Monday, February 28, 2011
Creator Of Angry Bird’s Physics Engine Calls Out Rovio For Not Giving Him Credit
Creator Of Angry Bird’s Physics Engine Calls Out Rovio For Not Giving Him Credit ... http://f.ast.ly/bdS7S
Great Moments In Tech Punditry: The Day Facebook Lost Half Its Value
Great Moments In Tech Punditry: The Day Facebook Lost Half Its Value ... http://f.ast.ly/bLTJu
Mac OS X Lion hands-on preview
Apple announced Mac OS X Lion with considerable fanfare at its Back to the Mac event last October, and now it's dr ... http://f.ast.ly/bFcNL
Google restores Gmail access to one-third of affected users
Google restores Gmail access to one-third of affected users ... http://f.ast.ly/bLP3r
Samsung's 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab likely to launch at CTIA
Torn between the 7-inch and 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab? Well, it looks like Samsung is about to solve that problem for y ... http://f.ast.ly/qqTxK
Why Is It Taking So Long For Amazon To Close Its Diapers.com Deal?
It’s been about four months since Amazon announced its plans to acquire of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers ... http://f.ast.ly/q3dek
Android 2.3.2 Gingerbread leaks for Samsung Galaxy S
Android 2.3.2 Gingerbread leaks for Samsung Galaxy S ... http://f.ast.ly/b2Jhm
Meet The Newest Founders Den Tenant: Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom
Last month, we first wrote about Founders Den, a new “private clubhouse” for entrepreneurs in the heart of S ... http://f.ast.ly/qtpGJ
Motorola subsidiary 3LM to offer enterprise-class device management for Android; HTC, Sony Ericsson, others on board
Apple's been working hard to chip away at RIM's lead in the enterprise over the last couple years by beefing up iO ... http://f.ast.ly/q7bgd
Tablet shocker! MSI WindPad 100A packs Tegra 2 and will ship with Honeycomb
Tablet shocker! MSI WindPad 100A packs Tegra 2 and will ship with Honeycomb ... http://f.ast.ly/qnrBj
Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition
Intel has officially completed its acquisition of security giant McAfee, according to a release issued today. Inte ... http://f.ast.ly/qsKsR
Sony touts high-speed 17.7 megapixel CMOS sensor for cellphones
Sony touts high-speed 17.7 megapixel CMOS sensor for cellphones ... http://f.ast.ly/qbxFW
Apple's Tim Cook hints at cheaper iPhone, prepaid possibilities to come?
Apple CFO Tim Cook got all buddy-buddy with Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi this week, talking about Ap ... http://f.ast.ly/bjNRN
Visualized: Honeycomb statue sweetens up Google's campus
Visualized: Honeycomb statue sweetens up Google's campus ... http://f.ast.ly/bj8Xd
When Will Apple Cave And Accept Flash? Maybe When It Doesn’t Suck
I read an interesting article this morning that suggested Apple would change its mind and put Adobe’s Flash tech ... http://f.ast.ly/bJ6Y4
Intel outs SSD 510 Series with 6Gbps SATA interface, 500MBps transfer speeds
Intel outs SSD 510 Series with 6Gbps SATA interface, 500MBps transfer speeds ... http://f.ast.ly/bRmGk
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer shows up wearing Honeycomb to CeBIT (video)
Here's a trend we can get behind: ASUS and others are remixing existing, yet-to-be-released Android tablets with H ... http://f.ast.ly/bNX4H
PlayStation 3 shipments to Europe now being seized after LG wins injunction against Sony
Sony and LG have been going toe to toe with allegations of patent infringement for over a year now, but Sony's now ... http://f.ast.ly/qpumx
Chomp May Have Just Solved The Nightmare That Is Android App Search
Chomp May Have Just Solved The Nightmare That Is Android App Search ... http://f.ast.ly/qWBgE
Keen On… Peter Guber: “If You Can’t Tell It, You Can’t Sell It.” (TCTV)
“I was born curious,” Peter Guber confessed to me when he came into the TechCrunch studio earlier this month. ... http://f.ast.ly/qKmXs
Motorola's Sanjay Jha hints at a 7-inch tablet before the end of the year, foresees tablet prices dropping
Motorola's CEO Sanjay Jha had hinted once before that there would be a family of Motorola tablets, but speaking at ... http://f.ast.ly/qvxbn
Motorola: all our high-end smartphones will have Webtop from June onwards
You know how Motorola's Atrix is unique in having all these docking stations and a Webtop app that collectively tu ... http://f.ast.ly/q7fEb
Nintendo 3DS gets torn apart and hacked a day after Japanese launch
Nintendo 3DS gets torn apart and hacked a day after Japanese launch ... http://f.ast.ly/be3A3
Dow Chemical Spending $100 Million On Energy Efficiency, Emissions Reduction
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) — which makes specialty materials and chemicals for electronics, automoti ... http://f.ast.ly/qKegt
YouCeleb Lets You Look Like a Star For Cheap
YouCeleb Lets You Look Like a Star For Cheap ... http://f.ast.ly/bjJkt
Radeon HD 6990 pictured, GeForce GTX 590 rumored for PAX East 2011 reveal
Multiple cores are old hat, particularly in the GPU world where you can have hundreds of simultaneous processing u ... http://f.ast.ly/bJBxe
FlyRuby Aims to Be the Kayak of Private Air Travel
Launching today at the Demo Conference in Palm Springs is flyRuby, a platform that enables you to search, compare, ... http://f.ast.ly/bYc8U
TI-Nspire graphing calcs get full color displays, 3D, WiFi, and new OS
It's been a good year or so since the TI-Nspire line of graphing calculators got a refresh, but that was nothing c ... http://f.ast.ly/qtq66
Khosla Ventures Leads $5.6 Million Funding For MyLikes; Buchheit Joins Board
Khosla Ventures Leads $5.6 Million Funding For MyLikes; Buchheit Joins Board ... http://f.ast.ly/qvGwp
Hyundai Sonata Hybrid was delayed into 2011... by 'virtual engine sound' system
Remember how at the end of last year the US legislature decided to make it mandatory for EVs to churn out an audib ... http://f.ast.ly/bJ4nN
Dell Venue Pro arrives in the UK at long last: £459 off contract, shipping in 10 days
Dell Venue Pro arrives in the UK at long last: £459 off contract, shipping in 10 days ... http://f.ast.ly/qbgum
Former RealNetworks Execs Want You To “SocialEyes” With Video Chat
Video chat has been tried countless times on the Web and mostly failed, but a new startup called SocialEyes is giv ... http://f.ast.ly/bFxF6
MobileNotifier: iPhone alerts improved (video)
MobileNotifier: iPhone alerts improved (video) ... http://f.ast.ly/qsV7W
Mega Hurtz paintball robot is the remote-controlled, armor-plated tank you always wanted (video)
For whatever reason, the paths of paintball and robotics development have tended to converge. Latest in maintainin ... http://f.ast.ly/qKaDS
AT&T To Start Selling Amazon Kindles In US Stores, Beginning March 6
AT&T To Start Selling Amazon Kindles In US Stores, Beginning March 6 ... http://f.ast.ly/qpyB3
AT&T will start selling Kindle 3G e-reader in its stores from March 6th
AT&T will start selling Kindle 3G e-reader in its stores from March 6th ... http://f.ast.ly/qtTMX
Zipcar Parks Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman On Its Board Of Directors
Zipcar, a membership-based car-sharing service that enables members to reserve a car via the Web, phone or an iPho ... http://f.ast.ly/qtDJ6
Sprint's Total Equipment Protection app searches out lost Androids and BlackBerrys
Sprint's Total Equipment Protection app searches out lost Androids and BlackBerrys ... http://f.ast.ly/b2bTY
Kontagent Adds Real Time Monitoring To Facebook Analytics Platform
Kontagent, an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, is adding real time functionality to its social applic ... http://f.ast.ly/qqVSW
ProspX Raises $8 Million For Social Software For The Insurance Industry
ProspX, developer of an on-demand search and sales collaboration platform for the commercial insurance industry, h ... http://f.ast.ly/bdT76
We're live from CeBIT 2011 in Hannover, Germany!
Though enterprise software and infrastructure tend to be the focus of the event, CeBIT always yields a few consume ... http://f.ast.ly/q34w8
Ajax.org Debuts Development-As-A-Service Platform For Javascript, HTML5
Ajax.org Debuts Development-As-A-Service Platform For Javascript, HTML5 ... http://f.ast.ly/b26UK
Beleaguered Huawei encourages US government to investigate it, quotes two presidents in the process
Beleaguered Huawei encourages US government to investigate it, quotes two presidents in the process ... http://f.ast.ly/bL5gY
Fujitsu's Stylistic Q550 Windows 7 tablet: orders start tomorrow for €699
Fujitsu's Stylistic Q550 Windows 7 tablet: orders start tomorrow for €699 ... http://f.ast.ly/qpHjP
PhotoRocket Lifts Off. Mission: Super Easy Photo Sharing. Destination: Everywhere.
PhotoRocket Lifts Off. Mission: Super Easy Photo Sharing. Destination: Everywhere. ... http://f.ast.ly/qG5rd
Vodafone's UK network taken down by a break-in
Some of our UK readers have woken up to the less than awesome discovery this morning that their phones have lost a ... http://f.ast.ly/qEA5d
You Rock strums its way into Rock Band 3 Pro mode
Those seeking the upper echelons of virtual guitar wizardry have a third option now -- the You Rock Guitar, which ... http://f.ast.ly/qv9Jy
Citrix’ First Seed Investment: Search And Backup Cloud Data With Primadesk
Citrix’ First Seed Investment: Search And Backup Cloud Data With Primadesk ... http://f.ast.ly/qTmX8
AppBoy Releases A Check-in SDK For iOS Apps
With the number of iOS apps now well over 300,000, app discovery is becoming an increasing frustration for users. ... http://f.ast.ly/qE7KH
Under Armour's E39 performance shirt is electric (video)
If athletic events were accessorized with coffee, comfy pajamas, and a particular knack for sedentariness, well, w ... http://f.ast.ly/b8Hsn
Fisker Karma enters production on March 21st, our future shortly thereafter
It's been a long road for the Karma to reach production, but now it finally has an end in sight: March 21st. That' ... http://f.ast.ly/bYRRT
AT&T ShopAlerts: first location-based ads from a US carrier kick off in four markets
A few third-party apps have been going after this market for a while now, but AT&T has just become the first Ameri ... http://f.ast.ly/qsQtD
Sunday, February 27, 2011
T-Mobile continues campaign against iPhone 4 with new 'State of the Smartphone' infographic
T-Mobile cares about you. It cares so much that it's spending all its advertising dollars lately making sure you k ... http://f.ast.ly/bJsc3
AdvanceTC's 4.8-inch tabletphone runs Windows 7 on a 1.6GHz Atom CPU
AdvanceTC's 4.8-inch tabletphone runs Windows 7 on a 1.6GHz Atom CPU ... http://f.ast.ly/qvE6R
HTC Trophy spotted in the wild, sporting Verizon logo
If you had any remaining doubts whether the HTC Trophy would be playing for Team Red, you can leave them at the do ... http://f.ast.ly/qsN9L
And The Award For The Most Dead Entertainment Medium Goes To… The Web
You Californians sure seem obsessed with this “Oscar” thing. As I write these words, every one of my friends w ... http://f.ast.ly/qcRMm
Inhabitat's Week in Green: SunPower supplants Ford, lava power, and the airlifted eco shelter
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us ... http://f.ast.ly/bNwKE
What ‘The Social Network’s’ Won (Thus Far) #Oscars
What ‘The Social Network’s’ Won (Thus Far) #Oscars ... http://f.ast.ly/q32AX
AT&T Taps Placecast For Location-Based Shopping Alerts
AT&T Taps Placecast For Location-Based Shopping Alerts ... http://f.ast.ly/qsq9P
How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter Via Huge Secret Secondary Fund
How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter Via Huge Secret Secondary Fund ... http://f.ast.ly/qwvWs
Switched On: Back from the Mac
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.Last week's Switched On discusse ... http://f.ast.ly/qKLAx
Apple adds pattern locking to an iPhone app that you can't have?
The nine-dot pattern lock option is one of those uniquely Android things -- it's been there ever since the G1, and ... http://f.ast.ly/qvRMc
Gaikai beta goes live, brings Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 2, Sims 3 and Second Life demos to your browser window
Remember Gaikai, the cloud computing service that lets you demo video games in your browser window without downloa ... http://f.ast.ly/b2FV5
Comprehend Systems Wants To Make Data Analysis Less Of A Pain
Founded by Rich Morrison and Jud Gardner, Y-Combinator backed Comprehend Systems is launching the first iteration ... http://f.ast.ly/qCat5
Motorola Xoom overclocked to 1.5GHz, eats Quadrant and Linpack for breakfast
Hold on to your hats, gents, because things just got real -- that's a Motorola Xoom in the picture above, clocked ... http://f.ast.ly/q74vu
Infographics (Attempt To) Predict The Oscars
The folks over at online analysis service Meltwater, who Wired’s Epicenter hilariously called out for not doin ... http://f.ast.ly/qc2ft
Gmail accidentally resetting accounts, years of correspondence vanish into the cloud?
Gmail accidentally resetting accounts, years of correspondence vanish into the cloud? ... http://f.ast.ly/qx5jn
In Two Years, Most Of You Will Be Reading TechCrunch From An Apple Device
In February of 2007, 83.24 percent of users visiting TechCrunch did so from a Windows machine. One year later, in ... http://f.ast.ly/qp53a
PlayBook Android app support mentioned during demo at MWC, old BlackBerrys show up in ShopSavvy's Android logs
As far-fetched as it may seem, rumors that RIM is working on some sort of Android app support for its QNX-based Pl ... http://f.ast.ly/qasgB
Transphorm promises brickless laptop chargers, power savings aplenty
Stop us if you've heard this one before. A mysterious startup company operates in secret for a number of years, ra ... http://f.ast.ly/q6XUk
Custora Helps Online Businesses Improve Customer Retention
For any retailer that is selling goods online, it is incredibly important to be able to retain customers and ident ... http://f.ast.ly/qQJRG
OCZ's consumer-grade Vertex 3 SSD gets benched, SandForce SF-2281 helps spank competition
We thought OCZ's Vertex 3 Pro was some flaming hot stuff, but solid state storage experts have mind-boggling news ... http://f.ast.ly/qhS4w
What is Your Real Name?
What is your real name? That’s my new favorite comment on TechCrunch, where many of its readers hide behind phon ... http://f.ast.ly/qknrU
SwipeGood Gives Its Start Fund Cash To Charity
SwipeGood Gives Its Start Fund Cash To Charity ... http://f.ast.ly/qyNKL
The Haves and Have-Nots: The True Story of a Reader Suddenly De-Invited from TED
The Haves and Have-Nots: The True Story of a Reader Suddenly De-Invited from TED ... http://f.ast.ly/qmLub
Man builds machine to push phone buttons from half a world away (video)
If your ambition was to travel the world, and your job to push the buttons of three cellphones located in South Ko ... http://f.ast.ly/quuEL
Burning Chrome
“A good player goes where the puck is. A great player goes where the puck is going to be”—The Great OneGoog ... http://f.ast.ly/qk7YV
HTC Incredible S, Desire HD, Desire Z and original Desire will all be eating Gingerbread by the end of June
When it launched the Incredible S at MWC a couple of weeks ago, HTC promised the new 4-inch device would be quick ... http://f.ast.ly/qyKP8
OnLive offering free MicroConsole with Homefront game purchase
Considering nabbing a $99 OnLive Game System to connect your TV to the company's game streaming cloud? Here's anot ... http://f.ast.ly/qrCv8
Nexus S 2.3.3 update adjusts screen's color temperature, we go eyes-on
We've been hearing reports about Nexus S' Android 2.3.3 update adding a yellow tint to the screen and even washing ... http://f.ast.ly/qYYje
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Chinese designer makes Megatron tank a steel-toothed reality
It doesn't move and it certainly doesn't transform, but we're still not sure we'd stand anywhere near this jagged ... http://f.ast.ly/qVS5k
Memes Could Hit The Silver Screen In “The Chronicles of Rick Roll”
Move over, Chronicles of Narnia, there’s a new dreamworld of magic in town. That’s right. Andrew Fischer, CEO ... http://f.ast.ly/qSkma
Archos Arnova 8 and 10 tablets hit the bargain bin (video)
We know, Archos already makes fairly cheap tablets, but believe it or not, the company's going after an even cheap ... http://f.ast.ly/qU7cK
Nintendo 3DS launches in Japan, populace tears through initial 400,000 unit shipment
You won't be able to snap one up at your local GameStop for a full month, but the Nintendo 3DS had a solid launch ... http://f.ast.ly/qCDd4
The Separation of Church And Zynga: Wedding Chapels Stripped From CityVille
Zynga made a small but fascinating change to it’s young-yet-ubiquitous game CityVille over the weekend. Players ... http://f.ast.ly/qDgRu
Mac OS X Lion has TRIM support for SSDs, HiDPI resolutions for improved pixel density?
As you'd expect, developers have wasted no time in tearing apart the Mac OS X Lion preview, and in so doing they'v ... http://f.ast.ly/q4HFg
What’s The Real Deal With AngelList?
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He st ... http://f.ast.ly/qjbXn
Researchers debut one-cubic-millimeter computer, want to stick it in your eye
This as-of-yet-unnamed mini computer was fashioned as an implantable eye pressure monitor for glaucoma patients, b ... http://f.ast.ly/qyg26
ChaCha sues HTC for Facebook phone trademark infringement
Facebook phone rumors were swirling for quite awhile, then HTC answered a question that seemingly nobody asked by ... http://f.ast.ly/qm5hc
Modder turns RROD-stricken Xbox 360 into PS3 arcade controller, awesomeness
In the most recent of Xbox 360 hacks, a modder named Morris has crafted a PS3 controller out of none other than -- ... http://f.ast.ly/qChPx
Fly Or Die (Tablet Edition): The Motorola Xoom And The Kno
In this week’s episode of Fly or Die, CrunchGear editor John Biggs and I do a special tablet edition where we ta ... http://f.ast.ly/qCMnW
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