Wishpond Launches Mall360 To Bring Your Local Shopping Mall Online

Like Milo before it, Wishpond launched in late 2010 to build a local search engine that aggregates realtime inventory and product listings from brick and mortar retail stores — from big chains to mom and pop shops. The startup has since focused its efforts on developing social commerce solutions for

Nuance adds Rovi’s metadata to Dragon TV, becomes annoyingly good at TV trivia

Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision) metadata for its talky-TV platform. Once integrated, the application will be able to marshall far more information than it currently can — enabling it to give answers to queries like "Who plays Chuck

Siri, Y U No Understand Me? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Siri is a loyal mistress, following you wherever you go — but is she a good listener?
Since the iPhone 4S began coming standard with Siri last…

Yahoo Still Sinking Despite $7 Billion Alibaba Deal

Now that Yahoo is gradually untangling itself from Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba, does the U.S. Web portal’s future look any brighter? Not really.

Yahoo’s agreement over the weekend to sell half of its stake in Alibaba for $7 billion ends a longstanding feud thaty wasn’t

Comcast X1 cable box steps up the cable game

So the way the living room market exists now, if you’re on the leading edge of electronics, you have a cable or satellite box which you use to watch live TV. But if you want to stream a movie, check in with what’s up on your friend’s wall, tune into Internet radio, or find out Read

Lawrence Lessig: Internet Privacy Is an Oxymoron [VIDEO]

Lawrence Lessig called Internet privacy an “oxymoron” in a backstage interview during this year’s Mashable Connect, held in Orlando…

Bananaphone touch synthesizer replaces ring ring rings with chiptunes (video)

If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive

Bicom turns to Kickstarter to fund its new playGo AP1 AirPlay device

Bicom, makers of the Corian-hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it. After finding out that it wasn’t able to produce last year’s gear in enough quantity to bring the price down, the company has gone down the Kickstarter route to raise $150,000 in advanced funding.

Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G LTE Starts Shipping After Customs Delay

If you pre-ordered Sprint’s EVO 4G LTE, then your wait is almost over. Sprint announced via a forum post Monday afternoon that it expects…

Spike TV confirms live Nintendo press conference broadcast

Nintendo will allow Spike TV’s cameras into its E3 press conference next month. The cable network has confirmed that it will carry the presentation, in its entirety with no commercial interruption on June 5 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. MTV2 will simulcast the event. Spike and MTV2 join G4 in tapping