We know you’re busy. Even with every social media, web, and RSS tool at your disposal, you can occasionally miss out on some of the week’s most insightful content. Never fear. We’ve taken a moment to round up the best Mashable resources from this past week and present them …

If you’re a gadget-lover fed up of filling your home with ice white this and brushed aluminum that, then check out this selection of totally stylin’ items offering a design blast from the past. Retro, vintage, old school or just classic, whatever your interpretation, we’ve dug out ten gadgets that …

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While most of the FCC’s new Broadband plan has been about, well, broadband, there’s also some great news for HDTV fans. We expected a few mentions about CableCARD and its future when the FCC requested comments and declared it a failure , but we’re still glad to see that the FCC listened to consumer…

If you buy a 3G iPad, you’ll be able to purchase data, month by month , from AT&T. Neat! But you already pay for unlimited data access on your iPhone, also from AT&T. So why not have one plan, for everything ? This isn’t a rant about iPad data or AT&T, because …

A pair of iPads was just revealed in the FCC’s system in perfect synchrony with that little pre-order sitch with which you may or may not already be familiar. Apple, of course, has a track record of timing its FCC filings perfectly so that virtually nothing is revealed before Cupertino wants it …

Spotify is a free, legal, cloud-based streaming music service delivered via desktop software with a nice social twist. A Swedish start-up with offices in London, it launched back in 2008 in Europe and now boasts around five million users and around six million tracks from the major labels as well as a…

Google, the world’s largest search engine and the owner of the world’s largest online advertising platform, has been granted a major U.S. patent for “determining and/or using location information in an ad system.” In other words, Google now owns a key patent for location-based advertising…

A new patent awarded to Facebook this week could have some big implications for the entire social media industry. The world’s largest social network now own the patent for the news feed. Patent #7,669,123 , first unearthed by All Facebook , credits Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and seven other current and …

Sales are robust for e-readers and there is no shortage of tablets yet to launch, including the new Apple iPad . But will strong sales translate into a boost for the media industry? If media organizations do it right, the potential could be there for e-readers and tablets to become a viable …