If you read any tech publication this week, you couldn’t have helped but encounter the brouhaha over Facebook’s revised Terms of Use. Now, Facebook has decided to return to its previous Terms - dated September 23, 2008 - until it can better determine how to proceed. To help ensure they don’t make the same mistakes [...]

What were the most intriguing social media stories on Mashable this past week? What were you socially bookmarking, blogging, Twittering, “liking”, emailing and sharing with your online friends and followers from Monday through Sunday? It’s time to look back at the week in social media.
1. HOW TO: Live Inside Twitter and Still Stay Productive [...]

Thanks to a new technology called Lenovo Constant Connect, Lenovo laptops will be able to sync enterprise-based emails with Blackberry phones at all times, even while the laptop is powered off.
By the power of Bluetooth, any enterprise based email will automatically be sent from your BlackBerry to your ThinkPad once configured. You won’t have to [...]

A whopping 40% of the used hard drives on eBay contain easily recoverable personal data. Use the following guide to ensure your personal data never makes it out into the wild. Photo by AMagill.
Kessler International, a computer forensics company from New York, conducted a study of used hard drives available on eBay. Almost half of [...]

The Android Market was designed to be the one-stop shop for all G-1 users to download applications for their mobile handsets. As such, it had a great deal in common with the Apple iTunes App Store - save for one specific feature: the ability for developers to charge for their apps. Now, even that feature [...]

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
Name: SnapMyLife
Quick Pitch: SnapMyLife is a mobile-web community for instantly saving, sharing, and discovering [...]

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Eyes too burnt out from staring at Excel to keep up with everything happening on Lifehacker? These things happen. Make it a little easier on yourself by subscribing to the top stories feed. Want a little more content than the Top tag provides? Try creating your own custom feed to get only the content you [...]

On any given day, there are thousands of people snapping iPhone photos and uploading them to Flickr. So many in fact, that the iPhone is one of the top five cameras. That’s amazing - but not for the reasons you’d think. It’s amazing because the default process of getting a photo from the iPhone [...]

Remember when you were young and you were tasked with the role of wagon leader and solely responsible for the fate of your fellow pioneers as you traversed the dangerous trail connecting Independence, Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley? If you’re anything like me, you failed miserably at your duties, with settlers dying off faster than [...]