REDMOND, Wash. — After months of rumors, Microsoft finally reveals its plans for the next major Xbox gaming console update on Tuesday. Most expect this will be the most significant design, component and feature transformation since Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 in 2005. It could be the gaming event of the year, and Mashable is [...]

When my daughter begged me a few years ago to go on Tumblr so she could engage with Harry Potter fandom, I said no. I was worried about what else she might encounter on the vast blogging service You know what I’m talking about. I feared she’d stumble onto porn. Tumblr, which Yahoo is buying [...]

Greg Sullivan, Microsoft’s Windows Phone marketing lead, was grinning from ear to ear when we sat down for an interview earlier this week. Market research firm IDC had just anointed his phone platform a solid Number 3, beating the once-dominant Blackberry platform for the first time. “It’s very refreshing,” Sullivan told me. Granted, Windows Phone [...]

I’m still digesting Google’s 3.5 hour Google I/O 2013 keynote, but I can’t shake the notion that Google is now the world’s most powerful and important company. I’m not saying that it has the world-beating products in every category. No, it’s more about the vast number of technologies and, mostly, data Google has at its [...]

Fun fact: Star Wars creator George Lucas(69) and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (29) share a birthdate: May 14 That’s today if, well, you’re reading this on May 14. If you’re not, you should still appreciate this imagined meeting between the two great creative and entrepreneurial minds. Could our hoodie-wearing hero’s attire symbolize something [...]

The Google I/O developer conference is less than 48 hours away and everyone is wondering if this will be another year of major product launches and skydiving Google Glass wearers. The short answer? Probably notNew Google Android head Sundar Pichai promised that this Google I/O will be different, so don’t expect many new products or [...]

Back in the summer of 2011, I bought an iPhone 4. Yup, that’s right, just three months before Apple unveiled iPhone 4S and Siri, I plunked down $200 for yesterday’s technology. In my defense, I was changing jobs and needed a phone ASAP. iPhone was my first choice. Fast-forward to today and I’m now eligible [...]

This is not a good signBarely a month into the first “Facebook Phone’s” life, the Facebook Home-sporting HTC First price has been slashed from $99.99 with a two year contract to just 99 cents with the same AT&T two-year agreement. AT&T’s own web site makes the situation look, if possible, worse, by displaying the original [...]

Your summer of special effects-laden blockbuster films owes a debt of gratitude to film pioneer Ray Harryhausen. The stop-motion-animation legend died on Tuesday, according to a Facebook statement from The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation. Even when I didn’t know his name, I was watching Ray Harryhausen’s work. Every Thanksgiving in the late 1960s and [...]

Your summer of special effects-laden blockbuster films owes a debt of gratitude to film pioneer Ray Harryhausen. The stop-motion-animation legend died on Tuesday, according to a Facebook statement from The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation. Even when I didn’t know his name, I was watching Ray Harryhausen’s work. Every Thanksgiving in the late 1960s and [...]