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Google May Have Violated Its Own Paid Link Policy With Chrome Promo Campaign
Jan 03, 3:31AM
Google appears to have paid bloggers to write about Chrome in a way that violates its own paid link policy, according to Search Engine Land. If Google applied a similar penalty to those it's doled out to past violators, the Chrome download page would be removed from its search engine results for between a month and a year. Don't bet on that happening, though. The campaign is another example of how Google's diverse business can lead it to trip over itself.This Month's Apple Event To Focus On Publishing And iBooks
Jan 03, 3:07AM
Apple will be holding a product event later this month in New York, Kara Swisher is reporting, and we've confirmed independently with a source. According to the source the event will not involve any hardware at all and instead will focus on publishing and eBooks (sold through Apple's iBooks platform) rather than iAds. Attendance will also be more publishing industry-oriented than consumer-focused.What have you done
Jan 03, 2:59AM
This was not a movie for the normals, even with and expressly because of the presence of Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. This was a big budget and highly technological rendering of an enigma. But within that frame, I found myself intuitively understanding things just as they happened, only later finally getting enough data to confirm my instinct. Something powerful was at work, on the fulcrum between the normal and the human condition. For most of the last eight years and certainly the last two, we have been driven by the filter of a man who knew he was dying. Steve Jobs may have done what he did given a more gentle fate, but how he did it within the boundaries of his time left has profoundly altered our sense of what we have done.Flurry: 1.2 Billion Mobile Apps Were Downloaded Over The Holidays
Jan 02, 10:50PM
With nearly 7 million new Android phones and iPhones activated on Christmas Day, an app-downloading frenzy was a foregone conclusion. App research firm Flurry estimates that a combined total of 1.2 billion apps were downloaded during the holiday week between December 25-31. That compares to an average of 750,000 mobile apps downloaded per week earlier in December, or a 60 percent jump.Review: The Playstation 3D Display Lets You Bring All Of Your Friends
Jan 02, 10:39PM
Back at E3, the gaming world let out a collective groan when Sony announced they were making a special 3D TV for the PS3. However, that groan swiftly turned into a clamor of adoration once it was explained that the TV, in addition to displaying 3D content, would also allow two players to play side by side, seeing different displays through two pairs of 3D glasses. Called SimulView, it was pretty darn cool. Fast forward to December and the 24-inch TV has shipped and costs $499. The display has two HDMI ports and little else - you plug in a PS3 and start playing games and Blu-Ray disks. Is this PS3-branded widescreen 1080p monitor good? Definitely. But is it a necessary accessory for gamers and non-gamers alike? That remains to be seen. Read on.The Retrode 2 Makes Your SNES And Genesis Cartridges Useful Again
Jan 02, 10:22PM
Last year, or I suppose it is now the year before last, we saw the Retrode, a little device that let you easily create ROM files from your SNES and Genesis cartridges. Useful, but sort of a one-shot device if you're not a serious collector. The team behind it has created a new device, the Retrode 2 naturally, that is a bit more useful to the average retro-loving gamer. Instead of just forming ROMs in a one-off process, the Retrode 2 acts as a cartridge reader for your emulator, and lets you plug in the original controllers as well. Being able to play SNES on those is a great bonus — there's nothing that takes true 16-bit fans out of the game so much as having to play these old things on a newfangled controller.Chrome Is Edging Out Firefox
Jan 02, 10:20PM
Android isn't the only Google product that gobbled up market share in 2011. Its Chrome browser also had an amazing year. By one measure, StatCounter, Chrome went from 15 percent market share a year ago to 27 percent share in December, 2011. Chrome ended the year two points above Firefox's 25 percent share (which is down from 31 percent a year ago). Even as Google recently renegotiated its deal to maintain the default search spot n Firefox for the next three years (to the tune of nearly $1 billion), it keeps taking share in the market.iPhone 4S Beats Out Lumia 800 In Benchmark Testing (Video)
Jan 02, 10:17PM
Have you been wondering which mobile browser is the fastest of late? It would be an understandable thing to pontificate, seeing that Android takes the cake when it comes to LTE support, iOS has the class-leading dual-core A5 chip on its side, and Windows Phone's IE mobile browser is basically a beast. It's a worthwhile question, to say the least. Luckily MyNokiablog noticed a YouTube video uploaded by user 359gsm, in which the iPhone 4S, the Lumia 800, and an iPhone 4 (running iOS 4.3) are put through the ringer. The specific definition of ringer: Browsermark, Speed Reading, Sunspider, Acid3, and HTML5 tests.Want To Make Your iPhone's PIN More Secure? Repeat A Digit.
Jan 02, 10:14PM
Here's one for today's "Yeah, I probably should've thought of that" pile. If you've got anything even remotely private on your phone (and who doesn't? Your phone has access to your email, and thereby access to everything else), you've hopefully got a security PIN on the lockscreen. But which numbers should you use? 4 unique numbers would be most secure, right? Not quite, and here's why: we've got nasty, nasty fingers.SoundCloud Raises $50 Million Round Led By Kleiner Perkins
Jan 02, 10:00PM
SoundCloud has raised a new fundraising round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The amount was not released but TechCrunch understands it to be $50 million. This would give the company a $200 million pre-money valuation. GGV Capital also participated in this round. The social sound platform which has seen high growth in the past year will use the funding to expand more rapidly, especially in the US. Mary Meeker, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, will take a board observer seat at the company. She already serves on the board of Square.iOS Closes Out The Year With 52% Mobile Web Market Share
Jan 02, 8:52PM
Who's browsing the mobile web the most? Apparently, iPhone and iPad owners are. According to end-of-the-month data from statistics provider NetMarketShare, iOS users ended up with a 52% market share of mobile web browsing in December 2011. More simply put, that means that over half of the mobile web browsing last month took place on an iOS device. Android, meanwhile, had a 16.2% share, behind Java ME at 21.27%, which fell into second place.Amazon And Microsoft Engineers Launch 21habit To Help You Track Your New Year's Resolutions
Jan 02, 8:45PM
Especially at this time of year, more and more consumers are flocking to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to express resolutions or personal goals publicly. But simply expressing your resolution via a Tweet or Status Update doesn't help you actually break a habit or resolve an issue for the long term. Enter 21habit, which is a simple tool designed to help people make or break habits, 21 days at a time. It's also a great way for people to track their New Year's Resolutions. And in addition to helping people make changes in their lives, 21habit raises money for charity. The startup was actually founded (and self-funded) by Microsoft software developer Pranav Goel, and Amazon engineers Himanshu Khurana, Hemanth Pai and Ian McAllister (who heads up new traffic and customer growth initiatives at Amazon) as a side project. Here's how it works.Happy New Year! Here Are Some Great One-Sentence Startup Pitches
Jan 02, 8:33PM
You amaze me. When I asked you for the best one-sentence pitch you could come up with for your startup, I was expecting 20, perhaps 30 comments and a handful of emails. Instead, we received hundreds (670+ to be more precise) submissions, and I appreciated the lively discussions from the community at large - thanks to everyone who jumped in.Techmeme Pulls Out The Measuring Tape For Its Top Stories Of 2011
Jan 02, 8:20PM
Tis the season for annual recaps and retrospectives. And while most such lists stem from a blogger's yearning for page views during the otherwise-quiet holiday season, some lists are actually interesting — even useful. One such list comes from Techmeme, one of the best tech news aggregators on the web, which releases an annual overview of the year's top stories. The site typically generates the list using a variety of secret-sauce algorithms, but this year they've done something a bit more straightforward: they measured how tall each story was on the site. The bigger the story, the more important it probably was. You can find the full list right here.Stop! It's A Really Bad Time To Buy Most Gadgets!
Jan 02, 7:10PM
Did you know that your brain releases dopamine when it processes something new? At least that's what the Internet told me. Apparently dopamine is key in establishing a craving, which could be why ever-updating sites like blogs or Reddit are so popular. There is always something new. It could also be why some people always crave more gadgets. You're bored with your Galaxy SII and hope the Galaxy Nexus will satisfy that burning desire, which it probably will (unless you're MG). But don't do it -- at least not now. We're officially in a holding pattern. It's a really bad time to buy most consumer electronic products. This happens several times a year. I know there are some tempting post-holiday offers out there. But don't do it. Wait a few weeks. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.For A Good Read, Check Out Editor's Picks
Jan 02, 6:50PM
Keeping up with TechCrunch can be overwhelming. And sometimes great posts get lost in the flow, pushed down the homepage before many readers even get a chance to see them. If you click on the subject tabs at the top of the site, you can filter by subjects such as Startups, Mobile, Gadgets, and Enterprise. But we are going to add even more ways to filter all the posts and videos that make it onto TechCrunch in the coming months. If you look up in the Hot Topics links right below the TC logo, you will see a new feature that just went live: Editor's Picks. There you will find our standout posts—ranging from investigations and scoops to arguments and analysis. These are the posts that will make you think. They will introduce you to new ideas, startups and technologies. These aren't necessarily the posts that get the most pageviews or headlines on TechMeme, Hacker News or LinkedIn Today. They are the stories we think are the most important and worthy of attention.Let The Race Begin: Google Launches Elections Hub
Jan 02, 6:33PM
A new year is always exciting. A Clean slate. But once every four years, something very important comes into play: a presidential election. This year, all of your election information won't be any more readily available than it is right here, on the interwebs, and Google is set to be your go-to place to keep up with them. Today via the Official Google Blog, the search giant has launched Google.com/elections — "an election hub where citizens can study, watch, discuss, learn about, participate in and perhaps even make an impact on the digital campaign trail as it blazes forward to Tuesday, November 6, 2012."The Commodore 64 Is 30 Years Old
Jan 02, 5:43PM
It's been a long time since I clacked away on a C64 but I remember that hunk of pure computing power like it was yesterday. The keyboard (complete with dingbats on the front surface), the power light that glowed like a monocular rat eye, the lines of dust that formed in the 80s-era case. It was a simpler time. The Commodore 64 is 30 years old this week, appearing at CES in 1982 and ending up in third-grade classrooms and kids' rooms for years after until, unceremoniously, millions of school custodians and parents dumped them in the trash as the PC took over desktops all over the world.Samsung's DV300F Dual-View Camera Brings WiFi Into The Mix
Jan 02, 4:41PM
Many of you may remember that I was straight-up infatuated with Samsung's MV800 point-and-shoot. And why wouldn't I be? It's absolutely the best point-and-shoot if your favorite subject to shoot happens to be yourself. While Samsung's latest camera isn't quite as narcissistic, the new DV300F announced today still has a pretty awesome trick up its sleeve.On Facebook, Obama Has The Most Fans, Ron Paul The Highest "Viral Reach"
Jan 02, 4:28PM
Social media analytics firm Socialbakers has tracked more than 10 million Facebook Pages and Places plus billions of individual user interactions in order to determine who the most popular, engaging and influential presidential candidates are on Facebook. Not surprisingly, incumbent Obama has the most Facebook fans, which is one way to measure "popularity." That's not necessarily the fairest way in this case, given that many of those supporters arrived during Obama's previous campaign efforts.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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