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You can now call your Facebook friends from Skype — even if those Facebook friends don’t have Skype. Skype announced two new versions of its product Thursday: Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac and Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows. Both include … Continue reading →

Microsoft Surface, the uber-cool, yet incredibly bulky technology that supports touch and device interaction was trimmed down earlier this year at CES 2011 to become the super svelte Microsoft Surface 2.0. Now its Samsung incarnation, the SUR40 is ready for … Continue reading →

There’s no crystal ball that will tell you when the price on a certain electronic device is likely to drop, but as of Thursday there is an app. Ecommerce startup Decide is launching a mobile extension of its price prediction … Continue reading →

The ethereal beauty of our planet Earth becomes immediately evident when you watch this collection of time-lapse videos shot with a low-light camera on board the International Space Station between August and October, 2011. It gets even better when an … Continue reading →

Navigon has updated its iOS GPS navigation app with several important updates, including the possibility of downloading U.S. maps state by state. This can prove quite handy by saving you up to 1.7 GB of storage space, the size of … Continue reading →

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Verizon Wireless‘s latest ad for the iPhone 4S once again calls out competitors for inferior coverage, but this time it applies it to a life-and-death … Continue reading →

Because we’re posting this story around bedtime for many of our readers, we must warn you that you might carefully consider whether you want to watch this video of a 35-foot robot snake. This monstrous electro-mechanical beast named Titanoboa weighs … Continue reading →

Alexis Ohanian is the co-founder of social news site Reddit, founder of publisher Breadpig, helped launch Hipmunk, a YCombinator alumnus and ambassador, an angel investor, and startup adviser. He is the author of the upcoming book, “Without Your Permission.” To … Continue reading →

The Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways. With the … Continue reading →

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Steve Jobs died more than a month ago, and the media has gone through its two … Continue reading →