Moblyng, the company formerly known as FlipTrack that is focused on taking Flash-based slideshows to mobile platforms, has released an application on Apple’s App Store that allows users to create entertaining slidesshows from their iPhones. You can check out the application here.
The free application includes a handful of skins, themes, and effects that can be placed on top of each photo. … → Read More
Panasonic releases world’s first 3D motion sensor that even works in direct sunlight Motorola Aura cell phone has a circular display Control traffic signals by being a good boy/girl Floppy disk gift tags for tagging your boxes of gift floppies Contest: Who would buy this? → Read More
I ran an informal “TechCrunch Pitch!” event at Web 2.0 Expo Europe, Berlin 2008 this week. Each startup gets a minute to pitch their idea and then the crowd decides who won. I recorded it as a 25 minute podcast, below. My apologies for the sound quality. I will get this right one day… The winner of the pitch was… You’ll have to listen to find out. Ah, ok, it was… → Read More
Berlin’s startup scene was rocked today when one of it’s premier companies lost its CEO in apparent management putsch. studiVZ, the Facebppk-like social network which was bought by publishing group and investor Holtzbrinck for $112m after only two years, said goodbye to CEO Marcus Riecke in a tellingly curt statement. He will be replaced by Vice President of Sales Dr. Clemens Riedl… → Read More
Switzerland-based deskNET is debuting the public beta version of Sobees today, an application that aims to bring the web to a personalized desktop environment. We first came across Sobees when they presented their project in the DemoPit at the TechCrunch50 conference.
While many startups are heading in the opposite direction by trying to take the best of the desktop experience inside the browser… → Read More
The regular Blu-ray edition of The Dark Knight is selling for $25 while the LE is fetching a hefty $65, but it does get you that badass Bat Pod. TheHDRoom via Giz → Read More
According to ENI, Universal Studios have struck a deal with Hasbro and Dreamworks to bring those cuddly killing machines known as Transformers to the Hollywood-based Universal theme park in 2011. You’ll be even more surprised to know that the Universal theme park in Singapore will be getting it a full year before us. It was, after all, introduced in Asia long before the US, but it’s… → Read More
Earlier this month News Corp. celebrated the three year anniversary of the acquisition of MySpace. Today, AOL does the same for the Weblogs, Inc. blog network they acquired in October 2005.
Since the acquisition, AOL says, the Weblogs, Inc. blogs (which include Engadget, TMZ, Download Squad, TUAW, Joystiq, Autoblog and others) have seen worldwide unique visitors climb nearly 1000% (122% annually… → Read More
Back when we announced ahead of time that Apple was switching to an NVIDIA chipset, you might have taken a look at what was then already suspected of being the new laptops’ GPU. Notice if it promises anything the MacBook Pro doesn’t have? Like say some major selling points like Hybrid SLI and on-the-fly switching between the two GPUs? That’s funny; other laptops can do it! Apple… → Read More
BMW and NXP are set to demo a prototype key at the CARTES & IDentification show in Paris next month that will double as your credit card. While the concept is nothing new with the advent of those fancy little key fobs that let you pay for items with a simple swipe. We have something like that in NYC for the subways with one of the banks. It’s nice to know the automotive industry is… → Read More
Honda is demoing a GPS-based warning system to help keep motorcycle riders safe from cars at the Car 2 Car Communication Consortium event in Germany today. The system built by Honda works with 8 other vehicle manufacturers that relay messages between motorcycles and cars with information like direction and position. Said information will be fed to riders through a HUD and in-helmet audio. Drivers… → Read More
The PDN PhotoPlus Expo is set to begin tomorrow in NYC and tonight Sony jumped the gun with the announcement of two digital photo frames. The D10 (10-inch) and D8 (8-inch) frames have 800×600 resolution LCDs with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Each display is capable of exhibiting images that are up to 48 megapixels or 100MB and each frame has 200MB of on-board storage. You can transfer images over USB… → Read More
MySpace Music continues to sign key music deals – today they announced the addition of the no. 2 independent music aggregator, IODA, to the platform. Orchard, the no. 1 indie aggregator, has been on board since the launch.
IODA brings music from 6,000 labels and 50,000 indie artists like Cake, Billie Holliday, Ray Charles, The Stills, Tokyo Police Club and Broken Social Scene.
MySpace now claims… → Read More
Business networking startup LinkedIn is announcing today that it has raised another $22.7 million, on top of the $53 million D round it closed last June at a $1 billion valuation. The new round is a follow-on to the series D at the same valuation, bringing on strategic investors SAP, Goldman Sachs, and McGraw Hill. Existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners also participated. This brings the… → Read More
http://static.ning.com/daivdhasselhoff/widgets/video/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf?v=3.7.3%3A10395 Please put the Hoff out of his misery in Pain on November 6th! via PlayStation Blog → Read More
Since the launch of Apple’s App Store, developers have faced an ongoing dillema: “For Free, or Not For Free”? Putting a price on an application to generate some revenue obviously adds a significant barrier to entry, especially when there are so many free apps available. But it also adds a level of credibility – many people assume that because free apps aren’t earning money, the developers… → Read More
I suppose everybody’s doing it. It’s actually strange that Porsche hasn’t net; the eventual replacement of the internal combustion engine is all but certain, and they’ve spent enough time designing the other parts of the car to not feel so bad in replacing one (albeit major) component. In the meantime, they’ll just be lending a chassis to the Ruf effort to make an EV. → Read More
The bad blood between Facebook and Google may go deeper than anyone has really realized to date. The spat became public earlier this year when Facebook banned Google’s Friend Connect, theoretically over security issues (but really over competitive issues).
The source of the feud: Facebook chose Microsoft as their ad partner and investor a year ago; Google had already put their money behind… → Read More
In his latest email newsletter, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis discusses “How To Handle Layoffs.” It is a topic he knows too well, having had to go through a layoff of 10 percent of his staff earlier today. After repeating the text of his blog post announcing the layoffs, he offers some advice for other entrepreneurs on how to do it right. The email newsletter is reprinted below in its… → Read More
The team behind AppVee, a directory of video demos for iPhone applications, has launched a new site called Android Apps that – you guessed it – provides video demos for Android applications.
They just finished creating their first batch of these Android demos now that the T-Mobile G1 has hit the shelves. And they’ve sent us ten of them (most of which overlap with Erick’s top 10 favorite apps from… → Read More
Current Japanese “bullet trains” can travel at an average speed of 300 km/h (188 mph). Recent proposals could mean that we’ll be looking at trains with average speeds of 500 km/h (310 mph). That’s approaching commercial airline speeds. The trains would run between Tokyo and Nagoya and would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of ¥5.1 trillion ($51.3 billion) to construct. At such a… → Read More
I have no idea what the heck Marc Ecko is doing pimping video games, but I cannot wait for Dexter to come out for the iPhone. It is, after all, one of the best TV shows out at the moment. Icarus Studios will be developing the “investigative” game that will require you to do some CSI-style work and then decide whether or not you will be hacking the victim or taking them to court. To be honest… → Read More
I really love these things. Floppy disk labels were great. It was an amazing feeling to peel one off and place it on a fresh disk and then write “Leisure Suit Larry Disk 1″ or whatever on it. These gift tags allow you to relive that joy whenever you give a gift to your loved ones. They’ll be thrilled to remember just how nerdy you are. $5.50 on Etsy. via TechNaBob → Read More
How much does it cost to monitor college students’ anti-American P2P activities? A whole lot, and that’s money colleges could be spending on, I don’t know, education. This chart breaks down the cost of complying with, specifically, the new provisions of the Higher Education Act of 2008. That law, which the RIAA and MPAA were able to lobby their way into, requires colleges try to… → Read More
The Examiner.com is not what it appears to be. It is not the online outlet for the Examiner newspapers (the San Francisco Examiner,Baltimore Examiner, and Washington, D.C. Examiner) owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz. It is, however, owned by the same Anschutz-backed company that owns those newspapers, the Clarity Media Group in Denver. That’s how it got the URL.
But the Examiner.com has no… → Read More
It’s only been a few months since Bill’s last day at Microsoft. Everybody asked themselves (and him, obviously) “what’s next?” Clearly his greatest responsibility is to the Foundation, but to leave tech entirely? Not likely. Although it may be an ignominious comparison, consider Michael Corleone: “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.”… → Read More
Everyone loves coupons and this Best Buy house brand Blu-ray player comes with $100 worth that can be redeemed for Disney, Touchstone, and Miramax Blu-ray titles. Details are a bit sketchy and there isn’t any word about if they can be redeemed immediately or how much they are worth, but the deal might be worthwhile for families - especially with the animated classics coming out on… → Read More
AOL has updated its webmail application to include a set of plugins that allow users to quickly access current news topics as well as third party services, most notably Yahoo Mail. Historically portals have been reluctant to give users access to their messages on other services, but they have been recently been opening up (which makes sense, given that they want to be a one-stop hub for all of… → Read More
Editor’s Note: This post was contributed by John McCrea, VP of marketing for Plaxo, which is at the vanguard of the data portability movement. He also blogs at The Real McCrea and does a weekly video podcast about “opening up the Social Web” together with Joseph Smarr, David Recordon, and Chris Messina at The Social Web TV. As some of you know, I am a strong advocate of an evolution from… → Read More
Good luck trying to figure out all the functions if you buy this watch. Seriously. It’s almost like there is a map to the lost world of Atlantis buried deep inside this watch and you need the brain of Rodney McKay to figure it out. I have to be honest though, this Casio Pathfinder watch is sweet. → Read More
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