Bits don’t have expiration dates. But memories will only live forever if the media and file formats holding them remain intact and coherent. Time can be as deadly to data storage as it is to carbon-based life forms. There are lots of ways data can die: YouTube can pull a video offline before anybody…

It’s too easy to pat Google on the back for taking such a firm stance against China . The two behemoths’ fingers are twitching by their sides, ready to whip their pistols out. But what of the repercussions on the spectators? It wasn’t until January 2006 that Google.cn launched, with their …

We’re used to Google and other search engines decorating their homepages for special occasions, and this St Patrick’s Day is no different with various doodles, graphics and costumes marking the holiday around the web. Google, Bing, Ask and Yahoo are all hyping the craic in honor of the …

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: Lunchwalla Quick Pitch: Social planning website that…

At last night’s “Bigg Digg Shindigg” in Austin, TX, Digg CEO Jay Adelson briefly revealed plans for a massive overhaul of the social news site. This morning, I had an opportunity to chat with Adelson in-depth about the new Digg and what users, publishers, and the web as a whole should expect…

What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most probably, you log into various sites that require a username and password – Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like. For me, personally, it’s quite a chore, as I need to log into over 10 different services before I start doing…

Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires and when it comes to technology, the list includes many of the same faces we see year after year . After regaining the throne last year, Bill Gates has once again been displaced as the world’s richest man — this time by …

The sharing service ShareThis is familiar to lots and lots of Internet users — thanks to its popular plugin and sharing buttons. Now the service is introducing ShareThis Stream which adds a real-time and social element to what is being shared by your friends and other ShareThis users all over the …

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: iCyte Quick Pitch: iCyte saves webpages with highlights, tags and…

So you’re fed up with Google, and you’ve got a litany of reasons. You don’t even have to explain—I’m just here to help you crawl out from under the shadow of the big G, step by step. You don’t have to be ready to commit to a full overhaul of your…