Google’s CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt today shed a little official light on its place as the loser when Nokia (NYSE: NOK) decided to choose Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) as its new smartphone operating system when it ditches Symbian: “We would have loved Nokia to choose Android and we certainly tried,” and if the Microsoft venture [...]

With more references to Justin Bieber than a Valentine’s day party at an all-girls Canadian middle school, Music Hackday rolled into New York City this past weekend. Event organizers John Britton and Dave Haynes noted this had been the biggest Music Hack Day yet, with 72 demos… Tweet This Post

INQ and HTC may be launching “Facebook phones” this year, but another social brand growing at lightning speed will not be taking that route, at least for now. In a keynote speech today at the Mobile World Congress, Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo said that although 40 percent of all of tweets come from mobile phones, [...]

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us for the Mashable Media Partnership Guidelines document… Tweet This Post

If you’re an American worker who prefers working outside the office, you’re in luck: Next week is National Telework Week in the U.S. During the week of February 14-18, private businesses and government agencies are encouraged to allow employees who normally make the trek into office each day to work from home instead… Tweet This [...]

In just two weeks, we moved from the Comcast takeover of NBC Universal, to the launch of The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s $30 million experiment in iPad publishing, to AOL’s $315 million deal for The Huffington Post… Tweet This Post

Program or Be Programmed author Douglas Rushkoff proposes that we fork the Internet, and he’s convening a summit on the subject. Contact will be held October 20, 2011 at the Angel Orensanz Center in New York City… Tweet This Post

There’s something happening in New York City. New York Tech Meetup just announced they will be presenting hack demo at every one of their sold out events, New York’s first Music Hackday is hitting this weekend and it will be quickly followed by Foursquare’s first hackday the weekend after… Tweet This Post

Less than 24 hours after announcing that it would pay $48.5 million to buy mobile video specialists Saffron Digital, it has announced one more strategic move into content services: it is investing $40 million into cloud-based, gaming-on-demand provider OnLive… Tweet This Post

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us for the Mashable Media Partnership Guidelines document… Tweet This Post

What’s Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) strategy for mobile content? It apparently revolves around “personalization,” according to two reports today in the NYTimes and WSJ. The company will unveil a platform at the Mobile World Congress next week that will let both Yahoo apps and those of third-parties show users’ different content depending on their behavior and [...]

Social Media Week 2011 kicks off on Monday, Feb. 7 in nine cities worldwide, including Mashable‘s two office locations: New York City and San Francisco.Just like social networks, the program has exploded in the past year and is expected to be the biggest, most diverse Social Media Week since the event was first held in [...]