We’ve covered the 60-foot Gundam robot statue that was protecting Tokyo bay last summer quite a few times on CrunchGear, and we also showed you some pictures of Bandai re-erecting the big guy in Shizuoka. Last month, Gundam wasn’t quite ready. But now he is back, and he’s cooler than ever. Just look at the pictures. → Read More
Unlike io9, I have zero interest in seeing a BioShock movie, primarily because I already played the game—that’s good enough for me. I probably shouldn’t even be concerned given how much trouble the film’s producers are having. They want the film to be a “hard R,” which would necessarily limit its exposure. You can’t get a Happy Meal or action figure deal with an R rated movie. → Read More
Pip pip and cheerio! The London Tubemaster General, Mayor Boris Johnson ESQ 1st Class Deceased is proposing that the tube lines in London have Wi-Fi coverage. While he does not want cellular coverage – then they’d have to have quiet cars – but he does wish people to enjoy email, saying “I think people do want the facility of looking at their Blackberry, or whatever it happens to be.” → Read More
Yahoo is serious about its product strategy moving forward, and they fully intend to be able to answer the question “what is Yahoo” in the near future.
In an email to all staff last week, new chief product officer Blake Irving told employees that he would be sending a two page document outlining Yahoo’s overall product strategy moving forward by the end of July. Later employees will be able to… → Read More
Rumors of social media monitoring and analytics startup Sysomos’ acquisition by Marketwire swirled in the blogosphere yesterday, but today it’s been made official. In a blog post on Sysomos’ site today, the company announced that has been bought by the press release wire service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Sysomos, which is profitable, offers a data anlaytics produtcs,… → Read More
Congratulations to Bugatti! The German-owned supercar manufacturer has just set the land speed record for a production car. The Veyron 16.4 Super Sport has achieved a speed of 267.8 mph, besting the previous record, held by an SSC Ultimate Aero since 2007, by 11.7 mph! Even if you know nothing about cars, as I readily admit (although I still enjoy shows like Top Gear, and have been known to sink… → Read More
The world is waiting to know where basketball star LeBron James is going to sign. The free agent is expected to make his decision some time in the next few days, and you can undoubtedly expect a large press conference to follow. But could it be that he’d tweet out his decision first? Perhaps.
All indications are that James has just joined Twitter under the name KingJames. It’s not a verified… → Read More
Yoose, a Berlin-based mobile coupon startup, just launched into their public beta phase. The idea behind Yoose is to provide a multi-level distribution platform for Coupon publishers, such as local businesses or larger firms that plan to target specific campaigns with coupons.
However, it took the company quite a while to deliver its service – two years to be precise. After being a finalist at… → Read More
Yahoo is getting serious about the news. Today, it launched a new political news blog called The Upshot, written by a staff of six writers and two editors. The Upshot is a mix of original reporting, commentary, links, and licensed news photos. Rather than simply republishing stories from the news wires or other news outlets like rest of Yahoo News, the Upshot is trying to cultivate a… → Read More
Good news and bad news. First, the vinyl iPad sticker of Rob Janoff’s 1976 Apple logo is only $3.50 on etsy or free if you buy one of the seller’s larger decals on etsy. But they are sold out. Sorry. [etsy via Gadget Lab → Read More
Commenting on the web is broken. Visit just about any site large enough on the Internet and you’ll notice it. Sure, there are useful comments every once in a while, but there are more comments that are either jokes, stupid, or just downright cruel. Considering the web is supposed to be this great medium for interaction, this is a problem. It’s one LiveFyre now thinks they can fix.
When Livefyre… → Read More
Online fashion search company Empora has acquired German fashion social network FashionFreax.net, a multilingual fashion social network. Terms were not diclosed. Founded by the Theilmann twins in 2006, FashionFreax is in German, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese has members in 90 countries.
The acquisition will see Empora enable FashionFreax with its fashion search technology to connect… → Read More
The exodus of talent from Yahoo continues. Skype has just announced that Madhu Yarlagadda, Yahoo’s VP of Engineering, has joined the company has as the new Chief Development Officer. Yarlagadda will report to Skype CEO Josh Silverman and will oversee Skype’s engineering and development initiatives. The company’s current CTO Dan Berg will be leaving the company following Yarlgadda’s transition to… → Read More
Sony‘s still trying to make 3DTV“stick,” so it’s devised a clever little money-saving promotion to get you behind the wheel of this car today. It comes down to: you buy a Bravia HX8000 and Sony throws in a bunch of free stuff. → Read More
For the remaining chunk of the world that refuses to let go of the garbage platform that is Flash, this video should be pretty exciting. Motorola/Adobe weren’t ready to show off Flash functionality when we checked out the device last week — but by the looks of this video, they’ve got a pretty-dang-functional Beta version of it under lock and key somewhere. → Read More
Scott at Scottevest is a pretty cool guy – if a bit manic. Case in point: this crazy freaking trenchcoat that apparently allows you to carry clothes and shoes in one of the jacket’s 33 pockets. → Read More
If you’ve created music playlists using iTunes, Spotify, Last.fm, YouTube, We Are Hunted, Winamp, Rhapsody, Soundcloud, or even if you’ve simply scribbled a list of your favorite tracks in a notepad file, you need to check out Playlistify soon. The basic, solid premise of the service is to let you enjoy your custom-made playlists anywhere you like.
I was looking for an excuse to write it up… → Read More
Yeah, the video is in Japanese, but you’ll probably be able to follow along without a problem. The first half shows off the hardware and the second half is mostly game play. That’s the part you’re going to wanna watch if you have any doubts that the Move is a Wii clone. → Read More
Poor AT&T. A new conspiracy theory is suggesting that AT&T is now capping iPhone 4 upload speeds in multiple cities including: NYC, Central Jersey, Boston, Orlando, Seattle, South Jersey/Philly, Columbus, Cleveland, West Houston, Phoenix, Northern Colorado, St. Paul/Minesota, Suffolk County/Long Island, Quad Cities, South Jersey, Denver, Detroit Metro, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Salt Lake… → Read More
Street style focused fashion communities where anyone can post pictures of their coordinated outfits for others to admire and emulate have become a popular way to share looks online. fbFund winner Weardrobe has seen success with this model and was recently acquired by Like.com. Polyvore also offers users a way to curate their own looks. Chicisimo is entering this space as an alternative user… → Read More
Flattr is a new startup with an inovative business model, coming out of Sweden. In fact it’s the brainchild of a group of people formerly associated with The [infamous] Pirate Bay, including Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi. It’s highly ironic that Flattr has sprung from a similar group that refused to pay for content, like movies. But Flattr just might work because there are already signs that the… → Read More
Sony’s ES line of audio and video products have always been the best the company offers. The latest are no different. The three new AV receivers bring just about every different control scheme, video mode, and audio codex imaginable. The main difference between them is that the higher-end models feature more audio calibration modes and HDMI control. All three models however come equipped with the… → Read More
The Viliv N5 is a fun little computer. The small and portable Windows 7 device doesn’t have many drawbacks and I’m starting to appreciate the form factor and 5 hour battery. It might be one of the best portable devices available that offers full, uninhibited access to the Internet. Anyway, Dynamism is about to fire up its pre-order servers and start taking orders for the N5 start at… → Read More
From an audience perspective, the ability to embed videos on other sites is what expands their viewership and makes them go viral. But from an advertising perspective, most of that video is the Web equivalent of dead air. “Nobody sells embedded video because nobody knows where it is going,” says Magnify.net CEO Steve Rosenbaum. He has a partial fix for that, a new video advertising product he… → Read More
Stribe had a good 2009. The service that aims to make it as simple as possible for any site to add a social network on top of their existing website was first unveiled in September of last year at TechCrunch50 in San Francisco. Shortly thereafter, in December, the service won the startup competition at LeWeb in Paris. Now they’re hoping 2010 will be even better.
Stribe is opening its service to… → Read More
When I think of RIM, I usually think of business suits and corporate power, not Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Nevertheless, from this day forth, the two shall forever be linked in my mind: Lizzie has had her first tour of Waterloo’s most recognisable factory complex.
Not one to shy from diplomatic gifts, RIM even presented Her Majesty with a white BlackBerry Bold 9700 displaying an image… → Read More
Tourist Eye pulls out of their closed beta this morning, as they simultaneously launch their app for the iPhone and Android. Two young Spanish founders, Javier Fernández Escribano and Ariel Cámus, are aiming for an international smartphone userbase. The company offers a collaborative space for creating and sharing travel plans and compiling travel guides and will compete with other startups… → Read More
As you are no doubt aware, the recent iPhone 4 launch hasn’t been without its “bumps” including reception issues, yellow screens, the availability of white… and now talk of bung proximity sensors.
Y’see, all iPhones use a proximity sensor to turn the touch screen off when you’re on a call, preventing you from accidentally hanging up on your mother-in-law. Every time she calls you.
And she… → Read More
The number of visitors to MySpace UK has halved in the last six months, TechCrunch Europe has learned, leading to a fresh round of layoffs at the London office of the social networking site.
According to internal figures that we’ve seen, monthly visits to MySpace UK are down from a peak of just under 10 million at the start of the year to around 5m as of the end of June 2010. If indeed this is… → Read More
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