May 2010
Fujitsu's curved plasma displays make Roman columns look a little...
by 3 others What, your plasma display is flat? How very quaint! Fujitsu would like to make you feel a little less adequate by showing you the wonder that is a curved PDP, seen here stretched around a column for the sake of providing digital signage. Yes, it's per...
April 2010
How would you change Olympus' E-PL1?
by 3 others It's half retro, half compact, and chock full of adventure. It's Olympus' PEN E-PL1 , and it's the first Micro Four Thirds camera from the company to boast an MSRP that you aren't terrified to tell your friends about. We've spent some quality time wit...
March 2010
Brazil: The New Home of Financial Innovation?
by 3 others Brazil is sort of a strange country to throw into the “emerging market” category. It’s not a particularly young country like India or Israel, nor is it a country like China or Russia that embraced capitalism fairly recently. Brazil is as old as ...
Apple files for Magic Trackpad trademark
by 3 others This one slipped under our radar this week, but it's interesting nonetheless: Apple's filed for a "Magic Trackpad" trademark, which would seemingly indicate that there's a companion to the Magic Mouse in the works. That's all we know for now, but reca...
February 2010
Nokia N900 gets new firmware, new games coming too (video)
by 3 others If your N900 is in need of a little more excitement, this post is for you. First up is word of a new firmware release (3.2010.02-8 (PR 1.1.1)), 16.2MB worth of apparently minor changes along with a slew of new regions, the inclusion of which may mean ...
Google Buzz Privacy Update Has Users Seeing Stars (Instead Of Your...
by 3 others Google Buzz launched with more than its fair share of privacy issues, leading to a significant backlash from some users. Fortunately the Buzz team is fixing these issues at a brisk pace. Today, they’ve rolled out a fix to a bug that would let us...
January 2010
In A Pre-Apple Tablet World, Instapaper + Kindle Is King
by 3 others Everyone is awaiting Apple’s tablet device. Some people ( like me ) won’t shut up about it. Others ( like Paul ) won’t shut up about shutting up about it. And while no one is exactly certain what its main use will be, there are no sh...
SlideScreen for Android Borders On Information Overload (In A Good...
by 3 others Let me start off by saying this: I really rather like the default Android homescreen. It’s simple, it’s functional, and above all, it’s endlessly customizable. Thanks to Google’s “do anything” approach to handling app development, end user...
iPhone Beats Droid, Nexus One And Droid Eris In Touchscreen...
by 3 others To be honest, I don’t really care which is the better smartphone (or super-duper phone ): the iPhone 3GS , the Motorola Droid , HTC’s Droid Eris , Google’s Nexus One , Nokia’s N900 or the Palm Pre . It’s just great to wit...
At The Dawn Of The Apocalypse, One Man Battles The Zombies — On...
by 3 others On December 14, one man woke up to find himself infested in a world with zombies. Or at least, he’s tweeting like it is. This man, Gus , in Miami, Florida has been tweeting relentlessly for the past month as if the world is at and end. Or as he ...
JVC busts out GZ-HM1 HD camcorder, lots of other video capturing...
by 3 others JVC's jumping in on the CES fun today with a whole slew of new camcorders, with the GZ-HM1 HD Everio leading the pack. This 1080p shooter offers up better-than-usual low light performance and camera-shake compensation. There's a 10.62 megapixel CMOS s...
Casio Exilim G EX-G1 hands-on
by 3 others Casio's Exlim G EX-G1 certainly managed to tun a few heads when it was announced back in November, with it introducing a new angular design to complement its status as the "world's thinnest shock-resistant camera." Add to that the promise of being fre...
December 2009
This Week On TechCrunch: Zuckerberg eaten by zebras, Al Qaeda invests...
by 3 others The only good thing about the deadline for this week’s TechCrunch round-up falling on Christmas Day is the absolute certain fact that you won’t be reading the results. After all, with the holiday season in full swing, no one in their right...
Gift Guide Giveaways: Samson Go Mic and… Mittenberry!
by 3 others Another day, another set of giveaways in honor of our Gift Guide . Today we have a Samson Go Mic - you know, for podcasting - and a pair of mittens with thumbs that pop off that the manufacturer is calling Mittenberrys but we're calling a cute idea. T...
The Facebook Verified App Saga Ends Tomorrow
by 3 others For the last six months, you may have noticed that some of your favorite apps on Facebook Platform carried a special badge deeming them to be “Facebook Verified”. These apps “passed Facebook’s review for trustworthy user experi...
November 2009
Why Google Wave Sucks, And Why You Will Use It Anyway
by 3 others This guest post was written by Martin Seibert , a German Internet media consultant. Google Wave is a hot topic at the moment. The ambitious group collaboration and micro-messaging platform started rolling out in beta via an initial batch of 100,000 in...
NSFW: Give me ad-free conversations, or give me death (please RT)
by 3 others Yesterday I spent the day at TechCrunch’s ‘Real Time Crunch-up’. This despite having no idea what a ‘Crunch-up’ actually is. The important thing is that Erick had asked me to help moderate his panel about marketing within...
Loopt Shifts Its Strategy To Tap The Pulse Of Location
by 3 others When Loopt launched in 2006 it was ahead of a curve that is just starting to be recognized: Location. Now, with services like Foursquare , Gowalla , Brightkite , and even Twitter fueling the location-based services frenzy, Loopt realized that it neede...
October 2009
From The 3G Industry Summit In Kunshan, China: 16 Demos From Chinese...
by 3 others Earlier this week, I was in Kunshan , China, to attend the 3G Industry Summit [CN], a four-day event that has attracted a few dozen speakers and an audience of over 200 people, making it one of the biggest of its kind in this country. The annual event...
Microsoft’s Online Store Gets A Revamp, Now Sells Windows 7 PCs Too
by 3 others Coinciding with the worldwide debut of Windows 7 and the launch of physical retail stores throughout the world, Microsoft has revamped its online store as well. The news comes from Trevin Chow , Senior Lead Program Manager for Microsoft Store. Big sur...
GridIron Live: A Rich, 3D Football Game On Facebook Platform
by 3 others It’s fall, and that means it’s football season. And while Madden has long been the dominant force in Football video games, he’s getting some new competition this year that’s looking to tap into the same market that has made fan...
250GB PS3 Slim spotted at retail in dapper gray box
by 3 others The new 250 PS3 Slim might be listed "in stock" on Amazon.co.uk , but it's not arriving until October 6th according to the online retailer. This particular model, however, is up for sale right this instant at some unnamed retail store in Europe -- eve...
September 2009
With Google Places, Concerns Rise That Google Just Wants To Link To...
by 3 others One of the original goals of Google has always been to help people find the information they are looking for and get out of the way as fast as possible. It was a point of pride, and in fact a design principle, to get people off the search results page...
From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.
by 3 others This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg . It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. The timing is perfect, there is more tha...
August 2009
Collecta Now Lets You Share Your Search Results In Realtime
by 3 others Realtime search for the most part is still mostly about searching Twitter. So it is probably a good idea for fledgling realtime search engines to make it easy to share specific Tweets found in the search results back on Twitter. SInce most of the resu...
