We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series. Last week Microsoft Office bested Goo [ ... ]

Peripherals, they say, are the spice of life. Well, maybe they don't say that, but they do say it about variety, and peripherals add variety to your computing life. If you're reading this on a stock H [ ... ]

Keith Teare was hanging around the Real-Time CrunchUp today showing off his newest project - Speedi.ly. What does Speedi.ly do? One thing, very well and at scale. Speedi.ly takes a piece of content, [ ... ]

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 he [ ... ]

Extracting meaning from the Web is a difficult undertaking. Keyword search skims the surface of contextual meaning that is locked in Web pages, Tweets and feeds. That's where semantic search comes i [ ... ]

I am not sure if this is a bug or how MySQL works on validating constraints in association with ON DUPLICATE KEY (late or early checking). For example, consider the following use case (this is irrepe [ ... ]