May 2009

It can often be difficult for an employee to express an IT troubleshooting problem to the IT help desk if the employee has little familiarity with the complexities of a…

Let’s say you’re coming home from a long day at work, and your husband says “Dear, I have a surprise for you.” Hoping it’s a new tea set or maybe…

Earlier today, I wrote a post wondering whether music-search engine Seeqpod had finally sold itself to Microsoft because of a suggestive link on its homepage linking to Microsoft Search. Some…

Tiger Woods 10 for the Wii is shaping up to be a killer game. Yes, I’m getting my hopes up and yes, Tiger Woods ’09 let me down but this…

We all know about Twitter’s downtime today. It was a scheduled maintenance service that was supposed to last for about an hour. Sure enough, after about an hour, Twitter came…

In celebration of Mother’s Day, Facebook now lets you list and connect to your family members in the “Basic Information” part of your profile. Starting later today and through this…

It’s sort of funny when Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg takes her frustration out on a club bouncer by saying (it has now been removed) it would be “a huge bummer if…

These little minute-long episodes, cut from actual (or slightly modified) Star Trek: The Next Generation footage, are simultaneously bizarre, ingenious, and unbelievably hilarious. Some are NSFW, but you shouldn’t watch…

The Houston Chronicle, bastion of high-tech reporting, has a cool article on making your own Hackintosh desktop using an ASUS mobo and 16GB of memory. Not only did the author,…

Did any of you say to yourself, “You know, BioShock is great and all, but I could really used a tacked-on multiplayer mode to insure that I still say good…

April proved to be a dismal month for technology sector jobs and overall employment, but there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. Granted, this morning brought…

Tell yer ma and tell yer pa if they need a little, handheld video camera for taking high quality shots of the cousins messing around in the yard, then the…

Twitter just went down. Don’t worry, it was planned. It should only be offline for about an hour today but there’s another downtime planned for Monday as well. I’m sitting…

Federated Media has been our advertising partner since December 2005. The first checks they sent us allowed TechCrunch to become something more than a guy sitting in a spare bedroom…

DocuSign, an e-signature service, closed $5 million in Series D funding from Frazier Technology Ventures, Ignition Partners, Sigma Partners, and West River Capital LLC. The funding follows a Series C…

The new Star Trek movie is awesome. Serious. See it. Anyway, here are David Letterman’s Top ten lines never before said in a Star Trek movie presented by Spock himself.…

Are you looking for the best beer bars in the world, good places to make out in San Francisco, or where to go on the Big Island in Hawaii? A…

Google really wants you to use Chrome. So much so, in fact, that they’ve decided to broadcast commercials for the browser on TV – an extreme rarity for the online…

Here’s a random software recommendation for your Friday afternoon enjoyment. It’s Vox, it’s for Mac OS X, and it’s a lightweight music player. No, it’s not going to replace iTunes…

During the past several months, a war has been brewing between Twitter apps for the iPhone. But it’s been largely two-sided. You were either in the Twitterfon camp or the…

“I find it frightening that the first alien contact we might make could be a tweet.” Truer words have never been spoken by a YouTube commenter. NASA astronaut Mark Polansky,…

We’re not entirely sure if this is some sort of Sprint training video or something aimed at the general consumer, but it looks genuine. The video clearly demos webOS’s contact…

Get ready for… Guitar Hero Idol, maybe! There’s some rumblings going on that Activision Blizzard is considering turning Guitar Hero into a TV show. It’d either be an American Idol-esque…

Once and for all: Star Wars or Star Trek?

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start. There are few codes more sacred to old school gamers than the Konami code – a cheat code that…

We learned the other day from a slightly shady-looking leaked document that the second version of the G1 will be hitting T-Mo some time in the fall. Believable, but the…

H/K is finally getting into the Blu-ray game with the BDP 10. The Profile 2.0 player comes with the standard fare of Blu-ray capabailites of BD-Live, 1080/24p, advance audio codexs…

When tech startups get up and running one of things they need to work smoothly is cash flow. As the excellent presentation by William Reeve at GeeknRolla showed, cashflow can…

Even after a three minute presentation by an Android engineer, some of the things lurking around in the Android v1.5 (which should hit your G1 next week, if it hasn’t…

Oh look, outrage. It’s been a few minutes since we last ran into outrage. This time: an evil plot, hatched by the Missouri University School of Journalism, that, in effect,…