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Attention hackers and designers! This weekend,Aviary, a startup that offers a free suite of online photo-editing tools andGeneral Assembly, (one ofthe 5 coolest coworking spaces in New York City) will be hostingPhoto Hack Day, the world’s largest photo hackathon, right here in NYC. The photo hacking is going down this weekend, August 20th – 21st, sosign up herebefore space runs out. Best of all, tickets are free, so you can even stop by just to see who’s hacking!...

3Live Shop is an incredible interactive sales system featured in the below Vimeo. The service was developed byB-Reel, a hybrid production company for 3 “Tre”, a Swedish mobile communications company specializing in 3G that offers both businesses and individuals mobile telephony, mobile broadband and a range of mobile services. This extremely high-tech system was developed completely within flash but it looks relatively easy to use, letting users interact with customers through video and touchscreens....

Some travelers want to go back to pre-crackberry times when they’re on vacation. There’s evena new hotelthat asks guests to surrender all gadgets in Pennsylvania. Often times, vacationers want to soak up the sun, listen to the waves and gorge themselves on lobster tails and champagne–without checking-in on Foursquare or snapping photos on Foodspotting. But then there are those always plugged-in travelers, toting the latest gadgetry, seeking hotels that are ahead of the curve, technologically speaking....

Yesterday marked the start of the officialroll out of the Mangoupdate to Windows Phone 7. Needless to say, fans of the mobile line were quite excited. But lost in the hubbub, it seemed, was the lack of a certain feature. Tethering, as only a few noted, missed the launch. What gives? We now know. If you recall, news about tethering in Mango came outin August, when a Samsung Focus was shown with the option enabled....

The Wall Street Journal is reportedly gearing up to release its own digest-style news app, according toCapital. The app will be called What’s News, after the news briefs column that adorns the paper’s front page. It will be a paid app and is designed to build up subscriber loyalty for The WSJ. All of the content will be curated by the paper’s journalists and will offer a breakdown of important daily news stories....