Can Amazon Be Wal-Mart of the Web?
THE hum of 102 rooftop air conditioners and a chorus of beeping electric carts provide the acoustic backdrop in Amazon.com's 605,000-square-foot distribution facility on this city's west side. But th...
Why Didn't Google Throw Apple Under The Bus From The Start?
Apple lied. That is basically what Google claimed yesterday when it published the redacted version of its filing about Google Voice to the Federal Communications Commission. — My first reaction to ...
Zune HD a major sellout?
Let it be known: we liked the Zune HD before it was popular, before all the poseurs jumped on the bandwagon with their tight-fitting jeans and their hairstyles. If various stores on the internet are ...
Apple Introduces App Store Resource Center for iPhone Developers
In an e-mail sent today to registered iPhone developers, Apple announced the introduction of the App Store Resource Center (iPhone developer membership required), a new site within the iPhone Dev Cent...
RAID's Days May Be Numbered
The concept of parity-based RAID (levels 3, 5 and 6) is now pretty old in technological terms, and the technology's limitations will become pretty clear in the not-too-distant future — and are probabl...
Amazon creates own house brand of consumer electronics
Amazon.com has been quietly building a private label strategy for the last couple years, creating house brands around kitchen tools (Pinzon), outdoor furniture (Strathwood), bed and bath products (Pik...
Off Topic: Microsoft will reveal two iPhone competitors in 2010
It isn't really our area of expertise, but we've gotten word that Microsoft will unleash two new Smartphones, probably at CES in January 2010. Developed under the project “Pink” moniker, these two sl...
Court: Disloyal Computing Is Not Illegal
A federal appeals court says employees are not liable for damages under anti-hacking laws for accessing their employers' computers for disloyal purposes. — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rule...
WiMax in 2010: Too little, too late?
WiMax is finally making wide-area wireless broadband a reality in many cities — but another technology is fast encroaching. — Computerworld - By the end of 2010, users in more than 80 U.S. cities ma...
The Importance Of Enthusiasm In Any Product
A video took the web by storm today entitled “Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple.” Basically, it boils down Apple's latest event into a series of superlatives. It's a funny video because Apple reall...
Google Apps sics crawlers on public docs and sheets
Beware what you publish — Google will soon allow search engines to crawl and index documents, spreadsheets, and presentations published to the web via its online office suite, Google Apps. — On Fr...
HTC Tilt 2 reappears in AT&T's system in preparation for launch
Are you an AT&T subscriber anxiously awaiting the day when you can finally make the HTC Tilt 2 your own? If so, good news first came back in August when we gave you a screenshot of the handset sittin...
Jammie Thomas lawyers file suit against Scribd
A legal complaint seeking class action status filed in Houston on Friday accuses social-publishing site Scribd of egregious copyright infringement. — Scribd managers have “built a technology that's ...
What Job Listings Tell Us About Google & Yahoo's Future Plans
Earlier this week, Google announced its intentions to start an exchange for display advertising, an attempt to take on Yahoo and its healthy position in the display ad business. This is a fairly big...
WITTC50?: Will there be a TechCrunch50 next year? What Jason wants, Jason Getz
So here we go then, the fourth and final part of my award-winning TechCrunch50 coverage; the all-important ‘round-up’. This is where I ask appropriately round-uppy questions like “what did we learn t...
Facebook Beacon has poked its last
It's finally over for Beacon, the ill-fated advertising program that the social network initially launched with splashy Madison Avenue fanfare nearly two years ago. — The social network has settled ...
Calif. advances tough flat-screen energy standards
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Energy regulators on Friday moved forward with a plan that could ban the sale of the most power-hungry televisions from California retail stores. — The California Energy Commiss...
Update on the SMB vulnerability situation
We'd like to give everyone an update on the situation surrounding the new Microsoft Server Message Block Version 2 (SMBv2) vulnerability affecting Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. — Easy way to...
Once Again, Facebook Owns ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’ On The Web
Last year, Facebook rolled out a new “pirate” language on Talk Like A Pirate Day, it was quite funny. Naturally, it's back again this year, and it's maybe even more awesome. — Most impressive is Fa...
While We Wait For Chrome For Mac, Mozilla's Camino Gets An Update
While Mac users grow impatient for Google's Chrome browser to come to the platform, there's a small bit of good news today: A new beta version of the excellent Camino browser. — Camino is a browser ...
Microsoft Reader, back from dead
A TechFlash reader who commented on our E-Book Universe chart yesterday pointed out that we didn't include Microsoft Reader. That's the Redmond company's software for reading electronic books, which ...