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A Brief Explanation Of Why Minecraft Matters | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 15 |
On Wednesday, it was announced that a game called had hit a million sales. This probably isn’t the first time that you, a denizen of the internet, have heard that word. But unless you’re in the habit of following up on every indie game mention you happen to see, there’s a good chance this particular title might have ... |
The 4-Hour Body: The Real App You Are Working On Is An App Called Yourself (Review) | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 1 | 15 | Tim Ferriss is a 33-year-old Silicon Valley angel investor, consultant, Singularity University advisor, and former entrepreneur who in 2007 published a book called ; in 2008 won ‘s “Greatest Self-Promoter of All Time” prize; and last month published a sort-of-sequel, . His books seem roughly equally divided between ... |
OMG/JK: Pushing Google's Nonexistent Buttons | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 15 | Earlier this week we had a of OMG/JK to mark the launch of the Verizon iPhone, but we’re already back for more. I know what you’re thinking: this may be the best week, ever. In this episode we discuss recent rumors about the iPad 2 — which will likely come with a new, higher resolution screen and a SD card slot. We... |
How To Make An 8-Bit Twitter Avatar | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAJas-q2BOA&w=630] It’s a great story, by an 8-bitted post by UK artist and designer , San Francisco interactive designers , and took the idea to the next level by 8 bit-ing their Twitter avatars, which inevitably went viral among the tech set, finally consuming MG Sieg... |
Union Square's New $165 Million Fund Is All About Growing With The Network | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 15 | Back in December, indicating that Union Square Ventures was raising between $135 million and $200 million for a new “Opportunity Fund.” The offering wasn’t complete and the firm could not discuss it, but today partner Fred Wilson explains in a what the new fund (which ended up being a $165 million fund) is all abo... |
Daily Crunch: Squid Vicious Shot First Edition | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 1 | 15 | |
There's Absolutely Nothing You Can Do About Spokeo, So Stop Whining | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | There’s been a surge of messages to us asking us to please write about and expose , a company that collects and then sells your personal information. Mostly this is from all the mainstream press the service has been getting. . “Please expose this like you did with ,” read one message. Here’s the deal. There’s absolu... |
Touring the Panasonic Booth | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | null |
An iPhone On Verizon? Sold. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | Well, I hopped on a last-minute flight across the country, got stuck in a snow storm, had my flight home cancelled, had to find a new hotel, and now I think I’m getting sick. But it was all worth it. Because I got what I came for: the Verizon iPhone. Actually, I don’t have one just yet. Like all non-Verizon customers, ... |
Mitek Systems Shows Off Their Smartphone Banking Apps | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | “Point. Shoot. Pay — or Deposit.” That pretty much sums Mobile Photo Bill Pay and Mobile Deposit from Mitek Systems, which uses smartphone cameras to take mobile banking to the next level. |
PC Shipments Recover Somewhat; Apple Share Jumps In U.S. | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 12 |
The latest numbers for worldwide and US computer shipment sales have been by research group Gartner, and the results are about as interesting as they usually are; that is to say, . 2010 was a hard year in some ways, perhaps most so in that netbook sales, which boosted PC sales hugely in 2008 and to a lesser extent ... |
Video Of Four- And Five-Finger Gestures On iOS 4.3 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEivxDY82bw&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3]
It’s a good thing they implemented these, or they might have been left behind by the multi-screen desktops of both and the . There isn’t much to say about the video (via ), but it’s nice to see it in motion. I suppose t... |
SalesCrunch: Pissing Us Off Isn't Much Of A PR Or Marketing Strategy | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | Big news today with the announcement that and have money a startup called . Their products include CrunchConnect and SalesCrunch. Sounds kinda familiar. Our sites include TechCrunch, CrunchGear, CrunchBase, MobileCrunch, etc. A big deal? Not really. We’ve dealt with people using “Crunch” in their names before – ... |
The Italian entrepreneur who moved his team and got funded in 19 days | roxannevarza | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | Italian entrepreneur is currently 22 years old – but he was only 19 when he first started looking for funding for his startup. For roughly 2 years, he and his cofounders met with every last investor on the Italian Peninsula and without any success. But despite their empty pockets, they weren’t ready to throw in the t... |
Uh Oh: Asus Tablets May Not Ship Till Summer, Will Not Have Android 3.0 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 12 |
Remember when we went to Asus’s CES press conference, and they showed us several nice-looking tablets, all of which we were told would run Android 3.0? I sure remember, because I was there. As it turns out, that might have been — there’s no polite way of putting it — It seems that Asus was a little overconfident, and... |
Kabbage Raises $6.7M To Give Online Merchants Working Capital To Grow Their Businesses | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | Atlanta-based startup has raised $6.65 million in new funding led by with David Bonderman, founder of TPG Capital; Warren Stephens, CEO of Stephens Inc.; and the participating in the round. Kabbage is essentially a way for online merchants and sellers on marketplaces like eBay to get capital they otherwise wouldn... |
U100 From iRiver Is Sexy And Zune-Like; You Will Probably Never Have One | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 12 |
Now, I’m not saying that this particular gadget is the best thing in the world, but I do have to say that I like the look, and of course microSDHC support and a big battery are a plus. The interface looks very -like, right down to the circled triangle for “play” and the sans-serif, left-aligned white-on-dark typograp... |
PSP2 To Be Announced On January 27th? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 12 |
The fact that there is a PSP2 is kind of an open secret: Sony hasn’t said a word, but developers have they’re working with them, and we saw some . Now the same site that showed off the pics is claiming (sources be damned!) that Sony is planning a big meeting with select press to The timing is good; they definitely ... |
Hopeful Plaintiff Sues Yahoo, Digg, Reddit, Fark, TechCrunch, And Others | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | Oh no, we’ve been sued. This week’s hopeful plaintiff is Gooseberry Natural Resources LLC, who filed a complaint in a Los Angeles federal court against Reddit, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Digg, Fark, Geeknet, TechCrunch, Newsvine, Yahoo and others. We, along with our fellow defendants, have allegedly been violati... |
Woo! Minecraft Hits 1,000,000 Purchases | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 12 |
We just wanted to shout out a congratulations to wildly successful Minecraft creator Notch, who has created one of the weirdo sleeper hits of the year. With virtually no promotion, only word of mouth and a reasonable price, this indie exploration and creation game has . I’ll leave the implications of this on the bloa... |
OnSwipe Raises, Like, A Million Dollars | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 12 | , the WordPress plugin that makes your blog look like a native app is branching out, with a new one million seed round of funding, a new name ( ) and homebase (New York). The round, which was completed in a marathon 30 days, was led by Spark Capital, Betaworks and AdMob investor ENIAC Ventures. Angel investors like Hub... |
Nissan Apologizes For Slow Leaf Rollout | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 13 |
Being the first affordable all-electric car on the market, the was kind of guaranteed to be a big seller. But their way of going about selling the thing seems to have given their customers unrealistic expectations of when their cars would actually arrive. People have been given extremely vague promises of when their ... |
RIM Orders One Million Playbooks – Let The Games Begin! | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 13 |
Last week we heard that Motorola is aiming to ship 800,000 or more of its Xoom tablet in Q1. Aren’t we like halfway through Q1 already? But I digress. Now RIM is showing its manufacturing volume cards. All one million of ’em! Yes, RIM has placed its orders with manufacturers, and is , according to Digitimes. That’s a ... |
News Corp's The Daily iPad Newspaper Delayed By "Weeks, Not Months" | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | While we may all have our own opinions on whether News Corp’s iPad-bound newspaper, The Daily, is a boondoggle or simply before its time, I think we were all at least looking forward to seeing what it was like. People were curious about Virgin’s (though I haven’t heard a word about it since), and naturally want to kno... |
Groupon Said To Be Valued At, Like, $15 Billion | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | Ready for more ” kind of reactions? is that the daily deals site has been seriously discussing going public with Wall Streeters this week, with a rumored IPO sometime in Spring. The report also amps up Groupon’s valuation to more than double the $6 billion Google had offered for the company just months ago, at ... |
T-Mobile G-Slate Hits The FCC, Doesn't Show Its Face | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 13 |
Oh Federal Communications Commission, you are such a tease. You show us of that sexy little tablet! At least, I assume it’s sexy. The model number of the is LG-V900, but beyond that there isn’t much to glean here. It could very well be 9″, though, and that outline definitely shows a 16:9 aspect ratio. That shouldn’... |
Very Cool: Flashbulb Going Off, Filmed At 1052FPS | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/18623681 w=620&h=349]
There’s not a lot to say about this, but super-slow-motion shots like this are always cool, and of an old-school flashbulb is even cooler than most. The little tendrils are beautiful, aren’t they? Shot with a Phantom. [via and ] |
Hybrid Streetlights: Good Or Bad News For Utilities? | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | Urban Green Energy — a New York City startup that designs and manufactures small wind turbines — has released and installed the first of its new, “hybrid” or wind- and solar-powered streetlights. Designed for primary use in parking lots or over highways, UGE’s Sanya streetlights include a standard setup of the company... |
News Corp's The Daily iPad Newspaper Delayed By "Weeks, Not Months" | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | While we may all have our own opinions on whether News Corp’s iPad-bound newspaper, , is a boondoggle or simply before its time, I think we were all at least looking forward to seeing what it was like. People were curious about Virgin’s (though I haven’t heard a word about it since), and naturally want to know what i... |
Is This The Galaxy S Mini? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 13 |
It was only a couple days ago that we saw pictures of , and now we have a baby-sized one that’s supposed to be its little brother. Supposedly this guy has a 3.5″ 320×480 screen (probably Super AMOLED, to maintain the Galaxy style), runs Froyo 2.2, and has a 5MP camera on the back. Processor is listed as Qualcomm’s bu... |
If this Conference Room Table Could Talk… (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | Earlier this week, we did a on a new venture firm called and if you checked out the CrunchBase profiles of the three founders you saw a pretty wide depth of experience. Paul Martino has started four companies, most recently Aggregate Knowledge, and he was one of the first investors in Zynga. Duncan Davidson was mos... |
ShareSquare Gets 150K To Build Out Its QR Code Platform [Invites] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | Mobile QR platform launches in beta today with the announcement that they’ve already got 150K out of a 500K seed round under their belt, from angels , of ff Assett Management, and of Hacker Angels. In the same space as and , ShareSquare is a QR Code creation platform specifically for music and entertainment... |
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Formula One Will Be Available In HD This Year (Finally!) | Nicholas Deleon | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | Good news: will be in HD this year. You’d have thought that such a fancy racing circuit would be broadcast in HD already—how many years has Nascar been in HD?—but no; we’ve had to wait. Long overdue, yes. The entire world feed will be in HD starting this season, which begins this March in Australia. That means it’s u... |
Ship or Get Off the Pot | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | On Tuesday Steve Ballmer fired Bob Muglia, and Google fired H.264 from Chrome. The tubes are heated up with analysis of these two seemingly unassociated events, and I figure I’ll mash them together into a counter-intuitive scenario. The unifying driver: Tuesday’s new iPhone 4 announcement from Verizon. We hear lots abo... |
VBS.TV And Reddit Are Leading Us Into The Golden Era Of Information Discovery | Contributor | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | Something just happened online that is highly indicative of where we’re headed in terms of new media. Look at these two stories on and . They are totally independent from each other and nine months apart, but the two sites are presenting readers with unparalleled access to a fascinating story: how an Oklahoman was i... |
Cubeduel: Hot Or Not Meets LinkedIn. Your Darker Side Will Love It. | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 13 |
People sure do love judging their coworkers. And now it’s easier and more addictive than ever. Meet , a site that launched two days ago and is quickly making the rounds on Twitter. After landing on the site, you’ll be asked to connect with LinkedIn via OAuth. Next, you’ll be presented with photos of two of your forme... |
AOL's Q1 Winter Luge Goals Revealed | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | Around here at , they tend to keep us out of the loop on corporate strategy because they know we’ll we find. So imagine my surprise to find a box with AOL snow globes and first quarter stretch targets sent to my office in New York City (which is not at AOL’s headquarters, by the way, but the same office I’ve always... |
Linux Foundation posts schedule of events for 2011 | Scott Merrill | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | 2010 was a busy year for the , and their recently posted suggests that this year will be just as interesting. In addition to LinuxCon and the Collaboration Summit in the US, there’s also LinuxCon Brazil, LinuxCon Japan, and for the first time ever LinuxCon Europe. The latter is running concurrently with the and th... |
HP Also Holding A Second webOS Event On February 9 To Woo Developers | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 13 | A week and a half ago, we were to join HP on the morning of February 9 for an “exciting announcement”. But it appears that they’re now also reaching out to others about event later that day. This new invite reads: “HP webOS. The future revealed.” Below that, it lists the same February 9 date, but lists the time as ... |
Instagram For The BlackBerry [Screenshot] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 14 | Inspired by the epic , Myspace VP has come up with a mock hypothetical of what the popular photosharing app would look like on the text-heavy and camera-weak BlackBerry platform. The above image is particularly humorous when coupled with the fact that Instagram, which just hit , has not yet launched on Android. P... |
Live In Oklahoma City? Watch Out For a Hot White MacBook With Cancer Research Data Inside | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 14 |
Attention seedy underbelly of Oklahoma. If you happen to be moving any hot laptops, please check if one of them is There’s a reward (contact details at the link) and it’s the right thing to do. The rest of you out there, please consider |
Twitter For Mac's Spectacular Hidden Little Feature: Tweet Anything From Anywhere | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 14 | I love Twitter for Mac. Love it. It has completely my day-to-day workflow. And it has I use Twitter itself. And that was before I found out about this killer little hidden feature today: Tweet from anywhere. I don’t know how I missed it before, but apparently installing Twitter for Mac adds a new “Tweet” command to... |
Edible Concept: Tetris Sugar Cubes | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 14 |
I believe I saw something like this a year back that looked like it was created by licking normal sugar cubes and sticking them together, forming tetrads. As fun as that sounds, I’d just as soon have my Tetris pieces fully formed right out of the bag. That’s what aims to do. I know I’d buy them, and they’d be a hit a... |
PS3 Hacking Case Judge: Why Is This In My Courtroom | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 14 |
Just a little update on the Sony/George Hotz . You know, the one where Sony tries to put the cat back in the bag. Well it turns out that their reason for filing suit in California is that YouTube, Twitter, and Paypal are all based on California. Wait, what? See, Hotz allegedly received donations from Paypal (he denie... |
I Cannot In Good Conscience Recommend Buying This Yoda Robe | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 14 | Normally I would have passed this by. But since I one cheesy Star Wars tie-in today, I figured why not make it two? (what man wears a velour robe?) comes with a flip-up Yoda head and Rebel Alliance badge. Perfect for the man who . It costs £49.95, which is too much. [via ] |
Unfortunately, These Han And Greedo Bookends Are Sold Out | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 14 |
Where these came from, I don’t know. I’ve done a little searching and there don’t appear to be any Han/Greedo cantina bookends anywhere on the internet. It’s too bad, because they’re definitely the coolest Star Wars bookends I’ve seen… and brother, I’ve seen a lot of Star Wars bookends. over at Flickr. There are othe... |
Facebook Shares Hit $28.26 Per Share, That's a $70+ Billion Valuation | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 14 | The SecondMarket Facebook shares auctions are back on after a holiday break, and the valuation is up big time. The last auction prior to this one closed December 15 at $22.75/share. Today it hit $28.26 per share. With 2. 5 billion or so shares outstanding, that’s a $70.65 billionish valuation. A ago shares were tradi... |
Posterous Cofounder Garry Tan Steps Down, Heads To Y Combinator | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 14 | , one of the cofounders of easy-to-use blogging service , is moving on from the company. Tan will be leaving to take a position at Y Combinator, where he will serve as a designer in residence. Posterous doesn’t put much weight on titles, but Tan had a hand in the site’s engineering, design, and product development. Po... |
84 Of 97 Congress Representatives Supporting NBC/Comcast Merger Took Comcast Money | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 14 | I can’t work up any real outrage over this, because really, did anyone think that big business deals like this are anything but bought and paid for in Washington? But seriously, guys, you could stand to be a little more discreet about things. I mean honestly. When 84 out of 97 reps supporting the bill can be shown with... |
Want To Know What Your Friends Think? Ask Polling Site GoPollGo | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 14 |
Former TechCrunch developer left TC a couple months ago to launch his own startup and today we finally get to see the fruits of his labor. Sick of the poor analytics, lack of geographical information and little vote analysis on industry leaders like Poll Daddy, Schaechter built to maximize what he felt was the pot... |
Ask a VC: Satish Dharmaraj on India, the Beauty of Fragmentation and Farmers Markets (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 14 | I have a dilemma with Ask a VC. Generally, I’m trying to do shows that are under 10 minutes, so they’re more consumable. But in the case of Ask a VC, I want to get to as many reader questions as possible and would rather not cut someone off when they are giving you business advice. So starting this week we’re going to ... |
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HiJack Sucks Power And Data From Your iPhone's 3.5mm Audio Jack | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 14 | [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/14453136 w=620&h=349]
This is great. have put together a little device that can be powered and communicated to via the audio jack on your iPhone. This allows for low-power peripherals to be used with that port instead of Apple’s connector, saving money on both sides of the equation. No li... |
Cubeduel Goes Viral Too Quickly, Stumbles Over LinkedIn API Limits | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 14 |
Yesterday we about , a service that mixes the best (or worst) of Hot or Not with LinkedIn. Fire up the site and it will show you photos of two coworkers — pick the one you’d prefer to work with, and Cubeduel will present you with another pair of photos. It’s addictive, a bit evil, and has skyrocketed in usage over ... |
Dell Adamo Price Cut By Another $100 To $799 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 14 | Fire sale! It looks like Dell is trying to clear out inventory of the sexy Adamo line of laptops. Perhaps they’ve got something else cooking? Something thinner and -ier? At any rate, they cut the price by $200 , and . $799 is really a good price for this thing, guys. But at this rate, they might drop it to $699 in F... |
Here's Your New Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 1 | 14 |
Hi, this is . You may remember him from such other Hollywood films as , or….. . [ ] |
Using Your Blackberry In Illinois Could Send You To Prison | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 1 | 22 | This is one of those technology and legal stories that is hard to believe in this day and age. If you are in Illinois, you better be careful where you point your cameraphone or voice recorder. Chris Drew, a Chicago artist, and Tiawanda Moore, a former stripper, are facing up to 15 years in prison for eavesdropping, a... |
Andreessen Horowitz Hires a New Partner…from Sales? | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 14 | When Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz launched , they talked a good game about things being different; about having a smorgasbord of partners skilled in different areas that could tag in-and-out of portfolio companies as appropriate. And a lot of that sounded like the usual “value-add” venture capital spiel. But two f... |
Seedcamp reveals the 18 companies selected for London | roxannevarza | 2,011 | 1 | 22 | Last week we announced that was spreading it’s wings and , à la . And yesterday, Seedcamp the 18 companies selected to participate in on January 25th. According to the blog post published by the team, this event received a record number of applications from across the globe – including India and Australia. And d... |
UFC Files Lawsuit Againt Justin.tv As It Tries To Elmininate Illegal Online Streams Altogether | Nicholas Deleon | 2,011 | 1 | 22 | has continued its fight against copyright infringement , the video streaming Web site where, UFC alleges, people can watch its events for free. UFC takes issue with “Justin.tv’s repeated and ongoing failure to meaningfully address the rampant and illegal uploading of video of live Pay-Per-View UFC events by members a... |
Video: The Crunchies Song! | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 22 | Those of you who attended the last night or watched the live stream were lucky enough to see perform a new song that he wrote specifically for the event. “The Crunchies Song” sums up the event pretty nicely. Find both Mann’s live performance and his official video for the song below. You’ll note that this is actual... |
Arrington Ambush Interviews Crunchies VC Of The Year Yuri Milner | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 22 | Last night at the , of Digital Sky Technologies won the VC of the Year award (Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures was a close runner-up). Milner has almost single-handedly created a new class of mezzanine venture capital, allowing companies like Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga to postpone IPOs while still getting a... |
TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Qwiki Hits No. 1 On Google Trends 'Hot Searches' In The U.S. | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 22 |
Buoyed by news that early Facebook co-founder led an investment in the startup, and startup has hit no.1 on Google Trends in the U.S. That’s a pretty impressive feat for a startup that was virtually unknown six months ago. And the company is still in What makes Qwiki so compelling is its ability to on t... |
Gillmor Gang 1.22.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 1 | 22 | The one connective tissue is the tectonic shift in technology caused by the iPad, or as @Scobleizer pointed out, the iPhone. Though @DannySullivan and @KevinMarks insisted on extolling the virtues of the free and open Web, there’s no doubt in my mind that Apple’s (and particularly Steve Jobs’) combination of design, ... |
Daily Crunch: Harsh Martian Edition | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 1 | 22 | |
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Predictably (And Idiotically), Russian Media Link Airport Bombing To Modern Warfare 2 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | I’ve run out of outrage to direct at the perpetrators of anti-video-game foolishness who pervade the media worldwide. The issue has been run down many times, by far more capable people than myself, perhaps most visibly in the furor surrounding and its “controversial” mission in which your character is forced to kill ... |
First Previews Of Fujifilm X100 Start Popping Up | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 25 |
My love for the X100 is no secret. I was excited when it was , ecstatic to , and even named it my personal . So I’m a little jealous (but I understand, Fujifilm, I understand) that a few photo outlets on the net are getting their units for hands-on previews. is practical and thorough, as usual, and Norwegian site ... |
Nikon Wants To Turn Your DSLR Viewfinder Into… A Projector | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 25 |
, filed by Nikon in Japan, is really baffling me right now. The idea is that the viewfinder or eyepiece would serve not only as a something to put your eye to and frame shots, but also as a pico projector. Isn’t that a little dangerous? At first I thought, why not shoot the image out the front? But of course there’s ... |
HTC Flyer Specs: Sense UI, HSPA, Dual Cameras | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | HTC’s upcoming tablets hve been peeking out from various non-official sources over the last few weeks, starting with a , then a few . And now someone has leaked what they claim is more or less . It’ll have the same Qualcomm Snapdragon processor as the Desire HD (model MSM8255), and the 7-inch touchscreen will be 102... |
Abound Solar, Thin-Film Panel Makers, Ready To Cross The Pond | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | Abound Solar, which makes thin-film cadmium telluride solar panels, has that will allow the company to receive feed-in tariffs in the U.K. and pursue sales there aggressively. With a feed-in tariff, utilities agree to pay a premium, but stable, rate for power generated from renewable sources, both as the utility use... |
Minimalist Swiss Block-Clock Is Beautiful, Incredibly Expensive | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/19131982 w=620&h=349]
Why is it that the coolest things are always out of my price range? Wait, don’t answer that. Let me rephrase. Why is it that the coolest things are always out of my price range? Case in point: , which beats the seconds with its little blocks, then opens up crazily to... |
Why 'Angry Birds' Wouldn't Make Sense On Facebook | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | Three weeks into his job, Facebook Director of Gaming Partnerships made bold advances to developers during the M&A panel at . When discussing what games should be built on what platforms, Ryan said, referring to Facebook, a statement which made some noise in the crowd. Ryan went on to say that single player games ... |
Twitter Confirms That They're Being Blocked In Egypt | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | Earlier today, on a lot of chatter that Twitter was being blocked in Egypt amid rising protests. We can now confirm that they are being blocked. Two tweets from the service tonight confirm it. “ ,” Twitter communications head Sean Garrett just out via their new PR account. “ ,” he continued in a second . The prote... |
PicPlz Adds Dropbox Support To Preemptively Cure Filter Regret | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | We’ve all walked down the street and seen someone with a weird tattoo and thought, “they’re going to regret that later”. What may seem cool at the time, might not seem so cool years from now. Is it possible that the current crop of mobile photo filters will lead to the same type of regret? clearly thinks it’s possibl... |
Real Blogs Don't Have Interstitial Ads | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | Hey, if I , I have to be able to take it, too. And today I have. We’ve put up this ridiculous interstitial ad here on TechCrunch that appears the first time you visit the site. It’s an ad for Dell. I like Dell, and before I went to Macs I mostly bought their computers. But the ad sucks. Anecdotally I’ve heard that i... |
Android In-App Payments Coming Soon — Were Delayed Because Developers Were Busy | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | Today at the conference in San Francisco, Inside Network’s Kim-Mai Cutler sat down with Eric Chu, a group manager at Google for the Android platform. The two discussed the platform mainly from a developer perspective. And the initial question may have been the most interesting. When asked about the status of an in-ap... |
Did the French government just sell Dailymotion back to itself? | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | So let’s just get this straight. , a French-born competitor to YouTube, by Orange which will acquire about 49% of the company for €58.8 million or about 160 million dollars. Orange can gradually increase its stake to 100% by 2013, however, it appears the deal is not formally signed yet. Reportedly Orange has an has ... |
So Why Should You Care About NFC? | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | If you asked most folks what NFC means they’d probably mumble something about the Giants and wave you off. However, Near Field Communication is here to stay and if Google and Apple’s current and are any indication, we’ll be using NFC devices in the next two years, at least in some specific environments. First, though... |
Bartz On Facebook: They Have More "Little Impressions," We Have More "Display Revenues" | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | At the tail-end of Yahoo’s conference call today, CEO Carol Bartz was asked about competition with Facebook in display advertising. Facebook has come out of nowhere to account for of all display ads on the Internet. “There is some confusion about whether Facebook leads in display advertising,” Bartz responded. “... |
Harman Kardon SB 16 Soundbar Simplifies Your Home Theater Setup | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 25 |
Home theater aficionados probably won’t be interested in this minimal setup, but I kind of like it. The five-speaker-plus-sub thing is great if you’ve got a room for it, or can afford to outfit it correctly, but for the average apartment-dweller or someone who just doesn’t care that much about surround sound, a good s... |
Jive's CEO Throws Down the Hammer on Competitors, Plans 2011 IPO (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | Enterprise software isn’t as sexy a topic as the iPhone or consumer apps. So why do I love to cover it? The fights. While most consumer Internet companies view their market as a warm and fuzzy place where there can be multiple winners, in enterprise software, it’s a slug fest. Companies are competing head-to-head for d... |
Ge.tt launches its 'realtime' filesharing service | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | , the browser-based file publishing and sharing service, gets an official launch today. The service, which on the surface competes with a plethora of filesharing offerings such as , or newer entrants , claims its Beta version went “viral” in November, seeing 10,000 sign-ups despite the fact no sign-up is required (... |
Sony Ericsson Announces Integration Of Facebook's 'Single Sign On' Across All Android Phones | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 25 | In an industry first, Strategic Business Developer Martin Essl just announced that Sony Ericsson will integrate Facebook’s system across all its Android phones in the next couple of months. Launched in December, Single Sign On is like Facebook Connect for mobile apps, removing friction because it allows you to log ... |
Fling Mini Joysticks For iPhone Seem A Little Overkill To Me, But Hey | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 3 |
I’m not a fan of the dual-stick touchscreen controls in iPad games. The analog stick simulation just isn’t very intuitive to me, plus my thumbs get sweaty. So getting a physical analog stick on there, which the Fling does for the iPad (or any tablet, really), seems like a natural thing to do. But on an iPhone? Apparen... |
Video Messages Integrated Into Windows 8? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | I’ve always wondered why we don’t have a more robust video- and audio-messaging system. I mean, you can send an email, and you can video chat, but why can’t you send a 10-second video clip the way you’d send an email, to be watched at the recipient’s convenience? I guess there are ways, but it’s far from common. A tiny... |
Rumor: Apple To Bring iOS To AirPort, Time Capsule | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | chews the fat on the possible extension of iOS (in some form or another) to AirPort and other peripherals. The move would make sense: a unified code base and the ability to sell apps for yet more platforms are both desirable. It would also allow deeper integration between the Mac and any wireless accessories for whi... |
White-Hot Flickr Alternative 500px Raises $525K In Series A | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | As the complaints about to pile on, scrappy Toronto-based service continues to grow, going from 1000 users in 2009 to over 85K (around 45K of which have joined in the last three months). And after two years of bootstrapping, the startup is today announcing its $525K Series A round with investment from , and Says... |
CrunchDeals: Canon SD1300 IS Point And Shoot For $70 At Radio Shack | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | This is a great deal for a solid point-and-shoot — the was $200 a year ago when it came out, but if you’re near a Radio Shack, you can drop by and — if they have one. I’d call ahead. With 12 megapixels, a 4x zoom, and a 2.7-inch screen, it’s not breaking any records, but you can trust it to take decent pictures (or... |
Review: HTC Flyer | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 3 |
A promising aberration. The Flyer is barely a viable product, but it hints at potential that is almost surely being unlocked in the labs of HTC right now.
When I first heard about the Flyer, I thought to myself “This thing is going to suck, but the next one is going to be awesome.” And I’m pleased to say that my... |
Firm looks to raise €5m to develop EEG headset for smartphones | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | plans to do a capital raise of 4 to 5 million Euros in order to fund the development of its advanced EEG (electroencephalography) headset for the BCI (Brain Computer Interface) market. Still confused? Basically, it wants to develop a smaller, easy to use, EEG device that can be used for mobile smart phones as well as ... |
Ico And Shadow Of The Colossus HD Remasters Get Priced And Dated In Japan | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 3 |
The remastered HD versions of classic PS2 titles and are finally within reach. Kind of. , they’re going to be hitting Ye Olde Nippon come September 22nd, and will cost ¥3980 (~$50) individually or ¥6980 (~$87) . US timing and price are TBD, but at least we’ve got a ballpark now. [via ] |
Adobe CEO: Android Will Beat iOS On Tablets | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | ’s big man upstairs Shantanu Narayen is betting on ’s Honeycomb platform rather than ’s iOS in the current battle for tablet OS supremacy. Can anyone guess why? If you said “Flash support,” you’re right on the money. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has long been against the use of on iDevices, openly calling the software inse... |
Nikkei Re-Confirms Nintendo's New Controller Will Have Touchscreen, Camera | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 3 |
Japanese newspaper the Nikkei has just that confirms the rumors of the last couple months, namely that new system (codenamed Project Cafe) will indeed use touchscreen controllers with cameras built-in. We had before, but the Nikkei has a little more credibility than “a source.” The controller will have a six-inch... |
Forget Google, DoJ Fears Apple Gaining Nortel's "Stockpile Of Nuclear Weapons" — Here's Why | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | Two months ago, that they were bidding on bankrupt Nortel’s patent portfolio. Why? it’s a defensive maneuver to protect the “relatively young” company from would-be patent predators. And Google is very serious about it. They put up the $900 million “stalking-horse bid” (the initial bid) for the over . Given the st... |
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500Friends Allows Retailers To Reward Customers For Social Actions | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | Consumers are engaging retailers on Facebook and Twitter now more than ever. Whether it is Liking a deal, Tweeting the link to a product, or even participating in a contest, shoppers are mentioning and interacting with these e-commerce sites on a daily basis. The problem with traditional online loyalty programs mirror ... |
Venture Crapital Lets You Play The Tech Bubble As An HTML5 Game | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | Whether you’re on , who held that we weren’t in a tech bubble at the AllThingsD conference, or the now revised (“All signs point to a real bubble, probably starting later this year when a lot more companies start to go public.”), there’s no denying post that we’re in a bubble of people talking about whether or no... |
Samsung Galaxy S 4G (Refurb) Hits T-Mo's Prepaid Site With $350 Price Tag | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | On a scale from one to ten, how excited do you think we were to see the Galaxy S 4G (Refurb) go live on T-Mobile’s prepaid site? If you guessed somewhere around a six or a seven, good job! If you guessed eleven, you don’t quite understand how scales work. While the Galaxy S 4G isn’t exactly a brand new piece of kit (... |
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