iOS 5′s Siri-like system navigation is called ‘Assistant’, uses device-info to handle actions
Apple's purchase of Siri in early 2010 and their partnership with Nuance in 2011 has many hoping that Apple has something like speech-to-text or voice-navigation up its sleeve for iOS 5.
Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)-A Linux distro from the US Department of Defense
Lightweight Portable Security (LPS), created by USA's Department of Defence, is a small Linux live CD focusing on privacy and security, for this reason, it boots from a CD and executes from RAM …
Facebook Investor Roger McNamee Explains Why Social Is Over
Elevation Partners and Facebook investor Roger McNamee, who is also a rock musician, gave an amazing talk recently where he goes over some of the biggest trends affecting the technology industry. — ...
Apple expands the App Store to 33 new countries and territories
As Apple expands its businesses, with the iPhone and iPad reaching more nations, and their upcoming iCloud service, Apple has opened up the iOS App Store and Mac App Store in 33 new countries.
Music publishers file copyright suit against Grooveshark
Grooveshark just can't seem to shake its copyright woes. — A group of songwriters and music publishers filed a lawsuit on July 15 in Tennessee against the digital-music service, claiming Grooveshark...
How MySpace Tom May Have Inadvertently Triggered The Google/Facebook War
Gotta love Tom Anderson. Newly reinvigorated by the launch of Google+, “MySpace Tom” has become a social power user (and regular TechCrunch contributor!). As a man at the forefront of the early days...
Feature: Big Content's latest antipiracy weapon: extradition
As major American copyright holders continue their long war on file-sharing, the focus of the debate has increasingly shifted overseas. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun seizing th...
VideoInbox, Another Google/Slide Production, Brings Viral Videos To Your Inbox
We've come across the latest in Slide's series of projects developed within Google, VideoInbox - a combination daily newsletter/Facebook app that basically centers around the viewing, sharing and cata...
Google+ business profiles to include analytics & more
If businesses can contain themselves for just a few more months, they'll have much better Google+ tools than the ones that currently exist. — In fact, Google will be unveiling specially tweaked prof...
Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers
A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names - alienating and frightening the ...
China inspects electronics stores after fake Apple shops report
Chinese industrial and commercial authorities in Kunming have started to inspect all of the southwestern city's electronics shops after an American blogger wrote about fake Apple stores, the official ...
Hulu, Billed as Tomorrow's TV, Looks Boxed In Today
PICTURE this: TV anyway, anywhere. — Every sitcom. Every drama, documentary, reality show. — All of it — everything — Right Here Now. — This is the radical potential of the Internet. And this ...