Yelp, the predominant force in the social yellow pages space, has just announced their move into Germany. As Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman tweeted last night, they are now “speaking German”.
After already launching in France and the UK, Germany and Spain were the other first tier countries that were missing in Yelp’s initial European roll out phase. It’s likely, therefore, that Spain will be next. → Read More
The computer-synthesized hologram system we’ve shown you earlier today isn’t the only piece of amazing 3D tech Japanese researchers are currently working on. The NICT, Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, has developed a cool table top display that makes it possible to let multiple viewers see 3D images through 360 degrees. → Read More
In the wake of antennagate, that little antenna-bridging “End Call” sticker you see up above has been all the rage. Really, its been everywhere. Digg! Reddit! Your dad’s Tumblr! The one place it hasn’t been, however, is on an iPhone. The image up above is obviously just a Photoshop-job, and, as far as we can tell, the clever soul who came up with the gag didn’t think… → Read More
Qualcomm aren’t happy with their Mobile TV unit, FLO TV. The unit has cost them a whole heap of money to set up (in spectrum and hardware costs), and it’s proving difficult to build a brand and get the chipsets into devices. So, during their earnings call today, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said that they have begun discussions with other companies regarding “alternatives” for the business.
This… → Read More
Doxie, the cute but functional little document scanner, just got an interesting update. Version 1.2 of the Doxie software adds a Devices tab which allows you to send scanned items to your iPhone or iPad. You can read those items on your iThingie using iBooks. This may make your iPad even more useful, and certainly opens new doors to productivity. → Read More
You know how every month you see stories like “Red Dead Redemption sells X copies, Super Mario Galaxy 2 sells Y copies,” etc? All of that data comes from the NPD Group, which tracks retail sales. What NPD never used to track was digital download sales—Steam and the like. That’s why’d you see doom-and-gloom stories like, “PC game sales fall 50 percent last month.” Yeah, because… → Read More
Perhaps you recall back in June when Apple CEO Steve Jobs laid the smack down on mobile analytics firm Flurry. He noted they were “pissing us off” because they were collecting device data about Apple’s products. Specifically, Jobs obviously cared because it uncovered some as-yet-unannounced Apple products. A change Apple made to their developer agreements then made this illegal. And that’s where … → Read More
The Kin One and Kin Two are about as dead as can be. 22 days after they hit the shelves, Microsoft stopped making them, and Verizon stopped selling them. All in all, it’s said that about 10,000 of these things managed to get into people’s pockets before the axe got dropped — but if you’re one of those 10,000: Surprise! You’ve got a software update waiting for you. → Read More
Thinking of pre-ordering StarCraft II? Then only place to go right now is Dell Home; it’s $10 cheaper than anywhere else. Oh, Dell Home you always have deals. what gives?
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Are you the kind of guy who likes multimeters? Do you like clocks? Well have I got a deal for you. This multimeter clock is apparently easy to build if you understand CNC milling and electronics. It shows the time using retrograde dials that pop back to the beginning once they reach the end of their display values.
You have the full build log right here and you can make this thing look like… → Read More
Can someone please send this link to Mrs. Burns and tell her I want the Darth Vader apron for Christmas. She knows that I do a whole lot of grilling and really need an apron anyway. But I haven’t found one that I like this much. Plus, it fits nicely into our Christmas budget at only $24.99. And for the purpose of this post I’ll state that I can’t think of anything I want more. → Read More
Onkyo Japan announced [JP] the LPF10M01 today, a digital picture frame whose main selling point is its HDMI port. Apart from displaying photos, the 10.-1-inch frame can be used as a sub display for computers, to view movies, watch digital TV etc. → Read More
In what will definitely not be the last e-reader to bite the dust, Audiovox has pulled the RCA Lexi from sale in the US, citing concerns over price drops in the Nook and Kindle. They wrote to one interested customer:
Per your inquiry regarding our RCA eReader, as a result of the recent price drops in the market (Kindle/Nook/Sony) our primary focus has shifted to international opportunities. → Read More
http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1938720&fullscreen=1 I never like Star Fox either, kid in blue shirt. It’s too hard. → Read More
Remember that side-mounted iPhone 4 End Call sticker from a few days back? Well, I’m not so sure this is the same exact one, but it might as well be. The ironic message is the same and that’s all that matters anyway. $4 on etsy. → Read More
Betable, where users can literally place a bet on anything and have their friends bet with them, has secured a $3 million first time funding led by Atomico, the venture fund set up by former Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Former Skype chief strategy officer Geoffrey Prentice joins the board. It’s an unusual move for a VC house to back what is in effect a gambling site, but… → Read More
If you have an iPhone 4, you’ve probably had this problem: you really want to use FaceTime, but there are simply not a lot of opportunities to use it. Sure, one problem is that both parties need an iPhone 4 currently. But perhaps even more annoying is that you have no way of knowing which of your friends with iPhone 4s are actually connected to WiFi so they can use FaceTime. That’s where a new… → Read More
Earlier this month, investor Jeff Clavier told us on TechCrunch TV that he had just invested in a promising startup that was related to the geo-location space.
Well, we didn’t have to go very far to unveil the identity of Clavier’s mystery startup. Less than two weeks later, Geoff Lewis, the founder of Topguest knocked on our door.
The New York based startup is a travel rewards service based on… → Read More
Big news for AOL’s mobile strategy today. The company has launched a new smartphone-friendly mobile website, as well as two new Android apps today.
Specifically designed to be able to deliver content on iPhone and Android browsers, the new site delivers location-based content related to local weather, movie, traffic and other updates; and an application directory. The site specifically is… → Read More
Ebuzzing, the European “video and sponsored content ad platform”, officially launches in the UK today.
The service, which has a slightly checkered history based on its original pay per-post model, offers an ad channel for viral videos: Bloggers sign up and blog about the video campaigns that interest them and get paid in the process. It’s part of the Wikio Group and has been operating in France… → Read More
Barnes & Noble is launching an Android app for its e-reading platform, Nook, today. Barnes & Nobile already has NOOK apps for the iPhone and iPad.
NOOK for Android allows users to browse and shop in Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore of more than one million eBooks. Any customer’s personal Barnes & Noble eBook library, if it is purchased on a NOOK eBook Reader, online at BN.com or on… → Read More
AT&T released its second quarter earnings earlier this morning, reporting an increase in consolidated revenues and improved margins.
What caught my eye is this little nugget of information: the carrier activated 3.2 million iPhones last quarter, a record for the company.
Approximately 27 percent of those activations were for customers who were new to AT&T, the company added in the… → Read More
Our friends over at Tokyo-based DigInfoNews are calling it the “ultimate in 3D images”: computer-synthesized holograms. And in fact, the video they shot at Kansai University in Osaka shows some amazing tech a team of researchers led by Prof. Kyoji Matsushima is working on. In contrast to conventional holography, the researchers are not using real objects but rather CG images created in 3D. → Read More
RockYou, one of the largest developers of social games and applications, this morning announced that it has inked a long-term deal with Facebook.
Under the terms of the agreement, RockYou will be making Facebook Credits the exclusive virtual currency in its games and apps for the next five years.
As is standard for developers on Facebook, RockYou will receive 70 percent of the revenue from… → Read More
Fotolia‘s Animoto-like slideshow generation plateform, Flixtime, has just announced the launch of its pro version with some spicy new features, including the voiceover capabilities that everybody has been waiting for and image transition editing for full creative control. With a $149 annual pro subscription, users can generate unlimited, full-length HD slideshows for commercial use that are free… → Read More
Daily deal sensation Groupon has released an app for Android devices, the company announced this morning on its company blog.
The free app (unlike this one, an official one) enables users to buy deals in over 65 cities, access their purchased Groupons and find ones that are nearby.
You can also redeem deals from the app and view side deals by selecting the “More Deals” option in the deal… → Read More
Hooo-ee! AT&T have clearly got high hopes for Microsoft’s upcoming mobile OS reboot, Windows Phone 7.
Michael Gartenberg — technology columnist to the stars — tweeted out today that a trusted source told him that AT&T have signed up for eight million WP7 devices, which is approximately one million times more than the number of Kins sold. → Read More
As the November election season draw near, AOL is launching a specialized advertising politics hub, to allow campaigns, organizations, and companies to target certain constituencies online. The hub allows these parties to tap into AOL’s Ad Desk for Politics and Display University to easily purchase display advertising online.
The new hub includes ‘Display University,’ a platform to help… → Read More
Despite the possibility that the Droid X will blow itself up if you try and load any custom bootloaders onto it, at least a few modders must have scooped up Motorola’s latest last week, as it has just joined the ever-growing list of Android handsets with root access. → Read More
In the first quarter of the year, The New York Times Company announced upbeat earnings results, reporting a profit and growing digital advertising sales, albeit after significantly scaling down costs last year.
Earlier this morning, the media company released earnings for the second quarter, and things aren’t looking terrible for them – but not stellar either.
The company’s Q2 profit declined 18… → Read More
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