Bringing the cloud with you
We know that many of you have been waiting for offline access to Google Docs, and I'm happy to tell you we'll be rolling it out over the next few weeks, starting today with a small percentage of users...
RIM's iPhone Killer: Just Like iPhone, But Crappier
Research in Motion's iPhone killer, the Blackberry 9000, has finally been spotted in the wild. (AAPL) (RIMM) Engadget has pics, one of which is on right (9000 on right, Blackberry Brick on left). So...
Norway asks to suspend its ‘Yes’ vote on OOXML
Members of the Norwegian technical committee that voted to ratify Microsoft's OOXML document format as an ISO standard are protesting that decision even before the full results of the standards body's...
Why We're Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages
When I started TechCrunch nearly three years ago it was meant to be little more than a hobby. I love startups, and writing about them was fun, not work. But since then this hobby has grown into a re...
Your April Fool's Day Joke Continues to Suck
Having been blogging for a few years, I've developed a few annual traditions. This one's a favorite: Warning you off of lame April Fool's jokes on the web. Every year, I get called a curmudgeon, or ...
The Transition to a Mac-ready Workforce
This is a few days old, but I didn't have a chance to write about it: A new Morgan Stanley survey suggests that 40% of college students plan to buy a Mac as their next computer. I mention this becaus...
Windows: A Monopoly Shakes
[Editor's Note: This is the first of two posts pulling data from Forrester report, “Enterprise Desktop And Web 2.0/SaaS Platform Trends, 2007”.] — Forrester Research published the data on Thursday, ...
Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile demands Engadget Mobile discontinue using the color magenta
So last week Deutsche Telekom, owners of the global T-Mobile brand, sent Engadget a late birthday present: a hand-delivered letter direct from their German legal department requesting the prompt disco...
Verizon Wireless And LG Introduce The Slim enV(2)™ By LG
Successor to the Popular enV by LG, the Slim, Stylish enV2 Comes in Two Hot New Colors Along with Larger External Keys and Internal Display — For customer inquiries, please call 800-922-0204 or go t...
Xoopit Turns Inbox Into a Social Network
Xoopit, a San Francisco-based company, has developed technologies that can turn your GMail (or for that matter, any IMAP email) account into a social environment that is most relevant to you. The com...
Hey, Sarbanes and Oxley, You Killed Our IPO Market—Are You Happy?
Are You Happy? — There's one sure way to make sure investors don't lose money in initial public offerings: Make sure there are none. And “none” is barely an exaggeration. As Vas Sridharan notes, th...
Mozilla Turns 10 Today
Today is a special day. — March 31, 1998 is the date that Mozilla was officially launched. It's the date the first Mozilla code became publicly available under the terms of an official open source ...
Venture Capitalists Fight Back Against TheFunded
TheFunded, a site where entrepreneurs can leave anonymous feedback about their experiences with venture capitalists, has created quite a stir on Sand Hill Road. Rarely do I meet with a VC without the...
WetPaint Preparing Embeddable Wiki Product Called Balco
Seattle based wiki-startup Wetpaint has been talking to a number of big content sites about a new product they'll be releasing soon, we've heard. The screen shot above is a mock-up that Wetpaint is u...
April 1st, The Annual Day Without Google - Can You Live Without It For One Day?
Our network blog has just announced an annual ‘Day Without Google’, starting tomorrow April 1st. ASE editor Charles Knight writes: “All we're asking is that for One Day you try one of the Top 100 Alt...
Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones in 2009
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate o...
Hear us roar
This isn't exactly a secret, but we've unveiled a new website for women today, called Yahoo! Shine. — When our editorial team — which includes editors that hail from Lucky to Jane to the Wall Street...
Publish2 raises a round, aims to bring more journalists to the web
In recent years, many journalists (including myself) have experimented with web services intended to help journalism go online, and those efforts have failed. — We'd hoped that things like better ne...
Virgin Media takes fight to illegal downloaders
Virgin Media looks set to become the first British internet company to crack down on customers who download music illegally. — Record labels are lobbying for a “three strikes” regime that would see ...
Chumby Picks Up $12.5 Million Series B Funding
Chumby Industries (love the name), makers of the Chumby Internet connected device, have picked up $12.5 million in Series B funding today. The lead investor was JK&B Capital, and other participants i...
Brandjunkies on the Influence of Brands: The 2008 Brandjunkie Survey Results
So, just what does a man in Algeria between the ages of 40 and 45 feel about the McDonald's brand? Or what does a woman in the Philippines between the ages of 26 and 30 think of Google's brand?
APRIL 1st is THE ANNUAL DAY WITHOUT GOOGLE!
Editor's note: This blog is not anti-Google. — All we're asking is that for One Day you try one of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines to be posted here tomorrow for One Day - April 1, 2008. And...
Creative irate after modder spruces up Vista X-Fi drivers
Managing third-party/user-created drivers is a tricky task for any corporation. Unofficially modified drivers have been known to boost performance or improve system stability, but they are also capab...
Adobe joins Linux Foundation, develops AIR for Linux
San Francisco - Adobe Systems released an early alpha version of its rich Internet application platform AIR for Linux on Monday, and announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit orga...
Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit
The group of copyright scholars and advocates gathered Wednesday at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood demonstrated that while copyright must function in a converged world, opinions on how it should ...
Apple ‘most successful world brand’
$10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — Apple is the most successful brand in the world, according to an international online poll of marketers. — The Mac maker topped the majority o...
Getting airports and hotels out of the pay toilet business
I upload a lot of photos. It's almost always an ordeal unless I'm at home or work. That's because I get fast upload speeds in both places. At home I have a fiber connection to the Net with 20Mb sym...
Don't sign up for your $40 DTV converter box coupon—yet
yet — The DTV transition is less than a year away and as of January 1, 2008, Americans have been eligible to sign up for a $40 coupon to help purchase DTV converter boxes needed to receive new digita...