Earlier today, Apple released the iOS update that resolves the location tracking issues that had the press in a tizzy over for the past couple of weeks. For those keeping score at home, it took Apple exactly one week from when they first addressed the problem to ship a solution to every affected iOS user. Yes, just one week later, the situation is resolved (well, aside from a smaller encryption… → Read More
PMA – a camera trade show recently renamed CliQ – is being folded in alongside CES this year, a move that almost definitely spells the end of another major standalone tech event. The event was slated to take place September 6-11, 2011 but will now happen around January 10-13 in Las Vegas. There is no confirmation whether CliQ will be a formal part of CES or exist as a standalone but simultaneous… → Read More
It is May 4th aka Force Day. On this day we must celebrate the cultural phenomenon that is Star Wars. How better to do that than by picking one item from a huge list of Star Wars stuff and having it sent to your home. Your mission, then, is to choose one item and I will pick one winner at random and that winner will receive the item he or she chose. The result? He or she will, as Han Solo once… → Read More
7digital, the UK digital media company, has updated its Android app to become a full iTunes competitor by featuring an in-app music download store along with acting as the phone’s music player.
Additionally, in a move that one-ups Apple (for now at least), the app syncs with 7digital’s digital music locker feature so that tracks previously purchased from the service can be re-downloaded to a… → Read More
Online marketing network for small business owners MerchantCircle is launching an iPhone app today that allows small businesses to manage and update their listings on the site and other social media pages, upload photos, answer new customer inquiries and stay on top of their reviews on the go.
Merchant Circle provides a business directory for merchants in smaller towns and currently lists over a… → Read More
When not destroying the heartland and ripping down the fabric of small town America, Wal-Mart likes to give back to the community. For example, the Arkansas Boys and Girls Club of America, got a $10,000 grant from the giant to buy books, magazines, and most notably, Kindles.
There will be 50 Junior High and High School children involved in Bright Spot. This reading center will contain not only… → Read More
Power is in numbers, but sometimes cries fall upon deaf ears or come too late. That’s probably the case with the Save Stargate Universe Facebook group. NBC announced last December that Stargate Universe wasn’t going to be picked up for a third season and then MGM recently shuttered all things Stargate, canceling the planned movies for each of the three Stargate series. One of the most successful… → Read More
With hundreds of thousands of websites integrating with Facebook Likes and 250 million people engaging with Likes just a little after a year after the Like button made its first appearance at F8, the space of Facebook Likes aggregation is about to get competitive. Facebook search engine Booshaka just released their own Facebook Likes categorization yesterday, for example. Likester just… → Read More
TechCrunch Disrupt NYC starts May 23rd—less than a month away. And we are very excited to announce four more guests to our growing list of speakers who will be joining us at this year’s Disrupt in NYC: Howard Lindzon, Yossi Vardi, Greg Tseng, and Bradley Horowitz.
Howard Lindzon, co-founder and CEO of StockTwits, is a force to be reckoned with. With over twenty years experience in the… → Read More
Socialcam, the video sharing app that was created by Justin.tv, is quickly fleshing out its feature set. The app — which is a lot like an ‘Instagram for video’, minus the effects filters — launched just in time for SXSW and had 250,000 downloads in its first month (the total download number is significantly higher than that, though they aren’t releasing figures until they reach their next… → Read More
SoundCloud, the audio platform, has unveiled SoundCloud Labs, a new site to house experimental projects and features developed in-house, including via its open API.
The idea of creating a separate space for cutting-edge development branded as Labs isn’t a new one, of course, mostly notably employed by Google. But in SoundCloud’s case it perhaps makes even greater sense since the service was… → Read More
Just two weeks ago, Apple took a rare hit to their so-called “reality distortion field”. A pair of researchers found a file on the iPhone that seemingly tracked the iPhone owner’s location (based on which cell towers they were connecting to) going back as far as a year. As a few angry mobs gathered their pitchforks (and fired off lawsuits), Apple explained it as an anonymized… → Read More
TransferWise, the peer-to-peer online currency exchange that aims to give banks a run for their money with its flat-fee exchange rate, has announced that it’s seen $1m worth of transactions in three months since launch.
These have come from consumers-only since until now TransferWise wasn’t available to business customers. Today that changes after the company responds to the fact that… → Read More
(Unreleased white iPhone 4 on left; released model on right) At this point, your white iPhone 4 probably looks pretty nasty — at least, it will if you’re one of the few who have been walking around for months with a pre-release prototype. The New York Times‘ Nick Bilton managed to track down someone who nabbed a white iPhone 4 from one of the first, unreleased batches, and put it… → Read More
Disclaimer: This deal is only for those that know what they’re really buying. This isn’t a Kindle killer nor was it ever supposed to be. It’s a tablet designed for academia. This Woot deal puts the older model at a nice pricepoint — but once again, if you know what you’re buying. It’s a novel device, running Android 1.6 with a 7-inch color LCD on one side and a… → Read More
At this point, any given month wouldn’t really feel complete without Samsung announcing something. Without CES, CTIA, MWC, or any other acronym to schedule this month’s event around, Samsung’s just puttin’ together their own New York shindig for the announcement of.. whatever they’re going to announce. For the first time in a while, we’re a bit stumped*. The… → Read More
About a month ago, I was one of the very first people to ride an Uber car in New York City a few hours after the company put a few test cars out on the streets. It was supposed to be a secret, but I found out about it, and texted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick while I was in the car. Last night was Uber’s “official” launch in New York City with about 100 cars which can be summoned via an iPhone app. … → Read More
Happy May The 4th Be With You, fellow nerds! Mimoco is outing a new Star Wars-themed flash drive on this special day. (it also happens to be my birthday) The new Tie Fighter Pilot might be one of the best yet in this sweet line of flash drives. His helmet pulls off, reveling both the USB connector but the man behind the mask. As usual, the drives come preloaded with various desktop wallpapers… → Read More
There is nothing more sexy than a well-designed bookshelf stereo system and man is the MAS 102 a looker. It’s much of what you’d expect in such a device with a slot-loading CD player, FM tuner, two USB port, a ton of auxiliary inputs including digital, analog, and phono, and of course a connection for Harman Kardon’s iPhone/iPod dock, The Bridge III. The 2 x 65-watt amp powers… → Read More
The best part of the iFixit teardowns — besides the gadget pr0n — are the notes found on the last step. iFixit grades the given product in terms of its repairability and then comments on the highlights. The new iMac scored 7 out of 10 where 10 is the easiest to repair. iFixit notes that while it’s relatively easy to disassemble the iMac, “Making the LCD and glass spotless… → Read More
Mobile apps like Instagram and PicPlz made photo filters popular, and now every photo app needs to have filters and effects. But not every developer wants to spend the time and resources to come up with his own effects. Online image-editing service Aviary hopes to fill that need with a new photo effects API it is launching today. Alex Taub, head of business development for Aviary, took me… → Read More
Hope your radiation insurance is up to date. Asus is reportedly working on a tablet powered by the Nvidia Tegra 3, a quad-core platform that aims to kill frame rates and sperm counts at equal rates. Digitimes makes mention of the upcoming super tablet but fails when it comes to the details. In fact the report is silly light on specifics. Simply saying that Asus will launch a tablet with Nvidia’s… → Read More
I don’t know watches, but I’m a big fan of Sergio Leone’s Italian cult western For A Few Dollars More (which stars Clint Eastwood) from 1965: a golden musical pocket watch appears multiple times through the movie (it belongs to one of the protagonists), and Swiss watchmaker Boegli has now created a cool replica of the device. → Read More
Exclusive: Digital Marketing company Datran Media has acquired Allvoices, a fast-growing citizen journalism platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by the companies but we hear the acquisition was a mixture of cash and stock.
Allvoices, which has raised $9 million in funding and launched in 2008, is the brainchild of former VC Amra Tareen. The site allows anyone to contribute… → Read More
Facebook is so large that it now accounts for about one out of every three ad impressions in the U.S., according to the latest statistics from comScore Ad Metrix. In the first quarter of 2011, comScore estimates that 1.1 trillion ads were served to U.S. Internet users, and 346 billion of those (or 31 percent) were on Facebook. This percentage is up from 23 percent in the third quarter of last… → Read More
Today, electric motorcycle makers Brammo revealed that the company will add new electronic transmission technology, and a redesigned motor, clutch and gear shift to its lineup, that will make its motorcycles perform more like their gas-powered predecessors.
The first incorporation of this technology into the company’s product lines will be into Brammo’s new, not-yet-in-production Engage and… → Read More
For 2011 Citizen’s major new piece is perfect for the American market. If you want to check out their other cool stuff you’ll need to take a little trip over the Japan (which would be nice… go support them). Part of their newer Signature collection, this is the simply named Citizen Signature Perpetual Calendar, and Citizen Signature Perpetual Calendar Chronograph. Two watches that each come in a… → Read More
Never mind that the non-directional nature could potentially make this light a nuisance, you still must admit that it’s cute in a retro sort of way. Pop this thing on while flying and it will certainly make your seat companions smile. $9 from Brando. → Read More
Spotify, the music service Americans don’t get to enjoy, announced several very cool new features today. The European music service is rolling out new versions of its desktop and mobile apps today, which will allow all users (even those pesky ad-supported freeloaders) to sync Spotify desktop tracks with mobile devices, be they iPods, iPhones or Androids.
And just in case it wasn’t clear whether… → Read More
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is betting on the devil. Project Devil, that is. Those are the ad units on AOL properties (including TechCrunch), and now on Hearst sites as well, that take up all the ad spots with one campaign. Instead of 14 different ads on a page, the same space if all given to one advertiser. They are designed to be more engaging as well via the addition of maps, videos, and other… → Read More
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