February 2011

Here at the CrunchGear offices, we have a few GoPro HD Hero cameras that we use for an assortment of footage, including our auto coverage. These are great cameras for…

The Samsung Galaxy Tab saga continues! Okay, so first, the word was that Samsung sold 2 million Galaxy Tabs since launch. But that was to distributors and resellers, not to…

At the “Who Will Win the Spam Wars” roundtable at the BigThink conference this morning Google’s Matt Cutts, Bing’s Harry Shum and Blekko’s Rich Skrenta got together to discuss recent…

Oh, China. When it’s not trying to pass off Top Gun footage as anything other than a horrible movie it’s building the world’s biggest statue of Optimus Prime. Nothing wrong…

A company that makes systems to turn waste-heat into electricity Alphabet Energy has officially moved its technology out of the lab and into pilot production, the company announced today. The…

Why haven’t American technology journalists reported the truth about the working conditions at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China – a 430,000 person factory that manufactures around 50% of all…

You know, I normally wouldn’t mention that the official debut of Virgin Mobile’s Optimus V is happening today; we don’t cover most prepaid phones, and this one was kinda-sorta available…

Here we go again. It has been a few weeks since we had a story about how Apple is evil, or how the relatively closed system that fuels the iPad and iPhone…

Mobile World Congress — a massive, international event where just about every non-Apple phone manufacturer in the industry launches their latest and greatest — starts February 14th. AT&T has just…

Good news for Pittsburgh Steelers fans: Madden NFL 11 has predicted that the black-and-gold will win the Super Bowl, 24-20. Hit the music!

Last night the New York Times published a report stating that Sony’s E-Reader application had been rejected from Apple’s App Store, because it used a transaction system other than Apple’s…

It was almost exactly two years ago that Google launched Latitude, their location-based service. Two years may not seem like a long time, but it’s “the equivalent of a decade…

The world gets yet another 3D device. Today, NEC in Japan announced [JP] a new 3D notebook, as part of the company’s spring line-up of PCs for the local market.…

Fast hard drives are a dime-a-dozen these days, but this hard drive is the fastest. Why? Because ASUS gave it the Lamborghini logo and added USB 3.0 and 7500 RPM…

Sigh. The Boxee Box launched with much fan fair in November. At that time, the promise was Netflix and Vudu would hit the box by the end of the year.…

While Boba Fett obviously has an air of “danger and mystery,” did you know that he also enjoyed Jazz and early Dixieland? That’s right: Jango Fett, whose real name was…

One of my big predictions for 2011 is that we are going to start to see open databases for places spring up and take hold. Hyperpublic, which just launched today,…

SolarCity, a company that designs, installs and secures financing to put solar power generating systems in homes in North America, keeps reeling in the financial partners. This time, the San…

The Roku XDS is a fine streamer, but like all the rest of the company’s offering, lacked official USB playback support. Sure, there’s been unofficial channels for sometime now, but…

Zynga’s CityVille hit 100 million monthly players – making it the largest Facebook application ever – just a little over a month after launching in December 2010. We’ve noted that…

Wanderfly, an intelligent travel recommendation search engine, has raised $1 million in new funding from Charles River Ventures, Jason Calacanis, StartupAngel, James Bailey, Roger Dickey and other angel investors. Wanderfly’s…

Website creation service provider Webs has acquired Pagemodo, which enables businesses and individuals to create great-looking Facebook Pages, TechCrunch has learned. The news comes a couple of months after Webs…

Exclusive – Offermobi, a startup that debuted the first performance marketing network for mobile advertising campaigns in the United States, has raised $1 million in funding. The capital comes from…

Start your laser beams, it’s time to turn into a robot. No, seriously. After years of development Anybots, the startup that builds remote-controlled roving robots, is shipping its first devices…

Cause marketing is taking off, with social networks like Facebook and Twitter providing the fuel, and companies are repositioning themselves to take advantage of these new marketing dollars. Peter Jackson,…

Fon, the WiFi network company backed by Google and Skype, says you can find 3.35 million Fon hotspots all across the globe these days. That’s impressive growth, which comes down…

If there’s one problem with any fitness, wellness, musical instrument training, or spiritual regimen, it’s backsliding. Not every rebirth and renewal can be like the boat repair scene in Summer…

Start to finish party planning site Punchbowl is taking its platform mobile today with the launch of an iPhone app and a new mobile site for smartphones. Punchbowl’s platform allows…

There are quite a few stands and keyboards for tablets and smartphones out there, but Elecom’s TK-FB023E (announced [JP] today) is an especially pretty stand/keyboard set. Elecom sells the keyboard,…

Exclusive – Fotolia, a major online marketplace for royalty-free stock photos, has invested in stock music and sound effects site AudioMicro, TechCrunch has learned. Fotolia, itself massively backed by private…