Toshiba sings NAND Flash's praises, thinks you should too

Have you taken a moment today to stop and thank NAND Flash for existing? No? Well, Toshiba would like to say tsk, tsk. Today the company launched a full-scale campaign to promote this storage technology -- and by full-scale we mean a dedicated "25 Years of NAND Flash" website, a "NAND Flash Deprivation Experiment" video series, new Facebook and Twitter accounts and a Toshiba Excite 10 giveaway. We must have missed the memo that NAND was dangerously underappreciated, because we're still trying to figure out why it needs a marketing campaign of its own. Toshiba has a slew of laptop refreshes and the Excite 7.7 and 13 tablets just around the corner -- and that interim period between announcement and launch date can be killer -- but somehow talking up NAND Flash doesn't seem the right course of action. Take a look at the campaign's first video below the break and decide for yourself.

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Britney Spears: Sort of Dissed By The Wanted!

Just a few days after calling Christina Aguilera a bitch (a total bitch, to be more specific), The Wanted is dishing on Britney Spears in less-than-glowing fashion.

The British boy band said in a radio interview yesterday that they were told "not to even look" at the pop princess when they opened for her in concert.

Spears' camp denies, and is far from pleased with the claim.

"What's even more interesting than these false allegations is the fact that they have claimed to be picked on by two female pop stars in just a few days," her rep says.

"Look out Lady Gaga, there are still three days left this week."

The Wanted said the Spears incident happened while Siva Kaneswaran and their tour manager were looking at a laptop in a hallway. Security ordered them to turn away, supposedly, because Brit was about to come through, they said.

"We faced the wall for about 10 seconds until she got really far away," Kaneswaran said.

When the DJ said they were probably just "messing" with the group, Kaneswaran insisted, "It was serious." His band mate Jay McGuiness did acknowledge that "When we actually met her person to person she was so down-to-earth."

It sounds like Britney had zero inkling of any bad blood here. Spears even tweeted a photo of them together (above), saying "Love them!"

More like loved them.

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Did Scalado Invent RIM?s Time-Defying BB10 Camera Tech?

Remember that retro time-defying camera app that RIM unveiled alongside a few other BB10 features? You should — it happened this morning. Well, it would seem that the ability to search back through frames captured before the actual moment you pushed the shutter button has already been done. Nope, not by Apple. Not by Motorola, HTC, Samsung, or Nokia either. It's been done by Scalado, an imaging technology company known for their Remove and Rewind tech, among other things.

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Birst Lands $26M From Sequoia, Hummer Winblad To Bring Big Data Analytics To The Masses

Birst, a San Francisco-based startup that offers on-demand business intelligence and analytics solutions for companies big and small, has raised $26 million in series D financing, led by Sequoia Capital. Existing investors, including Hummer Winblad and DAG Ventures, also participated in the round, bringing Birst's total funding to $46 million.

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16th Annual Webby Award Winners: The Complete List

The 16th annual Webby Awards are upon us, and Mashable has an exclusive list of all the winners.

Considered by many to be the Internet's Academy Awards, the Webbys honors online media in four categories: websites; interactive advertising and media; online film and video; and mobile and apps.

Each category awards two prizes -- the Webby Award, which is chosen by the International Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Webby People's Voice Award, which is chosen by the public in an online voting system. A record 1.5 million people voted online this year.

Some of this year's notable wins include Pinterest, Spotify and Google+ -- all first-time winners -- as well as Facebook, which beat out Twitter, Kiva, YouTube and Change.org in the category of "People's Special Achievement Webby for Social Change."

This year marks the first time the award is being given to honor the Internet as a driving force in advancing and organizing societies around the world.

Another 2012 Webby highlight is Instagram, which is being honored as the "Webby Breakout of the Year" in light of its billion dollar acquisition by Facebook.

Icelandic singer-songwriter Bjork is receiving recognition for her album Biophilia, which incorporated touchscreen technology in a multi-dimensional, digital album.

Juliette Lewis and Graydon Sheppard are both receiving special "Best Actresses" awards for their wildly popular YouTube series "Sh*t Girls Say."

Mashable is humbled to receive the Webby Award in the "Best Blog - Business" category.

Award Name Webby Award Winner People's Voice Winner Activism Counterspill Counterspill' Animation Address is Approximate Chipotle's Back to the Start ' Art PhotoSeed Google Art Project' Associations Downtown Seattle Association Website All Art is Advertising' Augmented Reality The Sound of Football 'Model Pick Up' Automotive The 21stCentury Beetle - Rock 'n' Scroll. The 21stCentury Beetle - Rock 'n' Scroll. Banking/Bill paying Manilla 'Manilla' Banner Campaigns Homeless Banners 'X3 launch' Banner Singles Be Ridiculously Long Lasting Banner 'Be Ridiculously Long Lasting Banner' Beauty and Cosmetics YSL Experience 'Glamour.com's Beauty Channel' Best Copywriting Dear 16-year-old Me 'Prius Goes Plural' Best Editing Plot Device 'Michael Jackson: Behind the Mask' Best Home/Welcome Page Visit Norway 360 'Sesame Street Muppets' Best Individual Performance President Bush Reacts to Osama Bin Laden's Death with Will Ferrell 'Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Star Wars' Best Integrated Media Plan The Inside Experience 'State Farm "Thanks 9/11 Tribute"' Best Navigation/Structure The 21stCentury Beetle - Rock 'n' Scroll. 'Google Music' Best Practices Dropbox 'Dropbox' Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics Draw A Stickman 'Draw A Stickman' Best Use of Device Camera Super 8 'Skype' Best Use of GPS or Location Technology Google Cannes Heatmap 'Keeping 15 Million People Connected for Safety' Best Use of Interactive Video Jameson1780.com 'Jameson1780.com' Best Use of Mobile Video TED iPad App 'Hulu Plus app' Best Use of Online Media The Chase HTML5 Experience 'Nike Back for the Future' Best Use of Photography God's Lake Narrows 'Beyond 9/11' Best Use of Social Media The Museum of Me 'Old Spice Mano a Mano en el Bano' Best Use of Video or Moving Image Asos Urban Tour 'TED.com' Best Visual Design - Aesthetic Kinetic Fanzine Vol.1 'Google Music' Best Visual Design - Function The 21stCentury Beetle - Rock 'n' Scroll. 'Pinterest' Best Web Personality/Host 7 Minutes in Heaven with Mike O'Brien 'Sonia's Travels' Best Writing (Editorial) newyorker.com 'The Onion' Best Writing Onion News Network's "How To Get A Guy To Notice You While You're Having Sex With Him" 'Onion News Network' Blog - Business Mashable 'HuffPost Business' Blog - Cultural The 99% 'Know Your Meme' Blog - Political FiveThirtyEight 'It's All Politics' Branded Content The Creators Project 'K-Swiss Branded Entertainment THE MOST AMAZING BEAT BOX VIDEO EVER 'K-Swiss Celebrity/Fan MTV O Music Awards 'Conan O'Brien Presents: Team Coco ' Charitable Organizations/Non-Profit The Pine Ridge Story 'Amnesty USA' Comedy: Individual Short or Episode Siri Argument 'Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Star Wars' Comedy: Long Form or Series Drunk History Christmas with Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey and Eva Mendes 'The Key of Awesome' Community I Had Cancer 'Tumblr' Consumer Electronics Urbanears 'HTC Sense' Corporate Communications Google Music 'Google Music' Corporate Social Responsibility Ben & Jerry's Fair Tweets 'Ben & Jerry's Fair Tweets' Corporate Social Responsibility Campaigns Nike Back for the Future 'Nike Back for the Future' Cultural Institutions United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 'United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ' Documentary: Individual Episode I will never be cut': Kenyan girls fight back against genital mutilation ''I will never be cut': Kenyan girls fight back against genital mutilation' Documentary: Series Sundance Channel - Beginnings 'Often Awesome The Series' Drama The Confession 'The Confession ' Education & Reference Khan Academy '50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic' Education The Human Body App 'TED.com' Email Marketing Forgot Your Password 'Alice: Madness Returns Launch Email' Employment Glassdoor - an inside look at jobs and companies 'Freelancer' Entertainment (Tablets and All Other Devices) Super 8 'Weird Al Yankovic "When I Grow Up"' Entertainment (Handheld Devices) The Numberlys 'The Onion's iPad App' Events & Live Webcasts TribecaFilm.com 'YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 Grand Finale' Events EducationNation.com 'Sundance Film Festival' Experimental & Innovation Google Wallet 'SwiftKey' Experimental & Weird The Future of the Book 'Creating the Nebula' Family/Parenting BabyCenter - Best Parenting Website 'BabyCenter' Fashion SHOWstudio 'Vogue.com' Financial Services Mint.com/Intuit 'Mint' Food and Beverage Foodily 'The End' Game or Application SPENT 'Domino's Pizza Hero' Games androp "Bell" music video game 'Disney Games' Games (Handheld Devices) Heineken Star Player 'The Adventures of Timmy: Run Kitty Run' Games (Tablets & All Other Devices) MINI Maps 'MINI Maps' Games-Related Game Trailers 'TwitchTV' Government NASA Web Site 'NASA Web Site' Green Counterspill 'National Geographic Environment' Guides/Ratings/Reviews Yelp Mobile 'Yelp Mobile' Guides/Ratings/Reviews 9/11 Memorial Guide 'Yelp' Health Medify, Inc. 'LIVESTRONG' How-To and DIY Rethink Your Man Reminder 'Lifehacker ' Humor The Onion 'Cracked.com' Insurance Allstate Teen Driver 'State of Chaos' Integrated Campaigns Germany will find you 'Old Spice Mano a Mano en el Bano' Integrated Mobile Experience SHO Social App for iPad 'Sony Xperia Studio' IT Hardware/Software frameratefest 'Dell Do More (B2B Site)' Law CitizenshipWorks 'CitizenshipWorks' Lifestyle Epicurious.com 'Epicurious' Lifestyle (Handheld Devices) Beef Essentials iPhone app 'Epicurious' Lifestyle (Tablets & All Other Devices) Unstuck 'Unstuck' Magazine Wired 'National Geographic Magazine Online' Mobile & Experience Marketing Ariel Fashion Shoot 'I Went To Moma And...' Mobile Advertising Microsoft Windows Azure iPad Ad 'Uncover Your World' Movie and Film Indiewire website 'Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures' Music Spotify 'Pandora' Music The Creators Project The Creators Project Music Pitchfork 'Pandora' NetArt BLA BLA 'PostSecret' News The Daily Beast 'BBC News website' News (Handheld Devices) Flipboard for iPhone 'NPR' News (Tablet & All Other Devices) Bloomberg Businessweek+ 'The Daily' News & Politics: Individual Episode The VICE Guide To Congo 'The VICE Guide To Congo' News & Politics: Series Revolutionaries: Egypt's Transformers 'Al Jazeera English: The Stream' Online Campaigns Touch the Rainbow 'Old Spice Mano a Mano en el Bano' Online Commercials Google Chrome: Dear Sophie 'Google Chrome: Dear Sophie' Online Guerilla & Innovation Take This Lollipop 'Birds On Twitter' Personal Blog/Website Clouds 365 Project Captur?e Pharmaceuticals Ask A Patient 'GoodRx' Politics FactCheck.org 'FactCheck.org' Professional Services SoundCircus 'The IdeaLists' Public Service and Activism Dear 16-year-old Me 'Undercover at Smithfield Foods' Radio/Podcasts TED.com 'TED' Real Estate PadMapper 'Apartment List' Reality Periodic Table of Videos 'Dog Park' Religion and Spirituality Fervr 'Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly' Restaurant Beast and the Hare Restaurant Website 'Chef Marc Forgione' Retail ASOS 'Fab' Rich Media: B to C Intel - The Escape 'Nike Free Arena' Rich Media: Non-Profit/Educational A New Warrior 'Amnesty - Slide to unlock' Rich Media: Promotional Google Chrome: Dear Sophie 'Google Chrome: Dear Sophie' School/University Chicago Portfolio School 'A Window on a Creative World' Science Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering 'Wired Science' Self-Promotion/Portfolio The Work of Robert Jaso 'School of Visual Arts' Shopping (Handheld Devices) Target iPhone App 'Target iPhone App' Shopping (Tablets & All Other Devices) Fab.com app Fab.com app Social (Handheld Devices) Flipboard for iPhone 'Flipboard for iPhone' Social (Tablets & All Other Devices) Skype 'Skype' Social Media Pinterest 'Google+' Sports Nike Training Club 'WatchESPN' Sports Egypt, football and revolution 'Arctic Hoop Dreams' Sports ESPN.com 'ESPN' Technology Picturing Science: Museum Scientists & Imaging Technologies 'CNET TV' Telecommunications Huawei Mobiles 'Nokia Swipe' Television HBO Connect 'Hulu' Tourism NYC The Official Guide 'Greenland' Travel FlightBoard 'KAYAK' Travel KAYAK.com 'KAYAK' Travel & Adventure From Peru for Peru 'From Per?? for Peru' Utilities & Services (Handheld Devices) Evernote 'Evernote' Utilities & Services (Tablets & All Other Devices) Zillow Real Estate App 'Shutterstock for iPad' Variety Lynn Hirschberg's Screen Tests 'TEDTalks' Video Remixes/Mashups Nike Better World 'Tim Tebow - "All He Does Is Win"' Viral I Hope This Gets To You 'Muppet Show Theme Song by Ok GO' Viral Marketing Cat 'Draw A Stickman' Web Services & Applications Dropbox 'Dropbox' Weird I Found Money Today 'Kim Jong-Il looking at things' Youth Sesame Street Muppets 'It Gets Better Project' ? ? ? People's Special Achievement for Social Change ? 'Facebook'

The 2012 Webby Award winners will be honored at a gala in New York City on May 21. You can see a full list of this year's nominees at WebbyAwards.com.

Are you pleased with this year's winners? Sound off in the comments.

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Sweden Journal: A Long Road For a Breath of Fresh air

The Swede and two halflings safely aboard the plane to Sweden.

Strangely, we arrived in Sweden without any major problems. It was as if when boarding the plane the world breathed a sigh of relief for us ? if the world revolved around my family anyways. Our luck is pretty average, the typical 50/50 chance of either going shit-hits-the-fan or ending fairly well. This probability increases linearly with how people are in our traveling party, though. And exponentially when traveling with children, doubled when traveling by air! And already, days before leaving the country, our luck seemed to sour.

Tuesday evening we lost pressure in our bathrooms and the chain holding the toilet plunger to the handle was caught under the plunger. For several hours the toilet thought it must keep filling up with water, and well, when it has no where else to fill, it flows over? We didn?t know until we got the kids ready for bed around 8-9 at night, so it had been flowing steadily for a few hours and spilled into the storage space behind the bathroom, thankfully. One of the few times I?ve been happy my house isn?t entirely level. We sacrificed several rugs and fleece blankets to mop up the water. Come to think about it now, I think I left them hanging over the porch rails?. oh well.

Linda got a plumber the next day and apparently he fixed the pressure problem, but that same evening the problem remained (the chain under the plunger was obviously an easy fix, and a separate issue). So, basically, we said fuck it and left it in the hands of our realtor to coordinate with the plumber to get it fixed. We were leaving early the next morning so there was nothing more we could do. Fun times!

Other problems were more minor and typical of last minute crap that comes up when moving. We couldn?t fit everything in the luggage we had so throwing out old clothes and sneakily discarding stupid kid toys (shh! don?t tell them!). My trash container was overflowing and we ran out of trash bags so I left all our food in the cupboards and fridge. I slipped in a generous tip on the counter for the cleaning lady with a note to use, donate or discard ANYTHING in the house she could find. This included the 2 twin beds, queen mattress, laptop table, several empty plastic storage bins and FSM knows what else.

The house has been on the market since October and our local market seems almost dead. We?ve had 5 showings since then and lowered the price more than $20,000. We?ve resigned to taking a (big) loss on it. Sadly, my parents were enormously generous and helped us to make the down payment for our first house and I will not be able to recover all of their investment no matter what. The house is already listed for $19,000 less than we paid for it. Renting it out is hardly an option where we live and now we are mostly ashamed of the situation and just want to be rid of the burden.

On Wednesday I had to trade in our cheap, compact rental car for a larger SUV (no minivans or cargo vans were available in a 60-75 mile radius) to drive from Beaufort to the Newark airport in New Jersey. Taking our dog with us necessitated that we take a direct flight to Sweden and the only option for that in the US are with SAS airlines from either Newark or Chicago. My brother lives halfway in DC, so we chose Newark.

When I made the reservation with Avis about a week ago, they said they could reserve a Dodge Durango for me on that day, which would have been just big enough to fit 4 people, a ton of luggage and a large dog crate (with dog). Of course when I got there all they had was a Ford Escape. Not quite the same thing as a Durango and it looked like it would not even fit the crate, much less all the luggage! I was, of course, rather pissed off. The man at the counter explained that I reserved something in a certain class (the Escape was class F) and they were comparable. I tried to tell him that he was full of shit in slightly nicer words (the Durango happened to be in the LARGER class size S, by the way). So, even if his argument was true he wasn?t even right. He sympathized with me though and gave me a pretty deep discount and we reserved another cheap, compact car just in case we were forced to drive 2 cars to fit it all.

When I got home, we found the crate just fit snugly in the back of the Escape and we tried to fit the luggage around it all. The only way it would work with one car was to strap all the large luggages to the top of the car. I was not very happy about this since it was a long way, over 2 days, and it forecasted rain along the route. Nevertheless, I went to Ace hardware and bought some bungees and a tarp and we went to town on it. The smaller luggage went in the backseat and footwells and with the 4 us (2 kid seats) we fit in as snug as a bug! It was quite impressive and not too uncomfortable either. Thus, we canceled the second car and set out for Fairfax, Virginia, Thursday morning.

This is when is the travel gods smiled upon us and our luck improved greatly. As soon as we drove out of our driveway I could feel the change. We were leaving and would likely never be there again. Not that I don?t want to, but realistically I doubt that we would see our old home after this. It became the start of an adventure and the end of a stagnant life. We needed to live our life as if it were an adventure again, and not a chore. Just knowing that before us lies complete uncertainty makes our future feel bright. I have absolutely no clue what I?m going to do hereafter. I just hope my family and I have fun and never lose our sight on what?s truly important. I think this is more the swedish way. That life is to be lived and work or employment is a means to live life, not the life itself. I don?t know if Sweden is the cure, but it is part of the journey to figure out how I can live a good life, build a lovely home for my family and support it well.

Swedish word of the day: Lagom - just right, moderate

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