Google Nexus One vs Apple iPhone 3GS
Google has taken the fate of its Android smartphone platform into its own hands by promoting and directly marketing HTC's latest new Android phone under its own brand. How does the new “superphone” s...
Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience yesterday that if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private as it was for years until the c...
The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s
My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy's book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader. — Here is a child only beginning to talk, revealing that the seeds of the n...
Robbery getaway is foiled by GPS
GPS device hidden in cash helped police apprehend 3 men within minutes of a Calumet City bank holdup, FBI says — GPS devices are hidden in cash to help authorities track down bank robbers. (Photo c...
Office 2010 build 14.0.4730.1007 leaks, possible RTM in April
WZOR, a site infamous for leaks especially back when 7 was still in the development stage has just leaked Office 2010 build 14.0.4730.1007; a build superseding the beta build released officially by Mi...
Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own Consumer Internet Dogfood
Haven't really gotten on a rant in awhile... guess i've been doing a lot of travel lately, but now that i'm back in California for awhile, there's something i've been meaning to bring up that bothers ...
Mathew Ingram Joins GigaOM
There are some stories that write themselves. This is one of them. About four years ago, I traveled to Toronto to attend the inaugural mesh web conference. There I learned two things: Paul Kedrosky...
Video: The Richter Scales Take on Crunchpad Debacle, Google Voice Gate, and Murdoch/Google Wars
In further proof that Techcrunch founder Mike Arrington has a sense of humor, we present The Richter Scales' “In the Valley” a ballad to the tune of “At the Copacabana” making light of the perpetual …
CES 2010: What did we learn this week?
Without a doubt, Android has emerged from CES 2010 as the software platform story of the year. In a strange way, the sudden surge of activity for the platform prior to CES, and even prior to Google's...
Built By Google
Pete logs onto his desktop computer. It's a “dumb” netbook built by Google and called Google Chrome Superbook 5, with a fast startup time of 0.3 seconds, the point at which the Google engineers figur...
Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5.3 shown off very, very quietly
Say, for a moment, that you're Microsoft and you're on the cusp of releasing a version of the much-maligned Windows Mobile 6.5 that actually made it touch-friendly for once — but like all WinMo versio...
This Will Be The Year Adobe's 2 Million Flash Developers Come To The iPhone
It's no secret that Apple doesn't like Flash. It won't allow Flash apps to run on the iPhone or iPod Touch despite all of Adobe's cajoling and pleading, and despite the fact that it's long been worki...
High-Tech Sex? Porn Flirts With the Cutting Edge
Adult Entertainment Expo Kicks Off as Consumer Electronics Show Continues — The porn industry peddles a product as old as Adam and Eve, and it's always found the most cutting edge ways to do it. — ...
No, Your First Impression Isn't Wrong: Android ISN'T As Nice As The iPhone
Tried Android and feel it doesn't measure up to the iPhone? TechCrunch would have you think it's just because you didn't try it long enough. It's not the phone, you see. It's you. And that's bull.