Filed under: Cellphones
With all this hubbub floating around about the elusive 3G iPhone, let us not forget about the latest touchscreen smartphone to land at AT&T: LG’s Vu. After getting official earlier this month, we were able to sit down with the Mobile TV-supporting handset and form a few opinions of our own. Here, however, [...]
When it comes to toilets, there’s a simple directional rule: everything goes downstream. When things move against the tide, then you have problems.
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If you look at YouTube’s numbers, one thing is clear: It completely dominates online video. YouTube accounts for 37 percent of all videos watched on the Internet and attracts about half of the audience, according to comScore. (And if you add in Google Video, that brings the total to 38 percent of videos [...]
Imagine, not just playing a video game, but being completely immersed into the game. Why invent a holodeck when the smallest of Nano Like LED Contacts could create a completely virtual environment for you instead.
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Filed under: Laptops
It struck us the other day as we were going over some back posts that since the launch of the ASUS Eee PC (and the numerous products that have followed, from the MSI Wind to the HP Mini-Note), to the best of our knowledge we’ve all yet to have any normalized, agreed-upon name [...]
The computer attackers who took down Comcast’s homepage and webmail service for more than five hours Thursday say they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into.
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Wow, we’re absolutely stunned, but we just won first place at the NetSquared Challenge! That means we have a check for $25,000 that we can spend on further development of the Ushahidi Engine (version 2).
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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
In a move of unsurprising proportions, StyleTap announced today that it will be bringing its Palm OS emulator to the iPhone and iPod touch… officially. This basically means that every one of those precious Palm apps you couldn’t live without will now be easily accessible via Apple’s devices, thus seriously threatening the [...]
Walmart has added a classified listings service to their site. Silicon Valley startup Oodle, which was founded in 2004, is powering the service.The listings are free, which means Walmart is likely doing the deal to generate page views and advertising impressions. They also now compete with both Craigslist and eBay-owned Kijiji.Walmart has a mixed history [...]
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
If you’re anything like our boy Ryan, you’ve been wearing that Wii Fit out ever since you took delivery. Unfortunately, you’ve probably been doing a bit of unintentional jogging when logging miles back and forth to the local mini-mart for batteries. If you can’t seem to keep your Wii Balance Board charged, [...]
Steven Levithan has been flagrant by creating a simple way to remove nested patterns with a while loop and a replace: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var str = “abc<1<2<>3>4>def”; while (str != (str = str.replace(/<[^<>]*>/g, “”))); // str -> "abcdef" Notice that the regex in this one-liner doesn’t try to deal with nested patterns at all. The while loop’s condition replaces instances [...]
Markus Inger wanted to hone his Mootools skills, so he created a BeJewelled-like game, BeSlimed. Give it a Friday whirl!
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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
The timeshifting DVR patent that’s been at the core of TiVo’s closed-but-not-quite-closed lawsuit with DISH / EchoStar is being contested yet again by the very same company. Not content just appealing to the Supreme Court regarding the Federal Circuit’s ruling against a rehearing for the last case, DISH / EchoStar has [...]
Jon Ferraiolo of IBM and the OpenAjax Alliance wanted to share with the community news on a couple of initiatives: The OpenAjax Alliance is requesting industry feedback on two companion initiatives, OpenAjax Conformance and the OpenAjax Registry, which have been under development for the past year. The term OpenAjax Conformance is shorthand for the set of conformance [...]
Katalyst Media founders Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg were in Silicon Valley today. They stopped by TechCrunch HQ (aka my house) before heading off to more important meetings with Dan Rosensweig at Quadrangle Group (and the former COO of Yahoo) and YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley. The reason for the visit? They are preparing to launch [...]