Right now, there is an e-paper display battle. The Kindle currently offers a display from E-Ink, a market leader known for using electrophoretic e-paper. The iPad uses an LED-backlight display soon to be OLED. There is also the new Pixel Qi’s with its amazing transflective LCD that may kill the E-Ink display used in the Kindle. Now next and new to the scene is a display from a company called… → Read More
We may be looking at the end of an era. Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi says the game he’s working on right now, The Last Story for the Nintendo Wii, “might be [his] last work.” Reason? Well, he’s not a young kid anymore. He’s 47, which isn’t old by any means, but it does take a lot out of you to keep making game after game, especially the RPGs he specializes in. Gotta put… → Read More
EnterpriseDB has raised $7.5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. We’ve confirmed the funding with the company. Investors in the round include Translink Capital, KT, Charles River Ventures, and Valhalla Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to over $50 million.
EnterpriseDB, which took an investment from Red Hat last year, offers commercial versions of open source… → Read More
If you regularly put up video on the Web, you are going to love this. TubeMogul is making InPlay, its video player analytics, free now. InPlay is like Google Analytics for video. It charts all the views, embeds, completion rates, traffic sources, search terms, and stream quality of the videos you put up on your site or embed in players across the Web. InPlay works with a variety of video… → Read More
Verizon’s already gone on record saying that their LTE network will go live by the end of this year, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that people would – y’know – want to use 4G handsets by then. Thanks to a tipster over at BGR, it looks like Verizon is finally getting ready to upgrade their activations systems to accept and provision 4G devices. So what does that mean for the… → Read More
Oportunista.com, a coupon-finding service local to Spain, has just launched an iPhone app (developed by MUBIQUO), an important missing piece for a company that specializes in online coupons. The company was founded two years ago after Rodrigo Gimenez Rico and Alexandra Klein came back to Spain from working in the U.S. and decided to give entrepreneurship a go back at home. Among others, the… → Read More
BillFloat, a San Francisco-based startup incubated by PayPal and Venrock, has raised $4.5 million in a Series A round led by First Round Capital, with renewed participation of PayPal and Venrock and joined by early-stage funds and angel investors such as Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC, Ron Conway’s SV Angel and Mint.com board member Mark Goines.
The company soft-launched last week with a proper… → Read More
Check out this new folding keyboard from Brando. It uses Bluetooth to connect to your favorite devices – even iPad and iPhone 4. → Read More
http://revision3.com/player-v6418 Windows Phone 7 joins the platforms that use technology to find lost handsets, Amazon is offering their Prime shipping service free to students, NASA gives you a 3D tour of Mars, and robot spy planes are being prepped as future eyes in the sky. Join Cali Lewis for the day’s tech news on GeekBeat.TV #9. → Read More
Breaking a phone is a pretty tragic experience, and breaking a smartphone doubly so. Adam Morrison knows exactly what I mean: a Virgin Mobile Canada customer, he recently sent his trusty BlackBerry to the Great Cell Phone Drawer in the Sky. Not one to miss an opportunity to show off, Virgin Mobile made sure that someone (a very, very rich someone) would be on hand to deliver a replacement phone as… → Read More
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I detest Adobe Acrobat. Scarred by years of wrangling with bloated software that requires premium upgrades for some basic features, I’m happy to try out any other solution. YC-funded Crocodoc is one promising startup that offers a very straightforward alternative: it makes it dead-simple to upload and start marking up a PDF file (and a variety of other… → Read More
New York City residents will now be able to track their water use in real time. The city has installed wireless meters in The Bronx (the program will expand in the future), and residents will be able to see how much water they’re using at any given moment. The idea is to encourage people to cut down on their water consumption. “Wow, I used X-Number of gallons of water during that shower… → Read More
Social currency—everybody wants it. It is not about being popular or smart or beautiful (although those things help). It is about influence, and power, and money. On the Internet, social currency takes on new meaning. It is about creating influence by mining social relationships online. For businesses, ultimately, it is about turning those social connections into cash. How you do that and… → Read More
Last week we learned more about Twitter’s ecommerce deal product, @EarlyBird. Earlybird will offer users exclusive, time-bound deals, events and sneak peeks, for which it has partnered with a number of advertising partners. Today, EalryBird is taking flight with its first deal, tickets for “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” a film from Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films that opens… → Read More
Zoho’s project collaboration product and Basecamp-rival, Zoho Projects, is getting a much needed feature today: a Bug Tracking tool. Zoho Projects is a team collaboration and project management application that allows teams to plan, track and collaborate on everyday activities and big software projects with external customers.
Tracking software bugs and then prioritizing these bugs and fixing… → Read More
It’s hard to imagine that Windows 7 could get even better but Microsoft is steadily working towards the first service pack. The beta of course comes first and is now available for public consumption. The 1.2GB pack fixes a bunch of bugs along with adding a few new features geared towards enterprise users. → Read More
The days of Google Maps as the default mapping app on the iPhone may be coming to an end. Apple is beefing up its Geo team, reportedly acquiring Canadian 3D mapping startup Poly9 Group. The company was funded in 2005 and was completely bootstrapped, with no venture money. Its employees have now gone quiet. Its corporate Website is down and nobody answers the phones.
Poly9 made a browser-based… → Read More
AndroLib, the website that enables you to browse and discover apps for your Android phone far better than the Android Market site does, has gotten a makeover and a bunch of new features today. Sure, it’s still not going to win any web design contests any time soon, but the revamp makes the site a ton more useful as far as I’m concerned.
AndroLib has also updated and expanded its statistics page… → Read More
AndroLib, the website that enables you to browse and discover apps for your Android phone far better than the Android Market site does, has gotten a makeover and a bunch of new features today. Sure, it’s still not going to win any web design contests any time soon, but the revamp makes the site a ton more useful as far as I’m concerned.
AndroLib has also updated and expanded its statistics page… → Read More
Are you the gambling type? Paddy Power, the famous, Ireland-based bookmaker, now has it at 4/6 that Apple will recall the iPhone 4. (The opposite, that Apple won’t recall the iPhone 4, is at 11/10.) That’s as of 8:00am ET, at least. → Read More
Are you an iPad user? Do you like using it in bed? Do you think the device is too heavy to hold in your hands when reading an e-book over an extended period of time? Then the so-called PC Set Stand [JP], made by Japan-based Resound, could be something for you (or not). → Read More
Do you like teeny-tiny things? Do you feel an affinity for novelty? Live in the UK? Great.
The “world’s lightest phone”, the Modu 1, will soon be available in the UK exclusively through Purely Gadgets.
Neither the weight, nor even the size, are the biggest novelty in this handset, however: that award goes to its modular “jackets”.
That tiny thing in front of you is a sort of phone base that can… → Read More
The myth of Jean-Claude Biver is as much a man, as the man himself. While many people wouldn’t necessarily consider the CEO of a watch brand a celebrity or an icon; to watch lovers and people working in the industry, few people have the level of respect and close to attention that Mr. Biver enjoys. And enjoy it he does. The prize for the man’s calculated efforts is a sense of pride and a… → Read More
Despite recent fears that demand for the Droid X may outstrip supply, and news that HTC can’t produce enough Incredibles or EVOs as they’d like, Verizon want to assure y’all that they’ll have plenty of stock available for the July 15th launch. → Read More
You know what I love about Android? Freedom to mod. I love that, if I’m unhappy with what I’ve been dealt by The Man, I can do something about it. I can’t even imagine using my Hero with the stock ROM+apps. Freedom, baby. That’s what it’s all about.
Motorola clearly think otherwise.
The new Droid X and Droid 2, like the Milestone (but not Droid) before it, will have a digitally signed… → Read More
Adult online entertainment and dating services company 7 Star Entertainment has signed an investment agreement with New-York based Kodiak Capital Group for a $10 million equity facility, the funding of which will be contingent upon them achieving certain conditions.
The capital injection would be used for bolstering growth of the company’s flagship product AdultMatchClub.com and the build-out of… → Read More
Fresh off the heels of announcing the acquisition of Android Twitter client Twidroyd and popurls, Twitter search and advertising platform operator TweetUp has signed up several new distribution partners.
TweetUp will be powering its search results with four new publishers, namely Business.com, Netvibes, Farlex’s online reference sites including TheFreeDictionary.com and TheFreeLibrary.com, as… → Read More
A unit of international media group Naspers, namely its subsidiary Myriad International Holdings, is to buy a 28.7% stake in Digital Sky Technologies (DST), the Russian firm behind investments in notable Internet companies like Facebook, Groupon and Zynga.
Naspers will be investing $388 million in cash, and contribute its 39.3% stake in Mail.ru into DST. Concurrently, Mail.ru management and other… → Read More
Yet another high-speed keyboard enters the Android Market today, with Swiftkey releasing a free beta version of their Android keyboard.
Just like Swype and Shapewriter before it, Swiftkey promises a faster, more accurate, and generally happier typing experience on your Android handset. Unlike Swype or Shapewriter, however, it doesn’t hope to change the way you type. → Read More
Tokyo-based Tonchidot has come a long way since the spectacular launch of its augmented reality app Sekai Camera at TechCrunch50 back in 2008. We’ve spent quite a few articles on how the startup did since then, and the bottom line is that it did very well so far. Tonchidot is now offering up a lot more versions and features for its app (available for free on the iPhone with iOS4 support, iPad, … → Read More
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