Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month
You Need Glacier — I'm going to bet that you (or your organization) spend a lot of time and a lot of money archiving mission-critical data. No matter whether you're currently using disk, optical me...
Windows 8 Pro to be priced at $199 following $69.99 promotional pricing
Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro software will be priced at $199 after a promotional price of $69.99 expires on January 31st 2013, according to one source familiar with Microsoft's plans. The software maker...
Apple-Samsung Jury Told Not to Upgrade Gadgets Received as Evidence
Jurors hearing arguments between Apple and Samsung have been warned not to accept software updates or install apps on mobile gadgets they receive while deliberating the merits of the patent-infringeme...
Verizon Vacation Blackout Reveals The New iPhone Will Launch On Friday, September 21
A trusted Verizon employee has just confirmed to TechCrunch that the carrier is having an all-staff vacation blackout from the dates of Friday, September 21 to September 30. You know what that means,...
Updates to Skype for iPhone & Skype for iPad Improves Performance & Adds Photo Sharing
Millions of people use Skype for iPhone or Skype for iPad each month. Today, with updates to both apps, we are introducing a frequently requested feature: Photo Sharing for iOS.
Inside Intellectual Ventures, the most hated company in tech
Nathan Myhrvold and other executives at the controversial company say critics simply don't understand what they're doing. CNET went behind the scenes to understand what 40,000 patents and an unapolog...
Dell Beats Earnings Expectations, Pares Outlook on Weak Sales
Dell's quarterly numbers just came in and, as expected, it's a mixed bag of mostly bad news. — Per share earnings were 50 cents a share on sales of $14.48 billion. The earnings exceeded the consens...
This Week in MarissYa: iPhones for All, Flickr Love and Management Musical Chairs
Even with all the swirl around the worrisome stock declines at Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, along with happier expected new product launches from Apple and Amazon, don't think things aren't cooking ov...
Apple Sued by Ex-Worker Who Says Jobs Guaranteed His Job
Wayne Goodrich, who says he was a confidant, sounding board and close adviser to Apple Inc. (AAPL) co- founder Steve Jobs, sued the iPhone maker claiming he was fired for no legitimate reason despite ...
Twitter may face govt axe in India
Twitter might face legal action if the popular microblogging site does not comply with Indian government's demand to censor objectionable content posted by its users. — Stung by the misinformation c...
Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger
and crackers have never been stronger — In late 2010, Sean Brooks received three e-mails over a span of 30 hours warning that his accounts on LinkedIn, Battle.net, and other popular websites were at ...
MetroPCS unveils budget-friendly 4G plan and new 4G phone
The carrier is rolling out a $55 unlimited 4G LTE plan and a $149 LG Motion 4G phone to sweeten the deal. — MetroPCS may hand the major carriers some competition, with its new 4G LTE plan for budget...
Exclusive: Barry Diller's IAC offers $300 million for About.com
(Reuters) - Barry Diller's IAC/Interactivecorp submitted an offer in excess of $300 million to buy the About.com information website from the New York Times Co, according to people with knowledge of t...
Google Play gift cards officially announced, now rolling out to Target, RadioShack and GameStop
We've seen hints of them in the Google Play app and some pretty clear evidence of them in the wild, and now Google has finally officially announced the availability of Google Play gift cards.
Tech Confessional: The Googler Who Looks At The Worst Of The Internet
Sitting in the sun at a tech company cafeteria, this former Google worker described a year spent immersed in some of the darkest content available on the Internet. His role at the tech company mainly...
Apple patent lets users switch away from broadcast commercials automatically
Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent that allows users to skip unwanted audio and video broadcast segments such as commercials with on-device content like songs, podcasts or other media, possibly hin...
Google Launches Octane: A New JavaScript Benchmark Based On Popular Apps And Libraries
Google's Chrome team just launched Octane, a new JavaScript benchmark suite that aims to measure real-world performance. Unlike most other benchmarks, which tend to use artificial tests developed …
Office Web Apps integrate touch support on iPad and Windows 8, brace us for an Office 2013 world
Touch-friendliness is a centerpiece for the upcoming Office 2013, but don't fret if you prefer to live in the world of Office Web Apps ahead of time. As of new preview versions of both OWA and Office...
Facebook brings mentions to 3rd party apps via Open Graph
Facebook announced today it's giving developers a new toy: the ability to tag a user's Facebook friends in an off-Facebook app. — So, for example, in your food-picture-taking app, Bob the User might...
Chrome OS gets updated with smaller apps list and option to save directly to Google Drive
Chromebook and Chromebox users (and anyone else using Chrome OS) have an update waiting for them that offers several usability improvements. Before you go check for the update, however …
Google, Boingo bring their free Wi-Fi experiment to mall rats
Google and Boingo are building on their free Wi-Fi project in New York City, launching the advertising-paid access model in eight malls across the country. Though the project is still in its infancy,...
Synaptics ThinTouch: Bringing the Capacitive Touch Revolution to Mechanical Keyboards
Earlier this month Synaptics announced the acquisition of Pacinian, a company that focused on physical keyboards that used capacitive touch. To expand, Synaptics has to look beyond clickpad and capac...
Ness Nabs $15M From AmEx And SingTel To Expand Data-Driven, Personalized Search To Other Verticals
Ness Computing, a startup that has developed a highly personalized, data-driven search engine, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by SingTel Innov8 with American Express Ventures participa...
Lockups and Insider Selling
There is a lot of sturm und drang out there in the worlds of social media, finacial media, and just plain media about all the lockups coming off and all the insider selling going on in some big intern...
TechCrunch's Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator's S12 Demo Day
75 startups pitched their hearts out today at Y Combinator's 15th Demo Day. We saw surefire small businesses to risky big bets but after collecting opinions from their YCS12 classmates and top VCs, t...
Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of The World
IBM Won The Prize In 1967 With A Value of $1.3 Trillion — Apple is not the most valuable company in the history of the world. It's not even Microsoft, which was reported to have been toppled by App...
RadioShack No Contract Wireless may be getting ready to launch September 5th
Evidence of a RadioShack-branded wireless carrier popped up just a few days ago, and now we have word from another tipster that reveals when it may launch. As seen above, the screen reveals a planned...
Vicarious Raises $15M Led By Dustin Moskovitz's Good Ventures To Build Software That ‘Learns Like A Human’
Vicarious, a startup that says it's “building software that thinks and learns like a human,” has just raised a $15 million Series A. — The round was led by Good Ventures …
Bootstrap 2.1 and counting
A year ago we introduced the world to Twitter Bootstrap, a sleek and powerful open source project that helps you build awesome stuff on the web with speed, ease and style. Bootstrap was made to help ...
Apple's closing shot hits at Samsung ‘copycat’ docs
Apple once again hammers away at Samsung for internal documents in its closing argument against the company. — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple highlighted its broad collection of Samsung internal documents...
Samsung invests $4bn in U.S. chip-making plant renovation
Summary: In a major investment, Samsung will throw its weight behind a U.S. plant in order to build more chips for smartphones, as the world's largest phone maker seeks to meet growing demand. — Zac...
Ofcom approves Everything Everywhere's early UK rollout of 4G services starting September 11
We discussed there could be a possibility of 4G services launching in the UK before the end of the year, and now the UK's communications regulator Ofcom has announced it will allow that to happen …
Is There a Landmine Hidden in Amazon's Glacier?
On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled a new online storage service known as Glacier. It's called Glacier because it deals in “cold storage” — i.e., the long-term storage of things like medical records or finan...
7 Is The New 10? Google Showing Fewer Results & More From Same Domain
It looks as if Google is testing a move away from showing the traditional 10 listings to only displaying seven, and it also appears that it's even easier than ever for one site to dominates all those ...
END OF AN ERA: Once-Dominant VC Firm Kleiner Perkins Gets Blown Up In Groupon, Zynga, And Facebook
One of the big developments in Silicon Valley in recent years has been a quiet passing of a torch from the venture capital firms that dominated the tech-investing world in the 1990s to a new group tha...
Maxthon mobile Web browser surfs to the iPhone
A free iOS app, Maxthon is now available on the iPhone as well as the iPad. — iPhone users now have yet another choice for a mobile browser. — Maxthon has finally made its debut for Apple's iPhone...
PopCap Confirms Layoffs as the Billion-Dollar Payoff From EA Becomes Less Likely
EA-owned PopCap, responsible for creating such games as Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies, is laying off 50 employees from its Seattle studios and is re-evaluating the need for an office in Dublin.
Crisis malware infects VMware virtual machines, researchers say
The Windows version of Crisis also infects Windows Mobile devices and USB drives — The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machin...
After Getting Funded, Some Kickstarter Projects Stall
Kickstarter began in 2009 as a way for entrepreneurs to raise money to get projects off the ground. Though the company's fundraising platform has been a success, many projects have not. — More than...