March 2011

Remember Grant? The guy who gave out pumpkins on Black Friday? Well he’s back with a whole new game. He and his senior class made an eight-foot Sierpinski Triangle, a…

Sigh. Call of Duty: Black Ops is now the best selling video game of all time, at least according to NPD. Activision has sold 13.7 million units since its release…

Whoa. John Carmack, the co-founder of id Software who pretty much helped invent the first-person shooter genre, not to mention an all-around fantastic gentleman (we hung on his every word…

Last night many of us returned from grabbing drinks with friends here in Austin, opened our computers, and, because of a 9.0 earthquake in Northern Japan, became witness to some…

Are stamps the next thing to be made obsolete by the onward march of technology? Denmark will introduce something called the Mobile Postage beginning on April 1. It’s as it…

Sex and taxes—usually you don’t see those two words in the same sentence, but on today’s episode of Fly or Die we cover apps that will help you with both.…

Radian6, which has been making waves in social media monitoring space for the past few years, has extended its global reach with the acquisition of UK-based social media firm 6Consulting.…

Students at Olin College, Yifei Feng, Jacob Miller, Nat Sharpe, and Arash Ushani, created this clever Etch-a-Sketch robot that, as one does with faced with problems of machine learning and…

Don’t sleep on the mini mobile photo sharing battle that is going to take place at SXSW this year — the companies involved aren’t. Following updates to PicPlz and Instagram,…

Xoom owners? Verizon is pushing a update to your darling tablet sometime today, which will then allow you to download Flash 10.2 next week. 10.2 brings a host of new…

Klipsch, which was recently acquired by Audiovox, is stepping up its presence in the PC gaming scene. Its speakers are found in the just-released Alienware M17x gaming laptop, itself perhaps…

Is gaming like religion – a way of taking our minds off reality and indulging in unrealizable fantasies? Not according to Jane McGonigal, one of electronic gaming’s most articulate evangelists.…

When folks first cracked open their shiny new Honeycomb-powered XOOM tablets back at the end of March, they were in for a bit of a surprise: there wasn’t any Flash…

The iPad 2 went on sale today through multiple brick and mortar stores and Apple’s website. Hopefully eager buyers set their alarm clocks. The iPad 2 was originally listed with…

In mobile, the big debate is apps versus mobile websites and so far it looks like apps are winning. The mobile web is still too hard to navigate for many…

Yesterday afternoon, our new editorial overlord, Arianna Huffington, stopped by the TechCrunch office for a meeting. Before she had a chance to leave, I dragged her into the TCTV studio…

Today’s the big day. We know you want one. It seems like everyone wants one. MG Siegler wrote a review on it and Greg Kumparak went to the unveiling of…

As with all breaking news today, social tools like Twitter are showing their strength in getting the breaking news out there about the awful events in Japan. Just as everyone…

In February, we covered the social search service’s public launch and, mere days later, wrote about its closing a $4 million venture round backed by Sequoia. Since then, Greplin has…

Turn the beat up a little bit. Long story short — because it’s pretty self-explanatory — students at Loin College built a little device that can break any MasterLock padlock.…

I will repeat to you the words that I recently told De Bethune’s CEO. There are expensive watches that I really appreciate and know that I would strongly consider getting…

With the success of Zynga’s newest game CityVille, the gaming giant’s first game, FarmVille, has taken a backseat in terms of buzz. But despite the competition from its sister games,…

For all the talk of group messaging apps being the breakout hits at SXSW this year, most people are overlooking another genre: mobile photo-sharing apps. But that’s probably because a…

Rdio, the social music startup founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, is expanding its platform today with the launch of its API and an affiliate program. Rdio…

A couple of hours ago, Paramount Pictures launched the movie trailer for SUPER 8, the new film from director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg, in partnership with Twitter. Notably,…

Not much here to note but this FCC filing shows that the Blackberry Playbook has pushed through another hurdle towards reality. The filing shows the capacaties – 16, 32, and…

If you had bought Apple stock instead of an iPod back in 2001, you’d be about $10,000 richer. According to an assessment by Kyle Conroy, you’d be a few times…

Sex and taxes—usually you don’t see those two words in the same sentence, but on today’s episode of Fly or Die we cover apps that will help you with both.…

Slightly ahead of the announced 1 AM PST launch time, Apple’s iPad 2, which was introduced earlier this month, is now up for sale at the company’s US online store.…

When we recently wrote about a round of funding raised by RoundPegg, we dubbed it the ‘eHarmony for jobs’ in the article headline. eHarmony was none too pleased and actually…