Internet-enabled DVD player coming from Toshiba?

Despite Blu-ray’s victory over HD, Toshiba does not seem to be accepting defeat and quietly adopting Blu-ray. The folks over at TG Daily speculate that instead Toshiba is working to enhance the imag

Most popular posts for Wednesday, July 2nd

Today’s Top Posts: Blizzard Authenticator helps secure your World of Warcraft account VUDU continues to infiltrate Best Buy Windows Vista: Not that bad, really, try it Azeroth in World of Warcra

Drobo's got a posse – a developer posse

In case the charms of the Drobo aren’t enough for you, Data Robotics has started up a development community for creating apps and extensions for everyone’s favorite RAID-bot. There are alr

No XMPP: What Is Twitter Protecting?

It turns out the battle for control of Twitter rests almost exclusively in the unique value proposition of XMPP-served track. As Twitter strips away various features of its service to rebuild a scalab

Mr. Asahi reminds us we need a beer

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Rumors say LG is working on a 8 megapixel touch phone

Supposedly there was a leak about LG developing a touchscreen camera phone named KC910 and has the potential to put competitors to shame. This will be the first LG phone to feature an 8 megapixel came

Angry Businesses Organize Anti-Yelp Websites. This Is A Sure Sign Of Their Success.

Yelp, a user-generated database of customer reviews of local businesses, first launched in October 2004. Users rate and leave reviews for local businesses, participate in forums, and can generally get

Sony removes v2.4 firmware upgrade

After the debacle that is firmware v2.4 for the PS3, Sony has pulled the firmware upgrade from their servers and are looking into issues that have affected some with a bricked console. Some Playstatio

Eco Brolly: Someone is trying to improve the umbrella

Stunning! Imaginative! Practical! Never to be mass produced! All words and phrases you can use to describe Shiu Yuk Yuen‘s concept umbrella, the Eco Brolly, which looks a lot less douchey than t

The Crown Jewels

It turns out the battle for control of Twitter rests almost exclusively in the unique value proposition of XMPP-served track. As Twitter strips away various features of its service to rebuild a scalab

Plasma torch garbage processing produces usable gas, electricity

Taking another step towards using our trash for fuel, Plasco Energy Group is putting up a large-scale plant in Ottowa that will use plasma torches to essentially vaporize trash into usable “syng

Bell & Ross jumps the shark

If you know me you know I love me some watches. I especially like Bell & Ross, the aviation-themed, pie-plate-sized watches that gave new meaning to “Wow, that’s a big watch.” No

Exclusive Offer For TechCrunch Readers: Sell Your Old iPhone For Quick Cash

We’re one week away from the debut of the 3G iPhone, and the question on everyone’s mind seems to be, “What’s going to happen to the six million first-gen iPhones that are on t

550-pound scrap-metal Optimus Prime costs 7 grand

And it’s worth every penny. Robot-Models appears to make all manner of welded-steel (wrought iron?) models from Gundams to Gremlins. There is also an insane number of Star Wars models. This sele

The Sprint Airave will route your calls over the Internet, spy on you

The Sprint Airave is ready to launch July 15. If you’re not sure what the Airave is, think of it as a mini cell tower in your house. It routes all your cell, data, and text messages over the Int

Gillmor Gang 07.02.08

Steve Gillmor chats with Chris Messina about GNIP and the politics of micro-objects with Doc Searls and Robert W. Anderson. Listen to the podcast over at the Gillmor Gang site >>

Netherlands gets iPhone tariff info

Dutch readers rejoice! T-Mobile.nl has released their tariff info for the iPhone 3G. I’m going to have you look above at the screen grab or head over to T-Mo.nl because my understanding of Dutch

Junction Networks Launches Whitelabel SIP PBX Service

Junction Networks has announced that their OnSIP PBX is now available as a white label solution to channel partners. OnSIP in an on-demand telephony service for small to medium sized businesses that a

Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory

Just because the Internet makes it possible to offer a near-infinite inventory of goods for sale does not mean that consumers will start wanting more obscure items in any great numbers. That is the co

Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS: What's a shorter way to say ‘Oh God Yes!’?

So… Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS, anyone? Right now, all that’s there is the clock from the game’s title sequence alongside the Nintendo DS logo, but that’s enough to get
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