2010 acquisitions—Microsoft: 0 Google: 23
Microsoft: 0 Google: 23 — A recent blog post from information service provider CB Insights reveals a truly shocking piece of news—that Microsoft has announced zero acquisitions so far in 2010, while ...
Sony Ericsson LiveView acts as a 1.3-inch remote control for your smartphone, requires Android 2.0
You've been asking for someone, anyone, to please kick out a tiny remote control display that can save you from having to whip your smartphone out for every little thing and Sony Ericsson, it seems, h...
A Look At The Technologies & Industries Senators Leahy & Hatch Would Have Banned In The Past
The more I look at the “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act,” (COICA) bill proposed by Senators Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch (and co-sponsored by Sens. Herb Kohl, Arlen Specter …
Apple Has Already Approved The Official Google Voice App For iPhone, Expect It Soon
The App Store review office at 1 Infinite Loop has officially frozen over: we've gotten word that the official Google Voice application is on its way to the iPhone in the next few weeks.
Adult video-sharing list leaked from law firm
The attacks were in retaliation for action against file-sharing site the Pirate Bay — The personal details of thousands of Sky broadband customers have been leaked on to the internet, alongside a li...
AOL Officially Adds 5Min To Its Roster. Next?
Here's the official press release announcing AOL's acquisition of 5Min Media. Sources familiar with the transaction tell me it's an all-cash deal at the high end of the $50 million to $65 million ran...
EXCLUSIVE Apple TV Review: Hands on With Steve Jobs' New Hobby
Apple's latest gizmo, the Apple TV, streams high-definition web videos from your home PCs to your television. — Steve Jobs swung for the stands with the new Apple TV, a tiny box that plays high-defi...
Amazon Debuts “Kindle for the Web”, Which Is Pretty Much What It Sounds Like
Amazon.com today introduced the beta version of “Kindle for the Web”, which enables people to read and share digital book samples in their browsers without the need to install or download anything.
Office for Mac 2011 Available October 26
We are excited to announce that starting on October 26 you can get your own copy of Office for Mac 2011! And starting today preorders can be placed at Amazon.com. — One of the most visually impactf...
Google Buys Schedule Management Startup Plannr
According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, Google has just bought Seattle-based mobile planning startup Plannr, which if you remember our coverage launched about two months ago as an Outl...
Apple Updates Remote App with iPad and Retina Display Support
As predicted, Apple has updated their Remote app that allows iOS users to control iTunes and their Apple TV from their devices. The app hadn't been updated for nearly a year, but has finally received...
Iranian Canadian Blogger Hossein Derakhshan Receives Over 19 Years In Prison
Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian-Canadian blogger — After months of anticipation and almost two years after his arrest and imprisonment, blogger Hossein Derakhshan was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison b...
Beware: Chinese iPhone 4 comes with a crippled Maps app
The iPhone 4 officially landed in China yesterday, so I bought one from the new Apple Store at Xidan in Beijing. In China, Apple sells its iPhones unlocked and without a contract (16GB = USD747, 32GB...
OpenOffice files Oracle divorce papers
Uncertainty breeds mistrust — Open sourcers have seized control of the OpenOffice project and product and declared their independence from database giant Oracle. — The OpenOffice.org Project has u...
OneTrueFan Is The Foursquare For Websites
The Foursquare model of checking into a location, earning badges and tapping into your social network to share that location has become one that has been able to be applied to other platforms. For ex...
Face.com pulls in $4.3M in financing
Rhodium and Yandex bet on the Israeli-based facial-recognition startup — How recognizable are you in a crowd? According to Face.com, a Tel-Aviv-based company that develops facial recognition techno...
Verizon's Mobile Recovery: like ‘Find my iPhone,’ but for VZW Android, webOS and BlackBerry handsets
Fancy the idea of having Big Brother track your handset if it goes missing, but aren't so keen on owning an iPhone, ponying up for MobileMe and signing a deal with AT&T?
Why We Sold TechCrunch To AOL, And Where We Go From Here
By now you must have heard the news that AOL has acquired us. Here are videos of the on stage signing of the agreement and an interview with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong immediately afterwards. — So how d...
RIM VP Confirms PlayBook QNX OS Will Replace BlackBerry OS
Over a breakfast event today at the BlackBerry Developer Conference, a RIM VP confirmed that the QNX operating system announced in their new PlayBook tablet would in fact be finding its way to smartph...
Google Wants to Make Online Display Ads ‘Sexy’
Google has long dominated Web search, and the advertising it generates. But the company has vowed to build a major business in the parallel market of online display ads, and on Tuesday laid out some ...
Tweet This Milestone: Twitter Passes MySpace
There's a new piece of data that Twitter Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo could take with him to the stage today at the IAB MIXX conference in New York, as the company tries to woo marketers. — ...