Greg Kumparak
Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008.
Greg was born just outside of San Jose, and now lives in the East Bay of California.
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Apple Watch, Pebble Time, Moto E, And Galaxy S6 Leaks!
It’s been a busy week. Apple sent out invitations to its Apple Watch event on March 9, and Pebble released its next-gen watch on Kickstarter and raised more than $6 million in half a day. Meanwhile, Motorola released the Moto E smartphone, and photos of the Samsung Galaxy S6 reportedly leaked this week. Read More
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Nostalgia Overload: Toejam And Earl’s Creator Is Kickstarting A Sequel
Remember Toejam and Earl? It’s the game that taught the Sega Genesis-owning kids of the early 90s the value of a funky fresh bass track. Now it’s back — that is, assuming enough people throw money at it on Kickstarter. Read More
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Twitter Finally Launches An Official WordPress Plug-In
There are hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter-related plug-ins for WordPress. Seriously, go look. And yet, in its nine years since launch, Twitter has never released an official plug-in to make WordPress and Twitter play friendly. Until today. Read More
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Pebble Time Smashes Through $6.5M On Kickstarter In Half A Day
Early this morning, we noted that the Pebble Time — Pebble’s new color e-ink smartwatch — had smashed through its $500,000 goal in an absolutely preposterous seventeen minutes. We don’t generally do play-by-play updates on Kickstarter campaigns, but this one is a bit too crazy not to note. The Pebble train just won’t stop. Nine hours after the launch of the… Read More
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TC Droidcast Episode 39: The Galaxy S6’s ‘Six Appeal’
This week on the Droidcast, it’s basically the eve of the reveal of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the HTC One M9, so we get into those, including the most recent leaks, like carrier slip-ups around the S6’s ‘Six Appeal’ and the big spill of the One M9 in three videos. We also touch on Android Wear being used with iOS devices, via a forthcoming application from a… Read More
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Scout’s DIY Home Alarm Gets So, So Much Smarter With An IFTTT Channel
I’m really digging Scout’s install-it-yourself home alarm. It has its quirks, but it’s a massive step toward everything I want in a security system. Today, Scout gets even better — and so, so much smarter. Thanks to a brand new IFTTT channel, it can now interact with everything from your phone to your Jawbone Up, and from Google Docs to Facebook. Read More
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Google Is Making A New Chromebook Pixel “Soon”
Were you a fan of Google’s Chromebook Pixel? The Chromebook with the super high-res touch screen built-in, meant largely to show what a Chromebook could be if it cost $1,300 instead of two or three hundred bucks? Good news! It looks like Google is making a sequel. Read More
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This Adorable Robot Sits On Your Shoulders And Feeds You Tomatoes While You Run
Robots. They’re eating our jobs one occupation at a time, some say. They’ll pour your drinks without expecting tips. They’ll write up the news without demands for exclusives or the penchant for whisky. And now… they’ll sit on your shoulders and feed you tomatoes while you run. Shoulder-sitting-tomato-feeders of the world, beware: you’re now obsolete. Read More
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Here’s A Video Of An iPhone Working With An Android Wear Watch, No Jailbreak Required
Have an iPhone, but want to use an Android Wear watch? Too bad! Google and Apple are focusing their smartwatch efforts on their own platforms for now, with all signs pointing to them avoiding cross-platform friendliness for as long as possible. Fortunately, the world has talented modders who can make things right. Here’s a video of the world’s first iPhone-to-Android-Wear… Read More
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This Is Probably HTC’s Next Big Android Phone, The One M9
We’ve still got nearly two weeks to go before HTC officially unveils their new top-tier Android phone at Mobile World Congress, but it looks like the details have already started dumping out. Read More
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Lenovo Releases Tool To Remove The Sketchy Exploitable “SuperFish” Garbage It Pre-Loaded On Laptops
Earlier this week, word spread that Lenovo had been pre-installing sketchy adware called “SuperFish” onto many of its Windows PCs. Then researchers started finding nasty vulnerabilities in the software. By this morning, the US Department of Homeland Security was urging Lenovo laptop owners to dump the software ASAP. Now Lenovo has released an automated removal tool, along with… Read More
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Twitch Announces TwitchCon, Its First Ever Convention For Game Streaming Fans
Conventions, conventions, conventions. Everybody gets a convention. Facebook has F8. Twitter has Flight. Salesforce has Dreamforce. We have TC Disrupt. And now, Twitch has TwitchCon. If you’re dubious that there’s enough to Twitch to host a full convention focused around it, that’s okay — plenty of people were dubious that there was enough to the idea of… Read More
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Smartwatches, Samsung LoopPay, And Bluetooth Toothbrushes
With the Apple Watch looming on the horizon, we simply can’t help ourselves from talking about smartwatches. This week, we focus on the Garmin Fenix 3, the LG Urbane, and of course, the upcoming Apple Watch. Meanwhile, Samsung is trying to compete in the payments space with the acquisition of LoopPay, and Oral B thinks you might want a Bluetooth-equipped toothbrush. We discuss all this… Read More
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Google Inbox Comes To iPad And Android Tablets, Now Works In Firefox And Safari
Late last night, we pointed out that Google had started quietly rolling out an iPad-friendly build of Inbox (the company’s invite-only Gmail reader) in select countries. We noted that Google would probably make it official and ship it worldwide within a few hours. Sure enough, it’s now official — and there’s more! Read More
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Google Quietly Rolls Out An iPad Version Of Inbox
Inbox by Gmail (Google’s still-invite-only email client) seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it sort of thing, but in case you happen to fall in the “love it” camp and use an iPad: good news! Inbox is getting a proper iPad app. Read More
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This Back To The Future iPhone Case Is Totally Ridiculous And I Want One
We’ve made it! 2015. The year of hoverboards and self-tying shoes, according to Back To The Future. So far, we have neither of those things. But we do have this absolutely ridiculous iPhone case modeled after Doc Brown’s DeLorean, so we’ve got that going for us. Read More
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TC Droidcast Episode 38: Just No, Neptune Duo
This week, we have a rare opportunity to just plain unleash on a device: The Neptune Duo, which puts all the smartphone smarts inside an Android-powered smartwatch, then makes the screen in your pocket essentially a dumb receiver. It’s backwards and bad, and we find we’re mostly in agreement on that point. In other news, LG has another Android Wear device coming to market, making… Read More
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Twitter Finally Lets You Share Team Accounts Without Sharing Passwords
If you’ve ever tried to share a Twitter account with your team, you probably already know: it sucks. In the 10 years since Twitter’s launch, it’s never gotten around to building its own fix — until now. Read More
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Phorm, Samsung’s Eavesdropping TV, And Xiaomi
This week, we saw a new iPad case that creates physical buttons at the flip of a switch, a TV that listens in on your conversations, and heard that Xiaomi is planning its entry into the States. It’s been hectic to say the least. Read More
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iOS Apps Can Now Be Twice As Big
For the first time since the launch of the App Store, Apple has increased the maximum size allowed for apps and games distributed through its App Store. Read More
