and … Read More

Two of the largest names in mobile handsets are coming collected to combat in court. Apple has submitted an official appeal to the International Trade Commission asking for a prohibition against Nokia’s mobile handset imports. Nonetheless, Nokia has also come after Apple by filing an objection accusing Apple of violating seven patents presently held by … Read More

It’s time for my annual list of technology products that I love and use every day. This is the (wow) fifth year I’ve done this. Here are my previous lists: 2009 , 2008 , 2007 and 2006 . The scope of the list has changed over time. In 2006 it was just about websites. Now … Read More

Being a geek no longer holds the stigma it once did. In fact, it can be downright cool to be a geek these days. But not all geeks are created equal. The Socially Acceptable Geek Subgenre Scale is a handy showcase of just where various types of geeks fall in the social hierarchy. And if … Read More

The previously phased out 11.1-inch Sony Vaio T has shown back up over at Sony Style Japan. The good news is that this time, it’s a Windows 7 CULV on the inside, even if it looks the same on the outside. The new Vaio Ts come with processor options including a dual core 1.2GHz Celeron … Read More

Hi guys, John Mayer here . I know it’s been a while since I’ve “touched base,” but you know I’ve been pretty busy with my fourth album launch, y’know, the “heartbreak handbook”? About that anti-Twitter girl ? Anyway, Imma here to let you know that I think you should all take a one week digital … Read More