Crunch theater: blogger's VC fund creates media spectacle
The tech blogosphere was on fire on Friday with a flood of constantly-updated news reports and a barrage of tweets dissecting every angle of the story. — A new iPhone? Details of the long-awaited...
iPhone 5 Cases Suggest a Much Larger Device with a 4" Screen
While we've seen a number of possible “iPhone 4S” parts based on the iPhone 4 design in recent weeks, the design of the iPhone 5 has remained unclear with little concrete evidence of the device's desi...
The Problem with Collecting Logos at Startups
Collecting logos. It seems to be all the fad in the startup and VC world these days. VCs are paying up at enormous prices to say that they have GroupOn, Facebook and Twitter on their roster irrespec...
Samsung Galaxy Tab sold just 20,000 out of 1m shipped, claims rival
Lenovo boss says that trying to undercut Apple means losing money as Chinese company offers tablet close to iPad pricing — An executive at Android tablet maker Lenovo claims that Samsung sold only 2...
Apple's iCloud runs on Microsoft and Amazon services
Who says Azure isn't cool and trendy now? — Apple has selected Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's AWS to jointly host its iCloud service, The Reg has learned. — We understand that Apple has barred Mic...
HP splitting the webOS GBU in two; software headed to Office of Strategy and Technology [exclusive]
Ready for things to get shaken up once more in Sunnyvale? Good, because it's happening. We've received two memos sent to employees of HP's webOS Global Business Unit that tell the story …
A Google Suggested Users List is up.
https://plus.google.com/getstarted/ follow — +1 to +Craig Kanalley for putting this together and adding his perspective. — I can't help but feel like we've been here before with Twitter.
Full text: SFPD statement on aiding Apple
Cava22, the San Francisco tequila lounge where, according to a CNET source, an Apple employee lost an unreleased iPhone — After CNET reported earlier this week that an unreleased iPhone had gone mis...
Germany lifts Doom sales ban after 17 years
Doom's blocky graphics are now surpassed by those on modern mobiles — A German ban on selling Doom to teenagers has been lifted after 17 years. — The classic video game was put on an index of cont...
World's First BitTorrent Certified Digital TV Launches
Early 2011 BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the popular file-sharing client uTorrent, launched a new all-in-one ecosystem for BitTorrent-certified products codenamed Chrysalis. — By using a certi...
A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to 7-Eleven
You're at work and your cellphone rings. It's the delivery guy and he has your Amazon purchase ready to be dropped off. (Yes, the new shower curtain!) But you're chained to your desk and can't get ...
Make things
Anil and I have had a few conversations lately about building cool stuff for the internet, the Golden Age of the independent web, and how it's increasingly hard to filter out industry noise. He poste...