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Microsoft Takes A Few Minutes To Laud The New Surface | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | It’s a bit of a random time for a video like this, seeing as the announcement was back at CES and we had a nice, thorough hands-on with the new SUR40 then, but hey. Maybe you missed it. If you don’t mind a little redundancy (and of course, the ever-present soft techno), this is a nice way to catch up on Microsoft’s S... |
LinkedIn Is Sending Us Far More Referral Traffic Than Twitter.com Now | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | If I asked you which of the major social sites you thought sent us the most traffic, you might think it was Twitter. After all, has over 1.7 million followers. When you compare this to the (just under) 250,000 fans our has, it should be no contest, right? Wrong. The truth is that if this were October of last year, ... |
BiteHunter Launches "Kayak for Restaurants" iPhone App | Roi Carthy | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | It was a couple of months ago that beta-launched itself as an aggregator for dining deals. Easily described as a “Kayak for restaurants,” BiteHunter is designed to help users locate dining deals, a problem which has been been addressed quite well for verticals such as travel, but quite poorly for dining, at least o... |
Cupertino To Jobs: There's No Chance We're Saying No To The Apple Spaceship Campus | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FEwHk9Ap7I&w=630]
While he’s no Steve Jobs, Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong has his unique charm. In a press conference today responding to yesterday’s , Wong said emphatically, “Cupertino is ready for this” referring to the 150 acre “Mothership” Apple campus. Jobs hopes the fant... |
Custom Clothier J. Hilburn Raises Another $5 Million And Adds Suits To Its Wardrobe | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | Custom men’s clothing company is expanding its product line to today and raised a $5 million C round from Bridgescale Partners and existing investor Battery Ventures. That brings the total capital invested in the Dallas startup to $12 million. The funds will be used to accelerate its development of new products a... |
An Unannounced Dell Tablet Breaks Both Cover And The Traditional Form Factor Mold | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 8 |
Dell is working on a new tablet. That alone isn’t news. Nearly every CE company right now is likely “working on a new tablet.” However, the crazy kids over at Engadget a round of photos showing off an unannounced Dell tablet slider. That’s news. What we’re looking at is a clear departure from the traditional tablet f... |
Coupons.com Raises $200 Million At A Whopping $1 Billion Valuation | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | It looks like Coupons.com may have just become at billion dollar valuations. Today, , the largest provider of digital coupons, announced that it has received a $200 million investment from a group of institutional investors, including several mutual funds. (The company has thus far declined to disclose the names of... |
doxo Emerges From Private Beta, Brings Its Paperless Billing Service To The iPhone | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | One of the easiest ways to “go green” is to start paying your bills online — to cut out that papery middle man. Of course, the paperless revolution seems to be taking longer than expected to sweep the world by storm. Partly, this seems to be due to habit and partly due to concerns over security, privacy, and ease of a... |
Sony Pictures Security Hole Hits 37,500 Users | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | Blammo. Sony has just confirmed that 37,500 Sony Pictures visitors have had their passwords, emails, and other potentially identifying details stolen from the Sony Pictures website. There is little financial effect in this hack as it simply exposed logins and passwords although users should probably change their import... |
Video: Hands-on With The Hyperkin Supaboy | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | The broke a few months ago. The somewhat large portable claimed to play SNES cartridges on both the embedded LCD screen but also out through the A/V out. Clever, right? Well, good news. It works and is just as wonderful as it sounds. Devin and I stopped by their E3 booth today and we got in on a little TMNT action. T... |
15 Minutes Of Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Gameplay | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 8 |
I was lucky enough to be able to play a partial round of yesterday, but unfortunately DICE and EA were very insistent that no cameras would be allowed inside. That rule seems to have been laxified today, as there’s a pair of videos up showing off the very experience I got. Curious? Watch on. [youtube=http://www.yout... |
OnLive Shows Us Their Updated Client And Tablet Interface | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 8 |
ain’t new, but they’ve been updating their service and are showing off a few interesting new features here at E3. We spent some time at their booth, hearing about the service and the improvements they’re making. We saw a little footage of and heard about their cool tablet interface. Check out the video above… if y... |
The i3 Platform: A (Paid) Crunchbase For Green Startups? | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | A research firm focused on clean energy and green innovation, the , launched its i3 Platform today— and it’s something like a paid , with a dash of and , for green tech ventures. The product became privately available to some of Cleantech Group’s clients in late May. Now, some of the i3 Platform is available for ... |
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Videos And Gallery: Nintendo’s Booth, Wii U, And New 3DS Games | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 8 |
My impressions? It’s surprisingly light, the movement is much more responsive than the Wii, and the screen looks nice. There weren’t any demonstrations of the touchscreen, though I asked about the resistive/capacitive thing and got a non-answer. It’s just too early for them to commit to any technical details, it se... |
OpenStudy Wants To Turn The World Into "One Big Study Group" | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | Education-focused startup is a platform for “massively multi-player study groups.” What this means is that students who are studying the same subject like math or writing can ask and answer questions on OpenStudy, which uses Facebook Connect to let users interact and learn collaboratively through profiles and group c... |
Videos And Gallery: Our Hands-Ons With The PS Vita | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | First we checked out Hot Shots Golf, then cel-shaded adventure Gravity, the impressive Mod Nation Racers and Little Big Planet, and then Uncharted: Golden Abyss, perhaps the most anticipated title. You can skip ahead to the clip you want above or just watch it straight through because . And of course we had to take ... |
"It Just Works." | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | Amid all the big announcements at this year’s WWDC keynote, there was an undercurrent that was subtle, but important. “It just works.” Steve Jobs kept saying this over and over again on stage. When Jobs does this, . It’s a message. And it’s a message that was underscored by another word. “Automatically.” Jobs must hav... |
Mad Catz And Tritton Say Their Warhead Is The Ultimate Wireless 360 Headset | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 8 |
Last night we got a live tour of the latest from Mad Catz, including this rather comprehensively-featured headset for the Xbox 360. The big “what’s new” on this one is that it’s “truly wireless,” with no cord to the controller — making it the only wireless Dolby 7.1 headset out there. That may be putting somewhat of a... |
A Look Back At Our Favorite Moments From This Year's Disrupt NYC Hackathon And Startup Alley | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | has wrapped and for our next Disrupt, which we are incredibly excited to be bringing back to San Francisco this September. However, before we start revealing what we have in store for this fall, we wanted to recap everything that went down in New York one last time. There were too many good things that happened, man... |
Cloud Sherpas Buys Google Apps Deployment Startup Omnetic | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | , a Google Apps reseller that also helps enterprises migrate to and manage the productivity suite, has acquired , a fellow Google Apps deployment service. The acquisition of San Francisco-based gives Cloud Sherpas the largest concentration of Google Apps Deployment Specialists of any company outside Google. Financi... |
Nokia CEO Elop: Nokia Tablet Isn't Out Of The Question | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 1 |
Speaking somewhat cryptically , Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop responded to a question about tablets thusly: I’m not going to announce a tablet here today. But as a high level point, there’s a connected digital experience will increasingly define what consumers are looking for. It’s important for us to play across that spa... |
Former Threadless CTO Is Now Obama Campaign CTO | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | The Obama 2012 campaign is about to get a lot hipper. Former CEO and apparent unabashed wacky person Harper Reed has just . Reed was at Threadless until 2009, then moved to Rackspace for a couple of months, after which he worked on personal projects and advised startups like and , while working on personal projects ... |
Huawei Teases Small Form-Factor "MediaPad" | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 1 |
Huawei will be showing off a new tablet at Communicasia later this month, and they sent along a couple pics just to make us curious. There’s not much to say other than that it looks a bit like an iPad squashed down to a… what is that, a 7″ screen? It’s hard to say. The watch looks small but that’s one big cup of tea. ... |
Multiplayer Facebook Game Trash Tycoon Trains You To Be Green (But In A Fun Way) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 8 | , a social game maker, debuted a cool new Facebook game at Disrupt NYC that is adding a new spin to green games. What’s more, from what I can tell, is the first game to hit the Facebook platform. But what is this “upcycling”, you ask? Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials into new products of bette... |
Windows 8 Brings Entirely New Look And Feel, Unifies Touch And PC Interfaces | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 1 |
has just given a demonstration of what they’re calling Windows 8. It appears to be a complete revamp of the Windows interface, designed around a tile system like that of Windows Phone 7, and focused on being equally accessible via touchscreen interface or mouse and keyboard. Windows president Steven Sinofsky says th... |
Aluratek's Mini Surge USB/Outlet Adapter Would Be Handy To Have Around | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | This thing from Aluratek would be a nice little doodad to have by your nightstand, in case you need to charge two phones, plug in an alarm clock, or put in an extra lamp — but don’t want to have to move your bed every time you need to make a change. Pop this guy onto the end of an extension cord and you’ve got a sweet ... |
Informative Video On Star Photography | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/16833554 w=620&h=465]
Our own Dave Freeman wrote up a nice little a while back, but some of you may prefer your learning in video form, and this one, by photographer Ben Canales, is a good place to start. I wasn’t aware of the “rule of 600” thing, where you divide your lens’s focal length... |
German ISPs Surrendering 300,000 Pirating Suspects' Details Every Month | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | As ridiculous as the copyright battles are here in the states, it’s a bit surreal when you see them exceeded elsewhere by an order of magnitude or two. , ISPs in that country are giving up their subscribers to rightsholders at the mind-boggling rate of around 300,000 per month. To put that in perspective, you remember... |
'ONE' iPhone App Allows You To Call Your Senators To Instigate Change | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXSHJ45IpTI&w=630] If you’re like me you’re probably too preoccupied to get political on a daily basis, even though you are passionate about social activism and causes like education reform. But what if an app made it easier for you to get informed and take political action on th... |
Google Places Now Borrowing Yelp Reviews Without Attribution In iPhone App | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | Google Places is at it again, brazenly borrowing reviews from Yelp. But this time it’s in their iPhone app and they are not even bothering to link back to Yelp or attribute where they are getting the reviews. Yelp and Google have a love-hate relationship. Yelp loves when its listings and reviews show up in natural s... |
YouTube Now Lets You License Videos Under Creative Commons (Remixers, Rejoice) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | If you’ve ever yearned to mash up your cat video with some C-SPAN footage but couldn’t figure out how, today’s your lucky day. Because starting now, YouTube is giving users a choice over how they want to license their content. There’s still the standard YouTube license, which is fairly restrictive, and now there’s a ne... |
NZXT Gets Into The CPU Cooling Business With The Havik 140 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | I spent quite a while deciding on the fan for my new system, and although I’m happy with the one I got, It would have been nice to have this new from in the running as well. Mainly because I know it’ll be solid quality and it’s “universally compatible with Intel and AMD processors” — meaning I don’t have to drill d... |
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Next Performance raises €16m for its online ad retargeting | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | , the online ad company that specialises in “dynamic retargeting”, has raised €16m from UK-based growth equity firm . The new funds will be used by Next Performance to continue its European expansion, while Michael Elias, Managing Director at Kennet, and Hillel Zidel, Director at Kennet, will join the the Paris, Franc... |
DARPA Video Shows The Evolution Of The Hummingbot Nano UAV | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuD1WKHsggs&w=640&h=390]
We’ve been following DARPA’s program since 2009, and it’s really remarkable how it’s gone from to to in just a year and a half. DARPA thinks so too, so they put together a little video tribute to the thing. There isn’t much in the way of new foot... |
Twitter Blindsided Ecosystem Leader Twitpic With Photo Product | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | Yesterday, leading up to capabilities, hearing that Twitter had approached some ecosystem players months ago about their potential move into the arena. One player not consulted? A massive one: . “We never heard from Twitter that they were building a photo feature,” Twitpic founder Noah Everett tells us. That’s int... |
No AMOLED Panels For The iPad 3, Unfortunately | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | There has been some speculation as of late that might upgrade to panels for the iPad 3, rumors that were effectively squashed by industry sources claiming that the current rate of AMOLED panel production won’t be able to meet iPad 3 demand, according to . In other words, should Apple choose to go the AMOLED route,... |
Bids For Social.com Domain Start At $5 Million. You Could Have Bought It For $50,000 In 1997 | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | How much is the domain worth? We are about to find out. The domain will be off on June 8 at DOMAINfest Barcelona with an opening bid of $5 million, according to Moniker. and will be jointly on behalf of , the original owner who first registered the domain back in January, 1995. Back then, he had to pay $1... |
HP CEO: We'd License WebOS To Handset Makers, Appliance Makers, Whoever | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 1 | Speaking at All Things D’s D9 conference today, HP CEO Leo Apotheker answered some audience questions and cleared up some concerns over whether would simply be HP’s exclusive in-house OS, or whether they would be spreading it around. When asked about the licensing situation, Apotheker responded that “It’s a great OS ... |
Sony Officially Announces Playstation Vita Handheld (With AT&T Partnership) UPDATE: Pricing! | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 6 |
The Next-Generation Portable we’ve been hearing about for a good five months now has finally been owned up to by Sony. It is, as rumors had it, called the Playstation Vita, and the many features we’ve heard about (dual touchscreens, cameras, Near, and so on) are all official. All the specs and stuff were , but we’re ... |
Phaser Attachment For Playstation Move: It Doesn't Get Much Nerdier | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 6 |
There’s really not much to add, here. The game they showed was “pre-alpha” so don’t expect this thing for like a year. Or rather, expect it breathlessly. But really, whether the game’s good or bad, you’re going to want to buy this to go along with it. |
What @RepWeiner Can Teach Us About Online Life | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | If you talked to anyone over the age of 50 after Twitter announced its photo-sharing service last week, there was most likely one on their lips and it wasn’t the of pics.twitter.com. Since his mass-publicized that he actually did send an explicit Direct Message to a college coed today, we are perhaps the last onl... |
Sony Announces New 3D Monitor And Glasses In $500 PS3 Gaming Bundle | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 6 |
Sony has just announced a brand new 24-inch 3D HD display designed by them specifically for gaming. It uses active shutter glasses to produce 3D, and I’m guessing from the size and terminology that it’s 720p. It comes with one pair of glasses, a 6-foot HDMI cable, and one of the major 3D games that’s launching this ye... |
Sony: "30% Of Netflix Traffic Comes From Playstation" | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 6 |
According a Jack Tretton, CEO of SCEA, 30% of Netflix’s video traffic comes from Sony devices, primarily PS3s. The news came at Sony’s E3 press conference where they also apologized for the . As you probably recall, Netflix uses the most Internet , providing 29.7 percent of peak downstream traffic. |
SCEA's Jack Tretton Talks About PSN Outage: "I Apologize" | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | SCEA’s CEO Jack Tretton took to the stage today to talk about the outage that has effected the gaming platform’s online play for the past weeks. Tretton thanked the PS3 supporters and reported that network activity was at 90% and that the company is “committed” to the PSN experience. He described the PS3 and new NGP ... |
We're Live At Sony's Massive E3 2011 Press Conference! | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | Talk about buzz. This whole crowd is just sitting here, wondering if Sony, the almighty Sony, will actually acknowledge the massive data breach. No one is talking about the NGP, PS3, of course not the Move. Nope, it seems to be all about the hacking — and the tasty food Sony’s providing served up by some trendy L.A. fo... |
Angry Birds On A Nook – No, Not A Nook Color, A Nook | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k22BB8VPI5o&w=640&h=390]
The new (colloquially called the Nook Touch) runs Android underneath that crunchy black and white book interface, so Nook hacker decided to root it and see if something like Angry Birds will run. Lo and behold, it does. Very, very poorly. But it’s st... |
About The Nuance No-Show At Apple's WWDC Keynote | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | With regard to today’s WWDC keynote, we were right about a lot of things. . Revamped . (though they didn’t call them “widgets” on stage, the weather and stock areas in the notifications pull-down are widgets). iOS Messages (okay, this was that somehow came true). for . . . . But we weren’t right about every... |
The Roundabout Tapes – Musicmetric is strapping an analytics rocket to the music industry | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | Late last year , the startup behind the Musicmetric analytics service, secured a “significant round” of funding led by (terms were undisclosed) but that gave the company a good “two-year runway” to expand its data collection infrastructure and applications and grow the team. It’s now powering Musicweek’s weekly Arti... |
Nyko Shows Off Its Kinect And 3DS Accessories For E3 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 6 |
Want to experience the joy of , but happen to have a small living room? Nyko wants to help you out. They also want to help you out if you are in any way unhappy with your . Well, no, it can’t actually make the 3D “sweet spot” bigger, but their new accessories do help in other ways. The Kinect add-on they’ve created ... |
Wanna Use Twitter's Photo Service Right Now? Become An iPhone Developer, It's In iOS 5 | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | Last week, we broke the news that . At the time, we also noted that the timing of the launch of Twitter’s new Photo service was calculated. The feature was launching because Apple needed it in place for iOS 5. Today proves that. Apple has begun seeding the first builds of iOS 5 to developers today. And thousands are a... |
Post-Apple Palate Cleanser: More Swiss Army Axes! | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 6 |
Remember those sweet we saw a while back? The quantity was so limited that they sold out only an hour or so after I posted them. But , so you’ve got one more chance to get an extremely tasteful wood-splitting tool. I bought one last time around, and I can tell you they’re great, though due to a slightly shorter han... |
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The Star Wars: The Old Republic E3 Opening Cinematics | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPQHiVecHZs&w=640&h=390] Star Wars Kinect isn’t the only featured game at E3 that’s set in a galaxy far, far away. Nope. EA just released the opening scene for Biowar’s upcoming Star Wars saga, Star Wars: The Old Republic. It’s time for the Sith to rise again! Also, is that suppo... |
Battlefield 3 Hits Stores On October 25 | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 6 |
EA’s been teasing Battlefield 3 for the last few months with demos and gameplay clips and it’s finally launching. The latest incarnation of EA’s long-standing shooter franchise is hitting this fall — October 25th, to be exact. Select fans will be able to get a taste of Battlefield 3 bit early when the multi-platform b... |
Exclusive: Patent Lawsuit Filed Against Skype Same Day Microsoft Deal Was Announced | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | Skype is no stranger to patent litigation. One time, even its founders against it. But this is a new lawsuit, not yet reported as far as I can tell. What’s more it was filed in the U.S. on May 10, 2011—the same day that Microsoft announced its acquisition of Skype. The case is (embedded below) and was filed in... |
Experian Acquired Child Safety Startup SafetyWeb | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | Nearly a month ago credit behemoth acquired child identity and safety startup . Experian actually announced it on May 18 as part of its statement around its quarterly financials, although it is buried in the notes on page 39 of that . The acquisition price was not disclosed, although we’ve heard unconfirmed reports... |
Android Malware Rears Its Ugly Head… Yet Again | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | It’s been about a week since the last malware attack, DroidDreamLight, and yet another malicious program has infiltrated Google’s platform. According to the , the malware is being dubbed “DroidKungFu,” and has yet to be detected by mobile anti-virus software programs. |
Apple Has Finally Stuck A Dagger Into SMS. I Love It. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | Now that the is over and I’ve had a little bit of time to reflect, I’ve been thinking about what excited me the most from today’s announcements. The list is long, no doubt. But I think I’m going to have to go with something that surprised me — while at the same time making me look smarter than perhaps I really am. (A... |
Zynga Turns Hangman Into A Social iOS Game With The Debut Of 'Hanging With Friends' | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 6 | Zynga’s game development studios are on a roll of late, recently revealing and Settlers Of Catan-like social combat game Empires & Allies. And today, Zynga Mobile is adding one more title to the mix with the of ‘Hanging With Friends,’ Zynga’s take on classic popular game Hangman within an iOS app. The game is ver... |
Weekend Giveaway: A Kobo eReader Touch (And Some Gift Cards) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 24 |
: It’s over! Congrats to all the winners – emails have been sent. Thanks for entering, everyone, your bookcases are all very interesting. If you’re curious about the new generation of touchable , now’s your chance to pick one up just for being a CrunchGear reader. Kobo has been generous enough to donate one of their... |
Sweet DIY Book Light | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 24 |
Here’s a fun little project, a little too advanced for me but worth looking into if you’re okay with a little soldering and such. Basically you’re just replacing the innards of a book with a frame (or you could cut out the pages, which would look cooler) and putting an LED strip and some opaque acrylic in there. Makes... |
Inspired By Wikipedia, Quora Aims For Relevancy With Topic Groups And Reorganized Topic Pages | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 24 |
has just announced of its Topic Pages and the introduction of Topic Groups, aiming to make information discovery and navigation on the site a little bit easier. The motivation behind these changes is a thrust towards ease of search and content relevancy on Quora, as there is currently a ton of content on the site t... |
I Found Out About This Gay Marriage Thing On Foursquare | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | Well actually it was of a Foursquare check-in, posted to Twitter … So I actually haven’t been following news at all today, and when I say news I mean actual news, not tech news which I keep up with like an addiction. And I so had no idea that a bill to legalize gay marriage the New York State Senate at the very mo... |
Obama Announces National Robotics Initiative | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 24 |
As part of a $500 million package aimed at funding homegrown innovation and high-tech jobs, the is $70 million intended for “the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or cooperatively with, people.” Sounds good to me! We’ve already got enough . President Obama announced the initiative... |
Classic Mac FPS Marathon Open Sourced, Coming To iPad | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 24 |
was the Mac answer to , and when I was younger I preferred it infinitely (in my innocence), lauding its creative level design, intense multiplayer, and insanely . When it gave way to I pretty much stopped caring about Bungie, but now they’ve gotten my attention again. As part of Bungie’s big 20th anniversary celeb... |
Manufacturer: HP TouchPad To Get 7-Inch Counterpart In August | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | It looks like a 9.7-inch WiFi-only TouchPad and a 3G/Wi-Fi TouchPad aren’t quite enough for , as rumors suggest that the company may be building a 7-inch model of the TouchPad to be released in August. This should come as pretty good news to those of you who, like myself, prefer a smaller, more portable tablet. The ne... |
Is There A European Tech Incubator Bubble? | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | Something is happening in Europe. The tectonic plates in the startup ecosystem are moving and, like penguins on ice-flows, we all are slithering around trying to get a handle on how things will play out over the next couple of years. We’re having exits (such as Tweetdeck to Twitter for $40million), large funding rounds... |
Aquaskipper Hydrofoil: Human Powered, For Your Pleasure | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | So you’re walking along the beach, daydreaming, and you think to yourself “How much more fun would it be if I could get up on some weird contraption and fly around at 17 miles an hour just below the surface of the water while children, families, and the elderly scatter in front of me like vanquished enemies?” Well you’... |
Sony To Drop PS3 Price In August? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | While hasn’t given a yea or nay on this rumor, industry people are making noise about a . Developers and merchants say software sales are down and it’s up to one of the big guys to start the price wars up again. Will it be Sony? Microsoft is still riding the Kinect wave, and may wait to see what tack Sony takes befo... |
Skullcandy Uncovers Vintage-Style iPhone Speaker Dock For $179.99 | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | Sometimes I miss old-school technology, but only on a surface level. I get all giddy every time I see an stand that looks like a vintage TV set or an old-school Game Boy case. Brand new technology hidden under old-fashioned designs truly pulls at my heart strings, which is why I was so excited to see Skullcandy’s n... |
Google Health Creator Adam Bosworth On Why It Failed: "It's Not Social" | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | After several years languishing in the backwoods of Google’s server farms, Google Health got its . Why did the ambitious project to record your health record online and help you research your every ailment fail? I asked this to Adam Bosworth, the former Googler who originally created Google Health, a few weeks ago w... |
Dropbox Breach: Fewer Than 100 Accounts Affected, But One Person Actively Exploited Security Hole | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | It’s been an incredibly rough week for Dropbox. On Monday, that a bug in the service’s authentication software effectively made passwords optional for around four hours over the weekend — meaning that you could log into anyone’s account simply by entering their user name. Given what Dropbox is used for — namely, sync... |
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Moshi Monsters valued at $200m after Spark Ventures sells half its stake | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | has sold half of its stake in Mind Candy, creators of the online children’s game, , for $4.9m, generating a 15x return. The move means that Mind Candy / Moshi Monsters is now valued at $200m. Spark originally invested in 2004. That means that Mind Candy is now one of the most valuable players in the London startup sc... |
Rumor: Droid 3 To Hit Best Buy In Mid-July? | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | Alright, fair denizens of the Interwebs: put on your skeptics hat and polish up that ol’ grain-of-salt, because this one’s kinda shaky. Android fan site nabbed the above shot of what looks to be Best Buy’s internal inventory listing for the Motorola Droid 3. According to the listing, the in-stock date (which in many ... |
Foursquare Closes $50M at a $600M Valuation | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | Foursquare has just closed one of the most secretive rounds of venture capital TechCrunch has seen. The company is raising $50 million, and all of it will go towards building out the company, no secondary sales here. The valuation had been rumored to be as high as $1 billion, but our sources say it settled out at $550 ... |
Angry Yahoo Shareholder Confronts Bartz And Asks For Her Head (Audio Clip) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz got an earful yesterday at the tail end of the company’s annual shareholder meeting. An angry shareholder, who identified himself as Steve Landry—an advisor to institutional investors with “millions of Yahoo shares”—stood up at the end of what was up until then a surprisingly feel-good affair, gi... |
A Simple Look At The Simple Nissan Leaf iOS App | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | I’m a few days into . It’s a fun car; I can say that much so far. My plan later today is to test the range by driving in increasingly smaller circles around my house until the battery is nearly depleted. A full review is coming next week, but until then, here’s a quick look at the simple Leaf iOS owner’s app. Nissan l... |
Google Shuts Down Medical Records And Health Data Platform | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | Google is , which enables you to store and manage all your health information in one place on the Web. Google says the platform simply wasn’t having the ‘broad impact’ necessary to sustain the product. From Google’s blog post: Google says that it will continue to operate Google Health until January 1, 2012, will al... |
MongoHQ Raises $417K From Y Combinator, Lerer And SV Angel | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 24 | Data hosting platform has raised $417K in financing in order to expand their hosting configuration service for developers who use MongoDB for data storage. Paul Graham’s , , and took part in the funding. First on the MongoDB database hosting scene, MongoHQ is in the same space as and differentiates itself by ... |
In-Stream Ads Are Coming To Twitter, Will A User Revolt Follow? | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | After nine months of in-stream Promoted Tweets on third party client Hootsuite, reports have that Twitter’s head of monetization has been pushing a new in-timeline Promoted Tweets product during this week’s advertiser-heavy awards. To the two of you that this comes to as a shock, one word: Inevitable. Twitter h... |
Quick Review: Dungeon Siege III (PC) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 23 |
I can’t write a full review of this game because I have no intention of finishing it. I am a huge fan of and its sequel, and of the hack ‘n slash genre in general, but I felt it to be my duty to warn you guys away from right now, in case you were thinking about picking it up. I’ve played a little over two hours of ... |
With Pottermore, J.K. Rowling Gives Harry Potter The (Very Lucrative) Elixir of Life | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | Around 4 AM PDT this morning, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling unveiled the latest addition to the massively successful series: a website called , which will feature, among other things, Harry Potter eBooks (which have never been legally available to date) and thousands of words of new content describing the character... |
Monster Announces Washable iSport And True-To-The-Music Gratitude Headphones | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | Whether you’re an athlete or a musician, we’ve got two new sets of in-ear headphones coming from Monster, and if you don’t like one, chances are you’ll like the other. The iSport Immersion in-ear headphones were developed specifically for athletes who use music to keep them “in the zone,” while the Gratitude in-ear hea... |
Study: VCs Still Addicted To IPOs | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | It seems that Venture investors are none-too-happy with current IPO activity. According to a study sponsored by and the , over 80 percent of venture capitalists from around the globe believe “that current IPO activity levels in their home countries are too low”. Low enough, in fact, that it has investors worrying... |
PayPal Seeing $10M In Mobile Payments Per Day; Will Hit $3B Total In 2011 | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | PayPal is its estimates of the amount of mobile payments transactions using the technology this year; doubling the estimate to $3 billion in mobile total payments volume (TPV) in 2011. PayPal says that the rate at which people are using the payments technology to buy items via their mobile phones is growing rapidly a... |
Apple Attempting To Patent In-Camera Perspective Correction | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 23 |
More from , adding to the rumors that the iPhone 5 will have a significantly upgraded camera. Today’s patent, filed on December 22nd, 2009 (and not yet granted), is about making automatic corrections to an image based on distance and orientation measurements taken within the device. There are plenty of filters and ... |
Flattery alone will only get you so far – SoundCloud users can now get paid via Flattr | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | , the social micropayment startup , has added to make it easy to add the Flattr button (and start receiving payments) to any player, including those embedded anywhere across the web. Interestingly, SoundCloud already has an with Flattr competitor BuySimple. Flattr’s support for SoundCloud follows a similar recen... |
Usabilla raises $1 million from Dutch/US investors to expand site usability testing tool | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | , which creates site usability tools, has raised $1 million in a round led by Dutch venture fund Boralis and five undisclosed investors in Europe and the U.S. Customers include Disney, Levi’s and Electronic Arts> The funding will be used to expand customers and to test new platforms like mobile, tablets and TV. Usabil... |
The State Of iFund: 3 Years, 25 Companies, 2 Exits, Over 300 Million Downloads This Year | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | Today at their offices in Menlo Park, venture capital firm is celebrating the third anniversary of the iFund. Technically, the fund alongside the first iPhone SDK, when the firm announced that it would be investing $100 million in iPhone applications made by third-party developers. That initial fund went so well th... |
Every city is a Shadow City as iPhone ARG launches in 13 European countries | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | , a Finnish smartphone games developer, has now launched its alternative reality game across thirteen additional European countries, after its North American launch last month. The game can be downloaded for free in the local Apple iTunes App stores in Italy, France, Germany, UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands... |
Shazam CEO Talks Android vs. iPhone And How They're Listening Their Way To Success | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | Yesterday , the company that lets users identify recorded music simply by holding their phones up toward a speaker, announced that it had raised a whopping . The company’s goal: to apply the powerful technology it’s developed over the last decade to television shows and commercials. So how will they do that? I had a ... |
LulzSec Releases Arizona Law Enforcement Data, Claims Retaliation For Immigration Law | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | Hacker collective of the moment has just released a torrent of data it claims to belong to Arizona law enforcement, in what it calls “Operation Chinga La Migra” (or “Fuck the border patrol”). They claim that the information, widely available via BitTorrent, includes hundreds of classified documents including person... |
Audyssey Lower East Side Speakers Attempt To Mimic The LES In All Its Shabby Glory | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 23 |
These speakers from Audyssey purport to be “inspired by the sights and sounds of New York’s Lower East Side neighborhood,” though I don’t see a lot of the LES in them myself. Not enough sandwiches, for one thing. But they’re more than a New York shout-out: they claim these speakers are powerful, well-balanced, and mor... |
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Nevada Preps For The Future With Driverless Car Legislation | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 23 |
History has shown time and time again that progress cannot be stopped. Nevada legislators clearly knew that as they authorizing driverless cars. Assembly Bill No. 511 gives the Nevada Department of Transportation the authority to develop rules and regulations of driverless cars. “shall adopt regulations authorizing ... |
Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread, Updated Motoblur UI Headed To Motorola Atrix 4G Next Month | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | For those of you who own the , you know that it does all kinds of cool things. For one, it turns into a little laptop when you clip it into its corresponding laptop dock. It’s also the first dual-core smartphone to launch in the U.S., so it was the trend-setter of snappiness, if you will. One thing the Atrix 4G doesn’... |
Oblong Has Built The Future Of Computing. I've Seen It. Used It. It's Beautiful. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | “This is the next Macintosh-level of disruption.” Over the past several years, I’ve followed pretty much every new thing in the technology space, and written about many of them. But it’s hard not to get cynical when so much of what’s out there is not only not revolutionary, it’s often not even evolutionary. Instead, mu... |
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