Bungee Labs Takes $8 Million Series C

Bungee Labs has raised $8 million Series C in a round that included Wasatch Venture Fund and existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners and Venrock Associates. Orem, Utah based Bungee Labs offer

New Skype for Linux with video calling

New Skype. For Linux. Video calling works. Go get it. Skype via Giz

Why there's no more Linux at Wal-Mart

[photopress:Everex_gPC2.jpg,full,center] This sounds like a no-brainer, but one man, Joel Mclaughlin, theorizes that the low-cost Linux PCs have disappeared from Wal-Mart is because the boxes were too

HTC head talks about eee PC, iPhone

HTC’s CEO, Peter Chou, talked a bit about the eee PC and the iPhone along with the future of WinMo on HTC handhelds. The takeaway? He doesn’t see the eee as a competitor to the company&#82

Running Linux on your Wii is now easy++

This video describes how to use a regular SD card to hack your Wii to play homebrew games and run Linux. It seems pretty easy but after hacking my PS2 back in the day I’ve been pretty reticent a

The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. Hello Hi dear!! My l

Wii saves lives, does not kill puppies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/23629747#23629747 Awwwwww… via Kotaku

This week's Rock Band downloads: Thrash!

[photopress:AtTheGateGroup.jpg,full,center] I love Rock Band and I love that they keep releasing songs for it. However, lately they’ve sucked. Last week was pretty bad, and the week before that

William Gibson's "My Obsession"

Here’s some Friday afternoon reading for you all — the classic 1999 treatise on eBay and the collectors impulse. In it Gibson describes is obsession with watches on eBay and talks about th

Colossal MP3 player: Coming soon to a hipster near you

[photopress:colomp3.jpg,full,right] For only $21.99 you can own this cutting edge, state-of-the-art portable media player, Colossal. Your definition of “portable” would have to be a little

Review: Epson Home Cinema 1080 UB

[photopress:scaled.P1020938.jpg,full,pp_image] Last spring I reviewed Epson’s PowerLite Home Cinema 1080 and looking back on that earlier review I was impressed with the quality and price point ($29

Ollech and Wajs M-65 with NATO dial

Need a simple, Swiss-movement watch for running around behind enemy lines? Take a look at the O&W ETA 2824-2 automatic that we reviewed over on WristWatchReview. O&W is basically a small manuf

Smart Goggles 'remember' where you left your keys

[photopress:smartgoggles.jpg,full,right] Yes, these glasses are ugly, but at the same time they’re incredibly useful. Developed in Japan, these Smart Goggles can “remember” things yo

LOST's lost opening sequence

http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1739531&fullscreen=1 You watched LOST last night, and it was good. But ever notice there are no opening credits for that show? It&#8217

Wundrbar: A Smart Search and Account Management Tool

Among the Y Combinator startups we rounded up earlier today is one that finally brings some innovation to the standard Google search bar most of us have set as our homepages. Wundrbar will remind some

Are you CG's sexiest reader? Win one of 20 Proporta Echoes

In an effort to see how narcissistic we all really are, Proporta has agreed to give away five Proporta Echo screen protectors to our top twenty hottest readers — actually it will be random, but

Onkyo's entry-level 5.1 system gets reviewed

[photopress:onkyo304frnt400.jpg,full,center] I’m nuts about home theater, it’s true. But that’s because I’m something of an audiophile as well as a videophile, natch. I think i

Taste Test: 'Rockstar Roasted' energy drink

Just noticed this new blend today in my local convenience store. According to the company, it’s an “amazing mix of the finest espresso coffee, fresh milk and cream packed with the powerful

Get you a free beer

http://www.5min.com/Embeded/1945/Watch more DIY videos on 5min.com Pretty clever, those British. Always caging free drinks.

Android, a platform, will outsell iPhone, a phone: Google exec

[photopress:androidviphone.jpg,full,center] A mobile platform manager at Google said yesterday that he expects Android to outsell the iPhone, which, to me, truly sounds like comparing apples to orange
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