2012
Apple’s iPad Mini With LTE Hits Sprint And At&T Retail Today, And Likely Other Stores, Too
Sprint announced this morning that it is now offering the iPad mini and fourth generation iPad with LTE connectivity in “select Sprint retail locations.” Sprint is one of three official…
Sony Mobile Chief Acknowledges Its Smartphones Suck, Promises An iPhone, Galaxy S III Competitor Soon
Sony makes a lot of really nice things, but it has never taken smartphones seriously. That’s to change if Sony Mobile’s sales chief, Dennis van Schie, is to be believed.…
SlickFlick Lands Seed Round To Let Users Hollywood-ize Their Photos
SlickFlick launched earlier this year with an iPhone app allowing you to go the next stage with your photos – you can create fun stories around your pictures then share…
Looking Beyond 4G: U.K. Telecoms Regulator Prepping Spectrum Release Plan for 5G, Sees “Untapped Opportunity” For Wi-Fi Hotspots
The U.K.’s first 4G network has only just got up and running but telecoms regulator Ofcom is already looking beyond 4G to form a plan for the next generation of…
Sony PlayStation 3 Sales Hit 70 Million Worldwide After ~Six Years, Move Controller Clocks Up 15 Million In ~Two Years
Latest missive from the games console wars: Sony has announced cumulative sales of its PlayStation 3 reached 70 million units on November 4, a few days short of the machine’s…
DeNA CEO Moriyasu On Growth Outside of Japan: “Positive Results” But Not “Completely Happy” Yet
Even though they just bought a baseball team, The Yokohama Baystars, and have gleaming new offices in a skyscraper peering down on Tokyo’s famous Shibuya Crossing, DeNA still feels like…
2U One-Ups MOOCs, Coursera, Now Offers Online Undergrad Courses From Top Schools For Credit
Four years after it launching its first graduate program with USC, 2U today has announced its foray into undergraduate education through a new program called Semester Online. The company will be…
Ev Williams Takes To Medium To Discuss The True Purpose Of His New Publishing Tool
You might have heard a few things about Ev Williams and crew’s new product, Medium. To some, it seems like “just another blogging platform,” but if you think about where…
Whill, The Electric Wheelchair Add-on, Takes Home TechCrunch Tokyo’s Grand Prize
Bucking the trend of more software-centric winners at TechCrunch Disrupts in the U.S., a hardware startup named Whill took home TechCrunch Tokyo’s grand prize this week. Whill, an electric add-on…
Wantful Goes Beyond Gifting With A New iPad App And Personalized Print Magazine
About a year ago, Wantful launched a gift-giving website offering product recommendations based on the information you provide about the person you’re shopping for. Today, the company is moving into…
3 Pillars Of The New Business World: APIs, Identity, and Data
At the Defrag conference in Broomfield, Colo., this week, three themes came in the forefront: APIs, identity and data. The themes reflect the tenor of the times, which can be…
Facebook Gifts Available To Tens Of Millions Of Users In Time For The Holidays — Fab, Lindt, Pandora And Others On Board
Tonight at the Facebook Gifts event at giant toy store FAO Schwarz in New York, the company announced that Facebook Gifts is available to tens of millions of users starting…
KISSmetrics Launches Power Reports — A Friendly Interface For Asking Data-Heavy Questions
Analytics company KISSmetrics has launched a new feature that should make it easier for customers to answer complicated questions that usually require lots of database queries and technical implementation. Large…
3Scale Discounts Cost Of Managing APIs Through Nginx Open-Source Server, Gives Developers Access, Services, Quality
3Scale has discounted the cost for managing APIs in the enterprise through a new plug-in it has added to Nginx, the open-source web Server technology.
Hands On With Spotify For The Browser: Speed Sizzles, But Discovery Fizzles
It’s speedy, and for a streaming music service like Spotify making the jump from desktop software to the browser, that’s of the utmost importance. This is just an early beta…
Apple’s Stock Price Crashes To Six Month Low And There’s No Bottom In Sight
The good times can’t last forever. Eventually the music dies off, the balloons pop and everyone goes home. Without sounding the hyperbole alarm, let’s look at the facts. Apple’s stock…
Mozilla Launches Experimental Browser-Based Simulator For Firefox OS
Mozilla’s Firefox OS (also known as Boot to Gecko), a mobile operating system that focuses on web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, is quickly moving through its development stages.…
Twitter Breathes More Life And Context Into Search, Discover And Apps With Media First, Headlines And More
As Twitter tries to surface more content from its network, it continues to beef up tweets and its Discover section of the site. Today, the company announced a few new…
Lytro Reinvents The Camera Once Again, Now Lets Photos Change Perspective Along With Focus
Lytro is on a roll. After launching manual controls just last month, the company today release a real treat. The Lytro desktop software just received an update that brings two…
The .Co Domain Launches Membership Program With Free Events, Classes, And Consultation
To most companies, the two or three letters coming at the end of their URL probably don’t make a huge difference (with exceptions). However, the company behind the .co domain…
EveryBlock Founder Adrian Holovaty Debuts Soundslice, An App To Take The Pain Out Of Transcribing Music
If you’ve ever tried to look up guitar tablature on the Internet, you know how impossible it can be to find good stuff. A slick new web app called Soundslice…
Twitter Adds “Share Tweet Via Email” So You Can Loop In People Not On Twitter And Drive Signups
Not to be outdone by Facebook’s new mobile share button, Twitter has just added an option to “Share this tweet via email” so you can send content to less tech…
Flash Sales Site For Moms, Zulily Raises $85M From Andreessen Horowitz; Valued At $1B
Zulily, a private-sale shopping site targeted at busy moms and their kids, has raised $85 million in Series D funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Fortune reported that the site, which…
Always Prepped Grabs $650K From True Ventures, Former Blackboard EVP To Launch A Mint.com For Education
In what is the most-watched TED Talk to date, Sir Ken Robinson makes a convincing case for why the educational system in the U.S. needs to be torn down and…
After Launching It In SF, eBay Brings Same Day Delivery Service To New York
After launching its same day delivery service in San Francisco a few weeks ago, eBay is debuting “eBay Now” in New York City. Users in the area can download the…
Google Reportedly Readies Maps App For iOS As Eddy Cue Manages Apple’s Maps Improvements
Google is said to have distributed an external test version of its native maps app for iOS, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Citing “a person…
Microsoft To Host Free App Labs For Windows 8 Developers In 30 Cities Around The World
It’s no secret that Microsoft is doing its best to get more developers to write apps for its Windows 8 platform. Today, the company is announcing its newest initiative: Microsoft…
Lookout Gaming Takes $1.3M Seed Round To Accelerate Indie Game Revenues
Boston-based startup Lookout Gaming has drawn attention to the city’s often-overlooked consumer and mobile gaming community with a $1.3 million seed round from Boston investors Atlas Venture and Nextview Ventures, as well angels, including Mark…
Facebook Adds Emoji To Messages, In-Line Friend Tagging, Share Button In iOS And Android App Updates
We broke news on the official rollout of Facebook’s new mobile share button yesterday. Now it’s available for iOS and Android through app updates that also bring iOS users emoji…
This is the iPad mini you’ve no doubt heard about. The one Apple introduced in October, the one that reviewers have mostly loved, and the one that’s been my constant…
