September 2006

Media & Entertainment

T-Mobile Mystery Logo

12:04 pm PDT • September 13, 2006

Sascha Segan from Gearlog has noted a strange rumbling from the T-Mobile booth at CTIA. Featured on many of TMo’s new phones is the that five dotted logo. The logo…

Nokia today introduces us to a new GSM clamshell, the 6085. A fairly decent mass market phone, the 6085 has all the standard features you’d expect from a phone in…

Media & Entertainment

Samsung IP-830w Confirmed

12:03 pm PDT • September 13, 2006

As we mentioned before, we got a chance to look at the Sprint International Smart Device, the Samsung IP-830w, yesterday. It’s a CDMA/GSM smartphone with Windows Mobile and EVDO. It’s…

Media & Entertainment

CTIA 2006: Day 1 Video Recap

12:02 pm PDT • September 13, 2006

Here’s a quick video travelogue of the show floor. Nothing amazing, but still quite a bit of fun. Click here to view our extensive CTIA coverage.

Nokia today introduces us to a new GSM clamshell, the 6085. A fairly decent mass market phone, the 6085 has all the standard features you’d expect from a phone in…

For a brief bit this morning, Cingular had the HTC Star Trek up on their site as the 3125. The phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, 200MHz TI OMAP processor,…

Cell phone application developers have a new tool for developing future products. Trolltech has launched their Qtopia Greenphone, an open Linux mobile device that allows you to write and install…

Boost Mobile, the hip-hop-themed pre-paid service from Sprint Nextel, has the tagline “Where you at?” This grammatically frightening phrase now has meaning, as Boost has partnered with Loopt to launch…

Media & Entertainment

Blackberry 8703e Launched on Verizon

11:55 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Verizon’s just launched the BlackBerry 8703e, an EV-DO capable BlackBerry device. The 8703e has your standard BlackBerry software that you either love or hate, and adds capability to tether your…

Hardware

NBC to Offer Free Streams of Primetime Shows

11:43 am PDT • September 13, 2006

NBC today announced that it will begin offering ad-supported streams of all its new fall shows. That means that starting soon you’ll be able to stream episodes of several different…

Hardware

CrunchGear and the Race to 2000 Update

11:34 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Looks like we’re hovering at 1,345 comments today. Remember, friends: the commentor to post the 2,000 comment gets a special black iPod Nano… OK, not so special, but it’s still…

Major Google/Intuit Partnership

11:22 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Google and Intuit are announcing a partnership today at 1:15 pm California time. The meat of it seems to be that they are building Google services directly into Intuit’s QuickBooks,…

DigiTimes of Taiwan claims that the Xbox 360 models premiering the first half of 2007 will have internal HD DVD drives. This goes in the face of Microsoft policy, which…

Hardware

Samsung IP-830w Confirmed

11:17 am PDT • September 13, 2006

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/GSM smartphone with Windows Mobile and EVDO. It's pretty hefty, but it's a real world phone and includes a Sprint SIM card that has roaming agreements with multiple international…

Hardware

Sony eReader In the Wild

11:06 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Phil Torrone from Make got his hands on a Sony eReader, then proceeded to take some pictures of it instead of using it to read. In any case, it actually…

Hardware

Bagir iPod Suit

11:02 am PDT • September 13, 2006

We’ve seen iPod enabled clothing in practically every design flavor, but, to the best of my knowledge, this is the first iPod-oriented suit. Created by Bagir, the iPod Business Suit…

Hardware

CTIA 2006 Coverage: Morons – FIGHT!

10:57 am PDT • September 13, 2006

For your enjoyment, a recreation of the noble and traditional art of Japanese Sumo as performed by two drunken fools.

Hardware

Skype for OS X 2 (beta)

10:43 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Skype is great. Most of the people who use it like it. But if you’re a Mac user, you’ve always been a little behind in the game. Fortunately, the good…

Yup, it looks like every peripheral at your computer needs to have an iPod dock these days. Tying in with the Apple fanfare yesterday, ViewSonic’s released a 19-inch and a…

Hardware

Dell Launches First AMD-Powered Desktops

10:01 am PDT • September 13, 2006

AMD fans can finally get their processor fix from Dell, now that the computer maker’s announced the Dimension E521 and Dimension C521 desktops, both powered by AMD CPUs. These two…

For a brief bit this morning, Cingular had the HTC Star Trek up on their site as the 3125. The phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, 200MHz TI OMAP processor,…

Hardware

Trolltech Linux Phone For Application Developers

9:35 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Cell phone application developers have a new tool for developing future products. Trolltech has launched their Qtopia Greenphone, an open Linux mobile device that allows you to write and install…

Hardware

Boost Asks "Where You at?" Loopt Answers

9:32 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Boost Mobile, the hip-hop-themed pre-paid service from Sprint Nextel, has the tagline “Where you at?” This grammatically frightening phrase now has meaning, as Boost has partnered with Loopt to launch…

Hardware

Blackberry 8703e Launched on Verizon

9:22 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Verizon’s just launched the BlackBerry 8703e, an EV-DO capable BlackBerry device. The 8703e has your standard BlackBerry software that you either love or hate, and adds capability to tether your…

Hardware

Wii To Launch November 10th?

9:18 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Take this with a block of salt, but the picture you see before you is from a FNAC store in Spain. You see what it says on the last line,…

Hardware

QTFairUse Now iTunes 7 Compatable

9:05 am PDT • September 13, 2006

, with it’s sexy album art features, iPod updaters, and movie downloads. It also disabled QTFairUse 2.2’s DRM stripping abilities. So what did the good people who bring you QTFairUse…

Hardware

New Griffin iPod Accessories Announced

9:00 am PDT • September 13, 2006

I don’t own an iPod, and it’s very rare that I regret having bought a Creative Zen Vision: M–today is no different. Griffin has announced yet more iPod accessories, and…

toothbrushes charge themselves, by inductance. We’ll save you the Physics 101 lecture and just note that inductance allows you to transfer power via electromagnetism, which means no wire necessary. The…

Hardware

The New iPod Nano Ad: In Color

8:40 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Apple’s new iPod Nano ad stresses the fact that it’s in color with streaks of blue, pink and green, not to mention a little silver. They couldn’t very well streak…

Hardware

iRiver S10 Is Actually Pretty Neat

8:03 am PDT • September 13, 2006

The day after Apple’s big announcement, that showcased several new products, including a new iPod shuffle, comes an announcement from iRiver of their new S10 model MP3 player. It’s about…