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ZeroCater Raises $1.5 Million For No-Hassle Office Lunches | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | Apparently TechCrunch HQ isn’t the only office that hates having to deal with coordinating lunch. Today , a startup that looks to help make your office’s lunchtime as painless as possible by handling all of the logistics for you (see our ), is announcing that it has raised $1.5 million. This new round is in addition ... |
Hulu To Start Streaming In The Land of the Rising Sun | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | Premium video streaming site has just that it’s about to make its first international expansion: Japan. Hulu is keeping mum on the details, but it sounds like it will only offer a premium subscription service (the US version of Hulu offers both premium and free content). The company now has an office in Tokyo and i... |
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CableKeeps Keep Your Jumbled Mass Of Apple Chargers Nice And Neat | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | I think we can all agree that one of the worst parts about buying a new gadget is the fact that it’s just one more thing we’ll have to charge, one more electrical socket we’ll have to free up, and one more charger to keep up with. But a new project aims to help deal with that. From a startup called Nice, I proudly in... |
New USB Spec Calls For Up To 100W Of Power, Thinks “Thunderbolt” Is A Cute Name | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | I’m sure many of our readers have come across a situation where they’d have liked USB to carry a bit more power to their devices. Your phone or iPod, charging ever-so-slowly, or perhaps an external drive that only works on “powered” USB ports — or must be plugged into a wall socket. A wall socket, in this day and age! ... |
The PenMoto, Reborn | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | We covered the PenMoto in its creator’s eye and, sadly, it was never completed as the designer, Kelvin Geis, cancelled it on Kickstarter. Well, friends, the PenMoto is back and it’s better than ever. The new project involves the same pen mount product – a magnet holds your Wacom or drawing pen in place so you can use... |
“Android for Girls?” HTC Bliss Coming to Verizon | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | Verizon is preparing to launch an Android phone targeted towards women, the HTC Bliss. The device comes in a “pretty” seafoam-like green, and will include a dangling charm that lights up when you have a missed call or new message. Oh, and here’s the best part – the phone is also rumored to ship with special women-frien... |
HP Issues TouchPad Liquidation Order – Get Yours Now For $100 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | Wow. The day after HP announces they’re , and they’ve already issued a liquidation order. Best Buy, Future Shop, The Source, London Drugs, and Staples will be selling the 16GB TouchPad for $100, and the 32GB version for $150 starting tomorrow. Well, in Canada at least. No word on when this will spread to the US, UK, E... |
Google Taking Street View To The Depths Of The Amazon | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | It’s hard to believe that Google’s Street View has . What’s more amazing, perhaps, given the rate at which they have canvassed the world’s streets and alleyways, that there is anywhere left unmapped. But while their teams have successfully traced the surfaces of most large cities and a number of other interesting area... |
Snapsort Raises $500K To Expand Its Product Recommendation Engine | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | , until today known a popular camera recommendation site, has raised $500K from undisclosed investors to expand its algorithmic product recommendation technology to other verticals, starting with cars at and phones at . Snapsort co-founder compares Snapsort’s technology to Factual and Metaweb, but tells me that its ... |
Cane 2.0: The Tacit Is Hand-Mounted Sonar For The Vision Impaired | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | Every once in a while you see an invention that seems a long time coming. The , a hand-mounted system that pings surroundings and transmits distance information to the user, is one of those. While the reliable white cane and occasional accommodations for the blind and vision impaired ameliorate the difficulty of navig... |
YC-Backed Can’t Wait Is A Mobile Social Network For Movie Trailers | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | Anyone who’s spent a late night hour or three browsing movie trailers on will understand the utility of the iPhone app. Co-founders and tell me that the app’s closest competitor is trailers.apple.com itself — and that the only way to track the updates on that site is via its RSS feed. Can’t Wait is a slick mobile ... |
Apple Sneaks A Big Change Into iOS 5: Phasing Out Developer Access To The UDID | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | Apple is making a to its mobile operating system with iOS 5, which is for developers ahead of a general release later this year. But there is one big change some developers are just starting to take notice of that Apple isn’t talking about that much. In a recent update to the documentation for iOS 5 (which is only... |
Review: Brite-Strike Rugged Flashlights | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | I was sitting outside a cafe the other day when an older man sat down next to me and attempted to assemble a flashlight he’d bought at Walgreens. It was the chintziest piece of garbage I’ve seen in a long time, and I had to help him put together this thing, which after some tinkering finally emitted a feeble glow. He w... |
Facebook Asks People To Post Questions About Interning At Facebook, On Quora | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | Yes yes I know pivoted into some kind of thing back in March but still this is sort of funny, simply because it’s the most of the Q&A space I’ve seen from Facebook yet. Hey, people interested in interning at Facebook, about it, ON . Granted Quora is a more appropriate place to discuss a nerd topic like this an... |
HTC CEO Sticking With Android Despite Google-Motorola Deal | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | That was Peter Chou’s line from right after the Google-Motorola deal was announced, and it would appear he’s sticking to it. Today, the HTC CEO has announced his intention to stick it out with Google and Android in spite of the multi-billion dollar acquisition. According to the , Chou was careful to reiterate his supp... |
YC-Funded Tagstand Greases The Wheels Of NFC Development | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | One of the more exciting technologies on the horizon is NFC, short for Near Field Communication. You’ve probably heard quite a bit about the technology already: it’ll let you simply by tapping your phone against special sensors, and it’s already been integrated into the Nexus S — with a slew of NFC-equipped Android d... |
Twitter Releases Bootstrap, A Set Of Tools To Build Web Apps Using CSS | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | Twitter has just a new toolkit to build web apps using CSS. It includes base CSS styles for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, alerts, and more. You can access on GitHub Twitter says that Bootstrap was launched as a way to provide a consistent framework for the front end of individual applicati... |
Fake Steve Jobs Biography Already Available In China | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | If you can’t wait for the , why not pick up a ? “Translated” by someone apparently named “John Cage” (presumably there are 4.33 pages blank near the middle), the book has sold 4,000 copies at $10 a pop. has a quite a bit of poorly translated info on the book, which has been out since April. No one is claiming that t... |
Microsoft: Windows Phone Mango Is Done, Manufacturers Just Need To Release It | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | Well, this is something new. Here in the tech world, we hear about after — but very rarely does a company step out and say: “Hey! We’re ahead of schedule!” Today, Microsoft was that company, and the product was Windows Phone 7 Mango. Peter Wissinger, Microsoft’s director of Mobile Business in the Nordic countries... |
LinuxCon: All About Clouds | Scott Merrill | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | Almost every single keynote at LinuxCon, and certainly every private conversation I had with folks here, involved “cloud” in some way. As Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst observed in his keynote, there’s no single definition of “cloud”. There’s no doubt that Amazon has really pioneered the default cloud offering, but there’s... |
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Kickstarter Project Empowers Students, Plays The Mario Theme With Plasma | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | This cool allows you to build a working speaker using plasma energy. It’s a little esoteric, but here’s the deal: this is a little kit that contains everything you need to play music using a plasma arc. If that doesn’t seem like your idea of a good time, you might be reading the wrong post. That said, here’s how it w... |
Turntable.fm, Scott Cook, and Instagram Will Mix It Up At Disrupt SF | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | We like to mix things up onstage at , which is only a month away so get your . One session I am really excited will be on lean startups on the day he will release his book, (you can watch a I recently did with Ries on the topic). The Lean Startup movement is picking up steam, and not just among startups, so w... |
Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 6 To Developers | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | It’s that time again! Right on schedule (with “on schedule” meaning “roughly 2 weeks since the last one”), Apple has just released the sixth Beta build of iOS 5 to developers. You know what that means: developers, get to updating (Remember: OTA updates work now!) Non-developers pretending to be developers, carry on (Ju... |
Apple’s “Inaccurate Evidence” Debacle, Part 2: Smartphone Edition | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 19 | Apple has again submitted what the blogosphere is calling “inaccurate evidence” in its case against Samsung. A photo found on page 77 of Apple’s complaint to the Hague district court in the Netherlands shows the Samsung Galaxy S next to the iPhone 3G. And guess what! Apple screwed with the dimensions once again. But do... |
HTC Vigor Spotted In The Wild, Possibly Packing Verizon LTE | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | As far as Verizon devices are concerned, the Droid Bionic probably holds the crown for “Most Anticipated Handset,” but newly leaked shots of the HTC Vigor may steal a bit of that spotlight. Rumored to be the newest addition to Verizon’s LTE line up, the Vigor sports a name that’s downright ancient in comparison: it wa... |
HP TouchPads Slated For Return To Best Buy? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | It was widely reported that Best Buy was sitting on over 200,000 TouchPads before HP enacted their drastic price cut, but the fire sale has come and gone, and that would normally be that. Instead, a notice in Best Buy’s Employee Toolkit system shows that their contentious relationship with the TouchPad may not be over ... |
Facebook Photos Get Another Size Boost | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | The web’s most popular photo sharing site is getting another update. In a blog this evening, Facebook — which is by far the biggest photo site on the web — has announced that it’s launching a new photo viewer that presents images that are 960 pixels wide, as opposed to the 720 pixels they’ve been since March 2010 (th... |
Joint Brings Group Chat To Twitter | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | About a month ago, Tom Anderson (or , if you prefer) , offering a few bits of advice for Twitter. While many of us enjoy a good Twittering now and again, Anderson pointed out that there are a few simple features Twitter might consider if it wants to boost the overall quality of its user experience. The main thrust be... |
Recording Labels Sue YouTube Downloader Website, Fail To Grasp The Insignificance Of Their Actions | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | The recording industry doesn’t have the most respectable history when it comes to lawsuits. Between for trivial acts of piracy, and asking potentially for in more serious cases, they’ve shown that they’re not only completely disconnected from reality, but totally unheeding of the actual effects of their litigation. ... |
Life Is Crime: If You Try To Shakedown My Virtual TechCrunch Office, I Will Virtually Beat You Down | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | There’s a simple fundamental reason why Grand Theft Auto exploded into a phenomenon. Everyone has criminal tendencies sometimes. And virtually indulging them is a hell of a lot better then actually indulging them and dealing with the moral consequences — or the physical consequences. Like prison. But what if you could ... |
Facebook Kills Daily Deals, But Keeps Check-In Deals | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | After announcing they were killing off their nascent Deals product this afternoon, Facebook caused . You see, with the decision to , everyone wondered what it meant for the location-based deals they launched alongside it? Those would remain alive, Facebook said at the time. But does today’s execution change anythin... |
Keen On… Kyle Dixon: No, Cord-Cutting is an Illusion (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | Much has been made of supposed in the number of cable TV subscribers. But not everyone agrees that mass cord-cutting is reshaping the industry. Indeed, according to Time Warner’s VP of Public Policy, we are seeing the “opposite” of cord-cutting with Time Warner seeing no “significant decrease” for its paid conten... |
Video: “Eyeborg” Replaces Eye With Functioning Wireless Video Camera | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | You might remember Rob Spence, known online as the Eyeborg for his project to create a working bionic eye. , and a while back, but the project has advanced to the point where even a seasoned tech blogger is left speechless with amazement. Spence has worked with a team of engineers to adapt an endoscope into a working... |
Apple Quietly Kills 99¢ TV Show Rentals | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | Bad news for anyone who was looking to rent the latest episode of Top Gear from iTunes, as Apple has quickly and quietly removed their 99¢ television rental option today. The functionality has disappeared from both the interface and the iTunes store proper, signalling a drastic shift in Apple’s pricing policy. Indiv... |
Video: This Isn’t The iPhone 5… But I Kind Of Wish It Was | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | When it comes to massive news, the past two weeks have been absolutely . ? ? ?! What better way to cleanse the palette than a quick tromp into a conceptual rabbit hole? 3D animation shop has released a concept video showing what they imagine as the iPhone of the future, and… well.. I’m ready to pre-order. [youtub... |
Prediction: Facebook Will Enter the Search Market Next Year | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | Next year, search advertising will be a in the U.S. alone, growing by 14 percent, according to eMarketer. And, if Facebook can capture half the share of that market that Google has today, it could easily add an extra $25 billion or even far more to its value. For most any CEO who could have even a modest chance of... |
Samsung Galaxy S II U.S. Variants Pose For The Camera | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | We’ve heard quite a bit about the , which isn’t all that surprising seeing that it sold 3 million units in its first 55 on the market. As people from other parts of the globe got to experience the wonder that is the GSII, we here in the States played the waiting game. But it’s so close I can almost taste the Gingerbre... |
Imagine | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | Steve Jobs and I went to the movies this weekend. It was the new Woody Allen one, the one where he remade Manhattan only in Paris. I think Steve likes these get togethers because he knows how right I always turn out to be. Me and the other 250 million people just like me. Steve Jobs is like everybody’s big brother. He ... |
IBM Assembles Record 120-Petabyte Storage Array | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | IBM Research has just set a world record in data storage by capable of holding 120 . It was done at the request of an unnamed research group that needs this unprecedented amount of space for running simulations of some sort. These simulations have been expanding in size as the datasets grow, but also as more backups... |
OnLive Adds Group Voice Chat, Parental Controls And Facebook Achievement Sharing | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | Cloud gaming service has been getting better and better. We had a blast checking out the OnLive booth , and you better believe the service’s usage will have gone up since . But OnLive isn’t resting on its laurels, as new features are rolling out today. The first on our list is Parental Controls, which is kind of a ... |
Mystery 10-Inch Sleeve At T-Mobile Suggests New Tablet On The Way | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | Well, what do we have here? Looks like T-Mobile has just snagged a new tablet accessory, but we’re not quite sure which tablet the accessory is supposed to go with. This 10-inch leather sleeve isn’t going to fit very well on either of T-Mobile’s current slate offerings: the 7-inch Dell Streak 7 or the 8.9-inch T-Mobile... |
FEMA’s New Android App Arrives Just In Time For Hurricane Irene | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | FEMA’s had a of their website available for a while now, but all that information does you no good if you can’t get an internet connection. Given the fragility of mobile networks during disasters, going without web access is a very real possibility. Enter FEMA’s , which puts a wealth of emergency preparedness informa... |
Kickstarter: Kammok, A Hammock For Outdoorsmen and City Folk Alike | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | The perception of geeks used to be that we lived in darkened houses constantly hunched over computers, never seeing the light of day. To be honest, that was me for a bit in my younger years, but these days I’ve come to appreciate the outdoors a bit more. Still, my love for fresh air is only matched by my love of lazin... |
Keen On… Krish Prabhu: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s AT&T (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 8 | 26 | In a typically forthright keynote address early this week at the Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen Forum, Clarium Capital’s Peter Thiel that our current technological progress is “decelerating and stalled out.” But not all the luminaries at the Aspen Forum shared Thiel’s pessimism. for example, the recently appoi... |
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Software Is Eating All the Jobs Too | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 8 | 21 | A few months ago I was giving a talk in my hometown of Memphis, TN, and someone asked what the city could do to ignite more entrepreneurship among inner city kids. My immediate was teach coding– even basic app building skills– along with English and Math in every public school. I was surprised that my brother– an eng... |
Skype To Acquire Year-old Group Messaging Service GroupMe | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 8 | 21 | Skype will acquire group messaging service , a service at a hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York in 2010. GroupMe was founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci. The terms of the deal, including price, aren’t being disclosed. Just a couple of months after TechCrunch Disrupt the company a $850,000 round of f... |
Another EA Exec Jumps Ship To Zynga; Jeff Karp Joins As Chief Marketing And Revenue Officer | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 21 | Zynga has snagged another EA exec today. The social gaming giant is announcing today that former EA Executive Vice President Jeff Karp is joining as Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer. This is actually a new role for the company, and one that should help Zynga as it expands as a following an IPO this fall. The move ... |
Luxemi Is A Rent The Runway For Indian Clothes And Jewelry | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 21 | Leveraging the , is launching as an e-commerce site where customers can both borrow or buy Indian apparel and accessories. The site is targeted at a niche audience of South Asian American women who don’t want to spend the money on an expensive Indian outfit, or that don’t live near a shop that sells traditional Indi... |
LinuxCon: Open Source is an Ecosystem, not a Zero Sum Game | Scott Merrill | 2,011 | 8 | 21 | Linux and open source development is not a zero sum game. This was the explicit message from Ubuntu Technical Architect Allison Randal’s keynote speech at LinuxCon, but the sentiment had been articulated in a number of ways all week long from here. The processes by which a company makes great open source software imp... |
Live and Let Die | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 8 | 21 | Apparently we are now in the endgame, the victims of information overload ready for the triumph of socially curated automation flows. You’d think people might be wary of placing big bets on impossible goals (what were they thinking at HP?) but that’s not what keeps happening. In retrospect, it seems stunningly obvious:... |
Urbandig App Wants To Take You On Expert Local Tours | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 21 | The newest addition to the local discovery app space, iPhone app aims to help you find novel local experiences. In order to do this the team, which consists of former Myspacers , Danielle Lehman and others, has pulled in the domain expertise of local bloggers like LA Weekly assistant music editor Rebecca Haithcoat a... |
Weekend Wacky Jumble Picture: What’s Wrong With This TouchPad Ad? | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 21 |
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Facebook, Twitter Drew Record Numbers Of U.S. Visitors In July | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 21 | comScore’s July traffic numbers are out and similar to , Facebook and Twitter both saw record traffic in terms of U.S. unique visitors in the month. In July, Facebook saw a whopping 162 million unique visitors, compared to 160.8 million unique vistors in June, and 157.2 million uniques in May. Twitter also posted reco... |
How Discovery Will Drive Transactions | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 8 | 21 | All year, I’ve heard some variation of this phrase: “ ” I’m still figuring out what this means. I’d like to share my thoughts on it, and I’d like to hear what “discovery” on the web means to you. First, I do not believe that there is a “shift” from search to discovery. “Shift” isn’t the right word, because people will ... |
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Meet Phabricator, The Witty Code Review Tool Built Inside Facebook | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 7 | While says his greatest accomplishment is launching many in the startup community hold that it’s – a set of open source developer applications that Priestley and others built while inside Facebook and that he intended to take on as a hobby while he looked for something else to do, after leaving the social network ... |
Planet of the iPad | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 8 | 7 | Spotify at 35 thousand feet continues to amaze. Will it upend Apple at its own game? More likely, iCloud will absorb the innovation in a more efficient combination of streaming and caching. But the inflight video is on the blink and the WiFi is cooking some Amy Winehouse and I am writing run on sentences with not a car... |
Patents and Unions: When Good Intentions Go Horribly Wrong | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 8 | 7 | Watch me ruin your Sunday afternoon with one word. Ready? Here we go. This week on we talked about the topic most of our readers equate with a long, slow, painful root canal. Or worse. Laura Sydell of NPR was also on the show, and if you haven’t listened to her episode on This American Life called go do it now. We’... |
How Visa Plans To Dominate Mobile Payments, Create The Digital Wallet And More | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 7 | It’s no secret that credit card companies are shelling out big bucks and aggressively forming partnerships and deals to start cashing in on the mobile and digital payments innovations currently taking place. American Express, which recently debuted its own , has been on the partnerships front, striking recent deals ... |
Amazon’s Answer To Apple’s Terms: A Web-Based Kindle Cloud Reader — Brilliant On PC, Better On iPad | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | Much has been made about Apple’s recent changes to the iOS terms. At first, everyone was sure that many big players , such as Amazon’s popular Kindle app. But then , and simply said that Amazon and others . Amazon complied. But at the same time, they were also working on an alternative. While Amazon hasn’t said anyt... |
Founder Jay Adelson Brings His Hard-Earned Entrepreneurship Lessons To Revision 3 | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-WqXUiQp0s&feature=player_profilepage
&w=630] Silicon Valley survivor has worn many hats in his two decades in the technology space: Equinix co-founder, Digg CEO, Simple Geo CEO and Revision 3 Co-Founder among . His latest hat? Talk show host. Yes, Jay will be starring twice... |
Kno Brings 100,000 Textbooks To Facebook, Adds QuizMe And Journal To iPad | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | “We are not trying to redefine the textbook,” CEO Osman Rashid tells me, “we are trying to redefine how you learn.” Today, Kno is taking a big steps towards making digital textbooks more social by making 100,000 college textbooks available both on its Website and on Facebook. The Textbooks for Facebook app and site... |
Facebook Just Out-iMessaged iMessage — And SMS Is More Screwed Than Ever | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | Facebook did a strange thing today: they released a mobile application separate from their main app. They’ve never done this before. But it’s genius. And it’s yet another long-term thorn in the side of SMS. Facebook Messenger is . It essentially merges the in February with their revamped Messages product. Now it mak... |
Quora Attempts To Cut Through The Noise With ‘Browse’ | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | If you’re going to go through all the trouble of streamlining your Topic pages and creating Topic Groups, you might as well develop an over-arching way to get your users psyched about Topics. a beautifully redesigned browse page that is once again an effort to prevent of user confusion surrounding ways to get to the... |
Bevy Of Apple Patents Granted, From Visual Voicemail To PCI Card Brackets | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | As is befitting a global technology empire, Apple seems to always have a great number of in moderation. The latest batch is an interesting mix, with the standout patents hailing from as far back as 2007 or as recently as 2010. The current ruckus surrounding the patent system isn’t going to die down any time soon, so ... |
Algorithmically Generated Realistic Sound On Show At SIGGRAPH | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | are hard at work on a project that sounds odd at first, but is in fact a perfectly natural extension of existing 3D and computing technology. They’re making an engine for producing the sounds of colliding objects by simulating the materials of the objects themselves in a virtual space, and then calculating the forces ... |
Developers Frustrated By Android Market Payment Issues | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | We’ve heard our share of app store woes in recent weeks, but here’s one that’s . A number of Android app developers have been claiming on the Android Market support forum that the amount of money they’re being paid doesn’t match up with the number of apps they have actually sold. The problem began on July 26, when a b... |
Shots Leak Of Acer’s New Ultrabook, The Aspire 3951 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | Just a couple days ago, we heard about Intel’s plans to offer a for their class of laptops. Essentially it’s a new blueprint with the aim of putting these new thin-but-powerful laptops (if they ever appear) under a thousand dollars — putting them in direct competition with the 2.38-pound gorilla of the laptop world... |
Twitter Photo Uploading Now Available For 100% Of Users | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | Twitter images, the Twitter photo hosting service we broke the news , has now rolled out to all Twitter users, according to Twitter Public Relations representative Sean Garrett. Users who did not have the feature before will see a camera at the far left of their status update box, beckoning that they upload an image. ... |
Hit iPad Facebook App MyPad Comes To The iPhone | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | Well, now you may have two Facebook-related apps to download to your iPhone today. The first is , a new standalone app that lets you jump straight into your Facebook Messages. And the second is . MyPad, for those who haven’t used it before, is a third-party Facebook application that includes many of the site’s core f... |
Apple’s Trade-In Program Just Got So Much Better | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | If you were thinking of dumping that old laptop, hold on a second. has just updated its , and you can now bring in any Apple product, as well as any desktop or laptop, for free recycling or even store credit. Yes, desktop or laptop, including PCs — and it won’t cost you a dime. Thanks to some keen eyes over at , ... |
Vizio’s 8-Inch Android Tablet Hits Shelves With $299 Price Tag | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | The Vizio Tablet is finally here after its at CES. wants desperately to control your home theater experience and the company’s new Android tablet is an integral part of that, acting as the central hub of Vizio’s V.I.A. (Video Internet Apps) Plus ecosystem. Acronyms aside, this means that Vizio’s HDTVs and its table... |
Keen On… What Twitter Is Doing To Our Brains (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | Not everyone agrees with Nicholas Carr that the Internet is our brains. Take, for example, UCLA Brain Research Institute professor , the author of . While Buonomano accepts that there is a “price to be paid” for the benefits of the Internet, he believes that our brains will eventually adapt to real-time networks li... |
Sparrow And Shortmail Team Up To Silence Verbose Email | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | As you probably know, . But . And . The two services are attempting to alleviate the pain that is email is two different ways. Sparrow makes email pretty. Shortmail makes email short. Today, the two are teaming up. The latest version of Sparrow (1.3.2) which has just gone live now includes support for Shortmail. I... |
DISRUPT Comes to Beijing This Fall. Buy Your Tickets Now! | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | We’ve teased you with this news and again, but today it becomes official: . In late-October we are hosting our first international DISRUPT conference, and the obvious location was Beijing, the hub of China’s surging entrepreneurial ecosystem. And we’re not stopping there. TechCrunch is also hiring local Chinese ed... |
Demand Media Buys RSS Graffiti And IndieClick; Renews Google Ad Deal For Three Years | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | Web content giant Demand Media is a number of and a renewal of its Google ad deal today. First, Demand says that it is its advertising partnership with Google. Under the terms of the three year agreement, Demand will continue to monetize its properties via AdSense for Content and the DoubleClick Ad Exchange. The... |
Use Your PS3 Controller On Your Android Phone Using This App | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 9 | One issue I’ve had with Android , with their dual cores and their gigawhats, is that there just isn’t much of a use for them. Android apps are mostly made for the lowest common denominator, hardware-wise, and aside from a few 3D games and cool (but impractical) HD video playback, you can’t really use those extra cycle... |
Next Jump Shoppers Have Burned More Than 1.6 Billion WOWPoints, Each Worth A Penny | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | CEO Charlie Kim wants you to earn and burn his company’s WOWPoints, a loyalty reward currency that can be used to pay for real merchandise. WOWPoints are redeemable for thousands of offers on Next Jump’s at a rate of one penny per point. Since it launched WOWPoints two years ago, more than 1.6 billion have been bu... |
Hulu Now Live In Japan With Subscription-Only Service | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | In what marks its first expansion abroad, Hulu is now available . As , the video streaming service will offer both TV shows and movies across various devices for a subscription of about $20 a month (1,480 Yen). Unlike in the U.S., where there are both free and premium versions, in Japan the service will be subscrip... |
Impressive List Of U.S. Investors Drops $180 Million Into Chinese Startup Incubator | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | has a fairly unique perspective on the tech industry, having spent years in high roles at Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Lee spent six years as VP of Apple’s Interactive Media Group, before moving on to be chosen as the guy to forge first Microsoft’s and then Google’s inroads into China. Then, in mid-2009, Lee left Goo... |
Google May Be On The Verge Of Resurrecting “GDrive” | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | In 2006, Google was internally testing a project codenamed “Platypus”, an online storage service. When it was during an analyst meeting as “GDrive”, it quickly captured the web’s imagination. Google seemed on the verge of transforming their servers into our own personal hard drives in the cloud. were working on thi... |
Assistly For Salesforce Launches On AppExchange | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | , the cloud-based customer support platform that’s backed by Bullpen Capital, Index Ventures, Salesforce, as well as several other angels and VCs, , along with rolling out a new pricing model that includes a full-featured version of its service for free. Today, the summer features keep on rolling out for Assistly, whi... |
Hands-On: At The U.S. Open With The Olympus E-PM1 | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | Olympus is trying to do with their new E-PM1 PEN Mini camera what other manufacturers already have: bring DSLR power to the masses. It’s their smallest Micro Four Thirds camera to date, and it’s definitely got its proverbial sights set on the mass market — and the fact that it comes in six colors certainly doesn’t hurt... |
Google Quietly Rolls Out The Chrome Extension To Bring +1 To The Entire Web | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | You may recall that back in May, in Google’s “Dear Sophie” commercial: an unreleased +1 Chrome extension. This was pre-Google+, when the +1 button , so even I forgot about the extension over the past few months. But very quietly, Google actually yesterday. There was no blog post, no featured placement in the Chrom... |
Show Your Old-School Gaming Love With These Sega Console iPhone Cases | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | I don’t always post about iPhone cases… but when I do, I prefer retro gaming ones. Sure, you could have a cool metallic case, or go all-leather, or make your phone look like R2-D2 — but when you can have a Dreamcast on the back, those other options seem to lose their luster. It’s one of those things you can have that p... |
Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 7 To Developers | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | Hey, what do you know! It’s been just shy of two weeks since Apple’s , and just like clockwork, they’re back with another serving. You guys all know the drill at this point: as usual, this Beta release is for developers (and ) only — but on the upside, that Beta version number probably won’t climb too much higher bef... |
Microsoft’s Interpretation Of “No Compromise” Is The Definition Of “Compromise” | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | On one hand, you have to give Windows chief Steven Sinofsky some credit, he’s being very open, proactive, and engaged leading up to Microsoft’s unveiling of Windows 8. And that’s great. But on the other hand, you have to wonder if he’s in the process of burying himself in a very big hole. Over the past couple of days, ... |
Today In Also-Ran Tablets: The HTC Jetstream And Sony S And P | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | Today won’t be remembered tomorrow. Nothing of consequence happened today. Steve Ballmer didn’t resign, Dell didn’t get out of the PC business and I didn’t stop procrastinating and actually go to the gym. Nope, like any other boring summer day, several products were announced, start-ups announced funding and another wi... |
Mobile TV And Video Platform MobiTV Files For $75 Million IPO | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | Mobile TV and video platform has filed its with the SEC this afternoon. In the public offering, MobiTV plans to raise as much as $75 million. For background, MobiTV was founded in 1999 and was one of the pioneers in bringing to mobile devices. The company boasts partnerships with a number of and content provide... |
Environmental Watchdog Report Calls Apple To Task For Violations | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | The ever-volatile issue of the costs surrounding globalized manufacturing looks to be looming again as a harshly critical report on Apple’s Chinese suppliers gains visibility. The report, by environmental NGO the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs ( ), is the sequel to another they released in January entitl... |
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Give Your Lady The Gift Of Glowing Power With The iNecklace | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | It’s iconic. That soft, pulsating light emanating from the button that controls life and death. Press it when it’s glowing and creativity flows. Turn it off and a little bit of your inner child dies. The iNecklace allows the wearer to capture that sense of control and wear it around the neck as a status of power. There... |
Game Closure Quietly Raises Seed Round From SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Greylock, And More | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | when it opened its private beta to the world to test out its new cross-platform HTML5 game engine and SDK. The startup has since gone on to work with multiple and to bring cross-platform, multiplayer HTML5 games to the App Store, Android Marketplace, Facebook, and beyond. According to Co-founder and CEO Michael ... |
HTC Sensation Redux To Sport Beats By Dre Audio? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | Since HTC’s in Beats Electronics, the big question was which of their snazzy new handsets would be the first to benefit from an audio overhaul. Rumor had it that the Vigor may be the first to get a taste of the Dr. Dre treatment, but according to a leaked spec sheet, it may be a refreshed version of HTC’s Sensation t... |
Impermium Launches Social Spam Index; Finds That Up To 40 Percent Of Online IDs Are Fake | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | of , a young startup aimed at zapping the Internet’s social spam wherever it hides. Not only is the startup bringing the heat to user generated spam like spammy comments, hacked accounts, and fraudulent registrations, but the startup also happens to be founded by , Yahoo’s former “Spam Czar”, as well as former Yahoo... |
YC’s Patent Pledge Asks Tech Companies To Grant Startups Patent Immunity | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | is about to wield its rapidly-growing influence in the tech community to help startups everywhere. And it’s taking on one of the hottest (and most fear-inspiring) issues around: patents. Today YC cofounder Paul Graham has written a note called in which he proposes that tech companies should commit to a straightforwa... |
Gillmor Gang: Live from Dreamforce 1:30pm PT | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | Update: The Gang is scheduled to start around 1:30pm. From the inside out, salesforce.com is a rapidly growing cloud computing company at the head of the enterprise social wave. From the outside in, the company’s annual Dreamforce conference has landed in downtown San Francisco on the Moscone Center campus. Each year ... |
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