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“GameBox For Facebook” Tunnels Facebook Games To The iPad | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | Love them or hate them, one thing holds true of games: they’re crazy addictive. So addictive, in fact, that full-grown adults are having trouble pulling themselves away from the social network, all because of a few virtual strawberries. Luckily, a new app has emerged that will let you play some of your favorite Fac... |
Tesla’s Q2 Earnings: Steady As She Goes | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | has released their shareholder statement for Q2 2011, and while it doesn’t make for the most exciting reading, it’s at least full of fairly good news. They’ve been on cruise control for quite a while now, if you will, designing and testing their sedan, but there are plenty of pitfalls that could have afflicted the p... |
Clearwire Adopts LTE, Not Ditching WiMax Just Yet | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | Wow. Clearwire has just dropped a bit of a bombshell today, so I’ll spare you my usual theatrics: the operators of the nation’s first 4G network, having sensed the momentum that its LTE rival is gaining, has that they will add “LTE Advanced-ready” technology to its previously WiMax-only 4G service. Of course Clearwir... |
Web.com Buys Domain Registrar And Hosting Company Network Solutions For $560.8 Million | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | Internet services company Web.com has domain registrar and hosting provider Network Solutions for $405 million in cash plus 18 million shares of Web.com stock, valuing the transaction as $560.8 million Network Solutions, which is currently owned by private equity firm General Atlantic, provides domain registration, ... |
NYC Photo Hack Day Is Coming: NASDAQ To Feature Winners In Times Square | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | It’s an established fact that tweeting about your breakfast is a serious faux pas, on par with ‘Liking’ your own Facebook status update. However, recent trends indicate that tweeting a of your breakfast is perfectly acceptable, and in some cases, even encouraged. Your friends don’t want to about your oatmeal — but ... |
ComScore Picks Up Adxpose For $22 Million | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | Web measurement firm has acquired online ad verification service for $22 million. Originally founded as Mpire in 2005, the Seattle-based startup switched from a widget advertising platform called to an ad campaign measurement tool last year when it recapitalized with a infusion from DFJ and Ignition Partners. ... |
Google Rips Into Microsoft, Apple, Oracle For “Bogus Patents” And Trying To “Strangle” Android | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | In the past, I’ve been critical of Google who are actively attempting to screw them. Today, they’re no longer dancing. In , Google SVP and Chief Legal Officer takes shot after shot at Google’s competitors. By name, he calls out Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle. What’s this all about? What else? Patents. “I have worked... |
QuBit launches OpenTag, a free site tagging system designed to disrupt the market | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 8 | 3 | The world of ‘tag management’ is not exactly a sexy one, but it’s vital for working out the stats and analytics around web sites. These days sites can be running hundreds of tags tracking advertising and pretty much everything you can think of. The problem is, if you open the hood it’s a mess in there, and nearly all o... |
NewMe Accelerator, Aiming To Encourage Black Tech Entrepreneurs, Has Its First Demo Day | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | Yesterday someone asked me whether the reason most of my avatar photos are silly is because otherwise I would have to deal with people constantly bringing up the fact that I don’t “look” like I should work in technology, meaning that I’m a (relatively not nerdy) woman. While I had never consciously thought about it, th... |
New Intel Ultrabook Reference Models Could Undercut MacBook Air Significantly | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | When Intel launched its initiative, we were excited: a full-on PC notebook the size of a MacBook Air? Promises of and danced before our eyes, sexy but overpriced. Could this new spec be the one that makes our Air-toting friends jealous? Unfortunately, few ultrabooks have surfaced, and those that have . And just ... |
Early 3DS Price Drop At Wal-Mart Could Enable Savings Plus “Ambassador” Perks | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | Nintendo recently had an epiphany, owning up to the slow launch by — . To make up for shafting early adopters, Nintendo has also said that anyone who has bought a 3DS before the price drop hits (on August 12th) will be eligible to receive 20 free virtual console games. But what if I told you that you could get a 3... |
Netflix Hits A Million Subscribers In Canada | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | Rejoice! It only took 10 months for Netflix to rack up in Canada. They launched in September of 2010, and in July a lucky Canuck by the name of Amanda, in the province they call Manitoba, became their one-millionth subscriber. She wins a lifetime subscription to Netflix’s streaming service and a lifetime of people as... |
Fake John Doerr Tips Us About Cool Twitter Photo Search Trick | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | It’s not every day that John Doerr sends us an email into our tip box. In fact, he didn’t send one today either, but someone using his name did. (Yeah, we checked with the real John Doerr, it wasn’t him). The Fake John Doerr wanted to tell us about a cool new search shortcut on Twitter.com. If you type in “sp” anyw... |
Texas Instruments Promises All-Day Battery Life With 2013 OMAPs | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | Since battery technology isn’t really enabling us to pack more than a few watt-hours into our portable devices, companies like Intel, Nvidia, and Texas Instruments are working hard at making their chips and processors more efficient. Apple is acknowledged to be the leader here — their vertically-integrated device creat... |
On Deck Raises $19 Million To Connect Main Street Businesses With Capital | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | , the platform that helps connect small businesses with capital, has raised $19 million of its own in a series C funding round. The startup raised $15 million back in January from and recently added another $4 million from SF Capital Group, a New York–based private investment firm. As part of the new funding, SF Capi... |
DSLR Controller App Lets Your Android Device Call The Shots | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | Using your phone as a remote for your DSLR isn’t exactly the newest idea out there — a ton exist for iOS — but Android historically hasn’t seen that same kind of love. There have been attempts to make it work, some than , but a common theme among them is that you weren’t able to run the device directly into your cam... |
How the King of Kerry plans to disrupt the design industry with Tweak | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | The small coffee shop on the corner, competing with the Starbucks across the street with a lame leaflet. The local chemist that has to place a print ad next to a national chain in the local paper. Globally and every day small businesses destroy their credibility because either they don’t have access to professional des... |
Google Announces Plans To Bake Android-Like Web Intents Into Chrome | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | There’s a lot of innovation going on in the browser wars these days, with huge strides in features and performance from all the top vendors. And there’s a new feature on the horizon that’s going to make web apps even more powerful and flexible: Web Intents, which will allow web apps to communicate with each other. Toda... |
Microsoft Responds To Google’s Response To Microsoft’s Response | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | If you thought that Microsoft and Google, two massive public companies, would quickly and quietly retire behind the scenes to continue their fight after their over the past couple of days, you’d be wrong. Well, maybe they are fighting behind the scenes too, but the pissing match continues in public as well. Good for ... |
Through the looking-glass for String and Augmented Reality | Monty Munford | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | At the Century Club on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue they don’t take kindly to members or their guests using their laptops or mobiles in the rooftop restaurant, but they seem to make an exception for Augmented Reality demonstrations. While in previous visits I have spoken softly into my phone or surreptiously used my lap... |
LinkedIn Now Adding Two New Members Every Second | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | In LinkedIn’s as a public company, CEO Jeff Weiner revealed that LinkedIn is adding two new members every second, which is up from In Q2 alone, LinkedIn added 14 million members, after passing the 100 million mark earlier this year. Weiner also said that the network is now north of 120 million members, so LinkedIn... |
Apple Takes Lead In Smartphone Shipments, But Samsung Is On Its Heels | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | According to from IDC, shipped more smartphones than any other manufacturer in Q2, stealing bragging rights from a struggling . With 20.3 million units shipped, Apple managed to nab a 19.1 percent market share, representing year-over-year growth of 141.7 percent. and Nokia followed behind, with and bringing... |
LinkedIn Share Buttons Now On More Than 100,000 Sites | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | It is an unwritten law of the social web: One detail that caught my eye in announcement today is that those LinkedIn share buttons are now on 100,000 sites. The proliferation of those buttons (we use them here on TechCrunch) helps populate people’s feeds in LinkedIn and creates another reason to visit the site. I w... |
LinkedIn Beats The Street In First Quarter As A Public Company; Revenue Up 120 Percent To $121M | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | For the first time as a public company, professional social network LinkedIn is its second quarter results today. LinkedIn’s revenue for the quarter came in at $121 million, which is an increase of 120% compared to $54.9 million for the second quarter of 2010. Net income for the second quarter was $4.5 million, compa... |
Google Responds To Microsoft’s “Gotcha”: They’re Diverting Attention With A Trick That Failed | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | This back and forth between Google and Microsoft is getting good. Yesterday, Google calling out Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and others for using “bogus” patents to . Some of the patents Google’s Chief Legal Officer mentioned included the ones Microsoft acquired from Novell (not to be confused with Nortel, which happ... |
1.6-Terabyte Smart Optimus SSD Reads A Gig Per Second | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | Enterprise hardware company Smart Modular Technologies has that appear to wipe the floor with pretty much everything out there. It comes in capacities from 200GB all the way to a current record capacity of 1.6TB. And not only is it the biggest single SSD available, it also is the fastest, using a Serial Attached SCSI... |
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Yet Another Questionable iPhone 5 “Spy Shot” Pops Up | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 4 | We’ve seen a . We’ve seen a . Now, meet: the oddly angled, questionably skewed iPhone 5. This shot comes from , and has been blasting off around the blogs all morning. Guigsh claims that he had hands-on with the device for “only 2 minutes” with “pictures forbidden”, all taking place “in the office of a French operat... |
Tencent Vs. Sina: A Look At Who’s Winning The Battle For China’s Tweets [Infographic] | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | China currently has the most Internet users of any country in the world, with some connecting to the Web. Some even put that number as high as 485 million. Granted, China has a population of just over 1.3 billion, which means only 32 percent of its population is using the Web, a percentage far lower than the U.S. a... |
Turn An Email Into Snail Mail For Free | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | I’m currently looking at an email from US Airways customer support, where the only return contact info available in the email is a physical mailing address WTF — And a visit to the US Airways website reveals a similar on snail mail. I mean, who does that? Still? Granted a little bit of on site digging reveals, gasp, ... |
Mini RFID Device Stores Personal Medical Data, Makes It Instantly Accessible | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | Japan-based chemical and tech company has developed a small healthcare product that should make life for paramedics, emergency doctors (and patients) easier: the portable device (pictured) makes it possible to instantly access all medical data on a specific person with a PC or smartphone, via RFID. Asahi Kasei uses t... |
StyleSeat Is Yet More Proof There’s A Market For The “Opentable For X” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 5 |
Earlier today when we about UrbanSpoon trying to get a piece of pie, this quote from Urbanspoon VP Kara Nortman really struck me, “Two years ago, an online reservation system required a massive upfront investment,” she said, now claiming that building a similar platform is as simple as setting up an iPad/iPhone ap... |
The Startup You Want To Work At The Most Is Your Own | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | By now it is a common axiom in Silicon Valley small talk that good engineers are, at the moment, murder to come by. While the most prominent talent battles have thus far been between Facebook and Google, I was curious whether there was a specific smaller startup that everyone wanted to work at. So I set up a poll ask... |
Study: Some ISPs Still Hijacking Search Results (Lawsuit Follows) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | Try this: open up a new tab and type “kindle” into the address bar. Chances are it will send you to a Google search results page. That is, unless the ISP is intercepting such rogue queries and doing what they will with them. A pair of computer scientists at UC Berkeley have found that , the result being that, for exam... |
After Auction, Dropbox Close To Choosing Investors — Round Could Put Valuation At $10 Billion | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | We’ve known for weeks now that has been talking to investors about . The company, which has in a seed and Series A round in 2007, has been seeking something between $200 million and $300 million, we’ve heard. But now we know a bit more. And we’ve heard something from one source that is nothing short of shocking. D... |
Review: The Cask Widge | Scott Merrill | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | Happy ! I just finished celebrating by brewing ten gallons of smoked stout, and I’m looking forward to a draught of blonde ale from my kegerator later today. I’ve been homebrewing for about two years, and it’s a fun, practical hobby. Variety is the name of the game, both in terms of beer styles to produce but also in ... |
Did LinkedIn’s IPO Open the Market or Close It for Anyone Under a $5 Billion Valuation? (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | A few weeks ago I was meeting with and that pesky question of whether we’re in a bubble or not came up. In a debate both sides are getting bored with, Thiel made a point I hadn’t heard: That LinkedIn’s IPO wasn’t that opened the markets up for everyone else. In fact, he argued, it was the opposite. LinkedIn showed ... |
‘Game For Kittens’ And HeyZap Team Up For A Good Cause | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | Here’s your chance to let your kitten help other animals, using nothing other than its feline reflexes. You may be familiar with ‘ ‘, an iPhone game developed by Little Hiccup that’s exactly what it sounds like: it’s a game for your kitten (okay, so the title is slightly misleading — cats of all ages can play). And sta... |
Chrome Lion Full Screen Support Is Ready To Go In Canary, Both With Tabs And Without | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | Following up on of Google’s Chrome browser for OS X Lion, it looks like development is moving along faster than expected. Specifically, swiping gesture support has already been fully implemented (in the right direction now too), and now a proper full screen mode has hit the Canary build of the browser as well. Shortl... |
Life At AOL – The Expenses War | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | I’ve said this before, but working at AOL is my first experience working at a “big” company. I’ve watched, , as a Dilbert cartoon has come to life around me. Some of the policies and bureaucracy are useful (I’ll think of some examples, just give me a second). Some are (forced drinking events). Some are really annoy... |
Elon Musk, Dustin Moskovitz, And Eric Ries Are Ready To Shake Things Up At Disrupt SF | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | As you know, Disrupt is this September and we have some amazing speakers and judges to announce. Tickets for Disrupt SF are We have a few of the key speakers: Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Marissa Mayer, Mike McCue, and Vinod Khosla. Who else is going to be there? Well, today we are announcing a few more key speakers. ... |
Multi-Pinhole Technique “Paints” Objects With Photographs From Life | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | Take two minutes out of your day and watch this beautifully-made and interesting little short documentary about Shikai Tseng and his interesting photographic technique. Tseng uses a custom-built multi-pinhole box to expose objects, which have been coated in , to their environments. The result is a beautiful and unique... |
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BlackBerry Curve 9360 May Have Mobile Hotspot, But What About The Rest? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | The recently revealed BlackBerry Curve 9360 is proving to be a surprising bit of hardware. Not only did it (thankfully) get rid of the chintzy chrome-ish highlights of its last iteration, reports that it also packs a a more competitive hardware configuration (hello NFC!) and a little feature hidden in the settings th... |
Huge LED Wall For Playing Games On At Hungarian Festival | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | I know this is more or less just a publicity stunt sponsored by Vodafone, but that doesn’t stop me from wishing we had one of these here in Seattle. It’s an installation at the in Budapest, Hungary, and attendees will be able to play an oversized shoot-em-up called Rocket Bullet Storm, by . No joke, I’m a sucker f... |
With Its Eyes On ‘The Creative Graph’, Behance Crosses 1 Million Projects Published Milestone | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | There is a lot of creative talent out there, but for a long time, designers, artists, and creative professionals were underrepresented in the digital world. Not only that, but the Web happens to be a perfect medium for artists to showcase their talents, distribute their portfolios, and hook up with benefactors. So, bac... |
Jeff Weiner: Life in the Middle of the BUBBLE! Media Storm (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | We caught up with LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner yesterday, just after his as a public company CEO. In an we talked about the surprisingly good quarter LinkedIn had; in this one we talk about the company’s insane roller-coaster of an IPO. I asked Weiner what that week was like for LinkedIn, a company that’s usually the b... |
One Billion Shakes Later, Urbanspoon Goes After OpenTable | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 5 | One of the all-time most popular restaurant apps on mobile is Urbanspoon ( ). It is still one of the top 10 travel apps on the iPhone. The app’s signature gesture is a shake to find nearby restaurants. Urbanspoon just passed one billion shakes and has been downloaded 20 million times across all mobile platforms (iOS... |
Lookout Report: Android Malware Has Increased Significantly Over Past 6 Months | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | a company that for a number of smartphones, is releasing the results of its Mobile Threat Report. The report is based on threat and security data from Lookout’s Mobile Threat Network, which includes data collected from more than 700 thousand apps and 10 million devices worldwide. You can access the full report Lo... |
VibeDeck Adds A Free eCommerce Layer To SoundCloud | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | Last month, , which had just raised $2 million in funding for its eCommerce platform for musicians. As we wrote then, though VibeDeck is still in early development (having launched in beta 2 months ago), it’s value proposition is that it’s slick and easy to use. And the startup’s goal is simple, too: To be a low-cost ... |
Facebook Wants Your Unborn Child | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | Sometime in the past week, Facebook flipped the switch on to add your unborn baby to your list of family members via the “Expected: Child” option on Facebook profiles. Apparently too many parents were creating “illegal” fake profiles for their yet unhatched offspring — setting their fake babies’ ages to 13 instead of... |
Zune HD Gets A Handful Of New Apps | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | Yes, you read the headline correctly. The , which was recently and borged into the Windows Phone 7 brand, has received no less than new apps. We heard that the existing Zune games and apps would be , but perhaps during that process they decided to brush off a few that were still sitting in the box. are mostly ga... |
Wrist Rehabilitation Robot Helps The Paralyzed (Video) | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | The isn’t the only new healthcare from Japan we can show you today. Researchers at the have developed a model that goes in a different direction: their [JP] helps people with spinal cord injuries or those recovering from strokes. The idea is to help patients move their wrists again, a task usually performed by ... |
New Device Detects Radiation In Food Even Inside Cardboard Boxes In 12 Seconds | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | Even almost 5 months after the earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit Japan on March 11, there is still fear over radiation in food in the country. Now Tokyo-based has developed a [JP] that detects radiation in food like fish, meat, fruit and vegetables in just 12 seconds. The company says that similar systems us... |
Mr. Number Dials Up $3.5 Million From Menlo Ventures To Give You More Control Of Your Phone | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | We now live in a world of robust communication tools. Facebook, Twitter, IM, Skype, FaceTime, etc. But the one that still connects nearly everyone, the phone, remains rudimentary. Sure, phone communication has gone completely wireless, but a call is still a call. It requires dialing a number and connecting. goal is t... |
Twitter Rolls Out An Improved, HTML5 Version Of Twitter.com For iPad | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | Because the stream of realtime palaver that is Twitter needed even more ways to be consumed on devices, the company has just announced that it’s out an HTML5-based Twitter.com for iPad, and that all iPad users should have it accessible within the week. The app is full HTML5 and an improvement over the current one-pa... |
Japanese Caretaker Robot To Assist In Lifting The Elderly | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | There is much anxiety in Japan related to accommodating their aging population. Their elderly and infirm number in the millions and that figure is growing out of proportion to the rest of the country. Caring for them is naturally on everyone’s minds — including those of . And research organization RIKEN is updating it... |
Poptuit Looks To Reinvent The Android Dialer By Making It Sleeker And Smarter | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | It’s a cliche by now, but there’s no question that the launch of the iPhone in 2007 changed the future of mobile devices forever. Even the actual portion of the device saw huge improvements: visual voicemail, relatively easy contact management, and quick access to your recent calls. And, err, the dialer has looked ju... |
ValueClick Buys Personalized Display Ad Technology Company Dotomi For $295 Million | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | Online advertising company is on a bit of an acquisition spree. After earlier this year, the company is personalized ad technology company . The deal is valued at $295 million, consisting of approximately 55 percent in cash and 45 percent in ValueClick common stock. Dotomi will become a subsidiary of publicly tr... |
On The Verge Of 5 Million Users, Pulse Scores The First ESPN Deal | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | In many ways, tablet-focused readers like , , and , are the next phase of RSS readers. But they’re RSS readers that the masses will actually use because they’re actually user-friendly and oriented around experience and visuals. But because they’re so tailored for user experience, they often need partnerships beyond ... |
FCC Analysis Reveals ISP Speed Winners And Losers | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | So let’s say you walk into a Best Buy looking for a new tablet. You walk up to the guy in the blue polo and tell him what you’re looking for. After taking you to the tablet section, he whips out a handkerchief and blindfolds you. “They’re all really good!” he promises. “The one on the left is $499, the one in the middl... |
Blissmobox Wants To Help Consumers Discover Organic And Eco-Friendly Products | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | We’ve seen a number of startups emerge that are using a sampling box as a way to help consumers discover products, including , Foodzie, BirchBox and . is the latest company to join the mix with the launch of the Blissmobox, which allows consumers to discover organic and eco-friendly products that safer and better f... |
New Sony Alpha Cameras And Accessories Leaked | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | has received a boatload of information, though none of it complete, about Sony’s newest Alpha cameras and accessories. This comes hot on the heels of , showing off the upcoming NEX-7. I won’t repeat all the details here, but it’s a nice little info tease to hold you off until the rumored August 24 launch date. The NE... |
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New Layar Vision recognises real world objects and displays AR objects on top | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | Recently a few startups have started to appear with mobile apps allowing you to point a smartphone at an object and view some kind of augmented reality object or information associated with it. Usually they’ve done this by being activated by some kind of QR code or similar. Others have started to appear with apps where... |
“Cut The Rope” Sequel Will Be Called “Cut The Rope: Experiments”, Launching August 4th | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | While Angry Birds tends to get all the credit for being the game that has endlessly owned the App Store, it’s not alone up at the top. ZeptoLab’s was the first game to come along and (temporarily) knock the Birds from their #1 spot back in October of 2010 — and in the months since, it’s rarely spent any time in the... |
Sprint Opens Up 4G Network to Wholesale Customers | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | The Verizon/Sprint 4G war has been shifting into high gear lately, and with Verizon’s LTE network capable of faster performance, Sprint has had to play up some of their other accomplishments to try and pick up some momentum. They certainly won’t be letting you forget that they 1) offer the first 4G wireless network fro... |
T-Mobile To Make Carrier Billing An Option For Online Purchases | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | Every phone geek loves to debate how long it’ll be before we’ve trashed our wallets in favor of paying for stuff with our phones in the real world — but what about online? Tailing a similar announcement by Verizon a few months back, T-Mobile has just announced that they’re opening up their carrier billing system to onl... |
Esther Dyson On Health Care: “Don’t Fight The System, Erode It” | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 2 | Technology polymath has always been interested in healthcare and especially how data and personal devices can make us healthier. She is an active investor in a few healthcare startups and sits on the board of personal genomics company . In the video interview above, she explains how startups can help change healthca... |
Review: Energizer Dual-Zone Inductive Charging Pad | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 20 | Energizer’s Inductive Charging pad gets rid of the wires, looks nice, and just makes getting your charge on easier. Unfortunately, the accessories needed to use the charging pad make your phone fat and ugly. Energizer’s Inductive Charger is a top-notch charging accessory, no doubt. It was a piece of cake to get it unb... |
Gillmor Gang 8.20.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 8 | 20 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Seth Goldstein, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — sat in awe of Apple’s massive hammerlock on the tablet market. What the New York Times called 97% of the purchased category became crystal clear as HP folded its cards and went home to an uncertain future. @seth, founder ... |
Revenge Of The Killer Script Kiddies! | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 8 | 20 | They’re out there. Be afraid. They could be anywhere, everywhere, anyone. They are shadowy, deadly, mysterious, guided by intellects . Security consultants and antivirus firms whisper legends of them to their clients to scare them straight. They are the Voldemort of online security, except that everyone is all too eag... |
The Daily Show On How Chain Bookstores Can Compete With The Internet | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 20 | [tc_dailyshow id="394761"] Borders’ bankruptcy has further underscored a major shift in the way people consume the written word, namely in pixels as opposed to print. As our chain brick and mortar bookstores inevitably go the way of our chain brick and mortar video stores and record stores, the ever-sharp Jon Stewart... |
Is “Jupiter” the Future of Windows…PC, Phone &Tablet? | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 20 | Is Silverlight , or is it the future of Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows Phone? This is a question weighing on the minds of legions of Microsoft developers right now – developers who were once promised that Silverlight was the answer to their cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility woes, only to be later informed... |
Editing Community Kibin Helps You Proofread Your Writing Fast And For Free | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | I am primarily writing about this startup because I need it desperately, and because it is the problem I would attempt to solve if I ever decided to flip the switch and become a startup founder instead of the personification of “those that cannot do write” or whatever. Unlike or earlier Web 1.0 professional editing se... |
Codecademy: A Slick, Fun Way To Teach Yourself How To Program | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | You’ve read the inspirational posts on Hacker News. You’ve purchased the recommended books. You’ve bookmarked the online tutorials. You even plopped down $80 on a set of instructional videos, promising yourself that the investment would only make you more motivated. And for some reason, you don’t know how to program.... |
Activision: Social Game Company Valuations “Out Of Whack” | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | With for upstart tech companies, it’s not just naysayer pundits crying “bubble.” Activision (Activision-Blizzard, to be precise) is skeptical of the numbers being put forth for competitors like Zynga and Rovio, whose billion or multiple billion dollar valuations put them out of reach for easy acquisition. Perhaps the... |
YouTube’s Now The Latest Place To Start Your Hangout | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | One of the niftiest features of Google+ is its group videoconferencing app called Hangouts. Not only is the service free, with support for ten simultaneous users — it also attempts to negate the awkwardness that’s often associated with coordinating video calls by making the experience more casual and free-flowing (any ... |
Kickstarter: EEG-Based Telepresence Robot Controller | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | You’re probably familiar with telepresence robot or two. We even had one rolling around the TechCrunch office for a while. They generally have fairly simple navigation interfaces: forward, back, turn left, turn right, and some controls for the camera and speaker. The trouble is that these controls are generally accesse... |
HP To Apple: You Win. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | As I write this, I’m sitting in a cafe. Around me, there are five people on laptops — four of them are MacBooks. Four other people are using tablets — all four are iPads. Welcome to the Post-PC world. That phrase was one of the first things that today when I heard the that HP was not only their TouchPad and Pre w... |
Okay HP, Let’s Make Some Lemonade | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | This morning, HP After spending $1.2 to acquire Palm, they announced that they were killing off the development of all smartphones and tablets running Palm’s webOS platform — including the just launched TouchPad. Having survived for just before its death, it’s tragic that TouchPad lived just day longer than the ... |
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Salesforce Posts Record Quarterly Revenue Of $546M; Raises Guidance | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | Salesforce just posted its Q2 2012 earnings today, record quarterly revenue of $546 million, which is up 38% Year-Over-Year. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share increased 3% year-over-year to $0.30. Analysts EPS of $0.30 and $529 million for revenue. Subscription and support revenues were $509 million, an increas... |
Mobiado’s Grand Touch Phones: Android For The Stupidly Rich | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | The Canadian luxury buffs over at have been churning out obscenely expensive (not to mention obscenely designed) phones since 2004, and if you were to look at their line-up, one thing would become immediately clear: none of them are worth the price. , after all. That said, Mobiado is trying something new with their ... |
HubSpot Buys Social Media Management Platform And App Directory Oneforty | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | HubSpot has social business management platform . Oneforty originally two years ago as an app store for Twitter, the startup undoubtedly filled a hole in the media platform. The brainchild of , the startup provided a comprehensive e-commerce marketplace where third-party developers on the Twitter platform can se... |
HP Beats The Street, Q3 Revenue Up 2 Percent To $31.2B, Cuts FY11 Outlook | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | After to purchase software company Autonomy, HP than expected third fiscal quarter 2011 initial financial results, posting $31.2 billion, an increase of 2 percent from $30.7 billion one year ago. In the third quarter, preliminary GAAP diluted earnings per share (EPS) was $0.93 and non-GAAP diluted EPS was $1.10. An... |
Don’t Miss Out: Last 5 Days To Get TechCrunch Disrupt SF Early Bird Tickets | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | Disrupt SF is going to be huge. There are only 5 days left to get the best price on tickets, so be sure to get your early bird tickets now . We have just announced and you can continue to follow along with our announcements of speakers on the Disrupt SF site . Some of the speakers who will be joining us on the Dis... |
Bring On The Google Hardware Labs | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | In their statement regarding the , Google said that they would “run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.” I understand that to mean that they simply be devouring them, firing redundant personnel, and Borging all Moto functionality into the Google name and brand. On the other hand, they’re not just going to let ... |
Android Phone Owners Use Their Devices For An Hour A Day | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | has found that Android users tend to spend over an hour a day on their phones. Sixty-seven percent of their time is spent “working” with apps while the rest is spent on the mobile web. Forty-three percent of those apps are top 10 Market apps while the top 50 apps are used 61 percent of the time. The rest of the apps –... |
It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones And The TouchPad | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | Brace yourselves, webOS fans. In the hours leading up to their Q3 conference call later today, HP has just confirmed that they will be discontinuing operations surrounding the TouchPad and all webOS phones. This news will come as a rather huge punch to the gut for webOS die-hards (myself included, though you can’t say... |
My Old Friend, AT&T, Still Bringing The Scumbaggery After All These Years | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | January 19, 2011. It’s a day I’ll always remember. It’s the day I finally got to destroy a Horcrux that had been bringing into my life: AT&T. That’s the day I finally cancelled my AT&T service after years of dropped calls, non-existant service, gross over-charges, and all around frustration. I even did it I knew fo... |
Just Give ‘Em Away. Buy A Samsung HDTV From Best Buy, Get A Samsung Android Tablet | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | Best Buy and Samsung are going to move a few more Galaxy Tabs next week. Starting on Sunday, if you buy a top-tier Samsung 3D HDTV for $1500 or $2000, you’ll also go home with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. So, in other words, if you buy an over-hyped HDTV, Best Buy is going to unload a GalTab on you. Sounds great for the ... |
Foursquare Now Lets You Check In To Official Events, But You Still Can’t Create An Official Event Yourself | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | Foursquare has announced today that people , which is weird because people have actually (unofficially) been checking into events for a long time. I mean just look at NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s check in to something called . Conceptually the “hack” is easy enough for a politician to do — Just creating an event masqueradin... |
My Virtual Boyfriend Is Awkward, Funny, And STD-Free | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | Dating sucks. Nine out of ten times, your suitor is a jerk. The other ten percent of the time, they pretend not to be a jerk only to show their true jerk-like colors a few weeks later. This is the world we live in, and there’s really nothing we can do about it. Oh wait… That’s right. There’s an app for that. Straight ... |
SocMetrics Questions Google+’s Mainstream Reach | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 18 | A few days ago, traffic analysis firm Experian Hitwise of a study of over 10 million online users, and concluded from its findings that Google’s new social network, Google+, was headed into mainstream territory. While not entirely disputing that data, social media monitoring firm , comes to a slightly different conc... |
Disney Inks Deal with Greenbox, Chinese eCommerce Is Taking Off | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 8 | 27 | A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can’t innovate, and the only goods they make are cheap, toxic rip-offs our Western brands. They want to believe the only reason the Chinese economy is surging is because the West wants cheap goods and China knows how to make them that ... |
Native Or Web? Bizness Apps Adds HTML5 Platform To Let SMBs Create Their Own Apps — For Both | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 27 | , the startup that gives small businesses the tools to quickly and easily build mobile apps, launched in October 2010 and has been growing like gangbusters, reaching over 1,000 applications, 10 languages, and over 20 countries in less than 9 months. to give SMBS the ability to create and seamlessly add contact forms,... |
Hell Hath No Fury Like A SuperPoke Pets Player Scorned | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 27 | This past Thursday, Google decided they had had enough of their Slide experiment. Even though it had since they spent $200 million+ on the social apps startup, they brought the hammer down, (Prizes.org). The casualty list included Slide projects both new and old. And that sucks for apps like Photovine which . But ... |
Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Saw Nearly $50 Million In Revenue In 2010 | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 27 | We’ve known that mobile ad network Millennial Media in 2010 from 2009 and achieved profitability. But we didn’t know how much the mobile ad network brought in, until now. In the recent Millennial revealed that it saw $47.8 million in 2010 revenue, up over 3,000 percent from 2007 revenue of $1.5 million. And while w... |
Connected | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 27 | “They have Internet in Europe?” my friend in the US joked via Facebook Messenger, as I checked into Foursquare from the Athens airport. Yes Virginia, they do have Internet in Europe, or Greece specifically. In my case I had to buy an expensive worldwide data plan for my iPhone before I left the US, and then watch it li... |
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