iPad Adoption Rate Fastest Ever, Passing DVD Player
Apple's iPad sold three million units in the first 80 days after its April release and its current sales rate is about 4.5 million units per quarter, according to Bernstein Research. This sales rate ...
Exclusive: First Photo of Jungle, Panasonic's Portable Online Gaming System
This is Jungle. It's the first portable gaming console designed exclusively for online gaming and MMORPGs. And it's from the company who gave us the 3DO nearly 20 years ago. — Sure, the PSP and Ni...
Microsoft to do direct battle with Apple at Mall of America
A Microsoft retail store is coming to the Mall of America and — get this — it's directly across from one of Apple's famed retail stores. — Microsoft is a notorious imitator of all things Apple, and ...
Facebook Holding Special Event This Wednesday
It's been a big couple of months for Facebook — the site launched its Places feature in August, had a major gaming-focused event two weeks ago, and recently revamped its photos feature to allow for hi...
Here comes Google TV
It's been almost five months since we introduced Google TV to the world at Google I/O, and today we're happy to give you an update on our progress. For those who haven't yet heard of it, Google TV is...
LG Elec says Android 2.2-based tablet plan dropped
LG Electronics Inc (066570.KS) said on Monday that it had scrapped a plan to launch a tablet computer based on Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Android 2.2 operation system known as “Froyo”, a decision that may ...
Apple Challenges $625.5 Million Mirror Worlds Patent Verdict
Apple Inc. is challenging a jury verdict last week in which the computer maker was ordered to pay as much as $625.5 million to Mirror Worlds LLC for infringing patents related to how documents are dis...
Goldman Suggests Microsoft Start Bending Spoons With Its Mind
In a note tonight, Goldman Sachs analysts paddle Microsoft's ass for not living up to its expectations. They downgrade the firm to neutral, then say Microsoft needs to do the following to get back in...
Exclusive: Yahoo's David Ko to Head Mobile at Online Gaming Powerhouse Zynga
David Ko (pictured here), who just announced he was leaving Yahoo as head of its powerful U.S. Audience unit, is taking a job heading mobile efforts at hot social gaming start-up Zynga, according to s...
The Social Network's Female Props
Missing from what critics are calling the defining story of our age are female characters who aren't doting groupies, sexed-up Asians, vengeful sluts, or dumpy, feminist killjoys, says Rebecca Davis O...
Breaking: Skype To Appoint A New CEO
Skype is taking another step towards becoming a public company today with the appointment of a new CEO. We don't yet know who it is, but the announcement should be coming out shortly. Skype's curren...
I, Cringe
For the most part, I've really enjoyed reading all the various takes on TechCrunch's acquisition by AOL this week. Some are good, some are bad, some are just sad. But two have stuck out to me as bei...
HTC HD7 leaks out once more with Dolby Sound, stars in a brief video
HTC may have stemmed the flood of HD7 activity, but details about the 4.3-inch Windows Phone 7 device keep leaking out. Today, an O2 Germany tipster blew off most of the remaining doors.
Here's the Real Mark Zuckerberg, Courtesy of The Simpsons
“The Social Network” grossed an estimated $23 million in its opening weekend. Which means something like 2.8 million people saw a fictionalized version of Mark Zuckerberg, portrayed by Jesse Eisenber...
Google's speed need: ‘instantaneous Internet’
In late 2007, Google engineers set out to test a hunch. — For about a million oblivious users, the company throttled back the delivery of search results by 100 to 400 milliseconds for several weeks....