February 2011
Radiohead's Day Early Online Release Of 'The King Of Limbs' Goes Viral
It’s as if Radiohead got the lion’s share of Internet awareness, leaving the rest of the music industry completely clueless. Pretty much all anyone can talk about right now is…
TechCrunch Giveaway: A Boxee Box #TechCrunch
We have given away an Apple iPad, Google Chrome Cr-48 Notebooks, a Dell Vostro V130 laptop, a Google Nexus S, and many other prizes over the last few months. We…
By a show of hands, who here believes Firefly is the best show ever created? Everyone? Good. We can move on then.
Sometimes, just sometimes, Tokyo-based USB accessory maker Thanko announces gadgets that are not completely silly. Case in point: the so-called MAME-CAM that Thanko started listing [JP] today, a micro camera…
Nevermind the Lenovo LePad was officially announced — read: not prematurely leaked — seven months ago back July 2010. The Android 2.2 tablet will finally ship in China next month…
Facebook Shares Are Worth Almost Three Times More Than Tweets For E-Commerce
White label daily deals platform and TC Disrupt finalist ChompOn is releasing some interesting data today comparing the value of shares, Tweets, likes and follows in the context of e-commerce.…
While pretty awesome to behold (especially in size) and pretty in design, the Breguet Marine Royale Ref. 5847 watch for 2010 is an ergonomic mistake. It looks cool on the…
What Are President Obama, Zuck, Jobs And Other Silicon Valley Tech Stars Toasting To?
The White House has just posted several photos from President Obama’s dinner with a number of Silicon Valley’s technology CEOs and leaders yesterday evening. As you can see from the…
The Samwer Brothers Make A Killing After Selling Facebook Stake From 2008
The three Samwer brothers behind the highly successful European Founders Fund in Germany have sold their shares in Facebook, according to a report in the German press. Marc, Oliver and…
Is this a sign of things to come in other countries? In Japan, Sharp is currently developing [JP] an inexpensive tablet aimed at a very specific target group: elderly online…
AC130 For Android: Turn Those Benjamins Into Little People And Then Destroy Them
BeyondReality’s Jeroen Mol has an interesting concept for his new Augmented Reality game slated to go live in the Android Market in the next month or so. His clever idea…
eBay And PayPal Team Up For Developer Conference And Open Platform
eBay owns payments giant PayPal, and PayPal is deeply integrated within eBay’s marketplace but both companies have operated fairly separately when it comes to APIs and developer relations. But interestingly,…
RoundPegg Raises $1.27 Million To Be The eHarmony For Jobs
Job hiring startup RoundPegg has raised $1.27 million in new funding led by Access Venture Partners with Croghan Investments participating. RoundPegg is a graduate of the TechStars class of 2010.…
Where Does Watson Go From Here? First Stop: Healthcare Irony: Smartphones Can Save The Honeybees Apple “Bans” The Steve Jobs Action Figure Why Can’t Tablet Makers Just Freaking Ship? The…
San Francisco Wants to Tax Your Stock Options– All of Them.
Few people are aware the San Francisco has had a tax provision in its municipal code since 2004 that requires companies to pay a payroll tax on gains from employee…
Google Courts Yahoo Users With New Delicious Bookmarks Importer Tool
The Delicious saga continues … In reaction to what many have thought to be Yahoo’s mismanagement of the popular bookmarking service Delicious in the past couple of months, many people…
A Bird’s-Eye View Of iOS And Android As Seen By One Premium Ad Platform
Comparing the iOS and Android platforms is often tricky because the perspective is usually one-sided. But mobile ad platforms tend to have a pretty well-rounded look at the state of…
Would you buy a toy fish that flew in the air wagging its tail as if it were swimming? If you answered yes, then check this out: it’s called Air…
Gawker's Gulp Moment: Big Redesign Is Driving People Away
About ten days ago, gossip blog Gawker and its sister sites Gizmodo, Lifehacker and others switched over to a drastic redesign which was met with plenty of jeers. People always…
It appears that folks with catastrophic spinal cord injuries might be able to move their limbs again thanks to a new system that “trains” the nerves to move using a…
Look Out Quora, InboxQ Takes Q&A Off-Site And On To Twitter
As becomes more difficult to find the answers you want on Google, using hashtags like #lazyweb to ask questions on Twitter has become some people’s recourse, to much success –…
TAG Heuer Carrera Mikrograph: Measure 1/100th Of A Second Like A Boss
I’m not a huge fan of the stlying in this TAG Mikrograph chrono, but this video is pretty neat. It basically shows the watch measuring a few hundredths of a…
'Year Of The Rabbit' Begins As Chrome 10 Hops Into Beta With 'Crankshaft' JavaScript
As they have made abundantly clear over the past several months, Google hates talking about the version numbers of Chrome. Well, except when they have something to talk about. Which is…
Shock(ing) Study: No Link Between Mobile Phones and Brain Cancer?
Here’s another CrunchGear Shock Study, shocking not because of cognizability but because of what it claims. The study by the University of Manchester says that RF exposure from cell phones does not appear…
Google Opens Developer Preview Of Chrome Web Store In 15 More Countries
After months of anticipation, Google finally unveiled the Chrome Web Store this past December. But a lot of users were disappointed with the launch for one very big reason: it…
Nissan’s unveiling the ESFLOW EV concept at the Geneva Auto Show next month. Well, here it is. Click through for the interior shot. God I wish the CE industry had…
Anoma.ly Gets 500K From A Bunch Of Rockstar Investors, Rebrands As Dapt
Anoma.ly, a startup that is working on optimizing the personalization of realtime information streams, is announcing its first funding round today with 500K in seed money from rockstar investors like Yelp’s…
Massive Solar Flare Causing Communications Problems In China
A recent solar flare, the strongest in four years, is apparently giving China a bit of a headache. Astronomers there have reported a disruption in radio communications in the country’s…
Here’s an interesting use for old smartphones: monitoring bee activity. According to research done at the UK’s Nottingham Trent University, it may be possible for smartphones to monitor activity in…
Portable battery packs are starting to become commonplace. You can buy them at major grocery stores now. But how about one that can charge two USB devices? Oh yeah, that…