Strong 3G coverage has become an essential requirement for any small business, especially when it comes to important client phone calls. However, many rural areas in the UK still lack even the weakest of cellular signals. While the new 4G network -...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Review: X-Rite Colormunki Display
The X-Rite Colormunki Display calibrates monitors and projectors, and comes complete with a friendly software package which contains step-by-step guides and video tutorials. Ambient light is swiftly measured while display flare may also be taken into...
Review: Gigabyte Aivia M8600
The Gigabyte Aivia M8600 is a wireless gaming mouse that has the admirable aim to ensure you never run out of power.Wireless mice are great, because we don't have to worry about trailing wires across our desks, and they generally give us a lot more...
Improved support for AMD hybrid graphics users
A team member recently reported that the HP Pavilion dv7 model with a Hybrid graphics AMD 6700M HD and Intel coniguration is now fully supported in Linux by the recently released AMD graphics driver version 12.1:http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspxHybrid...
Samsung Galaxy Y Pro DUOS Review Specs Price in India
Finally Samsung has launched their entry level Dual Sim Qwerty Android Smartphone called Galaxy Y Pro Duos. The phone comes under Galaxy Y series which is especially meant for young professionals to use two different Sims at the same time. However other...
Q. When Will Wisdio Add Authority Scores? A. Right Now.
Wisdio, a social QA site like Quora, has decided to up the social QA ante by adding something they're calling WAR - Wisdio Authority Ratings. These ratings allow folks to recieve answers from authorities on their subject of choice, thereby reducing...
(Founder Stories) Jeff Clavier On How Big VCs Can Hurt Seed Rounds
Jeff Clavier just finished raising $55 million for his third SoftTech VC fund and after closing it out, stopped by TechCrunch to tape Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon. The two discuss signaling risk, which is basically...
Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP After “Fulfilling Commitment”
HP's had quite a 2011 and Jon Rubinstein, former Palm CEO and a top-level executive at HP after the giant acquired Palm in 2010, was along for the ride. But according to a report out of AllThingsD, Rubinstein has officially left the company.]]&...
YC Alum Curebit Raises $1.2 Million For Online Referral System
Y Combinator alum Curebit, an online customer referral platform that leverages social media for "word-of-mouth" advertising, has just raised $1.2 million in funding. The investors include 500 Startups, Karl Jacob, Auren Hoffman, Dharmesh Shah, Gordon...
Playfish Product Leader John Earner Is Leaving To Be An EIR At Accel
At this point in his career, it's safe to put John Earner in the "names as destiny" category. Following a hugely successful run with Playfish, he's leaving the social game developer today to start as an entrepreneur in residence at Accel, according...
Keen On… Payvment: Making eCommerce More Social (TCTV)
Earlier this week, Facebook announced changes to its Open Graph which have huge implications to the social ecommerce platform Payvment. The two year-old Palo Alto based start-up, which already manages 80% of the ecommerce transactions on Facebook, will...
Gillmor Gang 01.24.12 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang — Dennis Crowley, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — visit with the ghosts of Foursquare Past, Present, and Future. @dens is semi-bicoastal these days, trying to stay ahead of his growing business. He just moved in to a...
#Humblebrag: Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman, Kevin Rose Coming To The Crunchies; Harris Wittels Hosting
After writing for NBC's Parks and Recreation for the past couple years (he's about to start a writing gig for HBO's Eastbound and Down), and authoring the sarcastic but brilliant and hilarious @HumbleBrag, Harris Wittels has decided to bring his talents...
WSJ: Facebook Filing For IPO As Early As Wednesday
The Wall Street Journal has just reported that Facebook may file for its long-awaited IPO as soon as this Wednesday, but notes that the "timing is still being discussed", according to an anonymous source. The article says that Facebook is eyeing a valuation...
Davos: Ushahidi Grows Its Global Crowd-sourcing Platform, Slams Twitter Censorship [TCTV]
At Davos I managed to catch Juliana Rotich, Co-Founder of Ushahidi, the incredible crowd sourcing platform which came out of Kenya. Starting with just a handful of countries in 2009, it's main product, Crowdmap, is now used in hundreds of countries...
Davos: BraveNewTalent Allows Job Seekers To Follow Their Future Employers
BraveNewTalent is a social recruitment platform operating in the UK and moving into the US. I caught up with CEO and founder Lucia Tarnowski at Davos. The startup is built around the idea that people want to follow companies they might want to work...
Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition
We took a break from the Android round-up in December because, well, to be honest I was on vacation. But January gave us a few extra smartphones and the holidays are over, so we're back. What we've got for you today leans into more expensive turf, and...
Flurry: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Is Already Starting To Smoke Samsung’s Galaxy Tab
Wuh oh, Samsung — better watch your tail. While Apple might not be seeing any impact (be it positive or negative) on iPad sales from the launch of the Kindle Fire, Samsung's Galaxy Tab ought to be feeling the heat.Tapping into the data provided by their...
Gillmor Gang Live 01.27.12 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Doc Searls & Steve Gillmor - is recording live today at 1pm PT. Recording has concluded.]]&...
Y Combinator Names Seasoned Entrepreneur Geoff Ralston As Its Newest Partner
Y Combinator has just announced the newest partner to join the prestigious firm: Geoff Ralston. Ralston's previous credentials include founding Four11, which was acquired by Yahoo back in 1997 for $96 million and served as the foundation for Yahoo Mail....
Twitter Puts Its DMCA Takedown Requests Up For All To See
Yesterday's announcement that Twitter would be selectively censoring tweets based on country was not well-received. But part of that announcement was the assurance that the process would at least be transparent. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine...
Secret Windows 8 Weapon: Kinect Built Into Your Laptop
The Windows release of Kinect is coming up in a couple days, but for most people that won't be a major event: the Kinect they have is sitting on their TV or in a drawer, waiting to be taken out for an impromptu Dance Central 2 party. Of the 10 million...
Harvard Gets Its First VC Firm: The Experiment Fund
As just about everyone should know by now, the seeds of what grew into Facebook were planted at Harvard. Might there be a bunch of mini-Zucks lurking in the dorms of Cambridge? If so, a new venture capital firm — the first housed right on the Harvard...
Ron Paul, Mitt Romney Leading On Facebook Ahead Of Florida Primary
The Republican presidential candidacy is still far from decided, based on the split primaries and mixed polls so far. So here's another source for trying to figure who's really pulling ahead -- the number of new Facebook fans that each candidate is...
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book
I've published eight books in the past seven years, five with traditional publishers (Wiley, Penguin, HarperCollins), one comic book, and the last two I've self-published. In this post I give the specific details of all of my sales numbers...
Samsung Exynos 5250 Begins Sampling – Mass Production in Q2 2012
Back in November, Samsung announced its next generation Exynos 5250 SoC based on ARM’s Cortex-A15 architecture. Samsung confirmed today during its earnings call that the Exynos 5250 has begun sampling and should hit mass production in Q2 2012Just to...
The AMD FX (Bulldozer) Scheduling Hotfixes Tested
The basic building block of Bulldozer is the dual-core module, pictured below. AMD wanted better performance than simple SMT (ala Hyper Threading) would allow but without resorting to full duplication of resources we get in a traditional dual core CPU....
AMD Posts Catalyst 12.1 Drivers, Catalyst 12.2 Preview
AMD has posted its first Catalyst driver package of the new year, Catalyst version 12.1, the feature set of which hasn't changed much since the preview release - the banner feature is still custom application profiles, which allow users to create custom...
Monday, January 23, 2012
Apple - Apple Imac G5 Us Power Cord - 922-7139
Review of Apple - Apple Imac G5 Us Power Cord - 922-7139 # Best Cheap SaleApple Imac G5 Us Power Cord#You can get best price for this brand Apple and read review before you buy online#READ CUSTOMER REVIEWSIf you are interested the best this brand Apple...
Review: LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series 240GB SSD
The Thunderbolt version of LaCie's Little Big Disk comes in three varieties. Two of them contain hard disks, but this one packs solid-state drives. There are two inside, pre-configured as a striped RAID array for a total capacity of 240GB. Although...
14 Steps To Successful SEO For Startups
This is a guest post by Ryan Spoon (@ryanspoon), a principal at Polaris Ventures. Read more about Ryan on his blog at ryanspoon.com.For startups, it is dangerous to entirely separate product and marketing – both strategically and organizationally....
Cowen: Google’s Mobile Ad Revenues Could Surge To $5.8 Billion In 2012
How much does Google make in advertising from mobile? Cowen analyst Jim Friedland estimates that Google is generating $7 per year from each smartphone (and tablet). This includes both search and display advertising in mobile apps on both Android and...
Summify Shutdown Means Big Gains for News.me
When social news startup Summify announced Thursday that it was being acquired by Twitter, it looked like the Summify's existing users were out-of-luck — the company said the current version of the service would be shut down.Enter News.me. The company...
Apple Just Incentivized Every College Kid To Get An iPad. As For High Schoolers…
As I watched Apple's iBooks event in New York City last week, my mind began to race about the ramifications of such announcements. Everyone had a pretty good idea for weeks (or months if you read the Steve Jobs biography) that textbooks...
Box’s Next Frontier: Cloud Storage For The Federal Government
For Box, 2011 was a huge year in terms of customer acquisition. Box ended the year with 77% of the Fortune 500 using the company's cloud storage offerings. Procter and Gamble marked one of Box's largest deployments for the year. While Box is still continuing...
OK Go And Eytan And The Embassy Rockers Talk About Their New App: inBloom
Today two musicians sat down with me to have a chat: Andy Ross of OK Go, and Eytan Oren of Eytan and the Embassy. But we weren't there to talk music.The dynamic duo actually built an iPhone app called InBloom — a Yelp-style application that offers up...
Data And Privacy Rears Its Head At DLD
It's only day one of DLD, the annual TED-like conference in Munich thrown by German media giant Burda, and already we have a few misunderstandings brewing. Amid the furore surrounding the SOPA protests and lobbying form media companies, at the other...
Weekend Watch Update
For the third time in a row Tag Heuer has once again released the worlds most precise mechanical chronograph watch. The oddly named Mikrogirder 2000 watch measures time with 5/10,000th of a second precision (and flair).The best German luxury brand A....
The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast
Nearly three years ago, I left my position at TechCrunch to start my own Internet business, with the idea of creating a web application that’d help people get together in real-life rather than simply helping them connect online as most social networking...
Six Lessons in Entrepreneurship
As much as we all strive to build sustainable and stand-alone companies, we’re living in a period of massive transformation and thus, consolidation and acquisition. As a result, many entrepreneurs build their businesses with potential acquirers in mind,...
Weight Watchers For Small Business: Silver Lining Helps You Set Financial Goals (And Actually Meet Them)
Owning a small business is tough. Carissa Reiniger has been working in small business development for over seven years and says she's seen countless entrepreneurs and small business owners run into what she calls the "cash flow catch 22": If I had more...
RIM Co-CEOs To Step Down; COO To Take The Reins
I suppose some might have seen this coming. In December, Research In Motion (RIM) released their third quarter earnings, which were yet another disappointment for the struggling maker of BlackBerry. RIM Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis announced...
RIM’s New Playbook: The CEO Sneak
It was a big day for football fans, with both the AFC and NFC Championships taking place this afternoon and this evening. The games grab more than a few eyeballs every year -- last year's championships grabbed 54.8 million and 51.9 million viewers,...
SOPA Spring
It's not so much that the world has changed as that the speed with which events evolve has telescoped. The rise of social analytics and realtime feedback loops means that business processes are now transformed on the fly by the velocity with which the...
I’d Rather Watch Instagram Than A Movie
Last week a friend of mine asked me at brunch, innocently enough, "What's Instagram, and why do you use it?" I meekly offered the answer, "It's a way to share photos via the iPhone," and then, feeling like I hadn't done it enough justice, went on the...
Gadgets Week in Review: Picture Book
Here are some stories from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: What Happened To Kodak’s Moment? Improvement On Age-Old Mathematical Principle Could Yield Improved Images, Video Sea Change: Apple Guts Textbook Publishing Marketing Genius: Two Twins...
Maker Of Taxi-Ordering App myTaxi Raises €10 Million From Daimler, Lars Hinrichs
Intelligent Apps, the Hamburg, Germany-based startup behind popular taxi ordering smartphone application myTaxi, has raised 10 million euros in growth funding from car2go, a subsidiary of Daimler, Germany’s third largest carmaker. XING and Hackfwd founder...
TV ShowCase at CES 2012
Samsung and LG 55-inch OLED TVsWhat's not to like? Except, perhaps, the prices (which will be revealed closer to the TVs' introduction). Most new TVs offer an incremental step up in picture-quality improvements. But with OLED TVs, even casual viewers...
Netgear at CES 2012: Consumer Networking, Storage and Media Products
It is almost a week since CES got over, but I still have a few meetings from the show that are pending coverage. There isn't much point in just rehashing press releases, and I take the extra effort to gather the right information that readers want....
Windows 8 Mobile Broadband Enhancements Detailed
Using mobile broadband in Windows 8 will no longer require specific drivers and third-party software, says Microsoft's Billy Anders in a Building Windows 8 blog post today. This is thanks to the new Mobile Broadband Interface Model (MBIM) standard,...
ASUS F1A75-M Pro Review - Micro-ATX Llano at $110
Llano is still selling strong for AMD, as shown by the relatively recent reports of representing a major aspect of their CPU profit margins. Building on our Llano and A75 review base, ASUS gave us the opportunity to look at their F1A75-M Pro motherboard...
TRIM Enabler 2.0 for OS X Lion Released
People are often concerned with the performance of their SSD; is it running as fast as advertised. TRIM is an essential part of keeping your SSD performance up (see this article for details) and it has been very beneficial for Windows 7 users. However,...
Wilocity Demonstrates 60 GHz WiGig (Draft 802.11ad) Chipset at CES
At CES, I visited Wilocity to learn more about their WiGig chipset and see how close they were to being production-ready. A number of news articles covering Wilocity at CES have already been posted on various sites (PCMag, ArsTechnica). So, in this...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Review: Iomega TV with Boxee
We know that the Apple TV represents terrific value for money – but only if you live your life through iTunes. For those of us who have photos and video outside of Apple's walled garden, an Apple TV alternative such as the Iomega TV with Boxee we have...
New bumblebee version nearing release
The Bumblebee developers team has been working on several improvements into a new version of bumblebee that will be released soon. Among the new features to be expected is the safe and seamless integration of discrete Nvidia card on/off switching with...
Bumblebee version 3.0 "Tumbleweed" release
The Bumblebee Project proudly presents version 3.0 of Bumblebee, a projectaiming to support NVIDIA Optimus technology under Linux. After two months ofhard work this version has finally been considered stable enough for release.If you thought that Bumblebee...
Top 5 Home Wireless Broadband Routers
You can find the listing of some of the top 5 best wireless broadband routers for home broadband users in this article. Printing and file sharing in 802.11g is much faster when compared to 802.11b. The former wireless router allows the user to add more...
Larry Page: Display Advertising Is A $5 Billion Business
The engine of Google's business is search advertising, but its display advertising business is becoming a very large business. During today's earnings call, CEO Larry Page that Google's display advertising business is at an "annualized run rate of $5...
iSuppli Agrees With IDC, Gartner: Windows Phone To Surpass iOS By 2015
Nobody wants to give Windows Phone a chance except for Robin and a whole bunch of analysts. Back in September, IDC and Gartner predicted that Windows would overtake iOS for the number two spot in the market by 2015, and Windows Phone head of marketing...
Google Commerce Starts The Year Off With A Reorganization
Some of Google's core product areas, like search and YouTube, have the enviable duty of retaining market dominance. Others, like its Android mobile operating system, get to be the free-wheeling disruptor. Google Commerce, meanwhile, has the perennial...
Anonymous Reacts to Megaupload Takedown With “Largest Attack Ever”
Hacker group Anonymous isn't happy about the takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, and as a result, it's targeting some big companies and government agencies are going toEarlier this afternoon, interspersed with a stream of anti-SOPA and PIPA tweets,...
Mozilla’s Anti-SOPA Message Reached 40 Million People
By blacking out the default Firefox start page and using social media, Mozilla reached 40 million people with its anti-SOPA/PIPA message. According to a stats wrap-up just posted to the Mozilla blog, 30 million people in the US saw the start page's...
Does Google Have An Interest In Pinterest?
I've spent about a week trying to track down the rumors that Google had expressed interest in a Pinterest acquisition and here's what I know thus far (here's where to email if you know more): So Google never gave an official offer to grid bookmarking...
Pulse Jumped From 1 Million To 11 Million Downloads In 2011; Now Seeing Download Every 2 Seconds
In November, Amazon began shipping its new Kindle. At the time, even though reactions were varied, though Amazon hoped for the best, as some projected it would sell as many as 5 million by the end of 2011. Though the indications are that it didn't get...
Does Google+ Really Have 60% Daily Engagement? Probably Not
With 90 million users, it would seem that things are going quite well for Google+. Those numbers don't mean much without context, though. Google+'s Vic Gundotra seemingly providedsome of that context by posting an image that said "over 60%...
SOPA Protests Sway Congress: 31 Opponents Yesterday, 122 Now
Yesterday the Internet the internet cried out in protest of SOPA-PIPA, and congress heard us loud and clear. At the beginning of Janaury 18th, there were 80 members of congress who supported the legislation, and 31 opponents. Now, just 63 support SOPA-PIPA,...
Sheryl Sandberg on Facebook Culture: It’s in the Posters
For the latest episode of her Valley Girl web show, Jesse Draper (daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper) managed to score an interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.For the first half of the interview, Sandberg talks about her work-life balance...
Of Course iPads Belong In Classrooms — It’s All About Balance
"iPads And Digital Textbooks Don't Belong In Classrooms Yet"? What a headline. Alas, it doesn't quite do the post justice; Matt actually raises a few valid points on the potential woes of digitally assisted learning, but they're lost under a headline...
Microsoft Girds Itself For Windows 8 Battle And Beyond
Microsoft's quarterly earnings statement didn't have any big surprises. It was generally good news: record total revenue, growth in many key sectors, big sales in Xbox, 525 million total Windows 7 licenses sold, and they even seem to be losing a little...
Damning Evidence Emerges In Google-Apple “No Poach” Antitrust Lawsuit
Next week a class-action civil lawsuit will be heard in San Jose to determine if Google, Apple, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit conspired to eliminate competition for skilled labor. In anticipation of the hearing, TechCrunch has attainedevidence...
VC Investing Soars 22 Percent To $28.4B In 2011, Internet Sector Reaches Highest Levels In A Decade
VCs poured significantly more money into deals in 2011, according to a recently released MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Venture capitalists invested $28.4...
Daily Crunch: Sense Effects
Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: ZOOM’s B3 Bass Effects Pedal Launches At NAMM iPads And Digital Textbooks Do Not Belong In Classrooms Yet Apple Announces iBooks 2, A New Textbook Experience For The iPad Sea Change: Apple Guts Textbook...
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Capcom Announces Surprising November Release For Resident Evil 6 (First Trailer)
One of the world's biggest video game franchises is getting a new title: Capcom today announced Resident Evil 6 [JP] for the Xbox 360, Sony PS3, and the PC. What's interesting is that the company also said when exactly the game will come out, namely...
Downfall: Photos Of MegaUpload Founder’s Valuable Cars Getting Seized
The shit really hit the fan over at massively popular file hosting site MegaUpload. Yesterday, the United States Department of Justice seized and shut down the site and commenced criminal cases against its owners and others, sparking retaliatory actions...
SkyGrid Debuts iPad App Touchtv To Allow Users To Watch Content On Demand
SkyGrid, a startup that offers a powerful news aggregator to consumers is venturing into the TV content and media business with the launch of Touchtv, an iPad app that allows viewers to watch recent programs from popular sports, entertainment, politics,...
Snake Camouflage: Japan Gets Exclusive Metal Gear Solid 3DS System
Resident Evil isn’t the only big video game series that made the news in Nippon today: Konami announced [JP] the so-called METAL GEAR SOLID SNAKE EATER 3D PREMIUM PACKAGE for the Japanese market. The set includes a special 3DS system, a copy of Metal...
Tremor Video Acquires ‘InPlay’ Video Analytics Tech From TubeMogul
Exclusive - Online video ad technology company Tremor Video has purchased InPlay, the video analytics solution for publishers, from TubeMogul. Tremor Video will integrate InPlay directly into VideoHub, its enterprise video platform.]]&...
Cooler Master Silencio 450 mid-tower chassis - Desktop Cabinet
Cooler Master one the leading manufacture of high end cabinet and processor FAN, Cooler Master has launched the latest chassis in its Silencio line, the Silencio 450, a mid-tower case designed to reduce sound.Priced approximately £50, the case has a...
Dell's Ultrabook is the XPS 13 at CES 2012
Dell is one the larggest lapto and PC maker and also one the trusted Brand, Dell's taken a while to jump aboard the Ultrabook bandwagon, but it's now prepared to do battle with the likes of ASUS's Zenbook UX31 with the newly-unveiled XPS 13.Introduced...
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