When it comes to predicting the future, Chartbeat’s CEO Tony Haile thinks you’re awful. At the Mashable Media Summit, Haile spoke about the importance of real-time data and what your business should be doing with that information… Tweet This Post

We went hands-on with NTT DoCoMo’s menu translator last month at CEATEC, but now Japan’s leading carrier has a new translation tool to show off — and it’s quite impressive. The smartphone-based service analyzes your spoken word in Japanese or English, letting you converse with your phone in either language and presenting an on-screen and [...]

Max Jeffrey is a serial entrepreneur, podcaster and novelist. He co-founded ThisWeekIn.com, ZeroDegrees, SuperSig and The Palace and is currently writing the sequel to Max Quick: The Pocket and the Pendant (HarperCollins, 2011)… Tweet This Post

If your VMs are multiplying faster than rabbits, you might want to check out a new storage capacity planning tool from vKernel called Capacity View, available for a free download (with registration) here… Tweet This Post

During our call to discuss Final Cut Pro X earlier this week, an Apple product manager boasted about the product’s low price, media management, and ground-up redesign. Unfortunately, when starting from scratch, developers seem to have overlooked a few features that professional users have come to depend on, prompting widespread backlash — both on internet [...]

Just as promised, Apple’s Final Cut Pro X is now available on the Mac App Store for just $299.99, meaning keen editors can immediately grab hold of this suite to crack on with some real-time 4K video editing… Tweet This Post

Robert Kieffer, an a engineer at Facebook and the company’s internal Node.js evangelist, gave a talk at NodeConf today. He says the company isn’t doing enough with Node.js yet. So instead of an explanation of how to deploy Node… Tweet This Post

Group buying may be all the rage via companies like Groupon but ShopWithYourFriends, which launches today, adds a new twist to social shopping by allowing you to have a group shopping session online. The dutch startup uses co-browsing technology to share the screen between multiple shoppers who can put together different pieces and discuss their [...]

Facebook is working a new dashboard for developers to gain better insights about their Facebook applications, it was revealed during a Tech Talk at the company’s Seattle office this week. The old analytics dashboard often contains data that is no more recent than 48 hours… Tweet This Post

One of the primary ideas behind IBM’s Smarter Planet concept is a web of sensors all over the planet, leading to a data explosion. But what if that web of sensors was more directly under the public’s control? Strategic forecast consultant Chris Arkbenberg hits on an interesting idea in a recent blog post… Tweet This [...]

RSS, short for Real Simple Syndication, helps you stream all of your news and blog sources into an easy-to-manage RSS reader such as Google Reader (Google Reader). Millions of people use RSS to keep up with Mashable (Mashable), The New York Times, and even LOLcats. Now WordPress has done something big that eliminates that RSS [...]