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Any Video With PixelJunk Shooter 2 In It Is A Good Video | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 10 |
PixelJunk has it going on; as one of the premiere 2D developers out there, they would already have my attention, but since they decided to make a sweet and very original shooter, and then make a , they’ve been on my shortlist. I didn’t get a chance to drop by their corner of the show floor at CES, but , and took a l... |
A Deep Look At The Notion Ink Adam Tablet And Where It's Going | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 17 |
The might be the best tablet you’ve never heard of — but there’s a good reason for that. This kit isn’t coming from a high-profile outlet with deep distribution channels. It’s coming from a start-up fueled by nothing but raw passion. For us at CrunchGear, the Adam isn’t the fascinating part of the story; it’s the wi... |
Can Klout Actually Measure Real-Life Clout? (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | So now has a trove of cash and some big name investors. Add to that it’s solving a problem plenty of brands desperately want someone– someone other than random social media “experts”– to solve. But can true influence actually be measured by algorithms, especially algorithms that people can’t find a way to game? And i... |
The Rise Of Facebook’s Valuation From 2004-2011 [Graphic] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | The at absurd rumors of Facebook’s demise over the weekend, coupled with the Goldman Sachs Facebook investment at the beginning of this year got us thinking; Did initial Facebook investor , who invested 500K early on and thought Facebook undervalued at $30 billion back in September, make the most impressive ... |
Watch This Amazing GE Video Kind Of Explain Regenerative Train Braking | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 10 |
may not make clear what it is GE is doing to make locomotives more efficient, but it sure as hell is fun to watch. I’m guessing this isn’t one of those single-shot things, but rather is a composite shot. Not that that matters to the viewer, but I’m always curious about that kind of thing. The music reminds me of Lo... |
Bump Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | If you’ve got an iPhone or Android device, there’s a decent chance you’re familiar with , the nifty service that lets you swap contact information (and other data) by simply tapping two phones together. The service has been around since 2009, and now has 7 million active users across 25 million total installs on Andro... |
Klout CEO: We Made the Decision to Go for It (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | Klout’s funding news this morning was quickly drowned out by and then both were drowned out by Groupon’s . But for Klout, the funding round was pretty significant. In raising a surprisingly large $8.5 million, the company was singling its decision not to take a flip and to try to build a big company out of measuring... |
Bing Gordon, Kleiner Perkins Partner And Level 60 CityVille Player | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | Zynga’s CityVille is a little more than a , but it’s already the most popular application on Facebook and is nearing in on 100 million monthly active users. It makes the success of FarmVille, Zynga’s second most popular game, look shameful in comparison. Like other Facebook games, there’s a lot of pointing and clickin... |
Universal Donates 200,000 Oldies To Library Of Congress | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | It’s only fair that after giving the music industry in general , I should acknowledge when they do something right. Universal Music Group has just donated a huge collection of recordings from the 1930s and 40s to the Library of Congress, where they will be available to be listened to for free. The collection includes ... |
UK Recording Industry Says Piracy Killing Music, Despite Record Sales | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 10 |
Oh, recording industry. . This year saw increases in digital sales over in the UK — extreme increases, really — and the bulk of this BPI report is still focused on the threat of piracy. I guess if they admit they’re doing all right, they have to stop suing people. And we all know how much fun they’re having doing . ... |
Meet The Men Who Delivered CES To Your Door | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | This is the CG CES Crew: Jon Orlin, Matt Burns, Greg Kumparak, Kyle Thibaut, Devin Coldewey, and John Murillo. Nicholas was somewhere else and I was taking the picture. They are the coolest bunch of guys you’d ever want to meet and we had a blast talking to you via Twitter and UStream all last week. If you’d like to se... |
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We'll Be Hanging LIVE At The Verizon Event Tomorrow At 11am Eastern | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | We just got the go-ahead to head over to the Verizon tomorrow at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific. I’ll be attending with good old MG and a few trusting 4G dongles and higher-end cameras. Needless to say, we’ll be liveblogging the heck out of this show. Will your be answered? Tune in tomorrow. |
Need for speed – KashFlow takes its online accounting software to the desktop | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | Although browser-based apps and moving everything to the cloud is very much in vogue these days, there’s something reassuring about a desktop application and the robustness that offline access brings. This is particularly true when there’s a lot of data entry involved. Or so says , the UK-based online accounting softw... |
Motorola Hopes for 800,000 Xoom Sales Before Summer | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | Motorola’s Android 3 tablet, the , will be shipping sometime later this year, and Motorola has high hopes for it. It has , and may even raise its expectations to a million sold in the first quarter of 2011. That’s a pretty cheery outlook, considering there is no shortage of competition. T-Mobile’s G-Slate, Acer and o... |
WP7 Connector Syncs Zunes To Your Mac (Unofficially) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 10 |
Mac users have been asking for years for a version of for OS X, even if it’s a stripped-down sync utility. The Windows Phone 7 Connector app for Mac is made for use, of course, with your WP7 handset, but apparently a simple terminal tweak is all it takes to make it recognize Zunes as well. ; they’re quite straightfo... |
Adult Entertainment Expo Video: A Close Up Look At The Jimmyjane Form 3 | Nicholas Deleon | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | Ah yes, Jimmyjane. John has written about in the past, but it was left to me to step away from the fun and excitement of and check them out at last week at the Adult Entertainment Expo, known colloquially as “the porn show.” The Expo wasn’t all dudes getting autographs from their favorite adult stars (though there ... |
WITN: Wikileaks Is Dead – Long Live Julian Assange | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | After Paul’s about Julian Assange resulted in him being labelled a – not to mention receiving a couple of death threats (no, really) – he’s decided never again to discuss the founder of Wikileaks. In fact, after much consideration, he’s decided that he was wrong (as was ) and TechCrunch commenters were right: Assa... |
Make Them Stop: AT&T And Verizon Reps Are Now Fighting With My Tweet Stream | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 10 | Earlier today, I a simple observation on Twitter. “ ” That sparked an outcry from disgruntled AT&T users who more or less said in : “ Funny. And probably not too inaccurate. But two types of people I didn’t expect to respond started to: those from Verizon and AT&T. Welcome to the chaos amongst the companies that is... |
The USPTO Is Reviewing Facebook's Trademark For 'Facebook.' Wait, What? | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | So Facebook has been a bit aggressive with their trademarks in the past, most recently to The social network has also gone after companies that in their name. But the tables may have turned on Facebook, if long-distance calling company has its way. As reported last week, Talkbook filed a “petition for cancella... |
Pure Black Knife Set Is Evil-Looking, Tasteful | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 19 |
. They’re each cut from a single piece of metal and then given a grippy, non-stick black coating. It’s not really clear whether these knives are actually good knives, but I certainly wouldn’t mind having them hanging in my kitchen. Are you evil? A Sith lord perhaps? Or a gothic lolita moonlighting as a chef? I think ... |
HTC's First Tablet To Be Called "Flyer," Launch In March? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | We heard a few weeks back about a tablet from HTC called the , and we expected it to be their first entry into that particular device category. But Digitimes that they’re actually going to put out one called the Flyer first, in March, and it’s essentially a big . It would ship in March with Android 2.3 on it, and th... |
"Upstream Component Makers" Corroborate iPad 2 Retina Display | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | Whether is just an echo of the , I can’t say, but they seem to have gotten independent confirmation that the next iPad will indeed have a 2048×1536 display. Let’s take it with a grain of salt, though, until we get something a little more solid. Nothing on the , either. …Lotta white space here. I guess I’ll use it t... |
Payback: I Just Canceled AT&T By Way Of Google Voice | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | Over the past few years, I’ve been pretty vocal with my distaste for AT&T. Their complete and total incompetence when it comes to handling the iPhone in major metropolitan areas (or really any mildly crowded area) was only matched by a few of the colossal fuck-ups they’ve had with regard to some of my bills over the ye... |
Samsung Snaps Up E-Paper Tech Company Liquavista | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 19 |
It was just a few months ago that we heard Samsung was the e-paper business to focus on LCD-based systems. Those reports may have been mistaken, as the tech giant has just purchased Liquavista, a company originally spun off from Philips, and which is working on improved techniques. What Samsung’s planning is a my... |
Google Ventures Leads $600K Investment In LawPivot, A Quora For Startup Legal Advice | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | There’s no doubt that the success of startups like have propelled the Q&A space into the spotlight. And there seems to be room for other niche Quora-like sites, such as and recently launched , which provides crowdsourced legal advice to technology companies. Today LawPivot is announcing that it has secured $600,00... |
Easy DIY Foot Pedal For Your DSLR | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 19 |
If you don’t feel like paying full price for a foot trigger for your DSLR? You can make your own with a few parts if you’re comfortable with a little bit of soldering. Nothing major, but of course for someone like me, even opening a can of tuna is major. So I won’t be attempting this, but it’s cheap and easy enough th... |
How Sonos Got It Right: Up Close With A Survivor | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 19 |
John MacFarlane had a dream: to send music from one box to every room in the house. In 2002, the only way to do this – sanely – was to run speaker wire from room to room, creating an install headache or a rat’s nest of wires. His company, , succeeded at sending the audio wirelessly, a feat that has been replicated ma... |
Zero Punctuation Takes On Fable III | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 19 |
Like Yahtzee, about halfway through this, I began expecting a pleasant surprise. But like Yahtzee, I was disappointed by the arbitrary and repetitive gameplay aspects. Ah well. Back to playing . |
Google Voice Is About To Take Off: Number Porting Coming Soon For $20 | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | We’ve been huge fans of Google Voice for quite a while now — it makes screening calls and managing multiple phones a breeze — but there’s always been a huge thorn in its side: it didn’t allow people to port their existing phone numbers over. In other words, in order to take advantage of all of Google Voice’s benefits, ... |
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Which Is More Likely: Retina Display On iPad 2, Or 3D Display On G-Slate? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 19 |
So apparently there’s a bit of a rumor going around that T-Mobile’s , which had the honor of introducing us to , will actually have an 3D screen. The evidence: got word from LG that the thing would both take and display 3D images glasses-free. But others , and Engadget some conflicting information. And really,... |
YouTube Rolls Out Its New Homepage To Everyone | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | started experimenting with a new homepage last month, amping up its recommendation features so it would suggest new content you’re interested in. Today it has that experiemental homepage to all users. YouTube product manager Brian Glick tells us that the decision was made primarily because of positive user feedback,... |
Want To Top Apple's All-Time Top Paid Apps List? Sell A Ton Of Apps — Or Do This | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | Last night, that as a part of their countdown to 10 billion app downloads, Apple actually revealed the top all-time app downloads for paid iPhone apps, free iPhone apps, paid iPad apps, and free iPad apps. The top results seemed pretty straightforward, with a few oddities here or there. And there may be a good reason... |
Is Apple Poised To Take Social Seriously In iOS With "Media Stream" And "Find My Friends"? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | Another day, another iOS beta. This time, into the latest iOS 4.3 beta and found something rather interesting: hints of a would-be new feature to be called “Media Stream”. While the details are obviously pretty scant at this point, early speculation points to a more social version of iOS. 9to5mac notes that inside th... |
US, China Compare Clean Tech, Environmental Concerns at the Whitehouse | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | Today, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao revealed, at a press conference in Washington D.C., conclusions from their latest round of meetings that have taken place this week at the White House. The two world leaders have met eight times since Obama took office. Excerpts from their speeches relatin... |
Lawyer Bait: The iFrame Digital Picture Frame | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 19 |
I wonder whether the creators of this particular digital picture frame know that Apple actually has something called . I mean, sure, it’s just a really dumb (and more or less defunct) resolution, but still, if you’re going to make an , it’s good to mitigate risk by giving it some obscure name. , it’s just your usual... |
Task Management Startup Cohuman Raises $600K | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | Cloud based task management service and Disrupt Startup Alley alumnus has raised $600K in additional angel funding. Investors in the round included , , and other angels. This is the second round of angel funding Cohuman has received and is added to a $800K raised in the fall of 2009 for a total $1.4 million. On Co... |
Eyeka launches in the US so big brands can crowd-source creative feedback | roxannevarza | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | One year ago, French startup announced that it had €3 million ($4 million) to take its online alternative to the traditional focus group international. The company had raised €8 million to date and had already opened offices in Singapore. Last year, the 40-person company set-up shop in the UK and now it’s officially... |
3DS Debuts With Considerable International Price Disparity | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 19 | Nintendo has finally launched its new handheld, the , after nearly of anticipation, and as usual, has been coy about some key details. The complete launch lineup is still a mystery, and while they announced a $250 price for the US, the rest of the world has been left out of the loop. However, retailers and rumors ar... |
IMHO, Imo Is A Pretty Great Way To Chat. Today Brings A New Design And An Exit From Alpha | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | It was almost exactly two years ago that my colleague Robin Wauters first wrote about a service called with the title: . I’ll be honest, I didn’t listen to him at the time (though, to be fair, I didn’t even work at TechCrunch yet). a few months later when the service added Facebook chat support. But since then, th... |
DoNothingFor2minutes.com goes from zero to 1 million unique visitors in 6 days | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | You’ve got to hand it to Alex Tew. The guy who came up with the to education, with another idea, and came , still has a feel for the zeitgeist. I would not call him a traditional startup guy – more a creative working in the mass medium of the web. His latest cleverly conceived idea, literally titled , where you... |
WebMynd Receives 100K TechFellow Award To Focus On Addon Developer Platform | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | -funded , which launched in and was most recently responsible for the browser addon , is today announcing that it is the recipient of one of our heralded , from none other than himself. WebMynd will be using the 100K in financing to concentrate on its new product, the WebMynd Addon Developer Platform. As the Sea... |
YC-Backed Tutorspree Is An Airbnb For Tutoring | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | Launching today from the Class of 2011, is a online marketplace for K-12 tutors along the lines of accommodations network , but specific to tutoring (yes I’ve made comparison before). Founded by , and , the startup is disruptive in the sense that the tutoring space up until now has been monopolized by agenci... |
Google Begins Soft Censorship Of Arbitrary Piracy-Related Queries | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 26 |
The efforts of media companies to quash online piracy are a bit like someone trying to put out a forest fire with a wet noodle. The latest pathetic flail comes in the form of coercing Google into for some search terms. A number of words will no longer be autocompleted or trigger an instant search, among them the int... |
Motorola: Xoom On Track For February, Smaller Tablets On The Way | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | Confirming some speculation and defying some speculation, Motorola announced today during its earnings call that its tablet is still on track for a late-February release, despite rumors that is only half-baked. I think we all know Honeycomb is going to be a bit of a rough launch; I’m waiting for 3.1. Motorola also... |
PSA: 3D Matrix Sequels Rumor Was A Hoax | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 26 |
You may have seen a few reports going around the webosphere to the effect that Keanu Reeves and the Wachowski brothers were in the midst of planning a pair of sequels. Not only that, but the two films were to be in . It turns out the whole thing was basically , so never mind. Don’t propagate. |
Oops! Leaked Schedule Shows Galaxy S 2 And Galaxy Tab 2 At MWC | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 26 |
We saw some seriously interesting hardware at CES this year, but MWC is just around the corner, and it looks like Samsung was keeping a few surprises for the big European mobile show. , the source of which isn’t given, quite clearly shows two new Galaxy products coming out soon: the Galaxy S 2 handset and a new Galax... |
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Google Begins Soft Censorship Of Arbitrary Piracy-Related Queries | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 26 |
The efforts of media companies to quash online piracy are a bit like someone trying to put out a forest fire with a wet noodle. The latest pathetic flail comes in the form of coercing Google into for some search terms. A number of words will no longer be autocompleted or trigger an instant search, among them the int... |
YC Co-Founder Jessica Livingston On The Dearth Of Women In Tech (And Some Steps To Fix It) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | Last August our own Michael Arrington addressing a topic that’s as important as it is sensitive: the lack of women who are running startups. In short, his point was that there simply aren’t enough women who are setting out to become entrepreneurs — and it’s not because the issue is being swept under the rug or becaus... |
Quora + CrunchBase + LinkedIn = Best Extension Ever? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | A month ago, Polaris Ventures principal wrote up a quick looking for a developer with Chrome extension/app experience. He had a pretty simple idea for something to help him with his job. Matt Basta saw the post and created the extension Spoon was looking for almost instantly. Now they’re opening it up for all to us... |
"Ultrasonic" Klang Speaker Concept Only Produces Sound Where Your Head Is | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 26 |
I’m not sure I buy the physics behind entirely. The idea is that instead of simply vibrating a driver at the correct frequencies and projecting those vibrations out into the room, you use ultrasonic waves to vibrate only the air molecules along a path, and things outside of that path won’t hear the sound. It’s my u... |
LiquidKeyboard Makes Virtual Keyboards More Fluid | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47okf4aykUg&w=640&h=390]
It’s a fundamental difference between real and virtual keyboards that with one, you rest your fingers on the home row, and with the other, you hover. This means that with the real keyboard, you are typing with muscle memory, and on the virtual keyboard, ... |
AT&T Offering Would-Be Deserters Unlimited iPhone Data Plans? | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | Oh, Verizon iPhone; you’re not even on the shelves yet, and you’re already stirring up drama. Just yesterday, Verizon COO Lowell McAdams disclosed that they’d be offering $30 Unlimited Data plans to iPhone users at launch (though, as he later clarified, that offer won’t last forever.) That may very well be enough to co... |
Nintendo UK: "Heyday Of Piracy" May Be Over | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 26 |
Although the headline oversimplifies Nintendo UK’s James Honeywell’s (what are headlines for?), it’s more or less what he said, and Nintendo seems to actually think that its steps to curb piracy are going to be effective. To be fair, Honeywell also described crowing about piracy countermeasures as being “like a red ... |
Musicmetric updated – aggregates traditional radio play with P2P filesharing activity | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | Semetric, the startup behind the analytics service, has released version 3 of its “music data aggregation and analysis software”. It now offers a more 360 degree view, if you will, of activity across P2P filesharing networks, social media, as well as the ability to import and compare this to data based on sales and t... |
Browser-Powered Desktop Notifications Are Coming To Gmail | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | Now this is nice. If you’re a heavy Gmail user you’ve probably installed some kind of desktop notification system — be it a browser extension, a separate Gmail app like Mailplane and/or Growl. But now, hot on the heels of launching a in browser tabs, Gmail is launching something that doesn’t require any downloads: bu... |
LinkedIn Buys Business Card Converter CardMunch, Will Offer Its Services For Free | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | In perhaps one of the most like-minded and forward-thinking acquisitions I’ve ever seen, career-driven social network LinkedIn has , a -like startup that scans your business cards and them into phone contacts using Mechanical Turk. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. From the CardMunch blog: The best ... |
Today, A Ban On Headphones While Crossing The Street; Tomorrow, A Ban On Chewing Gum While Walking | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 26 | In the wake of the sensible legislation banning on texting while driving and requiring of hands-free in cars, it seems that lawmakers are setting their sights a little too high — or low, depending on your perspective. Some nascent proposals in New York . I don’t often cry “nanny state,” but this situation really is ve... |
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | This year’s fourth annual have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our , we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below. Our most sincere congratulations to the winners and to all of the as well. It was an incredibly tigh... |
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason: I'm Following The Arnold Schwarzenegger Guide To Leadership | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | This evening at the Crunchies, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason took home the coveted CEO of the Year award. But we couldn’t let him leave the stage without taking the opportunity to ask him a few questions about the red-hot company. Our own Michael Arrington kicked things off by asking about Groupon’s press release for its re... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: An Apple iPad #TechCrunch | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | We’ve , and we are doing it again. Earlier in the month we asked our a question we were curious about. We asked, “Choosing from all of the cool gadgets we write about, if you had the chance to win one, which one would you want?” We had hundreds of fans chime in and the number one thing people wanted was an . We tho... |
What Scares Twitter CEO Dick Costolo? Foreigners. (Well, Scaling For Them.) | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | Tonight at our in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage with our own Michael Arrington. The topic of discussion? Well, it was sort of all over the place — more of a fun conversation. Mike asked Costolo what he thought about the recent news that Eric Schmidt was being as CEO of Google by co-founder ... |
Weekend Contest: Win A Bulletproof IoSafe Hard Drive | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | This is truly some bulletproof storage, amirite? Today we’re giving away the hard drive, a warranted drive that can withstand a shotgun blast, salt fog, and all kinds of other crazy stuff. The drive, which is shipping at the end of the month, costs $149 but can be yours for the low, low price of one comment. Go ahead... |
Original Mail-Order Rad Racer 3D Glasses On eBay | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 21 |
No, these really aren’t any different from regular red-blue 3D glasses. If anything, they’re of lower quality. But it’s just fun to revel in the fact that you could do 3D back in the day (in such an awesome game, no less, plus these worked on ), so that makes just plain sweet. [via ] |
The Crunchies Awards Livestream [Video] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | It’s the most wonderful time of the year! We’re live at at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Once again we’ve partnered with fellow blogs VentureBeat and GigaOm to celebrate the best technology achievements of 2010. Those of you at home or backstage like myself can watch them on the livestream above, and ch... |
As Rummble's CEO is ousted, the story of a European startup unravels | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | , one the UK’s oldest location-based reviews and social network which actually pre-dated Foursquare, has had its CEO removed by the board and now faces a radical shift away from it’s consumer-facing service of four years towards a Business-to-Business future. What we know on the ground right now is that CEO Andrew Scot... |
Brickify: Turn Any Image Into A Lego Statue! | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | Everyone loves Legos. There is no debate. In fact, there may only be one thing better than Legos: customized Legos. And a new web service aims to provide those to all. is a website that allows you to put in the URL to any image on the web and it will output a “brickified” image. Yes, it’s an image just like the one yo... |
Two 25-year-old American entrepreneurs leave the States to launch a Groupon clone…in France? | roxannevarza | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | I’m pretty sure I know what you’re thinking: Huh? Wtf ? Why would any Americans in their right mind want to leave the happiest business place on earth to launch in France?! Maybe the wine? Ok, maybe you’re not thinking that. But it doesn’t change the fact that 25-year-old American entrepreneurs Anton Bernstein and Jo... |
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Here's Your Crysis 2 Eye Candy For The Day | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7bOtJSOmYk?hd=1&w=640&h=390] The Crysis 2 Multiplayer trailer. |
Leaked Verizon Pricing Puts Motorola Xoom Tablet At $800, Thunderbolt At $250 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 21 |
A bit of the old backend-pricing-screen tipsterism came into Android Central’s inbox earlier today, showing what appears to be an internal pricing guide for a few upcoming devices. The HTC Thunderbolt gets a $250 price, which sounds like what we’d expect for a premium subsidized device. More interesting perhaps is the... |
Mars 500 Simulation Wrapping Up, Will Soon 'Land' On The Red Planet | Nicholas Deleon | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | We need more stories like this next one. A crew of six researches has been locked inside a “steel capsule” (presumably not the ) for an astounding 520 days on a mock mission to Mars. The point of the mission is to study how long-term spaceflight affects the human mind and body. Do people freak out like in that episode... |
Motorola, Please Don't Put BLUR On My Xoom (Update: Maybe Not) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | Motorola’s MOTOBLUR ALL CAPS USER INTERFACE LAYER will be coming to the , it seems, though early indications are that the tablet will ship with vanilla Honeycomb on it. Wow, that sounds sticky. : Marin Perez on Twitter that Motorola has denied Blur is coming to the tablet, and that it will be a Google experience devi... |
AT&T To Offer Microcells For Free | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | Does your service really suck? Well AT&T has your back. They’re offering a free to the top 7.5% customers experiencing the worst reception, as defined by their own ratings. Sadly, this doesn’t mean you can roll into the AT&T and ask – you have to have received a special mailer with a coupon code.
You have to sig... |
Kork iPad Case: Corky, Unique, And Eco-Friendly | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px2sHBiUk6U&w=640&h=390]
One criticism I should have mentioned for pretty much the whole lineup of cases I last month is that none of them really used any natural materials. Sure, it’s a pretty frou frou complaint, but some people don’t really want to buy any more nylon and ... |
PadPivot Nearing $40k In Kickstarter Funding, Shipping To Europe Now Possible | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | hit Kickstarter with the force of dodgeball thrown by a fat kid. The novel tablet stand and kept climbing. As of this post’s writing, the project is a couple hundred shy of $40,000 with 51 days remaining in its Kickstarter funding round. Initially the PadPivot pre-orders were only going to ship within North America.... |
Space Shuttle Atlantis To Make Its Final Launch In June | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | NASA is putting a cap on the long-running Space Shuttle program with STS-135, the final flight by Space Shuttle , just recently announced to be taking place on June 28th. There are no more missions planned after this, and the 30-year old shuttle program will finally give way to its successor. This will presumably the ... |
Blatant IP Theft In App Store Garners Little Response From Apple (Updated) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 21 |
One of the criticisms of Apple’s App Store (and application stores in general) is how it is commonplace for a popular app or game to have dozens of clones. These can be sifted through due to their low popularity and shoddy icons, and on the off chance you prefer an ad-supported knock-off over a 99 cent app, they’re a ... |
Brute Force Robot Opens Safe Like A Boss | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 21 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69g_ieT3Wes&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3] How do you open a highly secure safe that could, potentially, contain something valuable? You could either hire a locksmith or, barring that, make a robot that runs through all possible combinations in swift succession, resu... |
Twitter Informs Users Of DOJ WikiLeaks Court Order, Didn't Have To | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | The US Department of Justice to reveal information about accounts related to people associated with WikiLeaks. The order is a request for account data including the ominous for users Jacob Appelbaum ( ), Rop Gongrijp ( ), Birgitta Jonsittir ( ); Julian Assange and Bradley Manning from November 1, 2009 to present. S... |
Twileshare makes file-sharing on Twitter super easy | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | We’ve become used to the idea of sharing photos on Twitter (from to ), video ( to ) and audio ( to ). But have we done much via Twitter? Not to date. There’s , and but they are not something you will see in the average user’s stream – or at least not mine, and I nearly 4,000 accounts. is still in beta ... |
Film site MUBI pulls in $2.4 million to socialise cinema buffs | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | , the online cinema platform, says it’s hit a significant growth curve recently, crossing registered users. It’s also raised $2.4 million from Angels to strengthen its balance sheet and grow the team in a round round led by Eduardo Costantini and which includes existing investors, Martin Varsavsky (founder of ), and... |
Is This The Nintendo 3DS's UK (And US's) Release Date? | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | Japan is getting the on February 26. That’s per Nintendo themselves. But so far the rest of the world is left wondering when they’ll be able to buy it although most are speculating that early March is likely. That thought seems to be confirmed with a that clearly indicates that the 3D gaming system will be released... |
Kleiner Perkins To Invest In Groupon's Massive $950 Million Funding Round | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | Last week we that Groupon was closing a massive $950 million funding round at an impressive $4.75 billion valuation in the wake of from an acquisition offer from Google. Groupon already closed half of that — around $500 million — from Russian firm DST, Fidelity and Morgan Stanley. Now we’ve heard from multiple sour... |
Will A Q&A Ecosystem Bloom? Quora Launches An API In Alpha | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | Many successful startups have followed a simple pattern in recent years. They gain the users then demand for an ecosystem begins. We saw this with Facebook, with Twitter, with Foursquare, etc. is currently in the process of . And now the demand for an ecosystem is kicking in. So they’re releasing an early API to mee... |
Yet Another Kevin Rose Rumor! iPad 2 Announcement Coming In "3-4 Weeks" | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 7 |
Another year, of Kevin Rose predictions, this time about . Apparently Rose has revealed to the subscribers of his newsletter ( ) that the iPad 2 announcement will be coming in 3-4 weeks, giving the exact date of February 1st as a possibilty. So basically last year’s , plus a year and five days. From the : From:... |
#LessAmbitiousMovies Got Over 364K Tweets, Reaching Over 27M Twitter Users | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | If you’ve been on Twitter at all lately you’re probably at least vaguely familiar with which is a hashtag that in what we thought was record time, judging by the fact that it seemed like our entire Twitter stream was at some point saturated with not so ambitious film titles. Now the folks at Backtype (who track Twit... |
HTML5 Could Help Bring Some Sanity To Online Guitar Tabs | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 7 |
If you’ve ever searched online for guitar tablature (a popular music notation format used for guitars), you know that it’s a generally miserable experience. First there’s the problem of quality — there’s myriad versions of popular songs out there, and many of them are wrong. But even once you’ve found the tab you’re l... |
Videos: Sony's Playstation Phone Demonstrated Exhaustively | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | At this point, Sony’s as-of-yet unannounced Playstation Phone (or ) might just be the worst kept secret in recent history. We’ve seen ; we’ve heard . And now, we’ve got a big ol’ whopping set of hands on videos, demonstrating everything from game performance to the (Chinese) menu system. You can check’em out over at... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Tickets To The 2010 Crunchies #Crunchies | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | The Finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have and voting has . So why not give away some free tickets to a few lucky readers? People say the Crunchies are to technology what the Oscars are to Hollywood. You can read the full list of winners for 2009 , 2008 , and 2007 . Some fun things to note: these tickets in... |
Disrupt Winner Qwiki Is In The Middle Of Raising A Quick $8 Million | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | , the that won the at TechCrunch Disrupt last September is in the middle of raising as much as $8 million in a series A financing. According to an , it has already sold $5 million worth of the round. Both venture capital firms and individuals are investing. It appears that a large part of the round ($4 million ... |
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What Is This Verizon Event? Why Are Apple Fanboys Being Invited? See Where I'm Going Here? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | Hmmm. Earlier today, a story that Apple is looking to launch the iPhone on Verizon’s network as soon as February 3. That’s in line with about no-vacation windows for Apple retail employees. And now something curious has just appeared in my inbox. An invite to a Verizon event, taking place in New York City on this c... |
Fly Or Die: Does Flipboard Have A Chance? | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | null |
Hours After Launch, Lackluster Apps Inspire A "Worst Of" The Mac App Store | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | null |
Sustainability Roundtable Raises $1.2 Million To Help Corporations Go Green | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 1 | 7 | A new revealed that the Cambridge, Mass. consultancy Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR Inc.) raised about $1.2 million to help corporations green their facilities and operations, and learn how to run their businesses in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. With a special focus on energy efficiency a... |
Streaming CES: How We Did It | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 1 | 9 |
As the 2011 wraps up today, we’d like to share a few secrets. The , with support from , provided more than 20 hours of live CES video coverage, taking our viewers right to the industry and media access only exhibit floor. For a look at video highlights, check out . Hundreds of Twitter questions were answered ... |
The Star Wars Re-Release: Much We Have To Learn | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 9 |
As we saw before CES, the Star Wars Trilogy (along with ) is indeed to be re-released on Blu-Ray in September (you can pre-order now). The fan relationship with this franchise is perhaps the most complicated one in the entertainment world, for various reasons, and while I have no doubt that the new release will see ... |
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