Apple Confirms Acquisition of 3-D Sensor Startup PrimeSense
Apple has completed its acquisition of PrimeSense, the Israel-based company focused on 3-D sensor technology, for a price sources said was around $360 million. — Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet con...
Amazon's Next Kindle Paperwhite To Feature 300ppi Screen, Better Typography, Arrive Early Next Year
Amazon is now preparing a new Kindle Paperwhite for release in early Q2 of next year, TechCrunch has learned. The marquee feature of the new device is a high-resolution 300 ppi screen …
Waze debuts new feature where celebrities give you driving directions
Now you can have a celebrity give you driving directions. — Waze is partnering with Universal Pictures to roll out a celebrity voice navigation feature. The first celebrity to guide you from point ...
Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash
WASHINGTON — On a sultry day in late August, a dozen staff members of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gathered at the agency's Baltimore headquarters with managers from the major contra...
Clinging to Outlook, Only 25 Percent of Yahoo Employees Willing to Eat Mail “Dogfood” (Best Memo Ever!)
As most know, I love a good internal memo from inside Yahoo and here's a doozy related to a rather controversial topic of late: How badly the new version of Yahoo Mail has been received by consumers.
Reports Of Xbox One Disc Drive Issues Increase
As we continue to hear from more and more brand new Xbox One owners who say their disc drives don't work, Microsoft's solution remains the same: contact customer service. — That's unfortunate news f...
Marc Benioff Is the Ron Burgundy of Tech
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is an egomaniacal buffoon who laughs at the plight of underpaid Walmart workers and flies the prime minister of Haiti up to San Francisco so he can thank Benioff in per...
Say hello to Safeplug, Pogoplug's $49 Tor-in-a-box for anonymous surfing
You may know Pogoplug as the maker of little “personal cloud” devices for streaming media from your home to your smartphone, or, if you're more up to speed with what the company's been doing, you may ...
Last man streaming: Spotify's $250 million war chest makes it the music company to beat
Among the many things that Spotify has excelled at since launching in 2010 is raising money — and this week, it reportedly raised an eye-popping $250 million more. Investors have now bet …
A spurned techie's revenge: Locking down his ex's digital life
Ads for software packages marketed specifically for stalking a partner. — NNEDV — The e-mail's subject line was “Interested in hiring you.” The sender, a woman, said she had seen me on a local Ba...
Why Comcast isn't worried about the Xbox One
For its 50th birthday, Comcast would like another half-century of television dominance — While the tech world's attention is firmly planted on the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, and their bids to take...