It's hard to say how popular <a href="http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os">Chrome OS</a>, Google's browser-centric operating system, really is. There can be little doubt, though, that Google is quite

Search may not be the most exciting area of online advertising right now, but it's still "the biggest driver of return on investment", according to a new report from Adobe. The report has the elabo

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Even now, it's still shocking how the remarkably low distribution costs of the web can change a founder's fate overnight. Many startups are duds, and most grow at a clip that's just not fast enough to

<a href="http://beta.xfire.com/">Xfire</a> has had a bumpy road over the last five-plus years. Back in 2006, Viacom bought Xfire for $102 million. In 2010, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/02/e

Sure, everyone knows that many techies love <em>video games</em> that involve shooting. But when you think of real-life expert marksmen, you usually think of people who have served in the military or

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Late last week, one Justin Watt <a href="http://justinsomnia.org/2012/04/hotel-wifi-javascript-injection/">discovered </a>something suspicious going on with the wi-fi at his hotel, the Times Square Ma

Picture being able to filter your Facebook photos, or use your Instagrams as Facebook Checkins. Though Instagram will remain its own "independent" app, its <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/09

It'd be easy to forget, but startups <em>do</em> exist, and even prosper, outside of Silicon Valley. John and I believe firmly in this, and have thus decided to venture forth and find technology gems

Last week, Yahoo announced that it would <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/yahoo-cuts-14-percent-of-workforce-2000-given-pink-slips/">cut 2,000 jobs</a>. Given the employee shortage in Silico

After <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/twitter-new-head-of-comms/">hiring a new VP of Communications</a>, Twitter is adding key engineering staff. Chris Fry, a former exec at Salesforce, has

Jack Tramiel, one of the PC industry's major pioneers, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/09/computer-legend-and-gaming-pioneer-jack-tramiel-dies-at-age-83/">has died</a>. He was

The Big Apple is looking into upgrading its existing pay phones, and a pilot study is underway that replaces everyone's favorite anachronism with something a little more 21st-century: giant touchscree

If your mobile site still mostly consists of static pages, maybe it's time for an upgrade. According to new data from <a href="http://www.usablenet.com/">Usablenet</a>, adding just a few interactive e

Well, after months of breathless waiting (and a Nicki Minaj concert in Times Square), Nokia's Lumia 900 is finally sitting pretty on store shelves. If you haven't heard about AT&T's newest handset

Not everyone is happy about <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/09/facebook-to-acquire-instagram-for-1-billion/">Facebook's acquisition of Instagram this morning</a>, it seems. In an apparent <a

Windows XP, the operating system that launched in 2001 and just refuses to die, will still be getting security updates and hotfixes until April 8, 2014. With "just" two more years to go, though, Micro

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