RIM’s giving away PlayBooks to enterprise customers, might start begging soon

It slashed prices, promised the moon on a stick for next year’s OS upgrade and now Research in Motion has resorted to just giving the beleaguered BlackBerry PlayBook away. Purchase a copy of BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5 between now and the end of the year and you’ll bag a free 16GB tablet. The offer

Screen Grabs: Covert Affairs exposes secret Rogers service in Washington DC

Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dot com.

Fans of USA’s Covert Affairs know that Annie Walker’s stomping ground is Washington DC, where she pretends to be a buyer

Ex-Googlers Launch iPhone App for Tapping Into Friends’ Reviews

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

PSA: Nokia reiterates Drive isn’t coming to Windows Phone Marketplace

There seems to be a bit of confusion about Nokia Drive’s future in the Windows Phone Marketplace. News of its impending arrival — for a price — was originally tweeted by a third-party and then re-tweeted by Nokia India. Sadly, we’re told this was all just a mistake. We originally reached out to Espoo’s

Arduino hacker conjures NES and Etch-a-sketch wonderment (video)

You never know when that creative spark will ignite in your brain and compel you to sketch out some ideas. But when that genius moment finally arrives, you might consider grabbing your original Nintendo controller, quickly wiring it up to an Arduino board, connecting that to some motors and then using

Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters

Thanks to this week’s advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable’s spons…

‘Twine’ Foreshadows A Future Where All Objects Talk To The Internet

Want to be notified to turn on the AC when a room reaches a certain temperature? Or when your laundry’s done? Well MIT Media Lab alumni Supermechanical have built Twine, a sleek 2.5" rubber square which connects to Wifi and allows objects to "communicate" under certain conditions.

The Twine, which reminds

Weekly Wrap-up: Facebook Frictionless Sharing and More

Marshall Kirkpatrick explains Why Facebook’s Seamless Sharing is Wrong. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web – Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web – plus highlights

Cambridge researchers translate graphene into printable circuitry material, bring basic ‘Skynet’ factory to you

Yes, graphene is amazing and possesses many useful / otherworldly properties. The ability to use graphene itself to print flexible, transparent thin-film transistors via an inkjet printer is just another one of them. Over at the University of Cambridge, researchers have discovered that it’s possible

Meet the 2011 Mashable Awards Nominees for Social Media

After collecting nominations from the Mashable community for over a month, the 2011 Mashable Awards have now shifted to the voting portion of t…