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My Nokia end is near as I face the final handset | Monty Munford | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | Towards the end of the 1990s I was the best despatch-rider that ever lived. I sped around London occasionally breaking a leg or knee, fighting with car-drivers that regularly tried to kill me and and lived at 1,000 mph. As my despatch-riding days dwindled to an end after a decade of insanity and injuries, I landed the ... |
Player 1 Start: Will The Wii U And Playstation Vita Fly Or Die? (TCTV) | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | and just announced the much-anticipated and the Playstation last week and, well, we were pretty impressed. The Wii U, Nintendo’s new console, is a real step up for the brand as it adds HD game play and a unique new controller that incorporates third-screen features with Nintendo’s own paradigm-shifting control... |
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Player 1 Start: The Wii U Vs. The Playstation Vita (Fly Or Die) | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | Nintendo and Sony just announced the much-anticipated and the Playstation last week and, well, we were pretty impressed. The Wii U, Nintendo’s new console, is a real step up for the brand as it adds HD game play and a unique new controller that incorporates third-screen features with Nintendo’s own paradigm-shi... |
Daily Crunch: Dome Edition | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | |
TechCrunch Turns 6 | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | TechCrunch turns 6 years old today. Back on June 11, 2005, Michael Arrington wrote his . Then he started having parties in the backyard of his old house in Atherton, one of the guys to one of them, there were lots more parties, and the rest is history. Michael’s come a long way from those backyard parties around... |
Groupon: Still Getting Pwned In China | Contributor | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | Andrew Mason has been visiting Beijing and Groupon HQ has finally realized there are . On the website, Rebecca Fannin : CEO Andrew Mason just arrived in China and hasn’t wasted time shaking things up. Four expatriate executives at Groupon who were recruited from rival site Ftuan just a few months ago will be leaving... |
Joomla Quietly Crosses 23 Million Downloads, Now Powering Over 2,600 Government Sites | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | , of the top million websites using (or CMSes), three systems own more than 75 percent of the total market share: , , and . (All of which are open source, by the way.) Many are likely most familiar with WordPress, which TechCrunch has (and uses to power most its sites, for full disclosure). WordPress is the mo... |
Whiteboard Wall Clock Is Minimal And Practical | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 29 |
The only way I could like this better is if there weren’t even any numbers on there. And maybe if there was a little more space to write on the top an bottom. Do they think nothing happens between 12 and 6? [via ] |
Walking Around In Circles: As Google+ Opens Up Will People Start Using It Correctly? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 29 | Last night, I wrote up on + after using it for a day. Overall, I find it pretty compelling so far. While there is a bit of a learning curve, after about 15 minutes, I found myself at home using the service. And little things (namely notifications) kept bringing me back. But let’s be realistic, . The new car smell h... |
Teardown Shows Apple's Thunderbolt Cables Aren't Just Wires Wrapped In Rubber | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 29 |
There are plenty of cables out there that are essentially just long pieces of metal protected by a rubber sheath. Their job is to carry a voltage, and they do. Thunderbolt (and presumably other, non-branded versions like Sony’s) is a little different. It seems that not all the horsepower is in the port; some has to be... |
Review: The HP Palm TouchPad | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 29 |
Like Duckie from , Palm has been the perennial third choice. Even in its late heyday, when the Treo still ruled the airwaves and the iPhone was a faint glimmer in Apple’s eye, they got the short end of it with consumers and critics. But there was – and is – a zealous minority who see Palm as the Third Way, a way... |
Video: PBS Reports On Bionic Limb Development | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 29 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWSbXoT1IvY&w=640&h=390]
It’s hard to keep up with all the developments in the bionics and cybernetics worlds: so many universities and private institutions are working on so many projects that by the time you report one, another has leapfrogged it. PBS News Hour has put togethe... |
Rumor Puts MacBook Air Refresh In Mid-July | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 29 |
Impatient for those new MacBook Airs we ? It’ll be a couple more weeks, if are to be believed. The upcoming earnings call on the 19th corroborates this; Apple was rumored to be waiting until they could ship with Lion, and it may be that they’ll just have nailed down that date come mid-July… but not yet. |
Flickr Metadata Hints At Possible "Droid HD" In The Works | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 29 |
A picture on Flickr (which I can’t find and therefore can’t confirm) has apparently been with “motorola Droid HD” listed as the camera. Oh my god, it’s a new Droid with a 1280×720 screen, like that in the and other upcoming superphones! Or… someone has been messing with EXIF data, or (as the picture was taken near... |
Cisco Brings AppHQ App Storefront To It's 7-Inch Cius Tablet | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 29 | A year ago today, that ’s enterprise-focused 7-inch Cius tablet would never ship. It was a reasonable prediction at the time, but it turns out we were wrong. In fact, the Cisco Cius tablet did ship in late March, barely making its promised release date of “Q1 2011.” Today, Cisco unveiled its latest product for Cius,... |
BeenVerified Takes Background Checks Mobile With A New Android App And An iOS Rerelease | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 29 | Background checks are now fully mobile, thanks ‘s new and the . The Background Check App does exactly as you might expect: It pulls data from BeenVerified’s site and allows you to check up on the people you know through name queries or email addresses. Users can check up on their contacts with one click, allowing ... |
Kickstarter: Triggertrap Universal Camera Trigger | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 29 |
While most of us are satisfied with pressing the shutter release button on our cameras in order to take a picture, creative use many methods to do it, from remotes to time-lapse rigs to tethered laptops. But many of these methods are complex, expensive, or both. aims to provide an affordable, hackable, and universa... |
Luca Technologies Files To Go Public, Producing New Natural Gas From Old Wells | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 6 | 29 | A Colorado cleantech venture, Luca Technologies, filed an S-1 today revealing its intention to go public, and raise up to $125 million (though that number could vary with the receptivity of the market by the time they actually go public). The company stimulates microbes with a “proprietary formulation of nutrients,” i... |
Watch Twitter Explode: Google+ Invites Granted To Early Users | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 29 | If there’s been a question I’ve been asked more than “do you have any Google+ invites?”, I can’t remember it. ! Sadly, I haven’t had any invites to give out. Google has decided they’re going to roll out the network very slowly. Or that the plan. It now appears that early Google+ users (meaning the one ) now have th... |
Sprint's HTC Evo 3D Caught Prepping For T-Mo's 4G Network? | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 29 | ’s line of phones have long been exclusives, and are arguably the number three carrier’s shining stars. Interestingly enough, Sprint’s most recent (and also most awesome) phone, the Evo 3D has been spotted passing through the FCC sporting ’s AWS bands. A trip to the FCC doesn’t necessarily mean that T-Mobile is fo... |
Oxygen Accelerator founder talks about new startup programme (TCTV) | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 29 | Startup accelerators are mushrooming all over Europe, but generally in capital cities. An exception to that rule is the new , a Birmingham, UK, based investment programme which . The 13-week programme will take applications from around the world and has attracted slightly bemused attention for offering an “evergreen ... |
Hitachi Wants To Join Toshiba And Sony In LCD-Maker Mega-Merge | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 29 |
While the nuances of this enormous, enormous business deal are certainly lost on this poor tech blogger, I thought it worthwhile to mention that three major Japanese tech companies are considering , presumably to compete more effectively against major rivals like Samsung, Panasonic, Sharp, and big Chinese OEMs. What ... |
Former Yahoo Engineer Quits To Build A Flickr Killer On Kickstarter | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 29 | As , it can sometimes feel like certain photo-sharing websites have more of a hostage-taking approach to their business models than a “lets-please-the-customer” model. The photo-sharing experience then effectively becomes synonymous with platform lock-in — if you try to leave, you may not be able to take your images ... |
Google Now Lets Website Owners Measure The Power Of +1 (And Any Other Social Widget) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 29 |
Back in March, Google officially started rolling out the in its search results, allowing users to vote up the pages they found most useful. Two months later, on June 1, it launched a widget that lets website owners integrate the button into their pages, just like they do with Facebook’s ‘Like’ and Twitter’s ‘Tweet’ ... |
Larry Summers Joins Andreessen Horowitz as Special Advisor | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 29 | is announcing today that economist, former US Treasury Secretary and former President of Harvard Larry Summers is joining the firm as a special advisor. Beyond his well known academic and political credentials, Marc Andreessen was quick to point out that Summers has nerd cred too: He was admitted at MIT at the age of ... |
Cutting The Cord: WildChords Brings Guitar Hero To Real Guitars On The iPad | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | Learning to play an instrument is challenging; the progress in the early stages is slow, and the exercises that help you learn are boring and tedious. It’s largely for this reason that so many people give up on their chosen instrument before they reach vaunted rock star status. So, to combat this drop-out problem, , ... |
What Does The World Look Like Through 50 UV Filters? Blurry, Apparently | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 16 |
There’s some disagreement on UV filters in the world, but we can probably all agree that if you’re going to put one on your lens, it shouldn’t be some five dollar bargain bin filter. After all, you paid hundreds, or maybe thousands of dollars for that lens — why should you ruin all that beautiful glass with a sheist... |
American Airlines Joins Alaska In Shift From Paper Charts To iPad | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 16 |
Back in February, we heard about a charter jet company that was . And since then I’ve seen a number of apps and providing this function. But hearing that is surprising. I figured they’d move to an electronic solution eventually, but using consumer hardware? Interestingly, the switch mainly saves money on weight. Acc... |
Finally, A Ford Dealership In Playstation Home | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 16 |
The strange, sterile type world of Playstation Home has been missing something. No, not a soul or anything like that. It’s been missing virtual car dealerships. And Ford decided it was time that particular problem was addressed. Yes, a Ford dealership is now open in the world of Playstation Home. The zero square foo... |
Chrome 13 Hits Beta, Google Touts "Print Preview" Feature. For Serious. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | Google Chrome first on September 1, 2008. The very next day, someone filed a “ ” report on the Chromium project page stating the following: There is no option for a print preview. I think that this is needed so that you can see what the page will look like before wasting paper and toner. Good news, — today is your ... |
Lenovo Waves Their New Tablet Around At Brazil Event | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 29 |
We’ve heard many things about Lenovo’s tablet plans, but they’re a bit hard to parse. After all, Lenovo is among the tablet faithful, and their convertible Windows machines have been selling steadily for years. We’ve heard they’ll be bringing a new Android tablet (the Ideapad) to the US, but whether it’s just a revamp... |
Yes, Despite All The HTML5 Talk (And Action), Facebook Is Finally Doing An iPad App | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | The leaking of Facebook continues. Following our stories yesterday about their new and “ ” (a new mobile app platform), Nick Bilton of The New York Times that Facebook will soon release an iPad app. . We had also heard in recent weeks that despite Facebook’s seemingly , such an app does exist internally, and ha... |
Nintendo Bigwigs: 25th Anniversary Zelda Collection Wouldn't Be Nintendo-Like | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 16 |
At this , we were treated to a nice little dose of Zelda music, and told there would be a sweet 25th anniversary soundtrack, as well as some traveling concerts and a free DSiWare game. All very good, but I couldn’t help but be disappointed at the lack of a collected edition like that issued for last year’s . And a... |
Swing-Blade Sharpener For The Ritualistic Pencil-Lover In Your Life | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 16 |
There aren’t too many of us now who need to sharpen a pencil in the first place, much less do it in a poetically inefficient manner. But that shouldn’t stop you from appreciating , which takes off little shavings the way you might peel a pointy potato. If I were the kind of guy who designed pencil sharpeners, I’d def... |
Wifi Xoom Going For $500 At Costco | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 16 |
I’m not sure I can recommend the Xoom over any of the other tablets out there right now (especially that sexy little Galtab 10.1), but don’t remember ever hearing people complain about price drops. (with a free case), $100 less than its original price. That makes it a bit more credible in the market, but I still don... |
X-Men Director, Stan Lee, And Other Notables Use Crowdsourcing Startup To Mine For Talent | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | Whether it’s an altruistic push to give back to and interact with their fans or to just drum up publicity for their brands, it seems that a number of well-known musicians, artists, and creatives are turning to to get inspiration for their projects from everyday web users like you and me. These crowdsourced projects ... |
Payments Service Dwolla Hits $1M A Week In Transactions | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W89wEc59g9U&w=630] Payment platform is celebrating an important milestone this week; Hitting almost 1 million a week in payments on the service. This is rapid growth, as six months ago the startup was completing $50K in transactions a week. Only three months ago, it hit the $1 ... |
Mad Magazine Announces Their Own "Official" "Blog" | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | , now WordPress? Mad Magazine just announced an update to their official blog, now called , following such greats as the and into the cesspool that is Internet media. In honor of the launch, ran a gallery of some of Mad’s greatest contributors including William Gaines, Nick Meglin, and The Beard, wandering the ... |
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Education Incubator Imagine K12 Picks Ten Startups For Its First Class | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | In March we wrote about of , a new startup incubator modeled on Y Combinator that is focused on the education space. It was founded by startup veterans , and . The company sorted through some 200 applications, interviewed 36 startups and made offers to ten startups for the first class this summer. All accepted, ... |
Heavy Metal Hits Blu-Ray | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | The cult animated movie based on the cult sci-fi magazine based on the cult sci-fi magazine is finally hitting Blu-ray. Amazon calls it “an aimless, juvenile amalgam of disjointed stories and clashing visual styles,” which is . I’m not sure exactly how many people were waiting for this, but I like seeing these , per... |
Cleaner Flight: Virgin America's Efficient Engines, UOP Biofuels Go Transatlantic | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | Virgin America— a company that’s been reporting on its own greenhouse gas emissions since 2009— ordered $1.4 billion worth of new, super fuel-efficient engines from CFM International the companies announced on Wednesday. The move should help keep energy costs down, and reduce the negative environmental impacts of air t... |
String launches with 'fast, powerful' augmented reality platform for iOS | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | A new augmented reality startup launches today. claims to be a fast and powerful augmented reality technology for iOS. String claims to be capable of live two-way broadcast AR capabilities using Kinect, something they developed with Norwegian company Labrat. An application for this might be watching a live concert pr... |
Kone 2: Non-Electric Roastaroo | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 16 |
All right, so the headline is . Let’s just say mistakes were made, and move on, yeah? You might have heard about the , a metal replacement for paper coffee filters. It’s been making waves over the last year or so, but no product is perfect (even a perforated metal cone), and to the hardware that I’m pretty excited... |
Zynga v. Vostu: Vostu Uses The "I Know You Are But What Am I" Defense | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | The TechCrunch office pool predicted Vostu would respond to the alleging that Vostu’s entire business is basically to copy every single thing Zynga does in one of two ways. They’d either use the “I know you are but what am I defense,” or just a more straightforward “It wasn’t me” approach. It turns out they just did ... |
Lackluster Forecasts, Declining Revenue, And Imminent Layoffs: A Rough Quarter For RIM | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 16 | Just because things are expected, doesn’t mean they don’t hurt. This is the case for Research In Motion (RIM), which has been steadily over sales and earnings for the first quarter, today. And it doesn’t look good. Net income for the first quarter was a low $695 million, or $1.33 per diluted share, compared with n... |
Accel, Khosla, and Andreessen Horowitz Pour Another $30 Million Into Social Browser RockMelt | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | Is there a future for social browser startup ? Despite attracting only a few hundred thousand active users since its much-hyped launch, the company filled with ex-Netscape rockstars and backed by former Netscape founder Marc Andreessen just managed to raise another $30 million in a B round led by Accel Partners and K... |
Square Closes That $100 Million Round, Mary Meeker Joins Board | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | It’s official. Jack Dorsey’s Square has joined the . The mobile payments startup closed a $100 million series C led by Kleiner Perkins, a a few weeks ago. The new round values Square above $1 billion. Tiger Management is also an investor. And Mary Meeker, the former Morgan Stanley Internet analyst who is now a p... |
Is Google Asking The Wrong Question With Social? | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | Today’s soft-launch of Google’s new social galaxy, , raises one interesting question: Can Google, a massive, multinational, cash-rich, consumer technology company with multiple successful productivity applications and services, take its dough out of the oven and bake a social network into their bread? Over the past ye... |
While We Await The Native App, The Google+ iPhone Mobile Web App Is Pretty Solid | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | After , some of those lucky enough to get a Google+ invite were still left out in the cold a bit: iPhone users. You see, while the was there ready to go on day one, the iPhone app remains in review with Apple. But fear not iPhone users, there is a little hidden gem you may not know about: a mobile web version of Goo... |
Did RIM Cancel The Planned 10-inch Playbook? | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 28 |
It seems that RIM might have gotten the memo that consumers aren’t exactly flocking to . The same site that broke specs about the 10-incher a few weeks ago is now that it’s been axed. Like killed dead. Apparently development resources are needed for RIM’s next big project: A QNX BlackBerry superphone. Said phone do... |
HomeAway Prices IPO At $27 Per Share With A Market Cap Of $2 Billion | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | Vacation home rental service has which is set to begin trading tomorrow morning at $27 per share, giving the company a valuation of $2 billion. The company aims to raise as much as $248 million in the offering. Last week, HomeAway priced the range of its offering so this final pricing is at the high end of the r... |
"Light Scythe" Is A Monster LED Strip For Long Exposure Art | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 28 |
You’ve probably seen a few little gadgets and apps where you can wave it around and it spells something out on a long exposure, or draws a little picture. Pretty cool, but they’ve all been somewhat small — mainly good for painting stripes or single lines of text. The Mechatronics Guy’s is a two-meter bar covered in ... |
Only 6000 Xbox 360 Units Sold In Japan In May | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | This isn’t a knock on the 360, but it really demonstrates the differences between the US and Japanese markets, and shows how you can’t please all the people, all the time. Only Xbox 360s were moved in all of Japan in May, for a total of around 1.47 million. Compare that to over five million PS3s sold and over ten mil... |
Meet The Newest Startup Brood From i/o Ventures | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | The Demo Day starts in a little under a half an hour, and I am about to head over to Valencia Street to watch the startups present. i/o Ventures is the SF-based incubator that offers five or six startups a 4-6 month long spot in its 7,000 square foor loft/coffee shop space as well as $25,000 in seed money, in exchang... |
Rigor Launches Unified Platform for Web and Mobile Performance Management | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | In the spirit of Google’s code campaign, there has been a ton of renewed interest around making web and mobile apps faster and more reliable. Really, this is for the simple reason that improved performance of applications means , higher search rankings, and . As a result, a growing number of app developers and sit... |
Sean Parker On Why Myspace Lost To Facebook | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RScptpB5v_s&w=630]
With of social network Myspace about to sell for ~$30 million, the tech world eagerly awaits the HBS study for why the service, which was bought in 2006 by Newscorp for $580 million and was at some point valued at $1.5 billion (a in a Business Week article... |
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Soundfreaq Goes White With The SFQ-01W Ghost Speaker Bluetooth Speakerdock | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | Soundfreaq hit the speaker dock scene late last year with the sexy SFQ-01. The firm is back and just released a white model cleverly named called the Ghost. Besides the color change, it’s the same speaker dock with a Dock Connector port, Bluetooth A2DP streaming, 3.5mm input and the oh-so-delicious design. Pricing is t... |
LeapFrog Unveils Kid-Friendly LeapPad Tablet Priced At $100 | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | If you have a kid, requires no introduction, but since lots of us haven’t spawned quite yet, I’ll go ahead and say that LeapFrog makes educational toys, books, and games for children. And now with the announcement of its LeapPad tablet, the company has entered itself into the tablet arena, albeit with a kid-friendly ... |
WakeMate 2.0: Helping You Kiss Those Groggy Mornings Goodbye. For Real, This Time. | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | The story of could be viewed as a warning to all tech-savvy entrepreneurs out there: building a hardware device is much more difficult than most web applications. The promise of WakeMate is compelling — it sells a $60 wristband that tracks your movements during the night, syncs to your smartphone, and wakes you up in... |
Whiteboard In Microsoft Video Hints At WP7's Future? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 28 |
There’s not a lot of real data to pull out of this unless you’re privy to a lot of internal Microsoft stuff, but it’s fun anyway. has a whiteboard in the background that seems to have some Windows Phone 7 improvements scribbled on it. Nice eye on the viewer who spotted this! That’s Dr Victor Bahl, director of the mo... |
Google Gets All Designy With Updated Homepage, Search Results And Free Fonts | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | Oh, so you thought Google was done after it rolled out ? No, no, no. Google will be done when that’s Google-brand oxygen you’re breathing. This afternoon, the search giant’s rollout announcements have continued, as the official Google blog (relatively speaking) that the Google Search page (and products across the G... |
Dropbox Grabs Another Googler, Ramsey Homsany, For Exec Role | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | Storage startup has hired as it’s General Counsel. Homsany is a long time Google lawyer. He joined the company in 2003 and was most recently the deputy general counsel of the commercial group. The 100 or so internal lawyers that reported to him dealt with Google’s various commercial and partnership relationships. T... |
Mouse Up And Roll Out With This Transformers-Themed Razer Gear | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 28 |
The latest Transformers game hasn’t been getting very good reviews, but that doesn’t mean you can’t represent your Cybertron love with some Transformers gaming swag. with Autobot and Decepticon logos and colors, along with a Prime-emblazoned Vespula mousepad and some serious-looking laptop sleeves. Personally I’m no... |
Let The Games Begin, TechCrunch Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield Applications Are Now Open! | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | Now that we’ve finally caught our breath from , it’s time to to bring Disrupt back home to San Francisco. (We like to keep things moving around here). To get things rolling, we are accepting applications for startups to launch at the Disrupt Startup Battlefield in San Francisco, September 12-14, 2011. So what are y... |
Talking The Talk: Verbally Lets The Speech Disabled Communicate Using The iPad (For Free) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | Intuary, a mobile app startup, recently launched its first app, called , which is designed to bring speech to those without. Verbally is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) solution built for the more than six million people in the U.S. suffering from speech disabilities — caused by Lou Gherig’s Disea... |
Keen On… Michael Fertik: Why People Will Pay for Privacy (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 6 | 28 | Will people pay for online privacy? Yes, they will – at least according to the founder and CEO of one of the early leaders in the new online privacy ecosystem. Indeed, Fertik believes that privacy is the next big thing in the online economy – a necessary antidote to Reid Hoffman’s economy of pervasive personal da... |
U.S. Trade Commission Gives The Green Light To Microsoft's $8.5 Billion Cash Takeover Of Skype | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said today that it has approved Microsoft’s $8.5 billion cash takeover of voice and video-over-IP provider Skype. Microsoft officially announced its intent to and, since then, users Microsoft for Skype’s intermittent service. The criticism, at least in that sense, has been a bit p... |
Weekend Giveaway: Man Cave Gear For Pops | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | Poor dad. He’s always getting shafted when it comes to Father’s Day. Usually he gets a tie or a chess set or a fancy prize-winning goat (it was a weird year that year at the Biggs house, let me tell you). But does he ever get a full home gaming/3D video/Blu-Ray playing All-In-One gaming center? With speakers? And fancy... |
Earbits Snags $605K From Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures And Others | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | Online radio startup (YC Winter 2011) is announcing a seed round of funding today, having snatched up $605K from , , Start Fund and former CEO . Earbits is unique in that its closest competitor is the newly IPOd Pandora from the listener’s side but from the musician’s side the model is completely different. Foun... |
"Rotary Mechanical" Cell Phone Concept Isn't Practical, But It Looks Great | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 17 |
Now, I’m as tired of steampunk as the next guy (unless the next guy works at BoingBoing), but that doesn’t mean I’m going to pretend something like this concept isn’t cool. Steampunk got cool because of , not people gluing brass fittings onto their top hats.
It is of course just a concept, but the idea is a modul... |
Surveillant Society | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | One aspect of the Egyptian uprising (among the others, most ongoing) that was overpowered by the wild acclamation of social media is something that has been quietly but powerfully changing societal norms over the last decade. It is simply the inclusion, on almost every mobile phone sold, of a digital camera. When 90% o... |
AOL Makes Fun Of Yahoo. And It's Actually Hilarious. | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mPM1d2d1tg&w=630] This is amazing. Earlier today Yahoo Android music app that happened to have the exact same name as the Android music app by AOL four months ago, “Play.” Yes, Yahoo and AOL now both have music apps with the same name. And instead of laughing it off interna... |
PlayStation Boss: No PS4 Anytime Soon, We're Advanced Enough | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | With ’s announcement of the at E3, and rumors of a potential machine headed our way in 2013, you’d think that the folks over at would be working long hours to make the next-gen top-dog amongst competitors. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, according to comments made by PlayStation US boss Jack Tretton in a ... |
Red Karaoke now lets you groove on Facebook | marinando | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | has been around for 4 years now, when based out of Spain, two brothers Miguel Angel y Richard Díez Ferreira first opened it’s online Karaoke doors. They probably had no idea that they were onto something. The service took very quickly and grew not only for the Spanish speaking public, but English and Japanese. Today... |
11 Great Last Minute Geeky Father's Day Gifts | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | I’m a dad and have no problem stating that Father’s Day is farce. It’s a waste of money, mainly. I believe the same goes for Mother’s Day, but I clearly don’t have the same sort of authority to state as much. That said, I don’t mind receiving a little something for my hard work. Everyone likes gifts, but there’s no rea... |
As The 2012 Campaign Heats Up, President Obama To Start Tweeting From @BarackObama | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | You’re about to see whole lot more Tweets from the President. President Obama’s Twitter account, has been around for sometime, accumulated 8.6 million followers but he was rarely -his staff did. Today, the President’s campaign notifying the public that his 2012 presidential campaign staff (Obama for America) will ... |
Ever Wonder What In-Lens Image Stabilization Actually Looks Like? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/25219345 w=620&h=349]
Not content with Canon’s claims that it is simply unicorn tears that makes their in-lens stabilization work, decided to take apart an 18-55mm IS and record just what was going on in there. Aren’t you curious too? As it turns out… not too exciting, since the real magi... |
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The Hacks Continue: Sega Pass Breached | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | The latest victim in this rash of cyberattacks is Sega, whose own gaming network and marketplace Sega Pass has been compromised. The site says it’s “going through some improvements” but reveals that they’re locking it down until the situation is back under control. What was leaked? Fortunately just emails, DOBs, and ... |
Another Look At The Ulysse Nardin Chairman | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | Sorry that I’ve so many of these videos but this offered a tighter and closer look at the and, considering this is probably the wildest phone I’ve seen in years, it’s worth a second look. Enjoy this quick run through of some of the basic features and a bit of time spent on the counterweight. |
Sequoia Capital To Double Down On Evernote With Big New Investment | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | is as any startup in Silicon Valley, even if they don’t get quite as much press. Last year they raised from Sequoia Capital, on top of the $25 million they’d already raised. The company is profitable with 70 employees, and has revenue of more than $1 million per month. Profitable enough, in fact, that it’s rumored... |
Square to Investors: $1 Billion Valuation? That's So Last Week. Make It $2 Billion. | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | Square is still working on raising its $50 million-or-so , and we’ve heard from several sources why it’s taking so long. It seems Square is no longer content to be in the $1 billion valuation club, which is admittedly getting . I mean, once they’ve let Spotify in, they’ll let any hot app in, right? Square is now angl... |
Surveillant Society | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 17 |
One aspect of the Egyptian uprising (among the others, most ongoing) that was overpowered by the wild acclamation of social media is something that has been quietly but powerfully changing societal norms over the last decade. It is simply the inclusion, on almost every mobile phone sold, of a digital camera. When 90% ... |
Charting Twilio's Growth Over The Last Year (And The Price Drops That Helped) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 17 |
Last week , the startup that makes it easy for developers to integrate SMS and telephony features into their own applications, made a significant pricing change: they dropped the price of each outbound SMS message to one cent (it used to be two cents per message). That may not sound like much, but given that some com... |
Apple Extends List Of Copycat Devices In Samsung Patent Battle | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 17 | Here’s something totally baffling: in what way does ’s Sidekick 4G violate design patents? Have you ever seen anything close to a Sidekick with an Apple on it? In any case, the plot has thickened between these two phone makers, with Apple now claiming that 12 different Samsung devices infringe upon Apple’s design an... |
Contest Asks People To "Draw The Internet" | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Can you draw the Internet? No seriously can you? , , digital ad agency The NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and The NYC Department of Education partnered up this Internet Week in a gallery exhibition of , a contest that asks people to “capture the spirit of the Internet’s billions of pages in a single ... |
Free Wi-Fi Coming To New York Parks | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Are you, like me, headed out this weekend to the park in your handsomest raincoat/shoes/socks ensemble? Or maybe you’re looking for the invisible sheep that live in Astoria park’s many verdant trees? Or maybe you want to chase squirrels away from your pot o’ gold in Brooklyn? Well now you don’t have to worry about scre... |
EPIC Draft FTC Complaint Vilifies Facebook's Facial Recognition | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Earlier this week Facebook drew significant backlash over a feature that uses facial recognition to help users tag their friends in photos shared on the site. The feature isn’t new, but Facebook recently activated it by default for many users, drawing a wave of criticism including a from European Union privacy regula... |
Tumblr's New Messaging System: Another Way To Avoid My Evil Email Inbox | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | I hate email. Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate email. There’s just too much of it. It’s always flowing in. It never stops. And it’s getting worse. As time goes on, even if inbox overload isn’t a problem for you right now, it will be. And I’m increasingly convinced that there is no actual solution. A ton of people a... |
Japanese Robo-Drone Will Interrogate Your Leia | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7dPgzMgf0&w=640&h=390] This odd robot, made of spare parts, has more in common with the than anything of this world. It can float around for 8 minutes on one charge and goes 40 miles an hour. Plus it’s a unique form factor for this sort of RC drone, making it a real one of a ... |
Weekend Giveaway: A B&N Nook | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 10 |
The folks at , eager as beavers to get their products into your hands, want to send you a new . Why? They’re in love with you and you won’t accept their love, so they’re in the friend zone and you refuse to pay attention to their attempts to win your heart. It’s like only with start-ups. Anyway, here’s how to win.... |
DIY Geodesic Dome On Kickstarter | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Need a place to hide out when the apocalypse comes? Why not try a DIY geodesic dome! This project offers a $99 10-foot geodesics kit or a 14-foot model for $189. This isn’t really about shelter as much as it is about fun. I’ll let the folks at explain: We want to make it easier for everyone (both kids and adults) t... |
Clothing Designer Tory Burch Wins $164M In Lawsuit Against Online Counterfeiters | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Women’s clothing designer has been in damages from online counterfeiters that have been selling copies of her shoes, bags and clothing on the web. According to , this is the largest amount of money awarded to a fashion designer for damages from online counterfeiters. For background, in 2008, eBay was forced to pay... |
The +1 Button Is Like A Button You Push For A Treat — Without The Treat | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | You people confuse me. Ten days ago we put Google’s +1 Button on TechCrunch — because why not? We try basically all these new buttons/counters/commenting systems much to the dismay of our precious page load speed (we know, we know, it sucks — fix coming). Some of these buttons are great and make a lot of sense. The Twe... |
OcuSpec Raises $1.3M From Andreessen And Others To Build ‘Affordable Kinect’ | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Stealth motion control startup has just raised a $1.3 million seed round from , , and angels Brian McClendon, Bill Warner and others. Short and sweet in his emails, founder Michael Buckwald isn’t telling me very much about OcuSpec does, other than the fact that the startup is developing motion controlled technolo... |
Review: The Fretlight FG-421 Guitar | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Years ago I thought I could be in a rock band (right around the same time I thought I could make money writing poetry) but I eventually resigned myself to the fact that I’d never be a great guitarist. I didn’t have the drive to practice and the act of soloing confounded me completely. How did you play along with the Ze... |
Tribesports Raises $400K To Create An All-In-One Digital Resource For Sports Nuts | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | It’s tough to embark on ambitious fitness plans or to learn a new sport without the help of friends or likeminded people to help coach you through the process. Trying to go from lite jogger to marathon runner or from casual golfer to shooting par: The challenges are invigorating, sure, but vim and vigor won’t necessar... |
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