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HTC: The Thunderbolt And Droid Incredible Will Be Updated to Gingerbread In September | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 31 | Good news, HTC Thunderbolt/Droid Incredible owners! You’re gettin’ some Gingerbread! It’s a bit late in the game (Gingerbread been around for nearly 10 months, after all) but HTC has just announced that both the Incredible and the Thunderbolt should be updated to Android 2.3 sometime in September. As usual, there’s n... |
Speaking Of Dropbox, Here’s My No. 1 Phone Prank | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | Everything’s candy and roses for Dropbox today as the company simultaneously breaks out the expensive champagne and whispers “no comment” to anyone . No matter, though, I’m right here cheering them on, too. That’s just how I roll. High fives, all alone, but there in spirit. Anyhow, all this reminiscing about the young... |
HP Discovers The Wonderful Power Of Scarcity, And The TouchPad Lives On | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | Hot damn, I want one of those . Why? Because they’re sold out! Perception of scarcity is a fascinating human condition. It’s one of the first things we learn as children – that running towards something is usually a guarantee that you won’t get it. But act like you don’t want something, and it’ll come running to you. ... |
Robot Vacuums: Roomba, Smarbo, And Now The Smartphone-Controlled RoboKing | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | When did the robot-vacuum world become such a crowded space? It’s starting to sound like a monster movie: . But it makes sense, when you think about it. We already have “robots” that wash the dishes and make our coffee. Cleaning the floor is just a different set of problems for a machine to solve. And after the smash ... |
Salesforce Adds Realtime Chat, Screen Sharing, And Groups To Chatter; Debuts HTML5 Mobile App | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | Salesforce’s ‘social network for the enterprise’ Chatter has been the company’s first real foray into incorporating social with business functions. Salesforce Chatter back in November of 2009, and the application into public beta in June 2010 after four months in Salesforce has said publicly that Chatter has been... |
“Respect Explorer’s Heritage” | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | When photos started circulating yesterday of the new interface for Windows Explorer in Windows 8, I was sure they were a joke. Surely, this was an mock-up. Or maybe they were from some Apple fan making fun of Microsoft’s design aesthetic in which more is quite often… more. I mean, there’s no way that this is somethin... |
EA Exec: New Playstation And Xbox “Hard For Me To Conceive” | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | While gaming company higher-ups for the direction the industry is taking, they do tend to view the sector as an RTS commander views his troops and resources. What they tend to lack in taste and on-the-ground wisdom, they make up in sobriety and larger trends. So it’s no surprise that Frank Gibeau, head of EA Labels, ... |
Hands-On: Samsung’s Galaxy S II For AT&T, T-Mobile, And Sprint | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | Since February, we’ve been waiting for our turn with the Galaxy S II. With the handset floating around Europe and Asia, it’s been hard to remain patient. But today is the day: the U.S. versions of the Samsung Galaxy S II are here and we’re ready to get up close and personal at Samsung’s media event in NYC. Just how di... |
Marvel At Sony’s Microscopic OLED Electronic Viewfinder | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | One of the marquee features of Sony’s , which by the way look excellent, is the new electronic viewfinder. I’ve never been particularly attracted to these things, preferring the mirror-based optical viewfinder on DSLRs or simply the large, bright LCDs on the back of most cameras. But (despite its flaws) changed my m... |
Pro Tip: Do Not Buy An iPad From A Dude In A McDonald’s Parking Lot | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | Asteroid. The iPad is an awesome device, but it costs money. Even second-hand models often command more than a new Android tablet. They’re just that much in demand. But look, if a guy, moreover a guy with as the police report states has a , says he’s selling iPads he purchased in bulk for $300, takes $180 instead, you... |
Help Us Celebrate TC Gadgets And Mobile At Our First San Francisco Meet-Up On 9/15 | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | San Franciscans, start your thrusters. On September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at in sunny SF. Sponsored by Samsung, this meet-up will be the first chance for our readers to get ahold of some of Samsung’s latest products including the just-announced Galaxy S II. It is an ev... |
Kno’s Textbooks Is Top Back-To-School iPad App With One Download Every 8 Seconds | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | As students start going back to college, they are downloading Kno’s new app for the iPad in droves. It is currently the No. 1 iPad education app, No. 2 grossing iPad app overall, and a top-25 free app (more popular than even the Kindle iPad app). The app is being downloaded once every 8 seconds. The map above depi... |
Samsung Officially Announces The Galaxy S II For T-Mobile, Sprint, And AT&T | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | It’s coming! It’s finally coming! After months of gallivanting around the world with launches everywhere from South Korea to Canada since May (plus a one day delay thanks to Hurricane Irene) Samsung’s Galaxy S II Android superphone is finally heading to the US. , Samsung used their press gathering in New York today to ... |
TC Cribs: A Magical Journey Through Box.net (In The Cloud) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | We’re back for a new episode of , and this time we’re scoping out our first enterprise company: . Don’t worry, despite what you may have heard about enterprise software, this office isn’t dull in the slightest. In fact, it’s loaded with lush greenery, oddly placed stuffed animals, and unicorns abound. Even better: ... |
Zurb’s Reel Lets You Get Instant Feedback On PowerPoint Presentations | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | Think back to the last time you put together a PowerPoint presentation. Try not to shudder. If you’re like me, you probably had a few moments when you wondered if the slide you were working on made sense — or if it was even worth including at all. You may have turned to a coworker to get their opinion, but they didn’t ... |
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Samsung Chromebooks Drop In Price: Deadpool Or New Models? UPDATE | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | The long-awaited finally hit retails in June but they’re already seeing significant price reductions. Both Acer and Samsung entered the market with modestly priced options with the Samsung models commanding a slight premium. But not anymore. Amazon just dropped the price on the Samsung Chromebooks by 7% to 10% with t... |
OnLive Teams Up With GameSpot To Embed Game Demos In Reviews | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | Game reviews are always inadequate, in that while they can describe how it feels to control your guy, or how the level design is frustrating, you can only kind of get it. Video reviews help, but you can never be sure you and the reviewer are on the same page — more so than with books and movies, I’d say. and GameSpot... |
HP: We’re Producing One Last Run Of TouchPads To Meet Demand | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | Ten days ago, HP announced that it was going to be liquidating its TouchPad, the WebOS-powered iPad competitor that launched early this summer. When it first launched the device was going for $500; a later price drop to $400 didn’t do much to help sales. But the liquidation sale sure did. The new pricetag: $99. All To... |
Sprint Galaxy S II Photos and Specs Leaked Hours Before Announcement | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | Whoops! With just a few hours to go before Samsung finally announces the details surrounding the U.S. launch of the Galaxy S II , things are starting to get leaky. At least three variants are expected to be debuted tonight: one each for T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint. Thanks to the last-minute leak of a Sprint training man... |
Zynga Debuts Newest Facebook Game: Adventure World | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 30 | Zynga just a trailer for its newest social game on Facebook— . According to the game’s Facebook page, the game’s tag line is ‘team up, explore lost worlds, unearth adventures in Zynga’s newest game, Adventure World.” From the video, it looks like the game is developed around a number of different puzzles, maps, and ... |
Talkatone iPhone App Now Lets You Make Calls Through Facebook | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | , the service that make phone calls over Wifi and 3G for free with Google Voice has expanded its offerings to Facebook with its new app release. As of today the Talkatone iPad and iPhone apps now let you call your Facebook friends using VoIP over Wifi and 3G networks and let you receive free push notifications for Fa... |
Riots Get Mapped On Google As London Burns | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | I can’t quite believe I am writing this. London is my home town, where I was born. For whatever reason – a flashpoint around the by Police on Thursday? Social deprivation? Youth unemployment? The economy? Boredom? Good weather? Easy access to the ability to organise online? Frankly take your pick – London is turning ... |
Facebook Clusters Topics In News Feed, Opens Can Of Worms | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | Facebook has been trying to figure out its News Feed since it launched in 2006, and of course because it’s Facebook every time it changes absolutely anything it seems to throw users into tumult. Earlier today the company in its quest to try to make sense of the sheer amount of realtime data it processes: Aggregated T... |
Video: Functioning CNC Mill Created From LEGO | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | While I may have created some sweet spaceships in my days constructing , I never guessed how serious people would get with their blocky creations. , , even a and a . So I shouldn’t be surprised that someone has created a CNC mill with their Mindstorms NXT set. It looks a little bit shaky, I have to say, so I doub... |
Get Ready For A Photo App Explosion With iOS 5 | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | At this point, it’s already clear that the iPhone has become camera many people use on a daily basis. The iPhone 4 is now (and that’s true even though it’s being undercounted — ). And apps like Instagram, Hipstamatic, and Camera+ are , despite being iPhone-only. But some upcoming changes in iOS 5 point to an even... |
Down Goes The Internet… Again. Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Foursquare, Instagram, Quora, Reddit, Etc | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | Are you trying to use the web right now? Just stop. It’s largely broken. As indicated by about 20 tips in the last few minutes and pretty much all of Twitter, Amazon’s EC2 service appears to be down. That means services like Reddit, Heroku, Foursquare, Instagram, Fab, Quora, Turntable.fm, Netflix and many, many others ... |
Why No AMD-Powered Smartphones? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | With companies chomping at the bit to enter the growing mobile space and take advantage of the opportunities therein, it’s almost more intriguing to explore why some companies throw their hats in the ring. Case in point: AMD — the second largest x86 processor manufacturer in the world has yet to make their play. Why ... |
Airbnb Rolls Out 24/7 Phone Support, Additional Safety Features | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | Less than two weeks ago, red-hot startup got rocked by a wave of negative press after one of its guests blogged about the traumatizing experience of coming home to her apartment to find it by a guest. Airbnb’s initial response was lackluster at best. But after a couple of , Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wrote an that ... |
Rewriteable, Non-Electric E-Paper Makes Big Promises, But Is It Really Useful? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | A new display technology called is making the rounds today. It’s developed by ITRI, a Taiwanese company that has produced and displays in the past. i2R is essentially a plastic substrate with a heat-activated liquid crystal coating: you pass it through a thermal printer and a 300dpi monochrome image is impresse... |
YC-Backed Leaky Is Hipmunk For Car Insurance | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | Launching in beta today in California is the YC-funded . Like a for car insurance, Leaky’s premise is simple enough; visit the site and you’ll be prompted to fill out an online questionnaire covering all sorts of vehicle-related questions like make, model and mileage of your car as well as demographic information li... |
Disney And Carnegie Mellon Create Motion Capture On The Go | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | By now, we’ve all seen behind-the-scenes footage of motion capture in action — and the occasional handful of colored balls, spouting off dialogue and gesticulating wildly. It used to be that such work could only be done within the confines of a studio, a closed space where a camera would have as little trouble as pos... |
YC-Funded Snapjoy Will Organize Your Photos For You (And Make Sure You Don’t Lose Them) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | As an intelligent TechCrunch reader with the gift of foresight, you’ve probably backed up your hard drive — and all of the precious photos locked inside — to at least one cloud service, just in case the unthinkable happens and you lose both your computer your local backup. But you’re unusual. Many of your friends pro... |
Twitter Officially Switches: R.I.P. Old Twitter, Long Live #NewTwitter | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | Twitter’s redesigned and feature-rich web interface (a.k.a. #newTwitter), which was , has been completely rolled out, according to a That means that Twitter users can no longer use the old version of the site, which has been the case for nearly a year. You can access more information about #NewTwitter Of course, ... |
Hackers Show DIY Defense And Disaster Response Gear At Defcon | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | I tend to think of as a sort of massive free-for-all, with thousands of hackers all trying to be the one that replaces the speaker’s Powerpoint slide with a skull and crossbones, that sort of thing. In fact, it’s just a bunch of people who like to fiddle with stuff — whether it’s security, hardware, code, or what. It... |
Man To Line Up Over A Month Early For The iPhone 5 (But Mostly For Attention) | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | Each time a new iPhone is set to hit the shelves, I get my pre-order in nice and early. Waiting in line is for chumps, right? Then Launch Day Eve rolls around, and I end up carting myself off to the Valley Fair Apple Store and camping out for 14+ hours anyway. Not for the product, mind you — it’s more so to surround my... |
Google Accidentally Posts Details About Its Next Android Search App Update | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | In a post on their Mobile Blog (since removed), today announced an update to its Google Search app for , bringing a few new features that should improve your overall search experience. None of them will change your life, but since we know what to look forward to, we might as well look forward to it, am I right? The... |
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What’s the Fastest Web Browser in the “Real World?” Chrome. | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | benchmarks division, Gomez, has just released new data from a website measurement project whose goal was to determine what the fastest web browser is in the “real world” of desktop users. The project only measured load times of users on broadband connections. The data, collected over a one-month time frame, captured t... |
This Sexy Coffee Gadget Probably Won’t Ever Exist | Jay Donovan | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | What is it? A laser cutter? A mod photo enlarger? A microscope? A tattoo remover? Nope, it’s a coffee maker, but an extremely svelte coffee maker. In fact, I imagine this little -friendly caffeine inducer would look pretty sweet in your typical “ ” or ad agency lobby. Clearly, we’ve come a long way since days of yore ... |
Y Combinator-Backed Kicksend Launches In Beta To Make Sharing Big Files A Breeze | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 8 | When it comes to file sharing, there is no shortage of tools and services to help you transfer your files, big and small. There’s the old tried and true approach on email, or using VOIP services like Skype, or cloud-based services like and , or the browser-based , to veterans like and . Then there’s newcomer, th... |
Someone Finally Made A Browser Extension That Helps You Find The Tab Making Noise | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | You know what really grinds my gears? Having 15 browser tabs open and one playing music and not knowing which one is playing music and having to scroll through all the tabs in order to find the one that’s playing music in order to kill it because it’s making you crazy and by the time you’ve killed it you’ve lost track ... |
Broadcaster Or Blogger, Cent2Cent Helps Anyone Charge For Video | Roi Carthy | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | Generally speaking, video producers have a much easier time producing content than monetizing it. This is because the monetization side of the equation has two x-factors that are hard to get right. The first being the ‘with what to monetize’ factor–that is, the mechanism that facilitates the billing aspect of the user-... |
Folding, Electric Vienna Bike Is Dorky But Practical | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | The US has yet to join the rest of the world in the large-scale deployment of powered bikes, and I doubt this particular item will change that, but it’s always worth noting when a nice, practical vehicle like this shows up. This one is called the Vienna Bike, and it’s designed by Valentin Vodev of , a design studio (n... |
CollegeBudget Brings Daily Deals And Group Buying To Campuses | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | I think it’s safe to say that Facebook is the leader when it comes to collegiate and high school social networking. I expect that won’t hurt anyone’s feelings. When it comes to meeting people at college, beer is always a good choice, or there’s Facebook, or some may now prefer . While social networking is essential o... |
“Open” Web Browsers Now Majority Of Web — WebKit Continues Rise | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | A month just ended, which means new stats. In the world of web browsers, there are two particularly interesting ones of significance. One points to “open” web browsers now in the majority amongst those that surf the web. Another points to WebKit browsers passing Firefox, to claim the number two position amongst web sur... |
Alfred Lin Considers Leaving Sequoia for Airbnb; Moritz Convinces Him to Stay | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | If you read the comments on any our about the , you’ll see plenty of people saying that Airbnb needs to take a page out of the Zappos playbook. It turns out, they tried. In the Web world, Zappos is as legendary for its US-based, expensive, top-knotch customer service as Nordstrom is for service in the retail world. ... |
Google Ventures Invests In Coupon Startup Whaleshark Media | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | had already raised in capital to roll up the online coupon space. Now they’ve raised $10 million more in a round led by Google Ventures, with some participation from previous investors. They’ve also added Homeaway CEO to the board of directors. Sharples will be useful. He grew HomeAway into a monster. He raised s... |
Not Only Do iCloud Web Apps Exist, They’re Beautiful | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | Perhaps you recall that back in June, there was some confusion as to whether or not there would be web apps for Apple’s upcoming iCloud suite of products. While we maintained from the beginning that , some were certain — something which . Anyway, this eventually led Apple to clarify that yes, . Still, it wasn’t cl... |
Porting iOS to Android: Spotlight Mobile Shares The Pitfalls And Perks | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | If you attended (or watched) our last week, you’ll remember that a lot of the discussion revolved around the of using the iOS and Android platforms. The debate was particularly interesting because it featured Matias Duarte, Android’s Director of User Experience, and it touched on everything from designing apps to t... |
TechCrunch Europe Ad-hoc #CrunchUp this Wednesday in London | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | London is sunny for a change and the river is the beautiful so let’s take advantage of it. We’re having a totally impromptu, ‘organised at the last minute’ CrunchUp/Meetup/WhateverUp meetup this Wednesday, 3rd August. The last time we did this . We’re a bit over-due for another! So we want you to come along in your st... |
iOS App Scans Printed Music Notes, Plays Them In Real-Time (Video) | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | I am extremely unmusical (on the verge of being tone-deaf) so I can’t decide whether this new iPhone app is good or bad: Japan-based musical instrument maker has developed a camera app that scans music notes printed on paper and plays them back in real-time. Dubbed [JP], the app is said to be the first of its kind.... |
What OMGPOP Learned From One Million Downloads of Puppy Love | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | It is true. Everyone loves puppies. Online gaming site wisely chose to be its first iPhone game. In the mobile game, you take care of puppies, give them to children and increase the happiness in the world. In the two weeks since launch, the game has been downloaded almost one million times already, and is among bot... |
HTC Vs. Apple, Round II: UK Edition | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | and are at it again — but this time the fight has migrated over to the UK. On July 29 in London, HTC filed a lawsuit against Apple, . There hasn’t been any word confirming that this lawsuit is tied to the current patent tussle between the two phone makers, but it would be quite the surprise if it wasn’t. We had tho... |
Airbnb Offers Unconditional Apology, And $50,000 Insurance Guarantee | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | It’s never too late to fix bad press with a straightforward, unconditional apology. That’s what the world got from Airbnb today. It was the first time that the company addressed the on its blog, and CEO offered an unconditional apology. : Last month, the home of a San Francisco host named EJ was tragically vandali... |
Start Fund And SV Angel invest $9 Million In New Y Combinator Startups | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | Earlier this year SV Angel and Yuri Milner partnered on a new venture fund, , to invest $150,000 in every new Y Combinator startup. All but one company from that class took the money. And LikeALittle, the holdout, had already taken funding from both Milner and SV Angel. At TechCrunch Disrupt in New York a couple of mo... |
Another Reason Facebook Wants a Web of Real Identities: Commerce | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | Last week, Facebook’s marketing head, Randi Zuckerberg, a stir when she asserted that online anonymity has to go away. But the reason large, powerful networks are pushing for a world in which our verified and authenticated identities exist online to stop cyber-bullying and to create incentives for users to behave m... |
After TV Show Rentals Fizzle, Apple TV Pivots Back To Purchases | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | A quiet update this morning to the Apple TV, seems to indicate a pretty big change in strategy. Of course, Apple would never frame it this way, but with the emphasis now squarely back on purchases, it seems pretty safe to say that the television show rental model was a failure. To be clear, there are still rentals avai... |
Make The TechCrunch Executive Assistant Do Anything You Want On Zaarly Tomorrow | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | Many of you may know this, or may not, but Michael Arrington has an amazing new assistant, . Greg came to us from Hollywood and we have been kindly teaching him the ropes of TechCrunch and what to expect. However, we are not sure we prepared him for this. Since Greg is somewhat new to San Francisco, he still doesn’t k... |
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“Blind Camera” Doesn’t Take Pictures, Retrieves Others’ Shots Instead | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 1 | This is an interesting little concept/design piece that’s more about the act of taking pictures than, you know, actually taking pictures. The Buttons camera isn’t fitted with a lens or any way to take a shot at all — but it’s shaped like a camera and has a “shutter” button and LCD screen. You hit the button and after a... |
With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 6 | “I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed.” I’m reminded of Daniel Plainview’s admission in when thinking about Google. While the company is still largely beloved by the public, sentiment seems to have turned against them amongst their peers, and even amongst many of the startups around Silicon Valle... |
OMG/JK: An Argument Over Microsoft’s And Google’s Argument Over Patents | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 6 | This week’s episode of OMG/JK is a bit top-heavy. There simply wasn’t a ton of news this week beyond the one giant fight that broke out between Google and Microsoft over the patent issue. Channeling that spirit, Jason and I get into an argument about the argument. Is Google right? Is Microsoft right? Do they both loo... |
Eric Schmidt’s Commerce Fantasy | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 6 | During conversation with friend yesterday (in which he was trying to figure out how he would hypothetically accept payments for a pizza he delivered via mini-drone helicopter) I realized how dinky our current mobile payment options are; Should he attach a iPhone and Square dongle to the delivery box? Make customers sig... |
Invite Your Friends To Google+ With New, Tweetable Link | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 6 | Google just made it easier for you to invite friends to its new social network, Google+, by providing a short link you can post on the web or share with others over instant messaging. In order to get the link, says Google product manager , you simply click the “invite friends” button on the right-hand side of the stre... |
Welcome To The Panopticon | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 8 | 6 | And so . Carnegie Mellon researchers recently combined Facebook profile pictures and ‘s facial recognition software to identify supposedly-anonymous pictures from a dating site. Now they’re planning to demo a that identifies faces by tapping into cloud-based image databases and recognition software. What’s next? Th... |
YC-Funded Interview Street Streamlines The Search For Great Programmers | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 6 | Talk to any tech company and they’ll tell you that hiring quality programmers is an incredibly difficult task — the smaller companies often have a hard time getting in front of the best candidates, and the large and ‘hot’ companies are inundated with applications, many of them sub par. is a new Y Combinator-funded sta... |
Gillmor Gang 8.6.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 8 | 6 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — talked patents and PR, Spotify, and everything except Google+ for the first time in weeks. It’s not that G+ has jumped the shark; in fact, it is the shark on which realtime video streaming will emerge when YouTube finally goes live. It... |
The Web Is 20 Years Old Today | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 6 | That’s right – the world’s first website, a placeholder page written by Sir Berners-Lee way back on August 6, 1991 in the then-nascent Hypertext Mark-Up Language, is celebrating its 20th birthday today. And, on this important anniversary, we ask what hath the web wrought? In the past two decades we’ve been given ecomm... |
Daily Crunch: Movement | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 8 | 6 | Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories:
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CouchSurfing Raises $7.6 M; Will Users Cry “Sell Out”? | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | is one of those rare Web companies– like Mozilla or Craigslist– that has eschewed the normal Silicon Valley values of growth, greed and venture capital. Started in 2004 and smaller than some for-profit iterations it inspired, the company has turned away investment offers for years, happy to focus on doing right by its... |
Steve Jobs the Patron Saint of Perfectionists | Saul Hansell | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | The most amazing thing about Steve Jobs and the revival of Apple he engineered over the last 15 years is so improbable it is. Most of the digital innovations that have transformed our lives have been logical outgrowth of increasing power and decreasing cost of semiconductors. Someone was going to invent personal comput... |
Intuit Partners With Verizon Wireless To Sell Square-Competitor GoPayment At Retail Stores | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | Inuit’s reader, which competes directly with is making a significant move in the mobile payments space today, with Verizon Wireless to sell its credit card readers in Verizon Wireless’ 2,300 retail stores and business-to-business sales channels. two years ago, GoPayment offers a complimentary app and credit card... |
EscapeCapsule Lets You Use Your iPhone 4 In Water, Sand, Mud, Snow, And Other Gross Stuff | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | There really should be no argument when I say that a case for your is nothing short of necessary. Unless you’ve got cash to burn, the iPhone is just too damn expensive to leave unprotected. The only problem is that most of them make your phone pretty clunky, which sucks since Apple works hard to make the iPhone as sl... |
Apple’s COO Tim Cook Replaces Steve Jobs As CEO | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | Apple’s Steve Jobs has from his position as CEO and Apple has just that COO has taken over as CEO. As COO, Cook was responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple’s supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries. ... |
Steve Jobs: The End Of An Era | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | We all know the broad strokes: a boy is born to a graduate student and her Syrian boyfriend. She places the boy for adoption. He comes to live with Paul and Clara. The boy grows up in Santa Clara county. It’s flat, lots of one story buildings, mostly middle/upper middle class, outside of the bad parts. Parts of it are ... |
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Blue For Facebook Sure Looks Like Color’s Next Hue | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | Sometimes the need to test outweighs the need for total secrecy. I’m going to assume CEO shares that belief. The past two days has been filled with some seemingly bland pictures. But they’re not bland — they’re test pictures. And they’re sent from a new app called “Blue”. I don’t know much about the app itself, b... |
Mobile Payments Company Boku Expands Direct Carrier Billing Deals In France | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | Today, mobile payments company is launching direct carrier billing agreements with two of the largest mobile carriers in France— Bouygues Telecom and SFR, offering over 32 million French customers the ability to pay for virtual goods and services using only their existing wireless service account. Historically, mobil... |
Social Enterprise Company Jive Files For $100M IPO; 2010 Revenue Was $46M | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | Social enterprise giant Jive has just and will raise as much as $100 million in the offering. Modeled to offer Facebook-like features to enterprises, Jive’s software combines computing with social collaboration to offer fully-featured social networks for businesses. Its suite of applications help businesses collabor... |
Steve Jobs Resigns As CEO Of Apple | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | Title says it all. More to come. For now, the letter from Steve Jobs himself: To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come... |
Facebook Turns To Stack Overflow To Power Developer Forums | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | If you’ve ever roved around Facebook’s developer forums, you may have noticed that — aside from being loaded with complaints and bug reports — they’re pretty basic. There’s nothing wrong with them per se, but they feel like a pretty generic forum install, and not a hub for developers on one of the web’s most popular we... |
Screw You, GameStop. | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | We’re through, GameStop. I turned a blind eye when you offered me peanuts for a game that you were still slinging used for bucks shy of full retail. I shrugged it off when your employees endlessly pressured me to pre-order games that I didn’t want I set foot in the store. I laughed when I was turned away for trying t... |
Acer Lost Almost $250 Million Last Quarter Alone, Remains Stoic | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | Acer, recently the world’s second-largest shipper of PCs, has had a rough year. But in March by upper management to abandon their goal of dethroning HP and instead focus on making better, more distinguishable products. The result: . At least they knew it was coming — but losing millions of customers and a huge propo... |
Zillow’s Q2: Revenues Up 116 Percent To A Record $15.8M, Hits Profitability | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | Real estate listings site Zillow reported its first earnings as a public company today, after in mid-July. Zillow record revenues of $15.8 million in the second quarter, up 116% year-over-year. Net Income for the quarter came in at $1.6 million, compared to a net loss of $2 million in the same period a year ago and... |
Samsung: We’re Not Buying HP’s PC Business | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | Since HP made the announcement it would be , there have been questions over who would scoop it up. A number of different OEMs fit the bill and have the cash to take on HP’s Personal Systems Group, but one in particular seemed to be looking for an outsourcing partner before HP ever made its announcement. that Samsung... |
Tactical Messenger Bag Takes Preparedness To The Next Level | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | I’ll be the first to admit that I usually rock a man-bag on a daily basis, but rarely have I ever considered using something as hardcore as the . While my usual load-out consists of the AOL-issued work laptop and a camera, the TDM bag packs compartments for use that goes above and beyond the ordinary. In addition to t... |
RIM’s New QNX BlackBerrys Will Run Android Apps | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | RIM announced well in advance of the PlayBook’s launch that it would be able to , but , PlayBook owners still have nothing to show for it. RIM may not play the waiting game again with their forthcoming string of QNX-powered BlackBerrys though, as the word from Waterloo is that they will be able to run Android apps ri... |
Urwerk Releases A Pocket Watch For The Technophilic Dandy | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | That’s not the Terminator’s gallbladder you’re looking at there. It’s actually a pocket watch made by , a noted designer of extremely high-end timepieces for folks like to think they are Jules Verne. The watch, called the UR-1001 Zeit Device, tells the time down to (up to?) the century and even has a register for 1,... |
Disrupt SF Hackathon Registration Open! Plus Last Day for Early Bird Tickets | Tarikh Korula | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | is officially open for our fourth Hackathon, and we’d love to make it our biggest yet! We promise more pizza, more caffeine and more glory than ever. We had 700 registrants for the last event in New York — let’s top it! The format remains the same – a little less than 24 hours to create a hack on site and present a wo... |
Surprise! Sandisk Is Still Making MP3 Players | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 24 | Amazingly, someone is still making MP3 players for the mass market. I’m pleased to present the $70 Sansa Clip Zip, a tiny, portable media player that comes in 4 GB and 8 GB varieties (the 4GB model costs $50). The Clip Zip comes in 7 colors including red, blue, and orange and is compatible with almost any audio forma... |
Nikon Updates Its Coolpix Line With New High-End And Rugged Point And Shoots | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 23 | It’s been a camera-ish day today. Canon early this morning, Sony just updated its , and now here we have a bundle of Nikons just coming out. Do they plan it like this, to make things difficult for us bloggers just trying to relax on a warm Tuesday night? Well, let’s get on with it. I’ll make it quick for you. Some o... |
The Newest Version Of Yahoo Mail Now Has 100 Million Monthly Active Users | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 23 | The latest version of Yahoo Mail up to users a few months ago and the company is a new milestone today—100 million monthly active users. Additional features in the new version of Yahoo Mail include integrated notifications and messages from Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and other email providers within the interface. Ya... |
Slovenia Launches Supervizor, An Official Public Web App For Monitoring Public Spending | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 23 | The threat of corruption is ever-present in areas like government spending, where miles of red tape, billions in assets, and a legitimate need for secrecy at times presents a potential trifecta for would-be defrauders. Slovenia, only a few notches lower than the of course upstanding USA on , is no nest of vipers, but ... |
Sony Updates Alpha And NEX Line With NEX-5N, NEX-7, A65, A77 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 23 | It’s been difficult to avoid news about Sony’s new line of digital cameras these past few months. Leak after leak has exposed body designs, lenses, sensor sizes, and other specs. They’re all official now, though, and while I won’t subject you to a case-by-case analysis of which rumors were on and off, I will say they w... |
Fukushima Robot Operator’s Blog Deleted – Internet Steps In | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 23 | An anonymous blogger known only as S.H. has been posting detailed daily descriptions of the at Fukushima. The blog included technical details and personal anecdotes, but nothing sensitive to national security. In early July, however, the blog was discontinued and later deleted altogether. The videos S.H. had uploaded... |
Former HP Global Gaming Head Rahul Sood Talks About Acquisitions, Brands, And Palm | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 23 | Curious to find out the possible thinking behind HP’s recent actions, we began to look at the parallels in past behavior by tech giant HP. The most interesting example comes from VoodooPC, one of the first high-end gaming PCs for the mass market. Led by Rahul Sood, HP bought VoodooPC in 2006 and the last product to com... |
About.me Wants You To Be The Face Of Its New Times Square Billboard Ad Campaign | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 23 | Personal profile startup , which is by our parent company AOL, is looking for the and is kicking off a contest to feature profiles housed on the site in a new ad campaign. For background, About.me free profile pages. On your dedicated profile page, can include your name, bio and links to Twitter, Facebook, Linke... |
MakerBot Takes $10 Million In Funding From Foundry Group, Angels | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 23 | , creator of home 3D printers, has from a number of investors, the bulk coming from Foundry Group. Also included in the round were Bezos Expeditions, True Ventures, and RRE, along with a dozen or so angel investors. The company started in 2009 with around $75,000 in seed money, and since then has put together and sol... |
One Year Later, Facebook Killing Off Places …To Put Location Everywhere | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 23 | It was almost exactly one year ago that Facebook , their location-based offering. Reading the press at the time, you would have thought it was going to be the Foursquare-killer, the Gowalla-strangler, the Loopt-beheader, etc. Nevermind that Facebook with all of them for the launch — those guys were done. Fast forwar... |
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